We're not sure if we're going to be open source or not (I'd love to hear your thoughts on the issue of open-source)
We're thinking about using something called PHP Cake. I'm not the lead on the programming end of things - my colleague Evan Morikawa is on this network as well though, and he's doing the bulk of the research into what frameworks we're using, if you'd like to ask him about it.
As far as this year-off of school goes, we're not at all endorsed by the college. No funding, no housing, no food...most of us are living out of our own pockets, or with some help from our parents. This project isn't getting us any credit-what it is getting for us is some real life experience in the business world, and a lot of experience designing, talking to users, programming, and taking an idea from start to finish. We're planning on registering ourselves as a business in early January, and hopefully this will continue on to become something bigger.
As far as assumptions about our user resources go, we're located in a relatively affluent area. We've been talking to schools in Waltham, Weston, Needham, Wellesly, and Natick. This 'upper middle class suburban' distinction gives us some wiggle room to assume that most of the schools and homes in the area have some form of high speed internet. We hope to eventually enter into other areas, but for our original pilots we're sticking with the schools that we know have the bandwidth for something like this.
Our budget at the moment is coming out of our own pockets. Fortunately, we haven't had to purchase much thus far, save a few conference tickets and office supplies. I'm not sure if we're planning on purchasing any programming tools, but if we win this ideablob competition, we'll have a $10,000 pool of startup funding to help push this forward.
Right now our timeline is to have a pre-beta pilot available for teachers on April 15th. If we receive enough funding for this project, we'll be able to work through the summer and hopefully launch another beta version early in the 2009-2010 school year. We haven't hashed out all of the details of the pre-beta yet, but we'll be making a more detailed timeline once we do that.
Thanks for the questions-pretty helpful in letting me think about some things, and I'll be forwarding them all to the group.
With your interest in Education Technology, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service.
Hi Ed. I was wondering if your students would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. Perhaps you have some educator contacts you could direct me to. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!
Alyshia Olsen
We're thinking about using something called PHP Cake. I'm not the lead on the programming end of things - my colleague Evan Morikawa is on this network as well though, and he's doing the bulk of the research into what frameworks we're using, if you'd like to ask him about it.
As far as this year-off of school goes, we're not at all endorsed by the college. No funding, no housing, no food...most of us are living out of our own pockets, or with some help from our parents. This project isn't getting us any credit-what it is getting for us is some real life experience in the business world, and a lot of experience designing, talking to users, programming, and taking an idea from start to finish. We're planning on registering ourselves as a business in early January, and hopefully this will continue on to become something bigger.
As far as assumptions about our user resources go, we're located in a relatively affluent area. We've been talking to schools in Waltham, Weston, Needham, Wellesly, and Natick. This 'upper middle class suburban' distinction gives us some wiggle room to assume that most of the schools and homes in the area have some form of high speed internet. We hope to eventually enter into other areas, but for our original pilots we're sticking with the schools that we know have the bandwidth for something like this.
Our budget at the moment is coming out of our own pockets. Fortunately, we haven't had to purchase much thus far, save a few conference tickets and office supplies. I'm not sure if we're planning on purchasing any programming tools, but if we win this ideablob competition, we'll have a $10,000 pool of startup funding to help push this forward.
Right now our timeline is to have a pre-beta pilot available for teachers on April 15th. If we receive enough funding for this project, we'll be able to work through the summer and hopefully launch another beta version early in the 2009-2010 school year. We haven't hashed out all of the details of the pre-beta yet, but we'll be making a more detailed timeline once we do that.
Thanks for the questions-pretty helpful in letting me think about some things, and I'll be forwarding them all to the group.
Alyshia
Dec 29, 2008
Mark Cruthers
With your interest in Education Technology, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service.
Jan 6, 2009
Jack
Jan 28, 2009