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
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