Does anybody here know UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information Abdul Waheed Khan? Perhaps we should invite him to some relation with us and our work.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: FN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 3:20 PM Subject: [bytesforall_readers] [Fwd: News on ICT in Education: 19 September 2008] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: News on ICT in Education: 19 September 2008 Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:09:18 +0700 From: ICT in Education <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcement News on ICT in Education Highlight UNESCO's Abdul Waheed Khan: ICT to shape the future of education and learning <http://tinyurl.com/3hs4o5> The Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) has published an exclusive interview with Abdul Waheed Khan, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, in which he shares his insights on education and the role of ICT for socio-economic development. News & Events UNESCO develops community multimedia centre for education in Indonesia <http://tinyurl.com/4e2rv3> A series of training courses to build the capacity of Community Multimedia-Education Centre (CMEC) Jayagiri managers has been started and will continue until the end of October 2008 in Jayagiri, Bandung, Indonesia. UN helps strengthen Mongolia and the Pacific Islands nations’ information and communication technology capabilities <http://tinyurl.com/3gbtsq> Two new agreements with the United Nations are expected to help improve the ability of policymakers and government leaders to better leverage information and communication technology (ICT) for social and economic development in Mongolia and Pacific Island states. Philippines: 200,000 public school teachers trained in ICT <http://tinyurl.com/3hmm6b> Some 200,000 public school teachers have been trained in information and communication technology (ICT) as the Department of Education (DepEd) prepares to fully integrate its Information and Communication Technology for Education (ICT4E) programme in the curriculum. China takes lead in Linux education <http://tinyurl.com/3ptuvr> Since the Chinese government began supporting domestic open source communities in 2005, hundreds of thousands of young people in the world's most populous country have become a part of the open source world. Learning using mobile or ubiquitous technologies - handheld learning conference <http://tinyurl.com/3g2auk> Some of the world’s leading experts in the fields of learning, media and consumer electronics will meet in London to discuss the ways in which learning and teaching are being transformed through handheld technologies from Oct 13th-15th. Programmes & Projects Reducing the digital divide through innovative after-school programmes <http://tinyurl.com/4twjo5> The digital divide is a major concern for governments and educational institutions. To bridge the divide, the Computer Training Centre of the Shanghai Children Palace in the People's Republic of China designed an after-school programme for children aged six to 16 years old. Resources From the ground up â€" the evolution of the telecentre movement <http://tinyurl.com/3o5g9o> This ebook provides a quick glimpse into the lives of a few of the people who are leading the telecentre movement in their own countries, and of the people who are benefitting from their local telecentres. A framework for adopting LMS to introduce e-Learning in a traditional course <http://tinyurl.com/4hj6ap> As more and more teachers in tertiary education experiments with technology are looking for new ways to enhance their traditional ways of teaching, the need of flexible tools able to support well planned blended learning scenarios emerges. Learning Management Systems, especially those which are based on open source software, have shown to be very helpful in reaching this goal. Create your own e-learning <http://tinyurl.com/42pf3x> The Learning Content Development System (LCDS) is a free tool that enables the user to create high quality, interactive, online courses. Using project management software in education <http://tinyurl.com/4xzgte> Project management software is a term covering many types of software, including scheduling, cost control and budget management, resource allocation, collaboration software, communication, quality management and documentation or administration systems, which are used to deal with the complexity of large projects. 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