Heritage content in Syrian countryside Memory .
By: Nabil Eid, Salamieh telecentre | July 17, 2008
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| Heritage content in Syrian countryside Memory .
As part of the Reefnet project in support social and heritage content and to pass memories of people in rural community.
The Reefnet launched new initiative titled "Syrian countryside Memory " the new project began through portal community website and run by local groups of volunteers. www.reefnet.gov.sy
The project aimed to collect rural heritage content and conservation it in Syrian society.
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ESCWA and Syrian Computer Society support Arabic digital content
By: Nabil Eid | July 6, 2008
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| ESCWA and Syrian Computer Society support Arabic digital content
Syrian Computer Society (SCS)launch new Competition fro Arabic digital content (2008)
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Attending the Teragrid Conference
By: Bonnie Bracey Sutton, The Thornburg Center for Professional Development | June 10, 2008
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| The teragrid is high performance computing. The conference is in Las Vegas. |
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Big Ideas for Better Schools
By: Edutopia Staff, Glef.org | December 23, 2007
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Fourteen years ago The George Lucas Educational Foundation was created to celebrate and encourage innovation in schools. Since then we have discovered many creative educators, business leaders, parents, and others who were making positive changes not only from the top down but also from the bottom up. Since that time we have been telling their stories through our Web site, our documentary films, and Edutopia magazine.
Along the way, we listened and learned. Nothing is simple when strengthening and invigorating such a vast and complex institution as our educational system, but common ideas for improvement emerged. We've distilled those into this ten-point credo. |
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Future School: Reshaping Learning from the Ground Up
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Alvin Toffler, GLEF.org | December 23, 2007
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Forty years after he and his wife, Heidi, set the world alight with Future Shock, Alvin Toffler remains a tough assessor of our nation's social and technological prospects. Though he's best known for his work discussing the myriad ramifications of the digital revolution, he also loves to speak about the education system that is shaping the hearts and minds of America's future. We met with him near his office in Los Angeles, where the celebrated septuagenarian remains a clear and radical thinker. |
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Let's Use 21st Century Technology and not Just Talk About it!!
By: Bonnie Bracey Sutton, The Thornburg Center for Professional Development | August 15, 2007
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| Let us share and show the new ways about technology and stop talking about the 21st Century initiatives. There are learning landscapes that use the new ways of learning that adults, parents, teachers and children can learn with. There are some case studies that are on the Internet to show how and why and who is doing new things at www.glef.org. |
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Computers and Clean Slates — Creating Interactive Learning Experiences
By: By Paul Horwitz, Concord.org | June 13, 2007
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| When Alice Liddell, known to the world as the inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland was a little girl, one mark of a good student was to bring a “clean slate” to school.
A lot of “modern” educational software is like Alice’s slate. You run it, play with it, possibly learn something from it, and then forget it as quickly as it forgets you. Like the slate, the computer has no agenda, nothing in particular that it’s trying to teach, and no expectation that students will do anything in particular with it. Which is just as well, since whatever they do will leave no trace—neither student nor teacher will ever be able to refer back to what was done, much less infer what was learned through interaction with the computer. |
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Potholes in the Road to Proving Technology
By: Bob Tinker, Concord.org | June 13, 2007
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| Educational technology is getting a bad name because of some bad research. Two varieties of bad research have recently received far too much press. |
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A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users
By: John B. Horrigan, Pew Internet & American Life Project | May 7, 2007
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| The advent of Web 2.0 – the ability of people to use a range of information and communication technology as a platform to express themselves online and participate in the commons of cyberspace – is often heralded as the next phase of the information society. Yet little is known about which segments of the population are inclined to make
robust use of information technology and which aren’t.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project conducted a survey designed to classify Americans into different groups of technology users. Pew developed their typology along three dimensions of people’s relationship to information and
communications technology (ICT): Assets, Actions, and Attitudes. |
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A Comfortable Truth
By: Prakash Nair and Randall Fielding, Edutopia.org | May 2, 2007
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If we were to assemble a list of adjectives to describe school, comfortable would not make the cut. Many of the places where vital teaching occurs, if not designed expressly for physical torment, are infamously uninviting. The classic model for schools, where mentors must compete with discomfort, can be traced back hundreds of years to the "reading" and "writing" schools designed to give children the skills to access God's word in the Bible. Little wonder that the school benches from those days resembled church pews and that sterility and rigor were the order of the day. Very little has changed. |
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Do We Need Another Sputnik?
