Students And Appropedia

Appropedia and Students
bringing context and traction

Sharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable lives.
Students now: know more
A panacea now: not a chance
Teachers now: oracles versus facilitators
Communities now: countless solutions

Context
http://xkcd.com/669/ XKCD
Traction

Ways Students Engage
Document existing projects - Potawot (HSU)
Coordinate projects - Retrofit Streetlights (Clarion University, Pennsylvania)
Collaboratively research - Green Materials (Queens College, Canada)
Document own project designs - IDDS (MIT)

Appropedia: Service Learning through Translation
“Working on Appropedia was an experience of a lifetime. The site increased my knowledge of sustainable development greatly and expanded my understanding of the German language. Everyone should get involved in this site.” (Source: The Language Educator)

More than Academia
Sharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable lives
Vibrant Community:
Thousands of visits a day
Over 100 thousand edits
Over 13 million page views

http://www.thefullbellyproject.org/
“HELLO mer Lonny ! [I] am really involving and searching solution, to the positive idea to help women in Harare who suffered, by decorticating peanut shell by hands, stones, teeth. This ANCIENT METHOD perturbed my human senses. To telling you the truth, when I am founding this page, my feeling is like, I got THEIR SOLUTION... “TefferaTesfaye, Zimbabwean Father of five

More than Academia
January 13th to February 13th, 2010
Missing Central African Republic,Somalia, Western Sahara, Turkmenistan, Serbia, North Korea and Greenland

Winery Rainwater – Solar Lawn Mower
Replicated around North America – Over 85,000 page views

PhilippineBioDigester
From obscurity to 55,000 views and an updated model

what are you going to do?

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Students And Appropedia

by Lonny Grafman on Mar 08, 2010

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