Hi john! I think there is a huge potential audience out there, and increasingly the key is collaboration: how do we create flexible enough learning "containers" that anyone can participate (well, reduce the barriers as low as possible) while maintaining standards on the outcome end. At the same time, what relationships are required to encourage that sense of ownership and impact which incentivizes participation?
It strikes me that UN/Canada's HabitatJam (www.habitatjam.com) and TakingITGlobal offer two excellent learning opportunities and resources as you seek to take learning to a massive scale! Lars -- www.devarts.org + www.peacetiles.net Connecting visual artists to create a better world On 12/1/05 10:35 AM, "John Hibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Next October we will hold our tenth Global Learn Day - a 24 hour > marathon that features exceptional people from 24 time zones. We > think it's the other side of the Earth Day coin - that "learning" is > as important as environmental protection, and just as central to it. > > The two biggest problems we face are tied to each other. We don't > have a large audience -(by "large" I think we need an audience of at > least a million); and, because we don't have a "large" audience, we > can't get the funding that is necessary to bring this event off > professionally. > > I have personally come to the conclusion that Global Learn Day should > be one of four or five other Very Important Events - and that all of > them should be put on by a full time, paid professional staff -- > drawn from people of a kind that subscribe to this list. > > I have also come to the conclusion that community radio is the key to > "large" audiences; and that is why we formed The Dublin Bunch - > please visit our blog at http://www.ben300.com/Dublin > > What other four or five events should this group support/advance? A > good question, but I would argue for these > Youth Day > Earth Day > Learn Day > Webheads and ESL > > I'd encourage those who have an interest in this to write to me at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - and/or leave comments at the Dublin Bunch > blog site. Community radio may well be the most promising tool we > have to narrow the divide. How do we find the path to get hundreds of > community radio stations to broadcast our messages? > > Regards > John Hibbs > http://www.bfranklin.edu/gldten > > At 1:33 PM -0600 11/30/05, Michael Maranda wrote: >> Greetings all, >> >> Dec 1 is World AIDS Day, and there are little things one can do to increase >> awareness, such as including a button on your website >> >> <a href="http://www.worldaidsday.org/default.asp"; title="Link to the >> official World AIDS Day website"><img >> src="http://www.worldaidsday.org/images/virtualribbon.gif"; width="120" >> height="40" border="0" alt="Support World AIDS Day" /></a> >> >> As important as this is, among many important things in the world, that >> require resources and attention, I am also interested in hearing about these >> and other strategies for communicating a cause to the wider public (other >> campaigns of note: "Make Poverty History" ) >> >> What campaigns are we involved in related to Digital Divide issues, and how >> might we coordinate them? What dates are significant for our field that we >> might make use of? > > snip snip > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org > 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 DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
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