[Grassroots-l] Fwd: [bytesforall_readers] [Fwd: News on ICT in Education: 19 September 2008]

[Edward Cherlin]

Does anybody here know UNESCO Assistant Director-General for
Communication and Information Abdul Waheed Khan? Perhaps we should
invite him to some relation with us and our work.


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Subject: News on ICT in Education: 19 September 2008
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:09:18 +0700
From: ICT in Education <ictinfo at unescobkk.org>
To: fred at bytesforall.org


Announcement

 News on ICT in Education

Highlight

UNESCO's Abdul Waheed Khan: ICT to shape the future of education and
learning <http://tinyurl.com/3hs4o5>

 The Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) has published an exclusive
interview with Abdul Waheed Khan, UNESCO’s Assistant
Director-General for Communication and Information, in which he
shares his insights on education and the role of ICT for
socio-economic development.

 News & Events

 UNESCO develops community multimedia centre for education in
Indonesia <http://tinyurl.com/4e2rv3>

 A series of training courses to build the capacity of Community
Multimedia-Education Centre (CMEC) Jayagiri managers has been started
and will continue until the end of October 2008 in Jayagiri, Bandung,
Indonesia.

 UN helps strengthen Mongolia and the Pacific Islands nations’
information and communication technology capabilities
<http://tinyurl.com/3gbtsq>

 Two new agreements with the United Nations are expected to help
improve the ability of policymakers and government leaders to better
leverage information and communication technology (ICT) for social
and economic development in Mongolia and Pacific Island states.

 Philippines: 200,000 public school teachers trained in ICT
<http://tinyurl.com/3hmm6b>

 Some 200,000 public school teachers have been trained in information
and communication technology (ICT) as the Department of Education
(DepEd) prepares to fully integrate its Information and Communication
Technology for Education (ICT4E) programme in the curriculum.

 China takes lead in Linux education <http://tinyurl.com/3ptuvr>

 Since the Chinese government began supporting domestic open source
communities in 2005, hundreds of thousands of young people in the
world's most populous country have become a part of the open source
world.

 Learning using mobile or ubiquitous technologies - handheld learning
conference <http://tinyurl.com/3g2auk>

 Some of the world’s leading experts in the fields of learning,
media and consumer electronics will meet in London to discuss the
ways in which learning and teaching are being transformed through
handheld technologies from Oct 13th-15th.

 Programmes & Projects

 Reducing the digital divide through innovative after-school
programmes <http://tinyurl.com/4twjo5>

 The digital divide is a major concern for governments and
educational institutions. To bridge the divide, the Computer Training
Centre of the Shanghai Children Palace in the People's Republic of
China designed an after-school programme for children aged six to 16
years old.

 Resources

 From the ground up â€" the evolution of the telecentre movement
<http://tinyurl.com/3o5g9o>

 This ebook provides a quick glimpse into the lives of a few of the
people who are leading the telecentre movement in their own
countries, and of the people who are benefitting from their local
telecentres.

 A framework for adopting LMS to introduce e-Learning in a
traditional course <http://tinyurl.com/4hj6ap>

 As more and more teachers in tertiary education experiments with
technology are looking for new ways to enhance their traditional ways
of teaching, the need of flexible tools able to support well planned
blended learning scenarios emerges. Learning Management Systems,
especially those which are based on open source software, have shown
to be very helpful in reaching this goal.

 Create your own e-learning <http://tinyurl.com/42pf3x>

 The Learning Content Development System (LCDS) is a free tool that
enables the user to create high quality, interactive, online courses.

 Using project management software in education
<http://tinyurl.com/4xzgte>

 Project management software is a term covering many types of
software, including scheduling, cost control and budget management,
resource allocation, collaboration software, communication, quality
management and documentation or administration systems, which are
used to deal with the complexity of large projects.

 Top 100 tools for learning 2008 <http://tinyurl.com/3tomfk>

 The list is compiled from the contributions of 201 learning
professionals (from both education and workplace learning) who shared
their Top 10 Tools for Learning both for their own personal
learning/productivity and for creating learning solutions for others






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