Project Gutenberg

If you aren't working on your community service learning project now, you need to get started.

• Complete a total of 12 hours of service for the community partner organization.
  
• In addition to the project work for the community partner, submit a proposal following the outline in the Guidelines.
  
• When you have completed the service hours (12 hours minimum), complete the "quiz" as the summary and analysis of your work.
  
• Weekly status reports are submitted as well.
  

Still confused? Can't figure out how to get going on community service learning with either The Tech Virtual or Global Fellows projects?

How about this - a nice straight forward, robust online community service project used by 10,000s to digitize public domain texts for free and open distribution via the internet.

Project Gutenberg

http://www.gutenberg.org

There are over 25,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog. The Project Gutenberg collection was produced by tens of thousands of volunteers. You can help. Distributed Proofreaders provides a web-based method to ease the conversion of Public Domain books into e-books. By dividing the workload into individual pages, many volunteers can work on a book at the same time, which significantly speeds up the creation process.

During proofreading, volunteers are presented with a scanned page image and the corresponding OCR text on a single web page. This allows the text to be easily compared to the image, proofread, and sent back to the site. A second volunteer is then presented with the first volunteer's work and the same page image, verifies and corrects the work as necessary, and submits it back to the site. The book then similarly progresses through two formatting rounds using the same web interface.

Once all the pages have completed these steps, a post-processor carefully assembles them into an e-book, optionally makes it available to interested parties for 'smooth reading', and submits it to the Project Gutenberg archive.

• Register with the site as a volunteer.
• Read the introductory email you receive and the Beginning Proofreader's FAQ.
• Confirm your registration, sign in, choose a project, and try proofreading a page or two!