Thanks for this Deborah We are trying to create a Visually Impaired Commons site established in the UK - will draw on your suggestions to give our work much needed impetus. Joseph
--- Deborah Elizabeth Finn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (A version of this item with live links is available > at > <http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog/_archives/2005/7/13/1019747.html>.) > > > > > Dear Colleagues, > > On Tuesday, I attended a very lively presentation at > Harvard Law > School on H20 Playlist > <http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu/home.do> by > Jonathan Zittrain, Molly Krause, and Hal Roberts. > > H20 Playlist has been inspired by internet-based > information sharing > projects such as Amazon.com book reviews, Wikipedia, > del.icio.us, and > iTunes. The logic is intriguing: if untold numbers > of netizens are > willing to spend untold hours classifying their > knowledge, online > resources, digital music, and web links to share > online with > strangers, then with the right tool (and a certain > amount of > persuasion) educators of all kinds can share their > curricula, syllabi, > and other resources. > > I see this as a tool that has great potential for > nearly every > mission-based organization that includes education > in its long term > strategy. However, the project is still in its > infancy, and my sense > is that it hasn't reached the point where it would > be easy and > intuitive enough to engage those over-worked > nonprofit professionals > who are not intrinsically facinated by the > underlying technology. So > my advice to most people in the nonprofit sector is > to keep an eye on > H20 Playlist, but let someone else be the beta > tester. > > For some, these cautionary words will merely inspire > greater eagerness > to forge ahead with H20 Playlist. For that group's > benefit, I've > created a playlist on "free ICT resources for > philanthropic, > nonprofit, and community-based organizations." You > are very welcome to > add comments or to use my H20 Playlist as a starting > point for > creating one of your own. Many of the items I've > listed will be very > familiar to readers of my blog, and are therefore > not new and > exciting, but I predict that as H20 Playlist accrues > more educational > content, it will be exciting for mission-based > organizations to > compare notes - not only with traditional academic > instructors, but > also with each other. > > Best regards from Deborah > > P.S. For more on the conceptual framework, see > Molly Krause's > Playlist, "The Philosophy of H2O." > > Deborah Elizabeth Finn > Boston, Massachusetts, USA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog > http://public.xdi.org/=deborah.elizabeth.finn > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > Joseph Savirimuthu The Liverpool Law School University of Liverpool Chatham Street Liverpool L69 7ZS email: [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.
