Workshop For
Kidlink Language Coordinators

Contents:

1. Translating and publishing key information and educational contents: Kidlink's overview, The Kidlink's four questions form, Who-Am-I? lesson plans, Web publishing guidelines.
2. Building a user infrastructure in your language: Who does what within Kidlink's support and operations?; Who-Am-I? support organizations: functions ; Policies, support, and resources ; Open new KidCom rooms for teachers, coordinators, students, and other youth in your language, including modes of use (email, web interface) ; Opening, administering, and using Kidlink's interactive channels
3. Organizing participation: Organizing approval of responses to Kidlink's four questions in your language; 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 (email, web interface)
4. Teacher training: Kidlink's four questions; Who-Am-I?
5. Making it work: 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; Recruiting and recognizing valuable volunteers; Networking with Kidlink peers
6. 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: "How to build and support a language area activity."

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