[DDN] Podcasting from the Scottish Learning Festival
Hi everyone, Right now I'm at the Scottish Learning Festival, sitting with a group of several thousand Scottish educators in the plenary room awaiting a speech by Mark Prensky. I've just posted several podcasts to my blog, including a presentation about media literacy by Robin Blake of OFCOM, the UK telecom regulatory authority. There's also a podcast and powerpoint of my presentation last hour, about the history of online communities and the growth of participatory online media. And no trip to Scotland would be complete without a brief podcast of a girls' chorus singing in Gaelic. You can find it all here: http://www.andycarvin.com RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/carvin I hope to post a podcast of Mark Prensky's keynote as well. Stay tuned. -andy -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
RE: [DDN] Virtual conferences
I'm exceptionally proud that our teeny, weeny non-profit has held eight Global Learn Day events, one each year since 1996. GLD, a non stop 24 hour event, opens in the South Pacific and travels west to Hawaii, the long way around. We make stops in eight major regions where we feature outstanding people doing highly innovative work, mostly in distance education, but also in health training, e-democracy and social justice. We use everything but two tin cans tied to a string, including community radio, one of the most ignored elements in the communication network, and one of the most important. (We also use ham radio to bring in voices from Antarctica and other truly remote areas.) But, this year, we will NOT hold Global Learn Day...(taking a year off is good for the soul). HOWEVER, we are watching -- and will participate -- with Webheads, the most innovative, far reaching, truly global enterprise in the whole of the English language training world. They are doing a much, much, much better job organizing for their (global) event than we ever did for Global Learn Day, so we are learning a LOT. I encourage subscribers here to plan on attending this exceptional conference. No, belay, that...I believe many DDN subscribers might wish to submit proposals, particularly about how to improve virtual conferences and increase impact. The Webheads conference is not just about verbs and pronouns; in fact what it is really about, I say, is connecting those doing innovative work of a kind likely to make for a safer, saner planet. HERE IS WHERE YOU SHOULD LOOK WiAOC 2005: Webheads in Action Online Convergence Bridges across Cyberspace Friday and Saturday, November 18 - 19, 2005 and Convergence rap-up Sunday November 20 tiny url http://tinyurl.com/d9ksx http://www.geocities.com/vance_stevens/papers/evonline2002/convergence2005.htm John Hibbs http://www.bfranklin.edu/johnhibbs At 11:00 AM -0400 9/18/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, I hear you and agree with you. Visit http://www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com to see how my small, understaffed non profit is trying to connect the face to face tutor/mentor conference we hold in Chicago each November and May with others via a variety of econference concepts. We've held 3 econferences since May 2004. Dan Bassill Tutor/Mentor Connection http://tutormentor.blogspot.com ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] update: volunteer managers Hurricane Katrina
The resource for managers of volunteers involved in Hurricane Katrina-related efforts is ever-growing at www.volunteertoday.com, and even FEMA has now been in contact with the organizers to find an experienced volunteer manager ready for immediate placement in one site -- and this request was filled immediately, thanks to the organizers' database which they are calling Manager of Volunteers Respite Corps, a list of such volunteer managers, with the experience and resources needed for immediate placement. For any managers of volunteers who are involved in Hurricane Katrina efforts and are overwhelmed, needing assistance from other volunteer managers, or needing replacements for such managers running on empty, please visit www.volunteertoday.com and contact the site manager -- they can help take care of your needs immediately. Please forward this email to anyone who might need experienced volunteer managers (this includes people with experience in tech-related initiatives -- and if you have such specialized experience and can help, visit the site as well and contact the organizers). This database of resources for volunteer managers in disaster-relief-recovery efforts is an entirely volunteer effort, with contributions by volunteer managers all over the USA and Canada. It's being managed by Nancy MacDuff. -- Jayne Cravens Bonn, Germany Services for Mission-Based Orgs www.coyotecommunications.com Open University Development Studies www.coyotecommunications.com/development Contact me www.coyotecommunications.com/contact.html ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
