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This document discusses Appropedia, an online wiki focused on sharing knowledge about sustainable development and international aid projects. It provides examples of how students and practitioners have used Appropedia to collaborate on research projects, document their own project designs, and engage in service learning through translating wiki pages. Appropedia content includes project histories, designs, photos, and discussions on sustainability topics. The wiki has over 160,000 edits and 21 million page views, showing it is an active online community beyond just academia.

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Appropedia and Learning in International Developmentbringing context and interactionNasser SalehA presentation to Queens International Development Conference 2011April 2, 2011Based on Lonny Grafmans Presentation: Students and Appropedia available athttp://www.slideshare.net/Lonny/students-and-appropedia-7466921
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Sharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable lives. Appropedia began in April of 2006Appropedia vision is that all of humanity is able to work together developing and realizing rich, sustainable lives. Appropedia builds the infrastructure, and help make the connections and populate free content to effect that vision. Appropedia has been described as an "appropriate technology wiki," but it is much broader than that - it is a green wiki, and a wiki for all matters of international development and aid
ContextAppropedia welcomes contributions of many types of content: Project histories and project how-tosTextbook-style information, tables, and figures Designs Photographs and illustrations Information for finding supplies and help Links and information on other organizations Collaboration pages for co-creating solutions Discussion pages for commenting on work done and work that needs to be done More - whatever aids the causes of sustainability and overcoming poverty. Current content
Ways Learners and Practitioners EngageCoordinate projects - Retrofit Streetlights (Clarion University, Pennsylvania)Collaboratively research - Green Materials (Queens University, Canada)Collaborative reporting JMC (Humboldt)Document own project designs - IDDS (MIT)
MECH425: Engineering for sustainable developmentAppropedia: Service Learning through Translation
Appropedia: Service Learning through TranslationENGR 115: Intro to EngineeringPotawot Native American Health Village40 acresSwales, 2x4 end flooring, pine pitch and shale walkways, organic garden, herb garden, CSA, diabetes walking prescriptions, solar photovoltaic, redwood stained concrete, more
Appropedia: Service Learning through TranslationENGR 215: Intro to DesignThe WaterpodBike powered laptops, composting toilets, picohydro power, rainwater catchment, chicken coop, hydroponics, vertical gardens, and more.
GER 308: German Conversation and CompositionAppropedia: Service Learning through TranslationWorking 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 AcademiaSharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable livesVibrant Community:Thousands of visits a day
Over 160 thousand edits
Over 21 million page viewsMore than AcademiaFebruary 22nd to March 23rd, 2011
Appropedia: Service Learning through TranslationWinery Rainwater Solar Lawn MowerReplicated around North AmericaOver 100,000 views
Appropedia: Service Learning through Translationhttp://www.thefullbellyproject.org/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... TefferaTesfaye, Zimbabwean Father of five

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Nasser saleh appropedia

  • 1. Appropedia and Learning in International Developmentbringing context and interactionNasser SalehA presentation to Queens International Development Conference 2011April 2, 2011Based on Lonny Grafmans Presentation: Students and Appropedia available athttp://www.slideshare.net/Lonny/students-and-appropedia-7466921
  • 3. Sharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable lives. Appropedia began in April of 2006Appropedia vision is that all of humanity is able to work together developing and realizing rich, sustainable lives. Appropedia builds the infrastructure, and help make the connections and populate free content to effect that vision. Appropedia has been described as an "appropriate technology wiki," but it is much broader than that - it is a green wiki, and a wiki for all matters of international development and aid
  • 4. ContextAppropedia welcomes contributions of many types of content: Project histories and project how-tosTextbook-style information, tables, and figures Designs Photographs and illustrations Information for finding supplies and help Links and information on other organizations Collaboration pages for co-creating solutions Discussion pages for commenting on work done and work that needs to be done More - whatever aids the causes of sustainability and overcoming poverty. Current content
  • 5. Ways Learners and Practitioners EngageCoordinate projects - Retrofit Streetlights (Clarion University, Pennsylvania)Collaboratively research - Green Materials (Queens University, Canada)Collaborative reporting JMC (Humboldt)Document own project designs - IDDS (MIT)
  • 6. MECH425: Engineering for sustainable developmentAppropedia: Service Learning through Translation
  • 7. Appropedia: Service Learning through TranslationENGR 115: Intro to EngineeringPotawot Native American Health Village40 acresSwales, 2x4 end flooring, pine pitch and shale walkways, organic garden, herb garden, CSA, diabetes walking prescriptions, solar photovoltaic, redwood stained concrete, more
  • 8. Appropedia: Service Learning through TranslationENGR 215: Intro to DesignThe WaterpodBike powered laptops, composting toilets, picohydro power, rainwater catchment, chicken coop, hydroponics, vertical gardens, and more.
  • 9. GER 308: German Conversation and CompositionAppropedia: Service Learning through TranslationWorking 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)
  • 10. More than AcademiaSharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable livesVibrant Community:Thousands of visits a day
  • 12. Over 21 million page viewsMore than AcademiaFebruary 22nd to March 23rd, 2011
  • 13. Appropedia: Service Learning through TranslationWinery Rainwater Solar Lawn MowerReplicated around North AmericaOver 100,000 views
  • 14. Appropedia: Service Learning through Translationhttp://www.thefullbellyproject.org/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... TefferaTesfaye, Zimbabwean Father of five
  • 15. Appropedia: Service Learning through TranslationHow can you engage?http://appropedia.org/
  • 16. Just jump in its the wiki way!

