ICT Support Initiating and Managing SchoolNets

Initiating and Managing SchoolNets (ICT Lessons Learned Series Volume III). UNESCO. Online August 2007. … overall summary of the lessons learned during the implementation of the UNESCO SchoolNet project, “Strengthening the Use of ICT in Schools and SchoolNet in the ASEAN Context”. … Contents: What is a SchoolNet? Why set up SchoolNets? The UNESCO SchoolNet project. Examples of SchoolNets. What makes a SchoolNet successful and sustainable? Initiating and managing a SchoolNet. Summary of Lessons Learned. Download PDF, 2.4MB

ICT Support for learningHow To: Create a Web Site That's a Learning Community

How To: Create a Web Site That's a Learning Community. Leona Jamison. Edutopia. Online August 2007. The many minds we brought into this process -- different people from different practices within the profession -- made it successful. … district's biggest goal was for its Web site to help foster a professional learning community in which teachers can exchange ideas, support each other, and continually develop their practice. For parents and the community… the site to be a place not just to find their school's address and phone number but to get involved as well. For students … the site needed to help educators teach in the way kids are wired to learn. …

ICT Support Top 10 E-Learning Tools

Top 10 E-Learning Tools. Josh Fischman. Wired Campus. Online August 2007. … Jane Hart, head of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, in Somerset, England, wanted to know. So in July she asked 64 e-learning experts to list their top 10 tools. The most frequently cited item … Firefox Web browser. Next was del.icio.us, the social bookmarking tool. That was followed by Web-based e-mail, specifically Gmail from Google. …

Non-ICT Reading Inexcusable Absence: Why 60 million girls still aren’t in school and what to do about it.

Inexcusable Absence: Why 60 million girls still aren’t in school and what to do about it. Maureen lewis and Marlaine Lockheed. Center for Global Development. Online August 2007. …Three quarters of the millions of girls worldwide who don’t go to school belong to ethnic, religious, linguistic, racial or other minority groups excluded from mainstream society. … highlights the often vast differences between girls from minority and majority groups in enrolling in and completing school—a previously neglected phenomenon. … the ways in which gender inequality intersects with different types of exclusion to exacerbate disadvantage. … available free in pdf format online, or can be purchased on paper.

Update from Venezuela Venezuela's four-legged mobile libraries.

Venezuela's four-legged mobile libraries. BBC. Online August 2007. A university in Venezuela is using a novel method to take books into remote communities and encourage people to read. … bibliomulas (book mules) and they are helping to spread the benefits of reading to people who are isolated from much of the world around them. … “We want to install wireless modems under the banana plants so the villagers can use the internet," says Robert Ramirez, the co-ordinator of the university's Network of Enterprising Rural Schools. "Imagine if people in the poor towns in the valley can e-mail saying how many tomatoes they'll need next week, or how much celery."The farmers can reply telling them how much they can produce. It's blending localisation and globalisation."…

Informative Video Media Smarts

Media Smarts. GLEF. Online August 2007. Teachers are discovering the value of imparting media-literacy skills, from critical analysis of news programs, commercials, and films to basic design and video-production techniques.

ICT Support Evaluating thin clients from a position of strength.

Evaluating thin clients from a position of strength. Marc Wagner. Chris Dawon’s Education IT blog. ZDNet. Online August 2007. … In many instances, the cost of a thin-client (plus a monitor and keyboard) is only marginally lower than the cost of a mid-range workstation while the cost of a robust mission-critical server may run ten to twenty times the cost of a single mid-range workstation. …considering hardware costs alone, the acquisition costs or a thin-client lab may be quite similar to the costs of a lab full of workstations. …