User:H0riz0n/tasks/mark newlyn & wheaton

Dear Mark Horner or Spencer Wheaton

Great job on the texts... just wanted to introduce EDUIT, Inc to you -- we are looking to flatten math and science education globally and would be interested in using your texts. Maybe you can be our point of contact in South Africa?

To most the idea of flatting global education is impossible, for us the idea is rather straight forward and simple given current web 2.0 technologies. We just need to tweak a few tools and eliminate the need to do testing and lectures in schools and instead put them online in audio and video format.

The initiative is barely eight months old. Our team is up too 37 globally and growing fast. We have three software developers on board and a six member grant writing team (which is unheard of!). We will be going after $20m in phase one funding requests--I'm guessing we'll hit $9-13m. We are looking for global partners to work with! Our goal is simple: Flatten global education by redefining the way education is played. I'm a gamer first, executive producer and fund raiser second and some say a "natural born salesman." Here are the steps:


 * 1) The Tool -- Develop a new kind of VLC Wikitude Player/Editor (oss) -- it will have all the functionality of  Jumpcut.com and has one additional unique feature. The ability to tag video stream segments, upload them to a server or play them from P2P archives directly. The most important function is you will be able to play any video from mid-stream without loading the whole video stream (the implications and possible applications of being able to do that is huge) and overlay filters on the video without changing the original video (karaoke bar, voice overs, etc). Wikitube will allow us to build a massive video library of short manageable video segment and these will in turn become objective-based video modules (OBVMs) -- basically we will have a large wiki community trimming the fat off videos and lectures. We do know VLC Wikitube player will do what we want it to do. I really think Wikitube could be the Firefox of media players.  Because all of a sudden as you watch or listen to anything a person can easily bookmark the segments that can be used to build objective-based video education modules. Watching becomes an active activity.
 * 2) The Community -- The front-end of EDUITu.com will be our FREE continual education community where "anyone can learn anything" by merely watching OBVM after OBVM and taking tests on the material. The back-office will combine a simple mind-mapping utilities for creating learning lattices allowing anyone take any wiki or course-ware text solution and convert them into video lectures with dynamic testing solutions.
 * 3) The Experience -- The best of these community and user rated modules will plug into "The Experience" a 2D fast paced highly "addictive" play-learn environment that will use everything and the kitchen sink to keep kids coming back for more learning. The cool thing is the system will be able to function with limited connectivity. We will build out the OBVMs content for K-12 mathematics and science. We will focus the solution on US home-schooling market and the Asian markets that are eagerly looking for a solution.

We are also going to position EDUIT as the organization over the Global Education Movement (GEM) by having a global community of educators draft the GEM Charter that will be a road-map for: flat, seamless, barrierless, global education in the 21st century. This will happen at our invitation only fall 2009 GEM Conference. At the conference we will also be showcasing our product and our partners--which I hope Google will be one of them.

I hope have peek your interest, how knows, you too may catch the fever to help us flatten global education. Our vision is bold, but then again so is yours.

Sincerely,

Michael