2012 RDC Summer Mentoring Program Application

2012 Recruitment Materials for the Rural Design Collective Summer Mentoring Program are now available! Please note that the first deadline for application submissions is May 16.* Feel free to fill out an application if you are interested in the 2012 program (click on the graphic to the left to download the form). Our project pool includes the opportunity to work with MathML, honing our illustration skills creating vector graphics for an international “Codes of the World” initiative, and liberating an archive of insects using open source tools!

* Applications will be accepted until our first <deBug Day> on June 6, but early applications have a greater likelihood of being accepted! Go #rdcHQ Go!

Technical Documentation

icons Title: CODENAME : MathML 4t24 (2011 – 2012)
Subject: A Workflow for Integrating MathML into Technical Standards
Authors: Jasper-Shumaker Pruitt; Rebecca Hargrave Malamud.

Document Abstract: MathML 3.0 is a relatively new W3C standard markup language and the Rural Design Collective is going to have an opportunity to put a lot of theory into practice by marking up a set of equations for a real-world document set. Both presentation and content will be addressed in an effort to make our final work as accessible as possible. [Read Document In Progress] – [View Alpha Document Set]

icons Title: E-Book Enlightenment (2010)
Subject: Reading and Leading with One Laptop Per Child
Authors: James Simmons, RDC 2010

Document Abstract: The Rural Design Collective worked with author James Simmons to create an eBook on how to make eBooks. This effort brought a wealth of information together to help everyone – especially teachers in the classroom. [Read Entire Document]

icons Title: genCollectionInterface (gCI) (2009)
Subject: An Interface Toolkit for Public Domain Books
Authors: Scotty Auble; Rebecca Hargrave Malamud.

Document Abstract: genCollectionInterface (gCI) is a set of templates and HTML generation tools written in Python which produce a web browser-based interface to a book collection … The goal of the project was to enable and/or enhance access to the Children’s Book Collection of the Internet Archive on the OLPC/XO laptop platform. [Read Entire Document]


Presentations and Propaganda


RDC Logo – for use in slide presentations

Tutorials and Miscellaneous Curricula

We are polishing up a series of tutorials from our 2008 and 2009 seasons. We will make them available here.

Coming soon - Materials from our Bookmobile R&R World Tour and information on how to jumpstart RDC in your area!

Next: RDC WorkSpace! →