By: Bonnie Bracey Sutton, GLEFoutreach | April 27, 2007
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| How do we raise an awareness of STEM? The American Competitiveness Act has been passed. Now who is going to tell the business community that we are limited in time to teach science, math, technology and engineering because of NCLB? Students need early introduction to these subjects in meaningful ways to start to think career ... and to embrace learning that is inclusive of STEM. |
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Misunderstandings About Reading and Media
By: Bonnie Bracey Sutton, Glef.org | April 26, 2007
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Misunderstandings About Reading and Media often separate those who do not understand the reading journey. |
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80 Open Education Resource (OER) Tools for Publishing and Development Initiatives
By: Staff, Online Education Database | April 26, 2007
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| Many Open Education Resources (OER) that have been introduced by governments, universities, and individuals within the past few years. OERs provide teaching and learning materials that are freely available and offered online for anyone to use. Whether you're an instructor, student, or self-learner, you have access to full courses, modules, syllabi, lectures, assignments, quizzes, activities, games, simulations, and tools to create these components. |
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An Inconvenient Truth . . . About Education
By: Milton Chen, glef.org | April 18, 2007
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Many nations are moving to combat global climate change and toward changing their own educational climate. Though we don't have the educational equivalent of the Kyoto Protocol, the need to redesign educational systems is reaching a consensus among ministers of education around the world. |
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Eight Tips for Telling Your Story Digitally
By: Brian Satterfield, TechSoup | April 16, 2007
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| A well-told story can bring an invaluable sense of immediacy to your cause, especially important when you have just minutes (or even seconds) to capture the attention of your audience. Yet whereas nonprofits' storytelling arsenal was once largely limited to the traditional mechanisms of writing or speaking, new, affordable multimedia tools are making it possible to tell your story digitally, combining the power of images, narration, music, and text to engage and inspire others to action. |
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Intelligent Design
By: Richard Rapaport, glef.org | March 4, 2007
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| The Build San Francisco Institute is devoted to the architecture of building adults.
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Education at Risk
By: Tamim Ansary, Glef.org | February 28, 2007
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Nearly a quarter century ago, "A Nation at Risk" hit our schools like a brick dropped from a penthouse window. One problem: The landmark document that still shapes our national debate on education was misquoted, misinterpreted, and often dead wrong. |
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The Ultimate Guide to the Invisible Web
By: Staff, Online Education Database | February 19, 2007
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| When you use a search engine on the Internet and can't find what you're looking for, what do you do? Maybe you're seeking to learn something, which means you're probably going to keep trying until you find it. Or give up in frustration. Don't give up that easily. There's information out there that is actually not indexed in the big search engines. Such Web pages are part of what's called the Dark, Deep, Hidden or Invisible Web. |
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Black History Month Teaching Resources
By: Bonnie Bracey Sutton, The Thornburg Center for Professional Development | February 9, 2007
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| From Spiral Notebook, a gathering of Black History resources with live links at the original site.
