[***Moderator's note: When responding to this survey, please do not reply to this message yet create a new e-mail to: jessimeden@gmail.com ***] Hi Everyone, My name is Jessica and I'm with the FACEHumanRights.org projects at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. We are trying to build an online human rights journal that is for students, by students. We hope to give a voice to student activists in human rights. We want to give students a chance to research and investigate human rights abuses, form networks with other students and grassroots organizations, provide a pool of resources and scholarship/internship/job opportunities, and provide virtual spaces and linkups for teachers and their classes in different countries around the world. We've developed this survey for students because we want to know what students are looking for in a site like this, whether they've encountered similar sites, and what they like or don't like or want to see more of in an activist site. We'd like to hear as many ideas as possible from students like you because we want to make this something *you'll* want to use -- so it would be really great if you could fill out this survey and send it back to us at jessimeden@gmail.com We have more information about the upcoming website at http://cgsd.rutgers.edu/face.shtml Thank you! Jessica --------------------------------------------------------------------- FACEHUMANRIGHTS.ORG Center for Global Security and Democracy Rutgers University TEACHER QUESTIONNAIRE The Center for Global Security and Democracy at Rutgers University is creating an online human rights journal for students. In contrast to much current human rights activism in which student voices are marginalized, we want to build a thriving community where students can network with others like them around the world to inform, learn and engage each other as global citizens. Among other things, we hope to give students a space to: - learn about human rights law and events - connect with other young people to share ideas and experiences - conduct investigative journalism and get published - find human rights internships, scholarships, and travel opportunities - plan and take action on an global scale At facehumanrights.org we will also provide you, teachers from around the world, the ability to create shared, electronic classrooms in which you can co-teach human rights related courses and put your students to work on joint human rights projects. What would you use facehumanrights.org to do? Use it as an online reference resource for you students? ___ Yes ___ No Assign it to your students to read? ___ Yes ___ No Have your students write for it? ___ Yes ___ No Want your students to find facehu-manrights.org e-pen pals? ___ Yes ___ No Partner with a teacher in another coun-try to create a joint virtual classroom for your students? ___ Yes ___ No Become the faculty advisor of a human rights club that uses facehuman-rights.org to extend its efforts? ___ Yes ___ No And/or…? In your classroom, what sort of human rights projects might you pursue with your students? What kinds of resources could facehumanrights.org provide to help you? If you were to network with another teacher or teachers around the world, what kind of collaborative projects do you imagine pursuing? What kinds of resources could facehumanrights.org provide to help you and your partners as you and your students plan and execute your joint projects? If you wanted to network with another teacher or teachers around the world, what in-formation would you need about/from them and what information would you need/want to be able to post about yourself/your course? How much flexibility do you have in planning your own courses and selecting re-sources (such as facehumanrights.org) to use in class? Would you like to see sample course materials and lesson plans from us? Do you have human rights related curricula, course materials or lesson plans that could be posted for other teachers to use? If so, how do we contact you? Are you aware of any sources of human rights teaching materials that we ought to know about and that ought to be posted on facehumanrights.org? If so, where can we locate them? Are there particular legal or other issues of which we should be aware in how we con-struct the facehumanrights.org in general and the e-classroom section in particular? What kinds of concerns might your principal, superintendent or Board raise? What can we do to make this site more attractive to teachers? In short, how can we make this something you’ll want to keep coming back to? Jessica Ma email, msn messenger: jessim AT rutgers DOT edu aim: robotfromipanema, nenlitse, junejazz26th, aeroplanesea yahoo: jessimeden icq: 86129980 ======== North American Human Rights Education listserv ======== Send mail intended for the list to <hr-education-na@hrea.org>. Archives of the list can be found at: http://www.hrea.org/lists/hr-education-na/markup/maillist.php If you have problems (un)subscribing, contact <owner-hr-education-na@hrea.org>. **You are welcome to reprint, copy, archive, quote or re-post this item, but please retain the original and listserv source.
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