Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] What Activities Are Offering Online Professional Development for Educators?

2004-06-01 Thread Bonnie Bracey
In a message dated 6/1/2004, "Global Knowledge Dev. Moderator" writes: > 1. What activities use online methods to provide pre-service and/or > in-service online professional development for educators? The CERN group created a forum for the WSIS and the Role of Science in the Information Society s

[GKD-DOTCOM] What Activities Are Offering Online Professional Development for Educators?

2004-06-01 Thread Global Knowledge Dev. Moderator
Dear GKD Members, "Education for All." Sounds great. Tough to do. A key challenge is developing skilled educators across the developing world. One approach capturing broad attention is the use of online professional development for educators. Enthusiasts praise online methods for offering "just in

[GKD] Launch of GKD-DOTCOM Discussion: Online Professional Development for Educators

2004-06-01 Thread Global Knowledge Dev. Moderator
Dear GKD Members, Welcome to the GKD-DOTCOM Discussion on "Online Professional Development for Educators." This has been an important topic for GKD members over the years and we look forward to discussing it in depth during the next 4 weeks. The DOT-COM Alliance will develop a White Paper on the t

[GKD] BytesForAll: South Asian ICT4D Newsletter

2004-06-01 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ B y t e s F o r A l l --- http://www.bytesforall.org _/ Making Computing Relevant to the People of South Asia _/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers 062004 _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_

[GKD] Kabissa's www4mail Server Now Permanently Offline

2004-06-01 Thread Tobias Eigen
For many years Kabissa offered access to web pages for e-mail only users through our 'www4mail' server. It was much appreciated by many in the Internet community, and received thousands of requests a week. We enjoyed providing the service and have made many new friends around the world as a result,

Re: [GKD] RFI: Low-Bandwidth Long Distance Wireless E-mail

2004-06-01 Thread Roberto Verzola
Sorry, I'm in no position to say which was the best www4mail service. I used the Bellanet server, until it became very unreliable. I was told they were just making changes to the software to stop people from using the service for downloading .mp3's but the service never improved. And I thought the

Re: [GKD] Community Learning by Radio and the Internet

2004-06-01 Thread Vickram Crishna
On 5/26/04, John Hibbs wrote: > What would happen if micro radio would be so ubiquitous (and affordable) > that children everywhere would have a frequent opportunity to be their > own content developers? broadcasters? Wouldn't this activity compare to > the piano recital? Christmas play? soccer g