Re: [Fhsst-authors] Idea for rapid content development

[Sarah Blyth]

Hi All

I think the competition is a really good idea. We just
have to think of ways to spread the word about it to
the right bunches of people (university students,
teachers). 

I will start looking at breaking down sections for
Chemistry which we could potentially use for
competition entries.

Cheers
Sarah



--- Mark <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Things have slowed quite a lot on the content
> development front. Now 
> that we are a registered NPO it occurred
> to me that we might be able to have a rapid content
> development drive.
> 
> I propose to host a Writing for Scientific Literacy
> Competition. We 
> would need to provide a few prizes to entice a large
> enough pool of 
> entries. We would
> have to find a sponsor for the prizes. The
> competition would consist of 
> selecting a section for one of the books from a
> provided list. To enter 
> the candidate would need to write the section under
> certain guidelines 
> to make it appropriate for the books. Judges would
> then select winners 
> from the pool of entries based on how clear and
> accessible it would be 
> to a high school learner. One of the rules would be
> that any entry can 
> be used in the books.
> 
> This could lead to a large number of entries which
> would be used in the 
> books.
> 
> 
> If we pitched it before the June/July holiday in SA
> we might get a large 
> number of university student entering. I was
> thinking
> we could put up 10 - 15 sections (~4 pages each) for
> each book. Then if 
> enough people enter we'd probably have sufficient
> content for all those sections.
> 
> I think it would be easy to
>  - come up with the list of sections
>     - we can point them at the Shuttleworth
> curriculum stuff which is on 
> the web
>     - also at wikibooks and wikipedia
>  - come up with volunteer judges - we would need to
> screen out the top 
> 20 or so and then we could approach facutly at UCT
>  - sponsorship ~ R10 000 in total - say a R5000
> first prize, R3000 
> second and R2000 third prize
> 
> Please let me know what you think?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark
> 
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