Re: What you can do to contribute to the webed community group

Hi Kurt,

This sounds like it has a lot of potential.

At the moment, all we have on SVG is a list of tutorials we want http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/WSC_proposed_updates#SVG

But I hadn't considered thinking about building some SVG applications for educators. What did you have in mind?

Do any of the educators on the list have any ideas here?

On 23 May 2012, at 14:14, Kurt Cagle wrote:

> Chris,
> 
> I'm overdue on finishing a book on SVG for O'Reilly (I'm about six chapters into it at this point), and have been looking for an excuse to broaden my SVG load so that I can justify spending more time in that space. If you don't mind me using samples I develop from one for the other, this may be just the excuse I've been looking for. Do you have anything particular in mind, or are you just thinking about building out a "practical SVG" space? This would also be a good chance for me to work with educators to put together a wish-list of SVG type applications that may have utility in the education space. 
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> Kurt
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> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com> wrote:
> Hello, dear web education folk,
> 
> I hope you are well today.
> 
> A few new people have asked me in the last week or so what they can do to contribute, so I thought I would drop y'all a quick mail about it.
> 
> the blurb at the top of http://www.w3.org/community/webed/ briefly outlines the things we are aiming to do in this community group. The most important immediate task is creating more content for our resources, which are currently on the Wiki, at http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/Main_Page.
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> Yes, it looks a bit ugly right now, but we will soon be provided with a nice looking publishing platform to put all this on, along with tools and other learning resources. Until then, I don't expect outreach work to really start properly, but we can still prepare material in readiness. You can:
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> 1. Write new tutorials, along the lines of the proposed updates listed at
> http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/WSC_proposed_updates.
> 
> I really want people to write stuff about JavaScript and SVG as a priority (see relevant sections)
> 
> 2. Write outlines for new sections of articles. I especially need people to spec out
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> * http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/WSC_proposed_updates#Planned_New_section_to_replace_.22Web_Design_Concepts.22_-_to_be_called_.22Planning_a_web_site.22
> * http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/WSC_proposed_updates#Accessibility_specifics
> * http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/WSC_proposed_updates#Adaptive_design_and_development_for_Mobile_and_other_alternative_browsing_devices
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> As these have only been done very roughly and without much thought.
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> 
> 3. Write teaching materials, like the prototype I did - see http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/Main_Page#Teaching_materials. The idea here would be to go through each course at http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/Main_Page#Curriculum_structures and write a set of teaching materials for each learning competency.
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> Also, please do give me feedback on the new materials that I keep e-mailing around. And feel free to mail your own creations around for feedback!
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> 
> There is also some translation activity going on - see
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> http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/Es/
> http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/Turkish_international_project
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> If you want to help translate our material into another language, please let us know!
> 
> And feel free to ask me any questions you like.
> 
> Chris Mills
> Open standards evangelist and dev.opera.com editor, Opera Software
> Co-chair, web education community group, W3C
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