This page outlines the current work-in-progress reports for breakout groups within the Community Tools theme team.
For more detailed information about each group, click on the 'more info' link.
interoperable ability for threaded discussion
formats (more
info)
Many discussion tools exist for threaded discussion. Although these
tools are similar in many ways, no standard way exists to
represent, archive, or translate the discussions create in these
multiple tools. A first step towards unifying our products,
research, and development is to define an XML data format for
threaded discussions.
Bridging the Disconnect: Connecting Values to the
Internet (more
info)
We propose to convene a meeting with the goal of developing a
proposal for a forum that brings together stakeholders from
business, education, government, research, and the general public
who will: 1) identify common criteria for the
ethical/constructive/educational uses of the Internet; 2) develop
concrete action plans that promote this common agenda. During this
meeting, participants wil...
Social Information Filtering (more info)
We will build a testbed into a kit for creating and then evaluating
social information filters, tested initially by providing CILT
members two recommendations: (1) a set of potentially interesting
readings and (2) a list of possible collaborators. Knowledge-rich
profiles will be created by CILT members visiting our site where
they are asked to use GOOGLE to recommend one reading and also to
r...
Next generation online teacher learning (more info)
The goal of this project is to produce a white paper defining the
characteristics and approaches to the next generation of online
teacher learning.
Informal Professional Development (more info)
Several successful informal professional development networks
currently exist on the WWW. We propose to mine those resources and
existing communities to identify the modes of access and usage of
the community members. This information will be used to propose a
model for providing online staff development including preservice
and inservice teachers in a cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Collaborative design spaces (more info)
Making a market (more info)
We want to create an association to support educational
entrepeuners. The association might provide training, match-making,
online community, legal advice, business mentoring, market
research, etc. Deliverables are a business plan for the
organization and a website to support the planning process and to
diseminate the information collected.
Clearinghouse Business Plan (more info)
Proposal: Educational Resource Clearinghouse Build a business plan
to construct a for-profit clearinghouse for delivery of educational
artifacts. The seed money would be used to 1. design and conduct
initial market research to identify the target market, 2. to
identify and quantify revenue stream models (sales, advertising,
developer subscriptions for survey data,..), 3. to...
Staff/Professional Development (more info)
On-line Professional Development focused on Team-based Project
Work. We are interested in developeing a framework/model for group
formation and management for online professional development as
well as the tool set necessary to implement this model/framework.
Looking at the large research done in this area in industry as well
K-12 and other areas, we want to identiy what skills particp...
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