By Ismael Peña-López (@ictlogist), 29 March 2004
Main categories: Education & e-Learning, ICT4D
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Completing Thursday‘s post, there go two more links (via Unintended Consequences):
LINC Caddie.NET Portal Factory: “Developed to be highly scalable across institutions and countries, it can support an unlimited number of courses and students. The CADDIE Collaborative Architectures for a Distributed Instructional Environment is designed to take advantage of the wide range of collaboration technology available on today’s highly calable Web Platforms, including messenger, voice over IP and real time and streaming video.”
CADDIE.NET Team Server Portal: “This site serves as the hub application for information exchange. It provides online news, event and course information, along with interactive discussion forums and students contact information. In a nutshell, everything needed to maintain and run the fast-growing course site.”
By Ismael Peña-López (@ictlogist), 25 March 2004
Main categories: Education & e-Learning, ICT4D
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[Via SIT and Bonnie Bracey @ DigitalDivide discussion list]
It looks like MIT has released a F/OSS content management system (CMS). According to them, it also looks like a learning management system (LMS):
Developed to be highly scalable across institutions and countries, it can support an unlimited number of courses and students. The CADDIE Collaborative Architectures for a Distributed Instructional Environment is designed to take advantage of the wide range of collaboration technology available on today’s highly calable Web Platforms, including messenger, voice over IP and real time and streaming video.
It’s a pity I haven’t been able to enter its demo site, ’cause Bonnie says that “the software, which can be downloaded free, allows users to build various portals for the different aspects of a distance-education program. Portals can be built, for example, for registration, course management, or online testing.”
We’ll wait and see.
So far, OpenCourseWare and Caddie.net CourseServer seem to me quite a nice pair.
By Ismael Peña-López (@ictlogist), 24 March 2004
Main categories: ICT4D, Online Volunteering
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Jayne Cravens is looking for some Spanish-speaking “techie” online volunteers. Here goes her original mail:
“Does anyone out there know of an online discussion group or association that could help me reach Spanish-speaking “techies” who might be interested in online volunteering?
In particularly, I’m trying to recruit some Spanish-speaking MS Access experts, but other areas of expertise (web site design, online database development, etc.) are also needed.
[snip]
The Online Volunteering service is seeing a big increase in the number of assignments either in Spanish or asking specifically for Spanish-speakers. To view such opportunities, please visit: www.onlinevolunteering.org click on “Search Assignments”, and choose “Spanish” in the language category.”
Contact info:
Jayne Cravens (jayne.cravens@unvolunteers.org)
Online Volunteering Specialist
United Nations Volunteers
www.unvolunteers.org
Bonn, Germany
Online Volunteering: www.onlinevolunteering.org
UNITeS: www.unites.org
Global volunteerism portal: www.worldvolunteerweb.org
[Update: opportunities have been fulfilled… but there’s still a need for profiles like these ;) ]
By Ismael Peña-López (@ictlogist), 23 March 2004
Main categories: ICT4D
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Three weeks ago I said we were planning to host the first Virtual Congress about Deafblindness in Spanish. Now this is a fact. From 1st to 30th April 2004.
More info (mainly in Spanish):
I Congreso Virtual Internacional Sobre Sordoceguera:
http://www.sordoceguera.com/ICongreso.htm
Campanya per al reconeixement de la sordceguesa com a discapacitat espec
By Ismael Peña-López (@ictlogist), 17 March 2004
Main categories: ICT4D, Online Volunteering
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“InterConnection enhances the visibility of non-profit organizations in developing countries.
We use an online network of Virtual Volunteers to provide organizations with professional quality websites, Internet hosting, and training at no or low-cost.
Websites help non-profit organizations obtain support for their social, environmental and humanitarian efforts and improve the quality of life globally.
InterConnection has provided website support to 101 non-profits in 40 countries.
[…]
InterConnection provides an online presence specifically to non-profit organizations in developing countries. Our web design services are refined for groups that are new to the web design process and have limited budgets. Since 1999, we have provided nearly 100 non-profits with websites in 26 countries. We have a unique understanding of this sectors needs and resources.
InterConnection’s web design services are carried out primarily by talented volunteers and professional web designers. This combination of volunteer and professional support allows us to meet the needs of organizations that range from non profits with a small budget to multi-national organizations that have specialized design and programming needs.
Our Services Include:
Virtual Volunteer Web Design
Web Site Hosting
Tech Support
Enhanced Solutions
Will they think of me as a non-profit and redesign my blog for free? ;)
I’ll surely add them in my links list.
By Ismael Peña-López (@ictlogist), 17 March 2004
Main categories: ICT4D, Online Volunteering
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“We are working to expand the universe of CyberVolunteering by encouraging social service and other organizations to think beyond the traditional face-to-face volunteers who are today and probably always will be the backbone of most volunteer efforts. Face-to-face volunteering will always have a vital place in the delivery of social services. Our effort is not to replace these efforts, but to supplement them.”
A site with examples, experiences and opportunities. A little site, but well focussed.
