Global Learn Day X

What is this all about? How do I prepare? What do the organizers want ? What makes for a good presentation? (more…)

Want to know what time the sun is now rising and setting all over the world? Want a calendar that would tell you this in your part of the world? Click here

We don’t have all the archives for nine solid years of voyaging. But we do have some pretty nice pictures all stitched together in a great presentation done in the early years of our undertaking. We encourage you to view the presentation, stitched together by Dr. Terry Redding and his daughter, Sandra Cole.

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Everyone in my network is extolling the virtues of Skype, and that’s fine. But some of those I consider at the very front of this “free phone stuff” claim the only way to go is with Gizmo.

Here is where I got the story about Gizmo. Check it out!

Good text chat rooms are essential to a great conference. Please click here to find out what makes a good one.

It’s hard for me to practice what I preach, but I managed to record my Opening remarks for Global Learn Day by way of Odeo’s phone-to-net recording system.

You can listen to the whole 13 minutes here. However, a better use of time might be to set up an account with Odeo and try the system for youself.

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The point of Global Learn Day is to accelerate access to education worldwide. It’s people like Jeff Lebow and World Bridges that turn us on - because they do so much! Here’s some proof. Please meet Albert, from the Western Sahara. (more…)

Because I had a wee bit of difficulty in finding a web page that explained how to use technology from Odeo which allows you to record your voice over the phone for instant upload to the Web. Very nicely, Odeo responded as follows: (more…)

With the advent of iTunes and the enormous numbers of podcasters around the world - coupled to our keen desire to provide audio content to community radio stations - we were delighted to have that Dan Schmit tell us he will be “delighted” to join us. Welcome Dan!

Thanks to Stephen Downes, I learned about the University of Western Cape in South Africa’s announcement to free access to their courseware. I salute this effort and will be working to showcase those responsible for the undertaking. Laura Grant’s fine article about this can be found here.

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