[DDN] teaching generalized computer skills
hi everyone - yesterday i stopped by to visit deb roepke, the founder of Computer C.O.R.E. in alexandria, virginia. in giving me a tour of her community technology center, she explained to me Computer C.O.R.E.'s philosphy of teaching students specific computer skills as well as general skills of how to use any computer program. i've heard others speak highly of Computer C.O.R.E., but it was quite another thing to see this organization up close myself. i'm convinced that Computer C.O.R.E's model is a very effective teaching model. i wish that i were introduced to computers in this way. here's a brief quicktime with deb explaining her organization's approach. http://www.writersforliteracy.org/computercoremission.mov - phil i used the appleworks draw module, a digital camera and quicktime pro to create this. the audio was recorded with a camcorder and a lavalier (clip on) microphone. you could create something similar on windows using http://www.powerbullet.com i'm archiving various web multimedia projects i'm working on at http://mytvstation.blogspot.com there's a link to this quicktime over there, too. if you have a blog and feel the above quicktime is worth linking to, you might choose to create a blog entry linking to this quicktime. social fabric is woven one blog link at a time. -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.his.com/pshapiro/ (personal) http://teachme.blogspot.com (weblog) http://guitarlessons.blogspot.com/ (guitar lessons) http://mytvstation.blogspot.com/ (video and rich media) "We can and weve got to do better than this." - Dr. Seuss ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] Best Practices: Civil Servant Training Deployment
You might be interested in the work being done by this highly innovative group: http://www.civicspacelabs.org At 10:50 AM -0800 11/4/04, Njideka Harry wrote: Dear Colleagues, I am in the process of designing a technology training program for civil servants/government workers in a developing country and would be interested in learning from others on the mailing list who have been involved in planning a program of this nature before. Areas of particular interest include strategic planning, revenue generation, curriculum development, personnel, deployment and train-the-trainer models. If you have done something similar in the past and you are interested in sharing best practices and lessons learned, kindly get in touch with me offline. Thank you so much. Kindest Regards, Njideka Ugwuegbu Harry Founder/Executive Director Youth for Technology Foundation http://www.youthfortechnology.org email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (425) 681-3920 "...Bridging the Digital Canyon" -- John W. Hibbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> About the Institute http://www.bfranklin.edu About John Hibbs http://www.bfranklin.edu/johnhibbs About Global Learn Day http://www.bfranklin.edu/gld About the Franklin Tercentenary http://www.bfranklin.edu/ambassadors Eugene, Oregon, USA TEL: +1 541 343 9389 cell +1 541 337 4233 ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] DD projects in Yucatan?
Dear Chris, My name is Irak López Dávila (from Mexico) and I am working in INFOTEC, the R&D Public Center for the e-Government and Knowledge Society in Mexico (www.infotec.com.mx, www.puntogob.gob.mx). I don´t know any project in Yucatan but we have some interest IT projects in Mexico City: 1) Smart City Pilot: we want to make possible the Knowledge Society in a mexican local community: "Tlalpan Digital" 2) e-Indigenous people: improve an indigenous community with IT 3) e-Government Strategy in Mexico,IT Policy in Mexico, the Citizen Portal (www.gob.mx) and the Civil Servant Portal (e-Workplace Concept) If you are interested in these projects, please feel free to write me. Best regards Irak López Dávila INFOTEC Tel. 52 55 56 24 28 00 ext. 244 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de Chris Ward Enviado el: Sábado, 06 de Noviembre de 2004 01:07 p.m. Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: [DDN] DD projects in Yucatan? My name is Chris Ward. I am a university student at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor Maine, studying for a degree in Human Ecology. This coming winter, December 7th-March 7th, i will be studying in the Yucatan. For two weeks while i am there, i am required to do a project of my choice. The only two requirements are that it must be in a spanish speaking environment (not hard...) and that it lasts two weeks. I am very interested in studying about technology in developing countries, and the digital divide issues are a great place to start. Do you know of any projects that are centered in or around Yucatan, in Mexico, that addresses this topic or any others in technology? I will be volunteering my time and skills. I have professional experience with technology, as well as some experience teaching technical skills to students in a developing country, namely , Ghana. I also have a great interest in Linux deployment, advocacy, education. If there are any known projects that relate to linux in one of those ways, or if anyone is researching how linux fits into the DD problem, i am very interested to learn more about those things as well. Please let me know if you know of anything, or even if you do not. And, please also forward my question to as many people as you can who might be able to help me also. Thank you so very much! -Chris Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
