2 day Workshop for Kidlink Language Coordinators

2 Day Workshop For Who-Am-I?
Language Coordinators

For candidates to become coordinator of a Who-Am-I? language area,
and their staff. Participants must have a working knowledge of English.

Español

Audience: Often, this workshop is given to just one or two persons at the time. Each participant must have access to an Internet workstation, for example in a computer lab.

Contents:

Translating and publishing Who-Am-I? lesson plans. Web publishing guidelines
Building a user infrastructure in your language: Who does what within Kidlink's support and operations?; Approval of children's registrations; Who-Am-I? support organizations, functions ; Policies, support, and resources ; Open new Who-Am-I? rooms in KidCom for teachers, coordinators, students, and other youth in your language, including modes of use. Opening, administering, and using Kidlink's interactive channels
Organizing participation: Requesting space for publishing at www.kidlink.org and KidSpace; Recruiting, training, and organizing Who-Am-I? helpers; Posting announcements; Strategies for building activity. The newsletter; Who-Am-I? schedule administration and moderation; Teacher and student support; Who to ask for help with difficult questions or requests? Resources.; Administration.
Making it work: How to get kids to interact with each other?; Enhancing your version of Who-Am-I? (resources; best practice; student works); Protecting young users (privacy, abuse, behavioural problems, laws and regulations); Protection of system, information, intellectual property, copyright; Protection against spam, and unwanted users. The cultural challenge.;Maintenance, and procedures for moving pages; Deleting public messages upon request from authors; Backup; Mirroring. Statistics; Networking with Kidlink peers
Organizing own educational projects and activities

Benefits to attendees: As a result of the workshop, the language coordinator and his/her staff will: examine and understand what is needed to build and support a sustainable language area activitity using Kidlink's free infrastructure, and what help is available to support the work. They will know how to translate, create, and post information to Kidlink's web, and will have started the process of building the new resource supported by the instructor.

Handouts: All material is online.

Background reading: "Who-Am-I? language area coordinators' home page."

Contact: Odd de Presno

2 Day Workshop For Who-Am-I? Language Coordinators

2 Day Workshop For Who-Am-I?
Language Coordinators