Appropedia and Students

bringing context and traction

Students now: know more

A panacea now: not a chance

Teachers now: oracles versus facilitators

Communities now: countless solutions

Sharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable lives.

Context

Tractionhttp://xkcd.com/669/ XKCD

Ways Students Engage

Document existing projects - Potawot (HSU)Coordinate projects - Retrofit Streetlights (Clarion University, Pennsylvania)Collaboratively research - Green Materials (Queens College, Canada)Document own project designs - IDDS (MIT)

Appropedia: Service Learning through Translation

“Working on Appropedia was an experience of a lifetime. The site increased my knowledge of sustainable development greatly and expanded my understanding of the German language.

Everyone should get involved in this site.” (Source: The Language Educator)

More than Academia

Vibrant Community:• Thousands of visits a day• Over 100 thousand edits• Over 13 million page views

Sharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable lives

Appropedia: Service Learning through Translation

“HELLO mer Lonny ! [I] am really involving and searching solution, to the positive idea to help women in Harare who suffered, by decorticating peanut shell by hands, stones, teeth. This

ANCIENT METHOD perturbed my human senses. To telling you the truth, when I am founding this page, my feeling is like, I got THEIR SOLUTION... “Teffera Tesfaye, Zimbabwean Father of five

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More than AcademiaJanuary 13th to February 13th, 2010

Missing Central African Republic, Somalia, Western Sahara, Turkmenistan, Serbia, North Korea and Greenland

Appropedia: Service Learning through TranslationWinery Rainwater – Solar Lawn Mower

Replicated around North America – Over 85,000 page views

Appropedia: Service Learning through TranslationPhilippine BioDigester

From obscurity to 55,000 views and an updated model

Appropedia: Service Learning through Translation

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