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Our next steps

The OneVille Project’s pilot phase is ending, with specific efforts now seeded and living on. The effort at creating Parent Connector Networks may live on as OneVille, or maybe nothing literally titled "OneVille" will live on as such -- but all the work we seeded will grow.

Everyone on the project is continuing work on the specific tools and strategies we worked on in 2009-11/12. Many of us now hope to work with people in other communities to share communication tools and strategies that support collaboration between the diverse people who share young people's lives.

In Somerville in 2011-12, The OneVille Project continued to do the following:

-Test texting with students and teachers at Full Circle/Next Wave. We will wrap up the OneVille texting pilot by sharing our ¡Ahas! about texting with youth-serving organizations in the Somerville community. We're also now working with partners at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard to produce a teacher guide to safetly navigating the legal issues raised for those pioneering texting and other social media in schools.

-Parents and staff continued to develop the efforts of the Parent Connector Network at the Healey School.

-A pro bono developer in San Diego helped us complete the administrator and teacher dashboard views.

-Students and teachers who began their work in the OneVille eportfolio pilot now are seeding ePortfolios across Somerville High School. Their Somerville High eportfolio website also helps next teachers and students exploring eportfolios: http://sites.google.com/site/shseportfolio/.

In 2011-12, with funding from the Digital Media and Learning Hub of the MacArthur Foundation, based at UC Irvine, and in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, we all hosted a small "working group" of OneVille participants and local researchers thinking about how youth and adults can innovate new uses of commonplace technologies in diverse communities. OneVille participants of all ages came to share their work and ideas with local colleagues from Harvard, MIT, Emerson, and Tufts. A key goal for the Working Group was to keep honing our online documentation -- this wiki's. What online reporting would best support other diverse communities exploring such uses of commonplace and low-cost tech in public school communities?

All of the coauthors on this wiki continue to work on related work and will continue to write and speak publicly about what they have learned.

Mica, the original OneVille PI, has moved to San Diego for a new job as Professor of Education Studies and Director of CREATE (the Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence) at the University of California San Diego (http://create.ucsd.edu). There, with her new colleagues and community, she's extending the collaborative agenda sparked in the OneVille Project, testing next communication tools and strategies for enabling partnership between local K-12 teachers, families, young people, and university supporters. CREATE has particular strength in teacher professional development and youth mentoring/outreach, so Mica will now be working with West Coast colleagues to learn how to help network supporters to youth and local teachers to each other. While working to build next ¡Ahas! in San Diego, she will remain a remote ally to Somerville.

We know various OneVille participants will hone, over time and in collaboration with folks in multiple communities, free/low-cost communication tools and strategies enabling diverse supporters to collaborate in student success.

The Next Layer: Connecting to Folks Doing Similar Work in Other Communities.

We'd love to spark a lively exchange between people working on similar things.

Want to talk further?

Are you working on improving communications in your own school or community?

Contact point people directly at:

Dashboard: Jedd Cohen (jic378@mail.harvard.edu); Josh Wairi (jwairi@k12.somerville.ma.us); Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)

Eportfolio: Susan Klimczak (klimczaksusan@gmail.com); Michelle Li (mli@k12.somerville.ma.us); Chris Glynn (cglynn@k12.somerville.ma.us) (extra questions can also go to Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)

Texting: Uche Amaechi (amaechi@gmail.com); Maureen Robichaux (mrobichaux@k12.somerville.ma.us); Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)

Parent Connector Network: Jedd Cohen (jic378@mail.harvard.edu); Tona DelMonico (tona_d@comcast.net) Ana Maria Nieto (amn956@mail.harvard.edu); Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)

How'd we do in sharing our own first efforts?

We want to connect to more people improving communications in public education and so, we've been experimenting with sharing our own work online!

Tell us (contact the point people above or, mica.pollock@gmail.com):

Did we format our examples in useful ways?
Did we offer too much information on what we did, or not enough?
Do you want to know more about what we've been doing?
Would you contact us to share what you've been doing?

Some issues we’ve been thinking about (related to our Vision for OneVille documentation) and haven't resolved:

Audience: can researchers, teachers, families, and youth all share one form of documentation? (That’s what we’ve tried to do here. Eportfolio teachers made their own teacher-to-teacher videos as well on the Someville High School website: http://sites.google.com/site/shseportfolio/.)
How do you most effectively show examples of local efforts and innovations in public education? How many words can you use? When might you use pictures or videos? How/when can words and visuals go together?

Another Next Layer: National Networks for Sharing Local Efforts Like These?

Think about it: What might happen if lots of youth, families, and educators started sharing out their educational innovations more generally, online?