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  • #3: http://xkcd.com/669/ XKCD Rocks! (their cc-by-nc license http://xkcd.com/license.html)Appropedia helps:release the vacuum assumption by bringing the context of the pressing needs, and amazing resources, of the global community.peel back the frictionless assumption by providing traction for the spinning wheels of the students so that their work does not just sit on a shelf, but instead informs and interacts with a community.
  • #4: Students now know moreStudents know more about the problems facing the world today then ever before.They are also more ready to take action.A panacea now not a chanceNo one solution will fix all our problems.Teachers now - oracles versus facilitators Teachers now are less useful as oracles of information (thanks to Google) and more useful as facilitators of processes.Communities now countless solutionsCountless solutions are being implemented right now, and done well, in communities all around the world.Too many wheels are being reinvented.
  • #5: http://xkcd.com/669/ XKCD Rocks! (their cc-by-nc license http://xkcd.com/license.html)Appropedia helps:release the vacuum assumption by bringing the context of the pressing needs, and amazing resources, of the global community.peel back the frictionless assumption by providing traction for the spinning wheels of the students so that their work does not just sit on a shelf, but instead informs and interacts with a community.
  • #7: The Language Educator October 2008http://www.appropedia.org/Ger308
  • #8: http://www.appropedia.org/Potawot Amazing Native American health village. No information was available about it before. Now its pages, documented by students, have been viewed over 25,000 times.
  • #9: http://www.appropedia.org/Waterpod
  • #10: The Language Educator October 2008http://www.appropedia.org/Ger308
  • #11: Appropedias Vision:Our vision is that all of humanity is able to work together developing and realizing rich, sustainable lives. We build the infrastructure, and help make the connections and populate free content to effect that vision. We provide the living resource library of individuals and organizations working towards a sustainable, healthier future, so that efforts can be spent evolving instead of duplicating past efforts. To effect that mission we promote and manage the web infrastructure that gives tools to share sustainable solution.
  • #12: In a given month all but a few countries visitAppropedia. While some countries only have a few dozen visitors, they often view a lot of pages per person.
  • #13: We see systems like the Old Growth Cellars Rainwater Catchment (http://www.appropedia.org/Old_Growth_Cellar_rainwater_catchment), which has seen less than 10,000 page views, but has been recreated around Mexico and the United States. We see systems like the solar lawnmower (http://www.appropedia.org/Solar_Charged_Lawnmower) which has inspired and befuddled through its almost 100,000 pageviews.These two examples:http://www.appropedia.org/Old_Growth_Cellar_rainwater_catchment 5,000 views - replicated and adapted around the US and Mexico.http://www.appropedia.org/Solar_Charged_Lawnmower 85,000 viewsMore examples:http://www.appropedia.org/CCAT_Wash_n_Flush 17,000 viewshttp://www.appropedia.org/Photovoltaic_vaccine_refrigeration_at_Centro_De_Salud 8,000 views
  • #14: We do that because we like to see better wheels built by learning from each other.http://www.appropedia.org/Full_Belly_Project
  • #15: See http://www.appropedia.org/Coursework for some ideas.