Sorry, drupalistas, but this is a goodwill project for NYC teachers. Coquille, my good friend/teacher/activist wants to create a really really simple site to teach other NYC teachers how to recycle. By law the schools are to recycle, but the school system refused to educated nor provide supplies for recycleing. So enter my friend, armed with a dozen or fellow teachers to do data input and create content. They need something simple that will be functional and hopefully get a bit of press (IE... free advertisement for you.)
I'm just the connector here... So please be nice. ;)
Noel
I'm looking to create a website to encourage recycling in NYC schools. I'd like the site to start with teacher and student-generated content created by our school, with the idea that our resources/recycling system could be easily replicated in other schools. Eventually, other schools could join in authoring content. Currently, few schools are recycling in NYC, which is totally frustrating because it's the law and, more importantly, the right thing to do.
The site would include some of the following, which could be used as a demonstration tools in other schools:
• Podcasts created by students on how to recycle.
• Photo/video documentaries on fieldtrips related to recycling.
• Video/podcast retellings of related stories, such as the Lorax by Dr. Seuss.
• Blogs by students about our recycling project and related news, such as reviewing websites on recycling for kids.
• Published student books with illustrations on recycling, including their own recycling comics.
• Videos created by students on how to recycle at school and at home.
• Resources: thematic units on trees, recycling and worm composting; program resources such as recycling badges and certificates; links to books and other materials that make units successful; and contests.
• Links to great sites on recycling for kids.
We are a public school, so I'm hoping there is someone out there who could help us out.
Comments
This actually would be pretty straightforward
Off the top of my head:
The audio module would handle the podcasts --
The embed module can allow for streaming video via YouTube/GooTube
The Video module can handle uploading video directly to the site.
Blogs handled by the blog module (ok, the page module) --
Books can handle the thematic units.
Daily module for the cartoons (or possibly a cck node type).
Userlink or cck for useful links.
Views for generating displays of content.
Maybe start with the fern theme because it's green and leafy and displays well across browsers :)
Feel free to contact me via my contact form -- this is something that wouldn't be too hard to get together.
Cheers,
Bill
FunnyMonkey
Noel
I'm in NYC and would be happy to help, if you want to pass my info along. Andrew at Open Educator, Inc. ...will see you at the upcoming meetup.
Current portfolio:
http://www.openplanner.org
http://www.humanitiesprep.org
http://www.ewsis.org
http://www.columbiasecondary.org
Please have your friend use the contact form at http://www.openplanner.org and we'll talk!
Cheers,
Andrew