Recordings for EdTech Ph.D. Seminar on 30.10.2007 @ EdTech Lab
Thanks for all who participated in an interesting seminar! Don’t forget the next seminar at Kitee on 21.11.2007 (see http://clint.wisdomoftheworld.com/?p=77) We still need some work on figuring out the...
View ArticleHero from Hotel Rwanda spoke at BYU: “Don’t stand by, stand up, and do what...
Paul Rusesabagina spoke on Tuesday at BYU. I liked how he titled his presentation: “Hotel Rwanda: A story yet to be told” – because the story is not over yet, and each of us can be a small part of...
View ArticleTools and Techniques for Online Cross-Cultural Knowledge Communication
Just returning from Denmark (land of some of my ancestors), where I presented a paper at the Aarhus School of Business – “Knowledge 360” conference. Perhaps the best thing about presenting my paper...
View ArticleMistakes in Giving Aid and Development – Part 3: Rural Africa & Wireless…almost
Taking the ideas from the last two entries (about mistakes that was nick-named the “wireless village”. Essentially, in the middle of nowhere Africa, some people from the US (Inveneo) had spent a ton of...
View ArticleAnnouncing the EDULINK Consortium of African and European Universities for...
I am back in Finland again. (Have I ever mention how much I like this place? – If you have never been to Finland before, you need to reconsider your life goals) 🙂 Part of why I like the University of...
View ArticleUnique Course Offering: ICT4D – The World is Our Classroom, Literally
Below are some details for a unique course I will soon be teaching on ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development). The Masters and Ph.D. students taking this course will be from...
View ArticleDreams analysis vs. Needs analysis
Building off the previous entry, I ask why, when we think about helping “the poor”, do we have a tendency to focus on our own dreams, but on their needs? What if instead of doing a “needs analysis” we...
View ArticleUnique Course Offering: ICT4ID – Utilizing emerging technologies for...
Here is an intro video for the course I have been asked to teach beginning January 25th – April 9th, 2010: ICT for Inter-cultural/Inter-faith Development (ICT4ID) Bridging the West and the Middle East:...
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