Dear Andy: Nice to know the history. Hope to get more from you. Wish you a very successful life. Golam Nabi Jewel Journalist Bangladesh
--- Andy Carvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Eleven years ago today on the EDTECH and LM_NET > lists, I launched my > first website, EdWeb: Exploring Technology and > School Reform > (www.edwebproject.org). The site was the result of a > post-graduate > fellowship from Northwestern University's > Annenberg-Washington Program. > I'd spent the summer of 1994 working at the > Corporation for Public > Broadcasting researching the impact on > telecommunications reform on K-12 > education. Because I was just a lowly grad student, > they weren't willing > to publish my findings in an official capacity, so > instead I learned > HTML, set up a Web server on my old Mac Classic, and > launched EdWeb > myself. It was one of the very first websites > examining the role of the > Web in education, and it propelled me into the work > on the digital > divide that I'm doing 11 years later. > > Meanwhile, as part of EdWeb, I set up a personal > homepage for myself > called Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth As you can > see from this > archival copy of my homepage from around eight years > ago, the page was > organized with my latest news updates at the top, > with older information > further down the page. > > http://web.archive.org/web/19970620115056/http://edweb.cnidr.org/andy.html > > Over time, I eventually stopped coding the page by > hand and switched to > various blogger tools, including Blogger and Movable > Type. > > Today, of course, Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth - > still a part of > EdWeb but with its own domain name, > www.andycarvin.com - is my primary > way of saying whatever it is I want to say online. > So in a way, I'm able > to celebrate the 11th anniversary of my blog today. > Perhaps not a blog > in function that whole time, but certainly a blog in > spirit. (grin) -andy > > -- > ----------------------------------- > Andy Carvin > Program Director > EDC Center for Media & Community > acarvin @ edc . org > http://www.digitaldivide.net > http://katrina05.blogspot.com > Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com > ----------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 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. > __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ 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.
