Book Project for Poor Students in Uganda Workspace

Overall Plan

-Identify project team structure

who will be the team leader for the project?

who will do what and when?

Departments that need supervision?

-Identify resources needed in a project

what resources do we have?

which authorities will fund the project?

How will we present our proposal to relevant funding authorities?

How can the smooth flow of fund be assured?

what aspects of project will be monitored and who will monitor them?

How will the monitoring activities be organised

when will they take place?

-Identify target groups to include as part of project team.

-To set up cantact categories for the project team

-Send initial notice and invitation to project team?

-Manage contact list through out the project

-Set up meeting for the internal project team.

-Which target group should we begin with;

primary, secondary or others?

-which subjects to start with

sciences or arts?

-Where are we going to put our headquarters (location)

-How are we going to conduct our voluntary teaching services?

which level to begin with;

primary or secondary?

-How are we going to print our books? (which method to use?)

-How are we going to distribute our books? (how will the books reach the users?)

-How and when are we going to achieve other goals of the project

like building schools for poor students.

Books

Lost Crops of Africa

Free Economics Textbooks Online

Project Gutenberg

Page by Page Books

The Online Books Page

TampaRead's Grade 1 Reading Books Online

Online Books

Book Project for Poor Students in Uganda

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Getting Started

A workspace is different. It's a place where people can work on writing documents together. Anyone can edit, assuming the group permissions allow it. Just click Edit on the menu bar at the top of the screen, and you'll see what I mean.

As you begin to edit more and more complex documents, it's important to keep this plain text clean. Don't be overly concerned about the presentation of your document; instead, focus on the content and readability in the plain text. If it isn't readable in the Edit box, your colleagues won't be able to contribute.

One fun thing about workspaces is that you can create new pages just by naming them in your document. For example, here's a new page now: Sandbox Notice that it's a single word, and followed by a single underscore. If I wanted to create a page with multiple words, I would enclose the page in back-ticks, like this: My experiments To get that, I typed this: `My experiments`_

But remember, just creating a new page doesn't make it easy to find. And if other people can't find your page, what's the point of working on it? Make sure you don't create orphans. Always think about linking to your pages from a Home page of some sort. If you can't think of a Home page for your pages, then at least use an Index page to gather them all in one place.

Now, another tip on how to format your documents. Remember, the plain text is the most important thing: it has to be readable to be useful. So, use plenty of white space. Always leave a blank line between paragraphs, and before and after headings or lists. Just take a look at the plain text of this document, and you'll see what I mean.

Also remember to start every paragraph at the left edge of the Edit box; don't indent paragraphs like they taught you in typing class. If you indent a paragraph in the plain text, it will end up indented a lot more on the web page. Use that to your advantage when you like, but sparingly.

Beyond that, there are a few fancy tricks you might want to learn as you get more familiar with this workspace. Be sure to refer to the /help/Punctuation Help document to learn more if you get stuck.

Now, it's time to get back to work!

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People

John Powers
Freedom, Pennsylvania
http://bazungubucks.blogspot.com /

I haven't taken the time to learn all the ways of editing pages here at Ned. But I do believe that the workspaces will be one of the best advantages of having a group for this project.

I thought about making a table for these people pages, and I still think that might be a good idea. But I'll have to think and learn, or maybe one of the members will make one here so we can all learn by their example.

It will be important for the Ugandan principals in this project to develop a good resume of curriculum vita. In the USA resumes are standard. They are a single page telling the most important information about a person for employment.

One reason I wanted a table is so that our strengths and weaknesses could be listed. Then together we can see what strengths the project has collectively and also see where we need to develop strengths.

For me I'm hard pressed to say what my strengths are, but I'm sure I have some strengths. Sometimes it's easier to see what strengths we have when other recognize them in us. It's also easy to be blind to our weaknesses. It's harder to take when others recognize our weaknesses, but valuable information nonetheless.

Here I would note kindness is an important value. When people are giving of themselves freely, it's always important to see that a gift is being given. It's not easy to be kind. Sometimes feeling are hurt, and very often feelings are hurt when there is no intention of offense. When working together, to be successful and to truly develop our strengths together, we must take feelings seriously.

Resources

Open Source Software

Gimp GNU Image Manipulation Program

Open Office

Scribus

Book Project for Poor Students in Uganda Workspace

Overall Plan

Books

Book Project for Poor Students in Uganda

Book Project for Poor Students in Uganda

Getting Started

Announcements

Directory

People

Resources