The idea that students are enriched by learning about the heritage and role
of African-Americans is widely accepted among most US educators. What's now
debated is whether such lessons should be confined, some say segregated, to
one
month or, instead, be incorporated into class work all year
All,
Perhaps I should clarify my stance. I am an advocate of virtual conferencing,
especially as it applies to the Digital Divide - because of the opportunity it
offers those who cannot afford to travel from different parts of the world as
well as the environmental benefits inherent in such
To Steve Eskow
Good summary of my view!
Perhaps one point where I do not follow is that our tutoring is not
Intelligent, in the sense of artificial intelligence. All the decisions are
made by the designers, not by AI strategies within the programs. Eventually
the approaches of artificial
A piece of theory might be useful in thinking about conferences online.
The time-space geographers and sociologists are teaching us that space and
spatial configurations aren't merely containers that hold the events that go
on within them, but are constitutive: that is, they shape, or constitute,
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I'd like to try summarizing
Steve Eskow wrote:
The listserv is a mode of dialog that fits the genius of the online
environment, and thus there are thousands of them, and they will continue to
flourish and multiply.
Listservs are self limiting because in propagation, they split the
attention of people. If all listservs
Hi everyone. For those of you who are interested in wikis, I thought
you'd want to know about this event tomorrow. -ac
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I think this is going to be really
At the WSIS Africa Regional Conference.(Jan 28th-Feb 4th)
The WSIS Youth Caucus meeting had in attendance over 150 young people from
different parts of Africa. Countries represented include Nigeria, Ghana, Togo,
Benin, Egypt and Niger.
Issues discussed at the youth caucus meeting
I think that F2F and Virtual Conferences should be part of an on-going
process of learning, evaluation, planning, etc. aimed at addressing issues
important to the people who come to the F2F or Virtual Conference.
I've been hosting F2F Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conferences for 12 years as
part of an
Oliver Moran wrote:
Taran and Ed,
My issue is not that the video is commerical or fanciful. Rather, in
the context of the 'digital divide', my point is that videos like this
represent an unrealistic vision of the value of ICT for social
change. Visions are essential to the future and
There are some wonderful strengths in virtual conferences that are
rarely duplicated in physical ones - although there is no reason they
should not be.
I will list these as they come to mind:
a) narrowly defined list serv where each participant is strongly
encouraged to subscribe - and
Hi Andy
Actually, this is done currently in asynchronous conferencing systems
where there are a number of options. The system can notify a participant
that a post has been made and you can go to to read and respond,
sometimes the post is sent and the system can select how you can
respond,
We have personal experience with Korean internet use. Koreans use
internet cafes, rather than home computers. Seoul, which has 11 million
residents, has over 10,000 internet cafes. These internet cafes have
high speed bandwidth and excellent machines. Internet-based gaming is
very popular,
Hi Andy
I would defer to the software experts on this list- I know there are a
number of open source asynchronous systems out there.
Blogs or weblogs started out as personal journals or musings of
individuals. Some have grown a number of similar features to the ones I
have suggested and
I agree with defining the functionality. But I would rather define the
funtionality without talking about the technologies first. People have a
tendency to skew a design by their requirements, and in doing so they
leave a lot out.
If a person asked me for a vehicle with four doors, I would
Early last summer, I was allowed to conduct workshops in Jordan for science
teachers. At the time I thought that they were going to come to the US to learn
and be a part of the supercomputing conference . I had wonderful resources
for them, but there is one teacher who has been constantly
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