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One Project per Classroom
 * Action Plan for Creating Projects for 2009-2010 OLPCorps Deployment**


 * August**-**October: Creating Contacts**
 * Create contact with South Africa and Kenya schools on Thinkquest.org (92 are currently registered) to see if any are currently OLCP schools
 * Contact[| PeaceCorps Worldwise] school: do they have a Corps member in an XO school?
 * Contact [|Dr. John Keller] for potential partnership with his motivational measurement tools, the [[file:ARCSMEA Partial Draft 060222.doc]] (IMMS) and the Course Interest Survey (CIS) as a tool for measurement
 * Contact Thinkquest.org contact (Thyra Busch) for potential partnership/training support
 * Apply to various spring conference for presentation of One Project per Classroom to 1) share results, 2) network and locate more partners. [|CUE], [|NECC] [|FETC]
 * Contact OLPCorps in-field students to create partnerships
 * Level 1 Partnerships: eBuddies (Writing Letters/Debates/Votes/Pictures/Video about each other/blog updates about class and their school; sharing Scratch or ToonDoo projects with eachother and comment)
 * Level 2 Partnerships: Working with partner teacher to create a project amongst both classrooms (i.e. the culture, ecosystem of our city)
 * Level 3 Partnerships: Participating in a collaborative science project with each other:
 * [|Down the Drain] Water Use Project
 * [|Global Water] Sampling Project
 * [|Square of Life] Biodiversity Project
 * [|Global Sun] Temperature Project


 * November-December: Introducing Partnerships and Workspace**
 * Create Project Page for Thinkquest.org
 * Create listserv/wiki/Twitter for OLPC One Project per Class participating teachers to establish community space online and a means for mass communication
 * Sign up all partnered schools and students
 * Hold a series of free online webinars for partnered teachers (using [|DimDim] open source webconferencing) to introduce partnered teachers, establish communication patterns and the levels of partnerships


 * January-March: Project Work**
 * Visit participating schools for project-based learning instruction using XO and Thinkquest
 * Administer Instructional Materials Motivation Survey/CIS


 * March-May**
 * Hold virtual "exhibition" of final work using webconferencing or other medium; invite and share stakeholders to view the final projects
 * Re-administer IMMS/CIS; share results
 * Apply for presenting projects at [|eLearning Africa 2010]
 * Prepare for 2010 deployments; strengthening projects


 * Possible Grants**

Fulbright http://us.fulbrightonline.org/program_country.html?id=97 Due Oct.

Boren http://www.borenawards.org/boren_fellowship Due Jan