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Youth on human rights, youth for open source
By: Wojciech Gryc, Five Minutes to Midnight | January 22, 2007
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| At the heart of the Commons movement is a simple yet powerful concept of sharing information and art for the enjoyment and the betterment of everyone’s lives. Much of this sharing is the result of widespread internet access and broadband availability, resources which many people do not have. Bridging the digital divide is by no means easy, though numerous organizations exist with that goal in mind. |
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The Ideal 21st Century School
By: Jane Ciabattari, Edutopia, GLEF | January 2, 2007
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| Star Wars creator George Lucas is known for fantasy and epic storytelling. When he founded The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) in 1991, his impulse was to tell real-life stories about the power of technology to transform education, and to make school more engaging by developing learning tools beyond the textbook. Today, by reporting on the best practices in education in real schoolrooms around the country, the Foundation is distributing models of excellence that others can copy. Project-based learning is its core paradigm for teaching. |
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Why Computational Science, Why Stem Education
By: CI-TEAM-Work, Teragrid | October 25, 2006
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| Why the emphasis on STEM ?
“No first-world nation can maintain the health of its economy or society when such a large part of its population remains outside all scientific and technological endeavors.”
– Dr. Richard Tapia, University Professor, Rice University
Background and Motivatioin
CI-TEAM-Work is executed by a virtual organization [FKT01] which combines the expertise of high performance computing specialists, computational scientists, educators, and science informatics experts from TeraGrid, Open Science Grid, the National Computational Science Institute (NCSI), the annual SC Conference, and other nationally renowned HPC science and education organizations working in close collaboration with researchers, faculty, administrators and students at diverse academic institutions
.“Computational science – the use of advanced computing capabilities to understand and solve complex problems – is now critical to scientific leadership, economic competitiveness, and national security.” –J. H. Marburger, Science Advisor to the President and Director, OSTP. [HPCWire]
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Recent Research on the Achievement Gap
By: Ronald Ferguson, Tripod Programs for Schools | October 24, 2006
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| An Interview with Ronald Ferguson
For more than a decade, economist Ronald Ferguson has studied achievement gaps. In 2002, he created the Tripod Project for School Improvement, a professional development initiative that uses student and teacher surveys to measure classroom conditions and student engagement by race and gender. The findings inform strategies to raise achievement and narrow achievement gaps. A senior research associate at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Ferguson is director and faculty cochair of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University. He spoke with the Harvard Education Letter about the most recent findings from the Tripod Project surveys. |
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October, Accidental Scientists STEM, Take on Halloween
By: Bonnie Bracey Sutton, The Thornburg Center for Professional Development | October 24, 2006
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| Often children are so taken by the holiday that teachers have a difficult time getting them to pay attention. I say,
seize the day, and capture the magic of the holiday and use their motivation to make accidental scientists. |
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Do the Math
By: By Espen Anderson, GLEF.org (Edutopia Article) | October 17, 2006
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Why choose mathematics in high school? Here's why. |
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Martin Scorsese: Teaching Visual Literacy
By: Douglas Crickshank, Edutopia.org | October 16, 2006
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| Today, our society and our world are saturated with visual stimulation. The visual image has taken over, in a sense, for better or for worse. But the reality is that if one wants to reach younger people at an earlier age to shape their minds in a critical way, you really need to know how ideas and emotions are expressed visually. Now, that visual form can be video or film, but it still has the same rules, the same vocabulary, the same grammar.
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The New Face of Learning
By: Will Richardson, Edutopia | October 6, 2006
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WHAT HAPPENS TO TIME-WORN CONCEPTS OF CLASSROOMS AND TEACHING WHEN WE CAN NOW GO ONLINE AND LEARN ANYTHING, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME?
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Is Every School a Vocational School?
By: Jim Moulton, Edutopia | October 6, 2006
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| What is a present day notion of what vocations are and how we approach them. This is food for thought!
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Take A Chance Let Them Dance
By: Sir Ken Robinson, Edutopia | September 28, 2006
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| Creativity is a key part of the educated mind.
