QA+Camp+World+Collaborations

The idea here is to extend the summer camp concept to a year round use of the qacamp01 world originally designated for summer camps. In this world of Quest Atlantis schools can come together and work on a 3D design to realise a siolution to a challenge. In the original 2010 Summer Camp Seminole County students from 3 different schools met online to collaboratively build a 3D solution to the the Gulf Oil Spill cleanup. Students were challenged to realise their ideas in world and through research, discourse and collaboration bring their solution to life inworld. We hope that other groups of schools will take up this opportunity throughout the year to really challenge students to step 'outside the box' and visualise well-considered solutions to some really BIG and important problems.

The world space is temporal, so as part of the project, students will have to find a creative way to capture and record what they do and share it out (video, machinima, slideshare, voicethread, etc etc). It really is only limited by the imagination and creativity of your students!


 * Ideas for Challenge Topics**
 * Mexican Gulf oil spill clean up
 * World Frog Day - frogs around the world - April 29, 2011
 * The problems people face when they move to another country ie Immigration
 * How unpopular are you willing to be to change the world? Speaking out to make change
 * Children as Consumers. Advertising. Childhood consumerism. Banning certain things. Taxing junk food. Corporatization of education. Effects of child consumerism. Parental vs corporate influence. Commercialization of childhood.
 * Pineapples - Pineapples are nutritious and popular. But the cheap fruit comes at a high cost. Health and environmental degradation has affected both workers and local communities. Price cuts in European supermarkets has led to wage cuts for workers already earning very little.
 * Biodiversity - what is special about your area of the world?
 * World military spending? Should we spend money on the military? What is the cost of providing a military force worldwide?
 * Infectious diseases throughout the world. Which diseases should we eradicate? What are the consequences of eradication?
 * Nutrition - does every child get access to good nutrition? What stops a child from getting access to good nutrition? What is the impact of poor nutrition on the community?
 * Global food crisis? Is there are crisis? Food Aid. World hunger and poverty.Causes of hunger and poverty. Food dumping. World hunger = world poverty.Will developed nations solve the global food crisis? How does population affect hunger? Consumption and consumerism. Obesity. Banana Trade War. Genetically engineered food.
 * What is racism? Is racism that same in every country? How can we prevent racism?
 * Climate change. Global warming and the media. Climate justice and equity.Climate change flexibility mechanisms. Climate change and biodiversity. Energy security. Dominance and change in the arctic. Climate Conferences. Negotiations and actions. UN Framework. Global dimming.
 * Poverty - causes of poverty. Poverty around the world and in your backyard. World hunger and poverty. [|Corruption]. Foreign aid. Economic democracy. Aid.
 * Fair Trade. Banana Trade War. Pineapples. Child labor. Free market? Fair trade? Global regulations.


 * Looking For a Global Partner?**


 * ** School seeking partner ** || ** Details ** || ** Prospective partner schools add details here ** ||
 * < Hamilton Elementary After School Enrichment Program in Sanford, Florida, USA, ||< is looking for a global partner starting on April 28, 2011. We have two groups of 15 students who are in grades 4 and 5 who want to participate in a joint building project with students in an area of the world that experience similar problems/challenges/issues to us. We have not brainstormed these problems/challenges/issues as yet, and hope to pinpoint one that is common to both groups of students. Students will complete all building pre-requisites prior to the project. **Contact: Janine McGrath@scps.us** ||<  ||

For a booking into a particular time please contact Bron Stuckey to be included on this calendar.
 * Calendar for Challenge Actiivities**

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