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-== The Last Layer: Connecting to Folks Doing Similar Work in Other Communities.==
-===Want to talk further?===
-Are you working on improving communications in your own school or community?
-Contact us here at xxxxxx.
-===How'd we do in sharing our own first efforts?===
-Our goal with this wiki has been to inform and support people in doing related work elsewhere.
-Tell us:
-*Did we format our examples in useful ways?
-*Did we offer too much information on what we did, or not enough?
-*Do you want to know more about what we've been doing?
-*Would you contact us to share what you've been doing?
-We'd love to spark a lively exchange between people working on similar things. It takes a local network to raise a child; it takes a national network to brainstorm the ideas for doing it.
-Think about it: What might happen if lots of youth, families, and educators started sharing out their educational innovations more generally? If more folks connected to other people struggling and succeeding w/ similar issues in their own communities, would a broader network grow, sparking ground-up innovations in education?
-===Why We Need More People Working on the "Toolkit"===
-Researchers and companies typically design tech tools for education and then head to schools to try them. Many avoid the bottlenecks of public schools altogether. Policymakers typically just tell youth and educators regulations constraining such tools’ use in public schools.
-Put together, this leaves young people, families, and educators in “traditional” public schools with little power to direct the use of technology in 21st century public education. So, how might diverse youth, educators, families, and researchers instead come together to co-design uses of social and digital media that effectively support young people’s learning in diverse, mixed-income, and traditional public schools? How might such efforts transform public schools from the inside out?
 ==Our next steps==
-Our PI is moving to direct CREATE (the Center for Research on Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence) at the University of California San Diego.
+The OneVille Project’s pilot phase is ending, with specific efforts now seeded and living on. The effort at creating Parent Connector Networks may live on as OneVille, or maybe nothing literally titled "OneVille" will live on as such -- but all the work we seeded will grow.
-Our goal will now be to work bicoastally to improve the communication infrastructure of public education.
+Everyone on the project is continuing work on the specific tools and strategies we worked on in 2009-11/12. Many of us now hope to work with people in other communities to share communication tools and strategies that support collaboration between the diverse people who share young people's lives.
-In San Diego, we'll hope to explore analogous efforts and link SD innovators to Somerville innovators.
+In Somerville in 2011-12, The OneVille Project continued to do the following:
-in Somerville, we hope to continue to create and test free/low cost tools and strategies for supporting communication and collaboration between the diverse people who share young people's lives. In fall 2011, we'll continue to test texting "groups," pilot and tweak our dashboard, and continue to develop the efforts of the Parent Connector Network; we also want to learn what happens when an eportfolio seeds across a high school!
+:-Test texting with students and teachers at Full Circle/Next Wave. We will wrap up the OneVille texting pilot by sharing our ¡Ahas! about texting with youth-serving organizations in the Somerville community. We're also now working with partners at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard to produce a teacher guide to safetly navigating the legal issues raised for those pioneering texting and other social media in schools.
+:-Parents and staff continued to develop the efforts of the Parent Connector Network at the Healey School.
+:-A pro bono developer in San Diego helped us complete the administrator and teacher dashboard views.
+:-Students and teachers who began their work in the OneVille eportfolio pilot now are seeding ePortfolios across Somerville High School. Their Somerville High eportfolio website also helps next teachers and students exploring eportfolios: http://sites.google.com/site/shseportfolio/.
-In 2011-12, with funding from the Digital Media and Learning Hub at UC Irvine (itself funded by the MacArthur Foundation), we'll be inviting our participants to share their work and ideas with several other projects concerned with everyday tech use: the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, folks from the Center for Civic Media at MIT; CIRCLE, at Tufts; Emerson College. To get conversation started in this Working Group, we’ll convene OneVille's participants with folks from these organizations to analyze documentation of the first six efforts of the OneVille Project.
+In 2011-12, with funding from the Digital Media and Learning Hub of the MacArthur Foundation, based at UC Irvine, and in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, we all hosted a small "working group" of OneVille participants and local researchers thinking about how youth and adults can innovate new uses of commonplace technologies in diverse communities. OneVille participants of all ages came to share their work and ideas with local colleagues from Harvard, MIT, Emerson, and Tufts. A key goal for the Working Group was to keep honing our online documentation -- this wiki's. What online reporting would best support other diverse communities exploring such uses of commonplace and low-cost tech in public school communities?
-Our goal for the year will be to keep honing documentation like this wiki's, so it supports and sparks other diverse communities exploring such uses of commonplace and low-cost tech in education. We also want to consider a model across our projects, in which diverse intergenerational teams work together to design uses for commonplace tech that transform public education.
+All of the coauthors on this wiki continue to work on related work and will continue to write and speak publicly about what they have learned.
-Simultaneously, we’ll consider others' projects to support students and teachers in online information literacy (Youth and Media Lab (YAM), Berkman), and to adapt citywide information-sharing and planning tools for schools (CCM, CIRCLE, Emerson).
