[DDN] Town meetings
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 Dept. S.I. Newhouse School Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13210 (315)443-3415 ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
[DDN] webcast: Hot Technologies Transforming Schools Today
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 Technologies committee members from the public and private sectors pooled their experience and research skills to identify the leading trends in technologies that have and will continue to change the instructional process, improve assessment and evaluation, address diverse learning styles and student needs, build community in the school environment, and improve the efficiency of school administration. The webcast (and report) will assist district administrators and technology decision-makers in planning for the future. For more information or to register for the webcast, go to http://www.cosn.org/events/webcasts/ -- -- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ -- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
Re: [DDN] Town meetings
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 people to it. Rule Four: A simple web page with a simple, short URL works best. On that web page, put a short description of what viewers can if they link to same. List these with a Arabic Numbers - 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. When talking about them over the phone, all that needs to be mentioned is the Arabic number. Rule Five: Text chat rooms work fine for those who can be on the phone and on the Net. Write me if you would like to use ours. Though there are better ones, including ones to with archive and instant hyperlink capability from the text area...a nice feature for those in the chat room who want those on the phone to learn more about themselves or topics related to the conversation. Rule Six - Cut by 2/3rds the number of people you think will attend and you will get be more accurate. People are really busy and getting real time attendance is a hard one. Rule Seven: For small money you can record. But I am not sure that is worth it, unless you think you can get a radio station to air the conversation, in which case it is WELL worth it. (Larry Elin, you should be in position to help with that - getting conversations aired on community and university radio stations is a pet project of mine...which I have failed to do...but keep trying. Larry?) BUT - the value of voices talking in a call center, cheaply and affordably, is a wonderful thing to knit the leadership together. John Hibbs http://www.bfranklin.edu/johnhibbs At 9:19 AM -0400 10/19/04, 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? Larry Elin Television, Radio, Film Dept. S.I. Newhouse School Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13210 (315)443-3415 ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
Re: [DDN] Town meetings
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] 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.
RE: [DDN] Town meetings
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, Austin TX 78765 Nonprofit Technology and Management -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Larry Elin Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 7:19 AM To: Diigtal Divide Subject: [DDN] Town meetings 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? ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
Re: [DDN] Town meetings
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 only advice would be to look at the people who are wanted to participate, and what means which they have to do so. -- Taran Rampersad [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxgazette.com http://www.a42.com http://www.worldchanging.com http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. Ayn Rand ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
Re: [DDN] Town meetings
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: 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 Dept. S.I. Newhouse School Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13210 (315)443-3415 ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
[DDN] A picture is worth a thousand words! Yup, in kilobytes
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 sites are still textual, refusing the multimedia revolution. The total absence of any mention of tech limitations to access angered me, and I wrote a post entitled A picture is worth a thousand words! Yup, in kilobytes http://tinyurl.com/5qmaj : This subject line is from an actual exchange during the World Summit on Information Society http://www.itu.int/wsis/ in Geneva last December. With another participant, first met online through the Information Society: Voices from the South mailing list, we were joking about the Summit's official pages and PDFs, made huge by the addition of clumsily formatted logos and pics of personalities, offered by the organisers of WSIS with no regard for people with slow modem connections, web e-mails with scanty storage, forced to use antiquated computers in cybercafes. The most insensitive use of pictures was made by the Austrian organisers World Summit Awards http://www.wsis-award.org/ . At first, if you didn't have the shockwave pug-in, you just couldn't enter their site, because there was no alternative to their flash home page. They also produced a pdf for the nomination of experts for the award: enormous and locked. I asked them to produce a text version in several parts, as several people on the above mentioned mailing list were unable to download it, yet wanted to submit expert nominations for their countries. The organisers refused because they couldn't understand what it meant to have non hi tech internet access conditions. So I asked Andy Carvin, then working for the Benton foundation http://www.benton.org , if he could have a go. It worked. He got the separate texts forming the PDF from them and reposted them, separately and unlocked, at the Benton site. Americans are ahead of us in tech, but for them, it is just a tool, that must be adapted to the user's conditions. We Europeans all too often seem more enamoured of tech for tech's sake :-S Reading the erudite quotations about Image language provided by Pierre-Antoine Ullmo in this forum, I can't help wondering if their authors have ever been forced to use the internet in measly conditions, and what they actually know about bandwidth, hotlinking, storage, RAM capacity, CPU's, W3C accessibility rules... In About the Image http://www.elearningeuropa.info/forums.php?fPage=viewtopict=437p1=1p2=1p3=1p4=1lng=5 , Ullmo himself writes: Quote: However the majority of applications on the web remain conventional, giving priority to the text and to a lineal and rigid reading mode. There is no real revolution of the writing process that accompanies the progress of new media. True, but only in part. Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page , probably the best online Encyclopedia, multilingual, made by users from different countries, makes abundant use of hypertext, inviting non-linear reading. The scant use of pictures is not due to conservatism, but aimed at insuring accessibility for all. The same consideration for less favorised users explains the austere look of most GNU sites. See http://www.fsf.org . As to websites made in poorer countries, there is another reason for this scant use of images: bandwidth theft. Hosting rates are calculated in function of the bandwidth used by a site. If a small association with little means can only afford a limited bandwidth, using images for its site means running the risk that someone will copy-paste them in another site: it unfortunately happens all the time, in particular in usenet sites like MSN or yahoo groups, where anyone can post messages or pages, and where people often haven't a clue about bandwidth, because they don't pay for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth_theft , under Linking, explains the consequences of such copypasting: Quote: For example, Site A hosted by Party 1 puts up a commentary on paintings. In this commentary they would like to post a few images of the paintings discussed. Assume that the paintings are public domain or such use is covered under fair use. Party 1 could host the images (such an option is legally possible), but, instead, Party 1 embeds a tag that causes these images to be downloaded from a server belonging to Party 2. When WebSurfer 1 opens up Site A in his web browser the bandwidth for Site A is provided by Party 1. However, the images are obtained from Party 2. (This practice is sometimes also call hotlinking.) Hence the wariness about using images: if you can't cough up for extra bandwidth, it is sane to stick to text: bandwidth theft only happens with objects like image files or sound files - not with text. So, sure, it would be great for multicultural dialogue if
[DDN] New report on free speech and copyright issues (hope this works)
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 like commentary, parody, or news reporting. But copyright owners - especially corporate ones - often send threatening cease and desist letters to those they think are violating their copyrights or trademarks. To research how well fair use is actually protecting artists, journalists, webbloggers, and others, the Free Expression Policy Project has been analyzing a database of cease and desist letters put together by the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse (www.chillingeffects.org), a joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and six law school clinical programs. Preliminary findings indicate that cease and desist letters sometimes, though not always, have chilling effects on speech that might qualify as fair use. Read more at: http://www.fepproject.org/commentaries/ceaseanddesist.html The Free Expression Policy Project is a think tank on artistic and intellectual freedom at NYU's Brennan Center for Justice. Through policy research and advocacy, we explore freedom of expression issues including censorship, copyright law, media localism, and corporate media reform. We invite you to browse our website and to add the following link to your site: http://www.fepproject.org/index.html --- Michelle Chen Communications Associate Brennan Center for Justice 161 Avenue of the Americas 12th Floor New York, NY 10013 212-992-8656 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.fepproject.org ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
[DDN] Re: [WWWEDU] Making Second Language a First Priority
[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 extremely well done and easy to use. Thanks a lot, Bonnie: I forwarded your post to the mailing-list of English teachers in Switzerland. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
