Development of I have a dream continues full speed ahead. More funding has been received from the Norwegian Ministry of Education. " The dream projects start" module (number 4) is due completed this month, and the rest by year-end together with a comprehensive online workshop for teachers.
The program aims at helping kids and youth realize their dreams about their future and a better world. Like the eight-month multi-lingual Who-Am-I?, it will run in parallel in many languages:

Module 1		Teams of students or individual kids examine their personal dreams. They identify one that might be a foundation or base plan for an overall collaborative dream plan effort by a global team of peers.
Module 2		Teams promote their own dreams to others, and evaluate dreams from potential partners who might have similar dreams or dreams that might extend their own project definition. They decide which dream project to participate in.
Module 3		Teams organize their dream projects, and create a plan of action to make them a reality.
Module 4		Teams implement the dream project they have designed. They maintain, assess and revise their project activities to ensure success during this implementation phase.
Module 5		What have we achieved so far? What can we do to make our project more exciting/successful?
Module 6		Writing applications for financial support to take the project further.

In addition to help teachers enhance learning experiences in schools, it will provides youth with practical experience and skills of perceived importance for their future, like

• the art of planning, designing and implementing an Internet based project
• promotion/marketing of project ideas (using the web and other net tools) to potential partners
• negotiations for partnership, including decision making (ranking methods, shortlisting, evaluation, making partnership agreements)
• fundraising
• international cooperation/project organization, including recruiting of "the best person for the job."
• use of productivity software to enhance planning, negotiations, cooperation, fundraising, follow-up, etc.
• assess outcomes of their project compared with objectives

To families, I have a dream will be a means for close cooperation with their kid on something important to them and their future, and to coach them to important knowledge, opportunities, and experiences that may be useful in their adult lives.

To educational authorities, it will be a means to help teachers enhance their curriculums, promote collaboration and sharing of experiences between teachers, and on-the-job training in the use of Internet in classrooms.

To NGOs, it will be a means to empower youth in need of support. It may include increasing their ability to start businesses in their communities supported by peers in an interpersonal network of friends around the world.

To sponsors, it represents an extraordinary public relations opportunity.

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