Tech ED
Tech Ed was a project that DynamiX was working on last year.It was supposed to be a technology newsletter for students of our school.There were ambitious plans of having
a print version apart from an online version.
But the plans never materialized.This project as abandoned in its infancy mainly because all the three developers including me were in board classes and had no time to develop and maintain this newsletter.
This year DynamiX can still take on this project.But development does not seem as big a challenge to me as keeping the newsletter alive.If we make this as a newsletter for our school I doubt there'd be enough contribution and support from the students to keep the newsletter alive.Now I have a different idea.What if we collaborate with computer clans of other schools and make Tech ED a tech newsletter for schools across Delhi.
We develop Tech Ed with or without the help of students of other schools.Then we contact Computer Clans of other schools and ask them to join.There is an editorial team of Tech ED in each school.It is the responsibility of each team to publicise Tech Ed in their respective schools,collect articles from their students(And maybe even teachers),edit them and then publish them in this newsletter.
I know this sounds too big but this is just the basic idea which is open to suggestions and changes.Students of other clans visiting this blog are welcome to comment too.
posted by Uma Damle @ 11:06 AM
7 Comments:
Come on guys, this is an important issue.
Are you telling me there is nothing to say on this topic ? If we are to begin working on this project then it has to be now.I want a decision to be taken as soon as possible.
Good Idea. But our school doesnt like to spend money.
Interesting idea, but I wonder, won't the other schools too suffer from the same issue of lack of support from general school students? And lets be practical, a newsletter cannot be printed from thin air, it needs money to sustain.
What is the scope of the T.E. network? Which all classes will be covered? Some elementary questions will have to be thought of and answered to iron out any potential problems.
I am not speaking about a printed version.I am speaking about an online version.A printed version could be thought of.That's upto the schools.The TE authorities of each school can decide what classes they want to cover.They can even include alumni and teachers if they want.
The whole point of making TE a joint newsletter is that there will be more of a chance of having enough contribution by students (Irrespective of what school they belong to) to sustain it.If we have even say...4 schools in this group and even if there is one article per week from each school we get 4 articles per week for the newsletter.It will be a shared responsibility.
Hey Guys
Gursartaj here.. exunclan president
We are working on a newsletter too.. and we have had a very good response from our exun members
It should be out in july..
You can check it out on our website
G
I think this blog is enough. Any newsletter that comes to my email box is usually routed to my SPAM box. The whole purpose of maintaining a tech blog is....You dont need an online newsletter to enhance that.
I must clarify the concept with which I initially thought up the newsletter. The newsletter is not Yet Another Tech Updates for Geeks. We have more than enough of that already.
The concept was to create a simple interesting publication that is accessible to the general students easily, and that gets them interested in technology. This will create a larger techaware society of students in the schools. And the reason I was never happy with online newsletters for this purpose, the flaw is obvious.
a) We are trying to sell the idea of technology to them, and they are not interested. Why then would they take the trouble of opening the internet?
b) A more fundamental flaw, they may not have any internet or system access. Again, linking with a), they would not go and take all that effort of finding a computer with internet access and then opening the newsletter and then reading it.
You'll have to decide what the newsletter is for. Is it yet another way to keep 'ourselves' updated? Of course, it will be maintained by us students, what an accomplishment, very cute. Or will it be a genuine effort to reach out to the people who actually need to be reached out to?
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