What all children have in common is that they will take a chance. They're not frightened of being wrong. I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. But if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. By the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. Why is this? |
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Discussion: MySpace and Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA)
By: Henry Jenkins, Media Center, MIT | May 30, 2006
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| An interesting ideational scaffolding to make us think about the use of public spaces and technologies. |
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A Nonprofit's Guide to the Blogosphere
By: Willow Cook, TechSoup | May 22, 2006
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| To find out the latest advice, links, and insights on blogging, we went straight to the horse's mouth. Or should we say, straight to the bloggers' posts. Read on for tips on why nonprofits should consider blogging, how you can find blogs that cover your interests, and ways to make your blog stand out -- all from nonprofit technology bloggers themselves. |
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A Hundred Times More Rewarding
By: Alexis Carrero, Glef.org( Edutopia Article) | May 18, 2006
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| How to Learn Math for the Rest of One's Life, in a rewarding way.
"My teachers in Florida wanted kids to do what they were told: Read the book, answer the questions, take a test. When we studied the Revolutionary War, we had to memorize the information in our textbook, including a poem about Paul Revere. It was very important to know the poem exactly, but it had no meaning to me. If you had asked me to recite the poem a week later, I wouldn't have been able to. What purpose did this poem have? Why was it so important for me to memorize? After learning this poem, our lesson on Paul Revere was over and we moved on to another topic." |
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What Can Social Networking Do for Your Organization?
By: Brian Satterfield, TechSoup | May 11, 2006
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| In this article, we'll examine the online social networking phenomenon, share examples of nonprofits that are using these communities to further their missions, and discuss some of the challenges inherent in Internet-based outreach. |
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Exploring History, Understanding Ourselves
By: Roberta Furger, The George Lucas Educational Foundaiton | February 21, 2006
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| The article explores the use of " hard history"
Although their life circumstances vary considerably, these students and teachers share a connection that spans differences in race and religion, class and national identity. Their link is the result of a common commitment to exploring what one teacher calls "hard history" -- the history of racism, prejudice, and persecution in the 20th century. |
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Building a Bridge to Science and Technology
By: Roberta Furger, The George Lucas Educational Foundation | February 21, 2006
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| Girls doing Math and Science
An Antidote for Peer Pressure- Changing the Face of Science
In the fall of 2000, word spread throughout nine middle and high schools in Oakland: A new program was starting just for girls. Led by Oakland public school teachers, the programs would feature hands-on science and technology activities, field trips, role models, and more. Some groups would meet once a week during lunch or after school |
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RAIL Provides Access to Resources for Virginia Residents
By: Francis Raven, A Sense Of Place Network | January 30, 2006
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| The Rockbridge Area Information Line (RAIL), a Virginia non-profit, maintains an information database of community resources and activities available to residents of Buena Vista, Lexington and Rockbridge County. These resources help residents lead more fulfilling and informed civic lives. |
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Agricultural Extension on the Web
By: John Schmitz, A Sense Of Place Network | December 1, 2005
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| DSpace and related projects are building web-based collections of 'open content' in the public domain. While land grants routinely post 'open content' for extension, the DSpace partners led by MIT have bet the farm. Should other land grants join DSpace? What are the global uses of open extension content? |
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Equal Access: Local Content, Engaged Communities
By: Francis Raven, A Sense Of Place Network | November 1, 2005
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| San Francisco NGO Equal Access creates customized communication strategies and outreach solutions that address the most critical problems affecting people in the developing world. By designing and producing compelling local language audio and multimedia programs in-country, they educate and catalyze behavior change in target audiences. An interview with Program Coordinator Camaran Pipes brought to light many of their innovative strategies. |
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Effective Implementation of ICTs: Rural Development Prerogative
By: Harsimran Singh, The Xavier Labor Relations Institute (XLRI) | October 28, 2005
