The
SOS Classroom is a collection of free educational Web sites, videos and games in order to help bridge the gap after the
Los Angeles Unified School District announced it would cancel summer school, affecting 225,000.
The Website, which USC students created as a class project, is populated with
learning tools aimed at grades K-8. The class wanted to use Web 2.0 technology and bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us, Pageflakes, and RSS feeds that would allow educators, parents and kids to tag material for the collection using email and bookmarks.
The USC students can then find and organize the bookmarked pages and resources on the SOS website into several categories: language arts, mathematics, and English as a second language.
The idea using crowdsourcing began in the “Advanced Writing: Writing With Technology” class, taught by
Mark Marino of the USC College.
“We were studying Web 2.0 and talking about whether it’s a business concept, as way to make money off of the Web after the dot-com boom, or whether it’s this tool where good will and networking technology will all come together,” Marino told
the Chronicle of Higher Education. “We ended up deciding on the latter.”
You need to be a member of University Park Family to add comments!
Join University Park Family