Key Assumptions

• The site will use Creative Commons licensing to ensure that all educational material is open and distributed at no cost.  
• To avoid delays and political issues, the site will bypass the need for approvals from any major educational, political, or government authorities.  Kids will be the judges.
• The learning process must be entertaining, enjoyable, and effective at communicating the materials students are required to learn, as dictated by the state and other institutional requirements and standards.  
• The site can use the Department of Education’s standards to organize and index material.  
  
• All laws regarding privacy will be adhered to. 
• The site’s content must also be accurate, relevant, non-offensive, based on scientific facts, and useful to students.
• The content can be translated to myriad languages.
• The site must evaluate and monitor learning impact and efficacy on an ongoing basis.  The state standards will be aligned to the site to ensure there can be no question success criteria have been achieved in teaching certain subjects or concepts.  The site can measure a number of key indicators of success, such as usage (number of unique visitors), engagement (average time spent on the site per visit), and scale (the number of videos submitted and the number of subjects and standards that are covered over time).  
• We anticipate a large number of video submissions. Kids love to shoot video,as evidenced by the YouTube stats.  Like most other online community participation, a very small percentage do 90% of the production.
• The site will be policed, in part, by kids.  This is the same model that works so well for Wikipedia.