[DDN] Wikipedia Blocks School's Editing Privileges Due to Vandalism

2006-03-28 Thread Andy Carvin
Hi everyone, There's been so much talk among educators on whether Wikipedia should be banned from school, that it may come as a surprise to some that a school has actually been banned from Wikipedia. Since November 2002, an anonymous Wikipedia user had been vandalizing dozens of Wikipedia

[DDN] Seeking youth organizations also engaged with youth development research

2006-03-28 Thread Barry Joseph
Can anyone please recommend to me any youth organizations, who work directly with youth around some form of digital media, who also have a strong youth development research side (e.g. they like to write and publish)? I am involved with a fantastic opportunity for such organizations and am in

Re: [DDN] new Wikipedia category: Digital Divide activists

2006-03-28 Thread Taran Rampersad
Deborah Elizabeth Finn wrote: On 3/27/06, Andy Carvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, Taran Rampersad recently posted a message to his blog, www.knowprose.com, about the fact that he's recently been added to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taran_Rampersad Dear Andy,

[DDN] New Contact Details

2006-03-28 Thread Dave Kissoondoyal
Dear All, During the past weeks, I have been less active with my postings in the different lists because I have taken the position of IT Manager and Head of IT Department at Teleforma Ltd (US based Company) in Mauritius. Now that I have settled at my new position, I will be posting more

[DDN] using squeet.com to support the digg submissions of friends

2006-03-28 Thread Phil Shapiro
hi DDN community - when andy carvin submitted this story to digg.com a few minutes ago, i was alerted via email by a free service at http://squeet.com(see appended short email below.) last week i told squeet.com to send me an email from the rss feed of digg submissions by my