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The role of Information and Communication Technologies as drivers of rural growth in developing nations cannot be stated in a pleonastic fashion. Indeed, ICTs are multi-faceted tools that can spur development in rural areas and can play a vital role in poverty removal. The success of the ‘E-Choupal’ model in India serves as a reminder that ICTs can play a major role in forming a mutually... |
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The Power of Youth to Transform Politics Using the Internet
By: Francis Raven, A Sense Of Place Network | September 12, 2005
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| With election season fast approaching, the Internet is playing an ever-greater role in the development of relevant content that engages young people in democratic principles. David Anderson’s group, Youth04, was a non-profit, non-partisan organization that sought to transform the role 18-25 year olds played in the 2004 election through state grassroots efforts on college campuses. It was not like other Get Out The Vote (GOTV) projects in that it focused on quality relationships, not quantity. Will there be a Youth06? |
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Geography Matters: GIS
By: Bonnie Bracey Sutton, The Thornburg Center for Professional Development | August 16, 2005
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| With the use of ICTs to explore the world, learning becomes more powerful. GIS technology is one of the hottest new tools in education and research and is one of the fastest growing high-tech careers for students today. GIS training helps students develop computer literacy, analytical approaches to problem solving, and communication and presentation skills. |
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Announcing the Winners of the World Summit Awards USA Competition
By: Andy Carvin, A Sense Of Place Network | August 15, 2005
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| It's my pleasure to announce the following sites as the winners of the USA round of the World Summit Awards competition (http://www.wsis-award.org). These sites will now be up for consideration in the worldwide competition, which will be decided this autumn prior to the World Summit on the Information Society.
E-Culture: Lakota Winter Counts / Lakota... |
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Turning Passive Listeners Into Active Investigators: Online Curriculum About Oceanography
By: Bonnie Bracey Sutton, The Thornburg Center for Professional Development | August 11, 2005
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| Not everyone has access to the ocean. But every teacher with an Internet connection has access to stimulating curriculum about oceanography. With a few clicks of the mouse, hands-on curriculum can be found online that will engage students with active research and real field trips, igniting a student's interest in the ocean. These resources will enrich even the most land-locked schools. |
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CyberGeography: A Conversation with Martin Dodge
By: Francis Raven, A Sense Of Place Network | April 7, 2005
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| The possibilities of the Internet are always framed by what users visualize when they consider the virtual landscape. How does the Internet reflect, or connect to, the physical world? Martin Dodge, a renown cybergeographer, expounds on the subject of mapping cyberspace, and explores what his results mean for educators, technologists, community activists and Internet users around the physical world. |
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When Kids Make Content: A Q & A With 'Blogevangelist' Will Richardson
By: Cedar Pruitt, A Sense Of Place Network | March 7, 2005
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| "In my experience, students are very responsible about the content they create...[t]hey know that what they write is out there for real people to consume and interact with, and that motivates them," says Will Richardson. Richardson is the Supervisor of Instructional Technology and Communications at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, NJ, and a self-described "blogevangelist" who uses his own blog, Weblogg-ed, to call for new applications of blogs in educational settings. |
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A Critical Perspective on Access, Content and the Digital Divide
By: Oliver Moran, A Sense Of Place Network | January 18, 2005
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| The current sense of urgency to adapt ICT in the social sphere, as opposed to the economic sphere where it is already prevalent and well integrated, is derived from the discourse of economic globalisation rather from a more practical desire to utilise the technology in socially-derived ways – building from the top down rather than from the ground up. This is not to discount the potential of the technology but to explain that, just as with the dot-com phenomenon, the technology on its own and certainly as it is presently provided is not good enough. It needs to be redesigned and fitted to benefit social practices and settings rather than be machines for business drafted-in for home or community use. |
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A Nation Online: 2004 U.S. National Digital Divide Report Released
By: NTIA, U.S. Department of Commerce | January 10, 2005
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| The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has just released the latest national digital divide report, A Nation Online.
The report states that a dramatic uptake of broadband technologies has fueled the nation's rising use of the Internet. The report also finds that broadband users are more likely to use the Internet more frequently and in a wider variety of ways, and broadband usage is lower in rural than urban areas.
