Re: Episcopal School of Dallas has joined the Web Education Community Group

Thanks for your responses Cam - it's good to have you on board! I like your little short, focussed videos. 

Chris Mills
Open standards evangelist and dev.opera.com editor, Opera Software
Co-chair, web education community group, W3C

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On 11 Jul 2012, at 15:19, Cameron Christensen wrote:

> Howdy Chris (and everyone else on the webed mailing list)!
> 
> Here's just a bit about me:
> 
> I'm a high school teacher in Dallas, Texas (in the US). Last year was my first year teaching Web development, and the textbook we used was unhelpful to say the least. I'm not quite all of the way through the Web Standards Curriculum, but I've already found it more accessible and insightful than what I had (and was paying for) before. I'm not using a traditional textbook this coming semester. Instead, I'll be drawing from a variety of sources, the Web Standards Curriculum being a main one.
> 
> I've also begun recording a bunch of YouTube videos (Khan Academy-style) on a little website I started last month on christensenacademy.org. It turns out that my students vastly prefer my YouTube videos to my in-class lectures, so I'm on a mission to build out that site and make it as good as possible. Naturally, I want to understand Web Standards and best practices as intimately as possible before I start making (or continue making) videos.
> 
> So, In answer to your questions...
> 
> 1) I'm probably mostly looking to lurk for the time being, though I have encountered a few mistakes on the site, and I would be willing to help fix up some errors as I encounter them.
> 
> 1a) No changes in the foreseeable future.
> 
> 2) My focus, I think, will remain on trying to build my christensenacademy.org site. I don't want to spread myself too thin. There are plenty of topics to tackle besides Web development...
> 
> 3) I suppose the answer would be 'b'. I'm all about making YouTube videos :-)
> 
> 4) I think the educational power of YouTube in combination with a feedback system similar to that found on the Khan Academy site is phenomenal. I think we have the potential to make something substantially better than the teamtreehouse.com guys (or anyone else for that matter), and to do it for free. I'd love to explain why I think this if people are willing to listen.
> 
> 5) I want to improve the world of education in general. Instead of trying to "fix" or "reform" the educational system from within, I figure that it's smarter to work on creating superior education experiences independent of a traditional school environment. Involvement with the Web Ed CG will (hopefully) in some small way get me a little closer to realizing some of my goals.
> 
> Peace,
> 
> Cam
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com> wrote:
> Hi there - thanks for joining our group!
> 
> Can you please intro yourself to the mailing list so we can say hi, and also send me answers to the following quick survey questions (I'm doing this just so I can gauge everyone's interests in the group, and see who is interested in working on what).
> 
> Also if you have any questions, please feel free to hit me up!
> 
> 1. Are you just lurking, or do you want to actively contribute? Just lurking is fine, but it is useful to know who I can approach with tasks, and who to leave alone.
> 
> 1a. Is this likely to change soon?
> 
> 2. If you want to actively contribute, how much time can you contribute, in general?
>         a. A few hours a week of my employer's time
>         b. A few hours a week of my own time
>         c. a. and b.
>         d. A few hours a month
>         e. An occasional time slot, not regularly.
> 
> 3. What do you want to work on? You can choose more than one, but list them in order of preference if possible.
> 
>         a. Writing tutorials, and reference material
>         b. Writing slideshows, curricula and other teaching material
>         c. Technical editing of other people's technical material
>         d. Proof reading material (checking for language errors)
>         e. Doing outreach to educators - getting them interested in using our resources
>         f. Investigating training and certification
>         g. Translations (state languages)
>         h. Outreach into specific non-English communities
> 
> 4. If you have any specific skills, ideas or resources that would be useful to us, please list them here.
> 
> 5. Why are you involved - what do you hope to gain out of contributing to the Web Ed CG?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Chris Mills
> Open standards evangelist and dev.opera.com editor, Opera Software
> Co-chair, web education community group, W3C
> 
> * Try Opera: http://www.opera.com
> * Learn about the latest open standards technologies and techniques: http://dev.opera.com
> * Contribute to web education: http://www.w3.org/community/webed/
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> > From: sysbot+ipp@w3.org
> > Date: 10 July 2012 21:32:01 GMT+01:00
> > To: cmills@opera.com, ben@iconologic.com, ij@w3.org
> > Cc: w3c-archive@w3.org, cameron@christensenacademy.org
> > Subject: Episcopal School of Dallas has joined the Web Education Community Group
> >
> >
> >  Dear non-W3C Member Representative, Chair, and Team Contact,
> >
> > On July 10, 2012, 20:30  UTC, Episcopal School of Dallas joined the Web
> > Education Community Group as requested by Cameron Christensen. The
> > following commitments were made:
> > - to agree to join this group by having my organization sign the  W3C
> > Community Contributor License Agreement [1]. <strong>This is the preferred
> > option and there is no fee.</strong> For more information about why this
> > option benefits participants and the Web, see the summary of the patent and
> > copyright policy [2] and Community Group FAQ [3]. <div
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> > I certify that I am authorized to execute the  W3C Community Contributor
> > License Agreement [1] and hereby do execute that Agreement on behalf of the
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> >
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> > 3. http://www.w3.org/community/about/faq/
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> > 5. http://www.w3.org/community/agreements/
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