Taran Rampersad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the point is that a lot of the technology we're discussing
should be encouraged by critical things - not by things that
artificially creating a need and building unrealistic explanations -
I wanted to say hurrah for this excellent point. I know that
Fyi- siobhan
BMA and BMJ Information Fund http://www.bma.org.uk/infofund
November 2005
The British Medical Association (BMA) and British Medical Journal (BMJ)
have recently set up a small fund, to enable us to respond to requests
for health information from organisations in developing
Cell phones are not just getting attention on campuses in general as per
your statement, but they have also been a major concern in libraries in
particular.
Library Policy - Cell Phones
http://www.sac.edu/students/library/nealley/policies/cell.htm
The
From Popular Science magazine, a simple tutorial on setting up wi-fi
for your neighborhood and plugging into Neighbornode.net, which is kinda
like craigslist for people within one square block of each other:
Neighbornodes are group message boards on wireless nodes, placed in
residential areas
An update on Philadelphia's plan to embrace municipal wifi, which will
charge around $20/month for subscribers and half that for low-income
residents... -ac
Philadelphia to Be City of Wireless Web
Philadelphia yesterday announced a plan to build the biggest municipal
wireless Internet
Yesterday while I was at the We Media conference, the Delaware Supreme
Court made an important ruling on the rights of Internet users to
publish anonymous comments critical of public officials. The court ruled
that anonymity should be protected, but determined that the statements
in question
It's easy to agree with the admonition that we not allow advertising to
distort the development agenda, and important to agree, but there's another
side to that coin.
One of the pieces of conventional community development wisdom--almost
sacred writ by now--is that development agents and agencies
Hooray for Jayne's insightful comments. What we need to also do is consider
that the same marketing sales efforts are very prevalent in the
development field, particularly today. The idea of the Digital Divide is
a paradigmatic example which has gained a lot of mileage for NGO's who are
marketing
You know, it's a matter of time before digital cells with cameras (or
just plain cameras) are used to copy books out of libraries. Would that
be a bad thing? :-)
David P. Dillard wrote:
Cell phones are not just getting attention on campuses in general as per
your statement, but they have also
Unless hundreds or thousands of people who know how to deliver a message
through the use of the Internet (and traditional pr) begin to use their
skills to draw more people into conversations about capacity building, we'll
continue to be a small group of people who are isolated and limited in our
Alfred Bork wrote:
. . .
The real problem is that there is so little of use currently on the
Internet, particularly with regard to learning. . . .
This statement is absurd. For some subjects and some learners, the
internet may offer little. However, most users will find tutorials,
Man-oh-man!
:(
You are right on target with this comment!
My partner and I have seen a number of examples of corporate thinking, beguiled
by advertising, (or worse, kickbacks), where executives (who never use the
technology) have made decisions on behalf of the network techs (who
Taran Rampersad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/knowprose/48112318/
By the end of next week, I'm hoping to have all the present internet
enabled devices running off of solar energy. The server I'm building
will need some measurements taken... the AMD 64 bit processor pulls
Dan's points are well spoken and the area in which he is focusing his
energies is critical but he needs to step up and ask for funds to do what
they can do best- educate students- not prepare students to enter the main
stream education system which is broken
First, there is a program in the
Alfred,
Thank you for sending your Sept 29 draft of Global Rich Lifelong
Learning, reflecting curriculum and delivery development over several
decades. From my background as education advocate and interest in
Digital Literacy Research from a policy/impact/cost/investor perspective
(that is,
hi DDN community -
is anyone on the DDN list from tyler, texas, or thereabouts?
thanks for contacting me off-list if you are.
- phil
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Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.his.com/pshapiro/ (personal)
http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro (blog)
In reply to the issue of the Internet as a learning tool I would argue that
it is the most sophisticated tool we have had in history. The Internet's most
important function is communication, information sharing and research. It is
a medium which has opportunities for people at all levels of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
You know, it's a matter of time before digital cells with cameras (or just
plain cameras) are used to copy books out of libraries. Would that be a bad
thing? :-)
No, and most copyright law was not meant to prevent the single copy.
Originally it was meant to stop
J Cravens wrote: ref [DDN] Educating the philanthropic community
One of the digital divides that needs to be bridged is helping people
-- anywhere -- make informed choices about hardware and software, and
being able to articulate and identify their own needs
Absolutely. That is what CAWDnet
Thomas, I couldn't agree more. The internet is a powerful tool to
complement learning, self-directed and instruction-based.
I am interested in how users, by demographic, vary in their use of the
internet (ie women use it more than men for counseling; young people are
responsible for an
Dan Bassill wrote:
Unless hundreds or thousands of people who know how to deliver a message
through the use of the Internet (and traditional pr) begin to use their
skills to draw more people into conversations about capacity building, we'll
continue to be a small group of people who are isolated
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