[DDN] Town meetings

2004-10-19 Thread Larry Elin
Can anybody answer this question sent to me by a friend? Q: I've been assigned the task of developing an 'electronic town meeting' for Evergreen by our local Chamber of Commerce. Any single piece of advice or resource that might be more valuable than others? Larry Elin Television, Radio, Film

[DDN] webcast: Hot Technologies Transforming Schools Today

2004-10-19 Thread Andy Carvin
fyi... -ac Hot Technologies Transforming Schools Today CoSN Internet and Education Webcast November 3, 2004 The Consortium for School Networking's Hot Technologies webcast will coincide with the release of CoSNs next emerging technologies report, Hot Technologies in K-12 Education. Emerging

Re: [DDN] Town meetings

2004-10-19 Thread John Hibbs
I've conducted dozens of electronic meetings. Rule One: Keep It Simple Stupid. Rule Two: Use free telephone conferencing systems where callers pay ordinary costs of a call to some location in the United States. I use www.mrconference.com. Works just fine. Rule Three: Set up a blog and point

Re: [DDN] Town meetings

2004-10-19 Thread Audrey Borus
Rather than a blog, try a forum such as CWIS offers. Once installed, it's fairly easy to use. http://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/CWIS/downloads.php?PHPSESSID=d8a78bdc99adc772e39f8747cb9b39aa ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [DDN] Town meetings

2004-10-19 Thread Lisa Hinely
My single piece of advice would be to start by getting information about more exactly what they think they want (in terms of functionality, not technology). Something referred to as 'electronic town meeting' could be all sorts of things... Lisa Hinely [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512-836-8452 PO Box 4233,

Re: [DDN] Town meetings

2004-10-19 Thread Taran Rampersad
Larry Elin wrote: Can anybody answer this question sent to me by a friend? Q: I've been assigned the task of developing an 'electronic town meeting' for Evergreen by our local Chamber of Commerce. Any single piece of advice or resource that might be more valuable than others? I think my

Re: [DDN] Town meetings

2004-10-19 Thread Lars Hasselblad Torres
Take a look at www.americaspeaks.org/final -- the site is in beta -- i'd be happy to answer questions. Lars torres -- Researcher, americaspeaks 802-223-4288 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 10/19/04 9:19 AM, Larry Elin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody answer this question sent to me by a friend? Q:

[DDN] A picture is worth a thousand words! Yup, in kilobytes

2004-10-19 Thread Claude Almansi
Hi I wrote what follows in anger at an www.elearningeuropa.info forum called The Role of the New Technologies in Cultural Dialogue http://tinyurl.com/5m7ks , where all the initial posts insist on how important the use of images would be for multicultural exchanges, wondering at why so many

[DDN] New report on free speech and copyright issues (hope this works)

2004-10-19 Thread Michelle Chen
Free Expression Policy Project Contact: Michelle Chen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How do Cease Desist Letters Affect Fair Use? The concept of fair use allows students, artists, journalists, and others to borrow and quote from copyrighted material without permission if they are doing it for purposes

[DDN] Re: [WWWEDU] Making Second Language a First Priority

2004-10-19 Thread Claude Almansi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ellie Wen is a juggernaut. She writes, acts, sings and studies French, Spanish and Chinese at high levels. (...) http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-et-wen15oct15,1,2170924,print.story?coll= la-headlines-technology I've tried www.RepeatAfterUs.com : the database is