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Experimenting with Mightbell
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African Photo Benefit at White Silo Sherman CT Reception Dec 19th 1PM
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Fall 2012 Projects Update and Resources Links
News Letter and Resource Links
As my family surfaces from chopping wood to keep the house warm from Hurricane Sandy I am remind at how dealing with electricity and Internet access is a daily experience in places like Africa. After two days without power I am drowning with hundreds of requests for information. In that we are very small, we are placing all our project information and resources within the links of this email. As many of you know these programs empower…
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Webinar: "Nigeria Digital Literacy for African Business Leadership"
Nigeria Digital Literacy for African Business Leadership
This webinar will provide Nigerian business leaders with Internet methods, resources and simple techniques about how to find and use global business resources. We will illustrate how Internet resources have transformed African business and the role African business have in their communities. We will also show how we can move from educating people for jobs into a new engaged generation that “creates”…
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Rescue Mission Learning Center program ends
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t is with great sadness, that due to budgetary reasons, I must leave the Bridgeport Rescue Mission Learning Center. However, we witnessed great success in the development of a large body of curriculum for others to use. We have developed and tested the integration of Internet media and Adult Learning…
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Recorded Webinar Online
The Webinar "Methods and Techniques for Web 2.0 Project Based Learning for Urban-Poverty Schools and Adult Learning" Has been re-recorded with Multimedia videos of the cases added.
This is the Bascom sponsored webinar on January 12th.
Methods and Techniques for Web 2.0 Project Based Learning for Urban-Poverty Schools and Adult Learning Part…
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"Flash Learning" and Collaboration
Chrysalis Campaign projects for the UNESCO Digital Storytelling portal and the Community Learning Center portal in the US are both a year old with plenty of evidence of the power of collaboration.
What we are doing is blending Web 20 learning with the human elements of small group project based learning in poverty settings.
Some new research on minority STEM learning in NYC points out that it is not the technology or STEM curriculum that lift students into the better…
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What do we do?
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We are starting plans to return to Africa large community Wrokshops
Our last week in Lesotho the National University of Lesotho asked us to run our workshop five times. During that week we met with many community leaders and realized that the knowledge of how Internet resources and collaboration are transforming this generation of African youth had to be told. That…
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Organization of African Youth becomes Certified This is my Story Training Center and post six videos
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Award winning Flat Classroom Project to team up in next Africa workshops
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Fash Protests, Flash Events and "Flash Learning"
While the old guard of indexed based hierarchical industrial based classrooms keep perseverating on testing and structured curriculum, the vast world outside of the colonial classroom learns via relational collaborative Internet that test by the impact ideas and knowledge have on the real world.
While Dewey and democratic learning are the reality of how we learn and leverage the global Internet for each moment living on our planet.
Are the curriculum and methods of STEM, SCORM,…
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Perhaps we are no longer as under-privileged as we use to be:
Once upon a time there was a group that we called "under-privileged,"
But God heard their prayers and connected them all together empowering them to share the resources and knowledge of the world as one human race. When this happen all deeds became transparent all knowledge collaborative and world had no more excuses not to love one another.
Because of global inter-networking of human lives the world was forced to love…
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Three revolutionary trend of the internet
A friend going to a Internet Governance Conference asked what to look for:
Added by Richard C Close on August 29, 2011 at 10:16am — No Comments
Posted White Paper "Democracy & Global Web Education" by Richard C, Close
Democracy and Global Web Education
Abstract
The mentality of Colonial/Industrial Education is when a superior/expert group imparts their knowledge down into theworking classes/cultures. Democracy in Education has the masses fully empowered to explore,…
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National University of Lesotho Workshop "I am Africa. This is my story..."
SA Media Alliance Crosbey Mwanza drove me from Johannisburgh to Maseru Lesotho to meet with the communication students in National University of Lesotho. There were five workshop with numerious video from…
Added by Richard C Close on May 30, 2011 at 8:30pm — No Comments
Zambia Lusaka High School Workshop
In Lusaka High School we walked in unannouced that we were doing a YouTube Storytelling contest and they open their arms with great delight. We were told to come back the next day and a few students would be there for us.
When we arrive the classroom it was packed with 30 students and we scrambled for some…
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Media Is taking notice of African Youth
In addition to media blogging "I am Africa. This is my story..." free lance writers and video people are working in the background with NGOs and school to develop more digital stories.
Watch for updated articles order the Press tab.
Articles and Blogs
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Media is taking notice of African Youth
In addition to media blogging "I am Africa. This is my story..." freelance writers and video people are working in the background with NGOs and schools to develop more digital stories.
Watch for updated articles order the Press tab.
Articles and Blogs
…
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