+Mica, the original OneVille PI, has moved to San Diego for a new job as Professor of Education Studies and Director of CREATE (the Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence) at the University of California San Diego (http://create.ucsd.edu). There, with her new colleagues and community, she's extending the collaborative agenda sparked in the OneVille Project, testing next communication tools and strategies for enabling partnership between local K-12 teachers, families, young people, and university supporters. CREATE has particular strength in teacher professional development and youth mentoring/outreach, so Mica will now be working with West Coast colleagues to learn how to help network supporters to youth and local teachers to each other. While working to build next ¡Ahas! in San Diego, she will remain a remote ally to Somerville.
-We'll keep exploring everyday uses of commonplace tech for linking youth and supporters in routine communications about ways to support youths’ learning and development.
+We know various OneVille participants will hone, over time and in collaboration with folks in multiple communities, free/low-cost communication tools and strategies enabling diverse supporters to collaborate in student success.
-And through all this, as we said above, we also want to connect to other folks doing similar things where they live. Could we get lots of people developing a full toolkit of free/open source communication tools and strategies linking diverse partners in public education?
+== The Next Layer: Connecting to Folks Doing Similar Work in Other Communities.==
-== Examples of Broader Info-Sharing ==
+We'd love to spark a lively exchange between people working on similar things.
-DOES JEDD'S REVIEW FIT HERE? JEDD, YOU COULD ADD YOUR REVIEW HERE, ADD IN FROM THE OLD WIKI TOO.
+===Want to talk further?===
-THIS STUFF BELOW IS JUST PLACEHOLDER/OLD:
+Are you working on improving communications in your own school or community?
-Here are some examples of info-sharing models:
+Contact point people directly at:
-Edutopia.
+:'''Dashboard''': Jedd Cohen (jic378@mail.harvard.edu); Josh Wairi (jwairi@k12.somerville.ma.us); Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)
-Peer 2 Peer University.
+:'''Eportfolio''': Susan Klimczak (klimczaksusan@gmail.com); Michelle Li (mli@k12.somerville.ma.us); Chris Glynn (cglynn@k12.somerville.ma.us) (extra questions can also go to Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)
-Connexions: http://cnx.org/content/m37276/latest/?collection=col11292/latest
+:'''Texting''': Uche Amaechi (amaechi@gmail.com); Maureen Robichaux (mrobichaux@k12.somerville.ma.us); Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)
-IBM’s Reinventing Education initative (see Kanter’s “Change Toolkit.”).
+:'''Parent Connector Network''': Jedd Cohen (jic378@mail.harvard.edu); Tona DelMonico (tona_d@comcast.net) Ana Maria Nieto (amn956@mail.harvard.edu); Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)
-Open Learning Initiative  (“Learn how to do xxx” videos – [stuff w/ right answers.] use for CREATE?  http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/forstudents/freecourses/visual-communication-design
+===How'd we do in sharing our own first efforts?===
+We want to connect to more people improving communications in public education and so, we've been experimenting with sharing our own work online!
-MIT Open Software program
+Tell us (contact the point people above or, mica.pollock@gmail.com):
-Lesley: e learning
-Flossmanuals are a nice example of simple, somewhat visual documentation:
-http://en.flossmanuals.net/audacity/
--Susan’s wiki is a nice example of the visual "pop" I'd love our wiki to have:
-http://learn2teach.pbworks.com/w/page/15779288/Learn-2-Teach,-Teach-2-Learn
-EliJAH's template: add here.
-ADD MORE E.G.S HERE.
-== [[Network Index|Index]] ==
-*  [[Why a network?]]
-*  [[Audience]]
-*  [[Outside Examples]]
-*  [[Use cases]]
-*  [[Example Evaluation, comparing collaborative social filtering]]
-*  [[Unit of analysis]]
-*  [[Incentive structure]]
-**  [[Commons Base Peer-Production|How Commons Based Peer-Production favors unity of purpose and work]]
-*  [[Open licensing of content]]
-*  [[Taxonomy vs Folksonomy]]
-*  [[Network creation and maintenance]]
-*  [[Outside Examples|Examples of other 'networks']]
-EXCESS HERE For example: how would such information best be organized, to avoid the information overload of the internet? We had an idea called an
-=== Interaction Map ===
-Create:
-Graphic diagram with hyperlinks that will organize usable knowledge about exciting ways to improve education:
- Parent – Child      Caregiver – Child
- Neighbor – Child     Mentor - Child
- Child – Child    Youth - Youth
- Teacher – Child     Administrator – Child
- Social worker  - Child
- Parent –Teacher
- Parent – Administrator
- Community organizer  - Legislator
+*Did we format our examples in useful ways?
+*Did we offer too much information on what we did, or not enough?
+*Do you want to know more about what we've been doing?
+*Would you contact us to share what you've been doing?
+Some issues we’ve been thinking about (related to our [[Vision for OneVille documentation]]) and haven't resolved:
+*  Audience: can researchers, teachers, families, and youth all share one form of documentation? (That’s what we’ve tried to do here. Eportfolio teachers made their own teacher-to-teacher videos as well on the Someville High School website: http://sites.google.com/site/shseportfolio/.)
+*  How do you most effectively show examples of local efforts and innovations in public education? How many words can you use? When might you use pictures or videos? How/when can words and visuals go together?
+==Another Next Layer: National Networks for Sharing Local Efforts Like These?==
-[[Other information-sharing efforts]]: [[Code for America]]: could a 311 line and citywide "dashboard" be used in education, to show quant data and, to support youth and adults to use cellphone and internet technology to make qualitative suggestions to improve schools?
+Think about it: What might happen if lots of youth, families, and educators started sharing out their educational innovations more generally, online?

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