Rob Lucas (TeachForward.org) @ PSO

Our first speaker last week at the fall CTC VISTA Project Pre-Service Orientation was Rob Lucas from Teach Forward, the Creative Commons based project for curriculum sharing with teachers (recommeded by Eric Steuer from Creative Commons).  

Rob is actually a former Teach for America participant in North Carolina and a Technology, Innovation, and Education masters graduate from Harvard who is now working in the Boston area.  Teach Forward is a non-profit community site for teachers to share resources and do all the other fun Web 2.0/social networking stuff as well, all built using CCHost (which is CC's open source software)  Right now their goal is to have the site in beta by end of September.  

He was extremely enthusiastic about innovative ways to think about copyright and sharing content in an open source type of way.  He also referenced Lawrence Lessig's book Free Culture, which I'm now reading/listening to on free mp3's.  

Keep an eye open for a copy of his Powerpoint presentation. 

lso, one of the new VISTAs, Tony O'Rourke out in AZ at the Boys & Girls Clubs of the East Valley, was interested in participating in the curriculum sharing on the site, so look out for more info on this as well!