User:Anne Latham

My goal in joining Wikibooks is to begin building a foundation of open-source collaboration in my 9-year-old son, John.

Currently he is a third grader in a small-town Texas public school system. This year his class has begun writing reports and doing research on assigned topics, so the time seems right to introduce him to web ethics, group collaboration via online community, and the differences between proprietary and open source systems.

Currently he is enthralled with Ben Franklin, and is rather disgusted at the differences between the information he is taught in school as opposed to what he has discovered through Wikipedia. He is interested in producing his own age-appropriate article on Franklin correcting the errors in his textbook, while I hope he will gain the skills to follow through with the project management and be able to introduce Wikibooks to his teacher and class for future projects.