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Digital Culture for the Disabled
By: Nia Ujamaa, Center for Media & Community | December 10, 2004
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| Partners Online (POL) serves as a social outlet for people with disabilties in the New England area to discuss their experiences, questions and feelings with others sharing similar experiences. This unique online community gives disabled individuals the freedom to connect to their peers and speak independently of an interpreter in a safe environment. |
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Checking In With Ana Montes at the Latino Issues Forum
By: Cedar Pruitt, A Sense Of Place Network | December 10, 2004
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| Ana Montes of the Latino Issues Forum spoke with DDN editor Cedar Pruitt recently about the future of higher education and online access in the Latino community, the Spanish Internet, and the critical need for good, accessible content. |
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How to Create Your Own Blog
By: Andy Carvin, A Sense Of Place Network | December 8, 2004
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| One of the most exciting features of the Digital Divide Network website is the ability for every DDN member to have a personal blog. A blog, or Web log, is a public Internet journal written by one person or a group of people. Blogging has revolutionized Internet publishing in the last several years because it gives everyone with Internet access the opportunity to become an online writer. And now, you too can get started with your very own DDN blog. |
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Hispanic Culture Online: A Celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month
By: Jamal P. Le Blanc, Digital Divide Network | October 29, 2001
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| While National Hispanic Heritage Month passed largely unmarked in 2001, the Internet reflects the diversity and depth of impact that Hispanic Americans have had on our national culture - online and offline. |
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The Importance of Crafting Culturally Relevant Content
By: Karen Ellis, CyberPlayGround | July 9, 2001
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| As more and more classrooms are wired, the Internet provides teachers a new gateway to relevant, diverse and engaging content. The CyberPlayGround portal offers an interdisciplinary guide to using the Internet to deliver online curriculum. It provides comprehensive learning resources for different cultural and ethnic groups, and also for those with different approaches to learning. |
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Internet Top-Level Domains: Seizing Opportunities for Nonprofits
By: Katharina Kopp, Benton Foundation | May 14, 2001
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| Top-level domains such as .com, .edu, .net and .us have quickly become scarce resources, even though they are one of the key means of organizing and finding content on the World Wide Web. Any change in their number or in how they are administered has potentially significant effects on the structure of the Internet, its content and its users. |
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National Congress of American Indians Launches Website
By: Rebecca Donovan Johnston | January 31, 2001
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| In June 2000, the National Congress of American Indians received a grant from the AOL Foundation to create a forum for tribal leaders to discuss the critical issues surrounding technology in Indian Country with leading policy experts, federal officials, and industry leaders. |
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It's a Woman's World Wide Web
By: Anne Rickert, Media Metrix, Jupiter Communications | December 4, 2000
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| In the first quarter of 2000, the number of women online surpassed that of men (50.4% vs 49.6%) and the online population of women is growing faster than the online population overall (34.9% vs 22.4%). Females 12-17 showed the most dramatic growth in Web use -- up 126.3% over
the last year. These teens are interested in teen-targeted fashion
magazines, shopping, and music. The sites with the highest percentage of
these teen visitors are: 1) online magazine Cosmogirl.com, 2) e-zine
Teenpeople.com and 3) shopping site Delias.com. |
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Four Directions to Making the Internet Indian
By: Kade Twist, Benton Foundation | December 4, 2000
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| Indian Country is still very much on the wrong side of the digital divide. Only 39 percent of rural Indian Country has basic phone service, household personal computer ownership accompanied with Internet access is still no greater than 15 percent. Community leaders are left with a critical dilemma: How can Indians culturally rationalize technologies they can't universally access? A collaboration between Tribal Nations, federal government agencies, universities, academic organizations and private corporations has begun to answer this question. |
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Content and the Digital Divide: What Do People Want?
By: Kevin Taglang, Benton Foundation | December 4, 2000
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| A narrow definition of the digital divide focuses on access to computers and the
Internet. But access alone does not bridge the technology gap. To realize the
potential of today's information tools, people need the skills to operate them to
better their lives and the health of their communities. The ability to create and
share community-relevant information is part of that equation. |
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