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| = Profile = | | = Profile = |
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| James Boston is a computer programming student at Seneca College, a Google Summer of Code torero and an intern at the Mozilla Foundation working on Mozilla Education. | | James Boston |
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| Blog:<br />
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| [http://jamesboston.ca jamesboston.ca] | | [http://jamesboston.ca jamesboston.ca] |
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| Posts about Mozilla Education are tagged [http://jamesboston.ca/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/32 'edmo']
| | '''jboston''' on irc://irc.mozilla.org/communityit |
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| RSS feed for Mozilla Education posts only:
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| [http://jamesboston.ca/cms/taxonomy/term/32/0/feed RSS]
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| Email: <br />
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| jamesboston [at] mozillafoundation [dot] org<br />
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| IRC: <br />
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| '''jboston''' on irc://irc.mozilla.org/education | |
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| External wiki at Seneca College:
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| [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/User:Jamesboston James Boston's wiki at Seneca College
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| =Google Summer of Code=
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| nsIProcess2 - A replacement for nsIProcess<br />
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| Project page:<br />
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| http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/User:Jamesboston/nsIProcess
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| =Mozilla Education Internship=
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| The primary activity for this internship will be assisting in creating and maintaining the [http://education.mozilla.org Mozilla Education] site. This includes:
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| * Creating a plan for the Mozilla Education site, including criteria for what material should be included and how it should be presented.
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| * Creating an inventory of existing Mozilla-related educational material (e.g., at the [https://developer.mozilla.org Mozilla Developer Center] or elsewhere) that could be referenced by or repurposed for the Mozilla Education site.
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| * Identifying third-party materials (e.g., from [http://www.oercommons.org/ OER] sites or other sites focusing on participatory learning in an open source context) that would be of interest in a Mozilla context.
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| * Creating content for the Mozilla Education site, including new material, repurposed material, and links to material on other sites.
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| * Working with Mozilla localization teams to create localized versions of the Mozilla Education site.
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| * Researching and implementing options for transforming existing Mozilla materials into formats suitable for custom textbooks and other printable instructional materials.
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| * Defining a plan for ongoing maintenance and enhancement of the Mozilla Education site's collections.
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| ==May Goals==
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| The following tasks are proposed for month one:
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| * Revise the front page of Mozilla Education site to better tell the story of Mozilla Education and provide a better introduction to new visitors.
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| * Create a plan for an overall information architecture of Mozilla Education site.
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| * Create an inventory of education-related resources from other Mozilla sites, and link to them from the Mozilla Education site.
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| * Ensure that all Mozilla Education-related projects and people (including faculty and institutions expressing interest in Mozilla Education activities) are easily findable from the Mozilla Education site.
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| ==Weekly deliverables==
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| ===Week of May 11===
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| * draft of new front page
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| * drill down more on list of potential users described in [http://jamesboston.ca/cms/?q=node/123 blog post], flesh out in term of pages for different people (a straw man info architecture)
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| * (tentative) start inventory of mdc site
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| ====Completed tasks====
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| * Limited progress on straw man architechure: [[User:Jamesboston/InfoArchitecture|Info Architecture]]
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| * Made greater progress on inventory of MDC site; expect to be able to publish guide to MDC week of May 18
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| ===Week of May 18===
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| * didn't have a chance to touch base on weekly deliverables
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| * continue revising front page
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| * publish results of MDC survey and add guide to MDC to wiki
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| ====Completed tasks====
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| * tba
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| ===Week of May 25===
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| * comprehensive list of high level tasks for new students and instructors
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| * describe structure of that list in terms of EdMo pages
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| ** (useful to draw a distinction between ''HowTo'' and ''overview'' pages)
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| ====Completed tasks====
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| * tba
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| =Addenda=
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| ==Info architecture==
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| [[User:Jamesboston/InfoArchitecture|Info Architecture]] - An analysis of the current site with recommendations for the future
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| ==Survey of MDC==
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| [http://jamesboston.ca/misc/list.csv list.csv]: A list of MDC documents that has been autocategorized.
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