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CDE, Alternative Academia, and me.

I have benefitted greatly, in my thinking and knowledge, through attending the lunchtime seminars organised by CDE (the Centre for Distance Education) at London University. This week it was a workshop: Finding and Evaluating Open Educational Resources. If the topic of OERs interests you then the link is well worth clicking. It includes a useful slide share of the presentation that happened before we did our practical. Definition If you want a good definintion of OERs see slide 3. I was glad to see it includes the wonderfully wide ranging "resourcss contained in digital media collections from around the world"...

Dadamac UK - Stronger Together

Global Entrepreneurship week (14-20 November ) saw Pam and I at the SHINE Unconference where we were attending hoping to find useful advice and collaborations to help us develop 'The Stronger Together' Workshops and Collaborators Clubs. Photo by Andy Broomfield shows Dadamac's first Meetup which was held at Central Station On October 20th 2011.

Diary to June 3rd

Events Business Fights Poverty meeting June 2nd How can we better apply the results of impact measurement to drive improved business performance and greater development impact? http://businessfightspoverty.ning.com/events/how-can-we-better-apply-the Emails through posterous Great news about Barefoot Power: http://dadamac.posterous.com/world-bank-recognition-for-barefoot-power-pro Continuing to explore overlapping intersts with Mike Gurnstein's Community Informatics Students: http://dadamac.posterous.com/online-course-intro-to-community-informatics-3 http://dadamac.posterous.com/first-thursday-general-information-for-monthl

Pam's diary - would it be a good idea?

Nikki's regular blog about our UK-Nigeria meetings is turning into a valuable archive for us. We don't have anythign similar for the UK side of things so I'll try this. It won't be reflective and analytical - more like bits taken directly from a desk diary - some dates and key activities, links to events I went to (plus bits copied and pasted), and a list of open letters I've written on Dadamac's Posterous. If it proves useful (to others or even just to me) then I'll keep doing it - if not I'll stop. I might add reflective notes...

Eight Weeks on Posterous

Over the last eight weeks I have been experimenting with Posterous - so now I am reflecting on the experience. Posterous can be used for blogging, but I already have a blog, so I wanted it for something different. I was attracted to it because it is so easy to use - as easy as an email. Midway between private and public My first entry said "I think it [Posterous] might help me with those emails that are "half private half public". I mean the ones where I start to write the email then realise that I need to add...

Solar training in India - could we connect?

Hi Vijay Thanks for the telling me about three women from Africa getting trained in making and installing solar lamps at a training course at the Barefoot College in Rajasthan I am trying to think what you already know about dadamac's current interests in solar power. I'll just mention a few things in case we have not discussed them before. Fantsuam Foundatin uses solar power at the main compound. It is not a very big solar panel, but it is very useful for Zittnet and means that the generator does not need to be turned on every time that the...

Learning About Solar Power at India's Barefoot College

Hi Pam, I decided to put up this post since there is an Africa angle to it. The much-acclaimed Barefoot College in Rajasthan (North India)has been empowering rural men and women by teaching them skills that help them get a livelihood. This news link was interesting since it talks about three women from Africa getting trained in making and installing solar lamps. The news items says: "The three, who have been here for two months, will train another 16 weeks, learning about charge controllers, inverters, core-winding, deciphering of printed circuit boards, testing, wiring, installation, and repair and maintenance of solar...

Feelings about faceboook and twitter

Hi Vijay I was interested to read your impressions of social media - and glad you enjoyed the twitter session. (All the teaching tips are in the Second Thursday twitter session achive . ) It was the first time we have tried anything quite like that - just a handful of us agreeing to meet onine to learn about something as specific as twitter ( Second Thursday twitter session invitation ). Do you still like Facebook? I joined Facebook because Chris Macrae often sent me information that I wanted to read - but increasingly he sent it through Facebook. For...

Learning Twitter Lessons in a Chat Room

Hi Pam, I don't hate technology, but I also don't have a craving fascination for it. Social media, of course, is a different arena. I love the idea of connecting to people and exhanging ideas and thoughts--and as you would say, rubbing minds with those who would like to share their wisdom with me on a range of topics of interest to me. But here too, I am not a person who plunges headlong into anything new unless I am truly convinced that I need it for 'building bridges' with the community around the world. I take my time to...

Africa on the Rebound

Hi Pam, Hope all of you are doing fine. It has been a long, long time. I have been quite busy with my work. Here is something that might be on interest to Dadamac readers. It is an infographic from the Economist magazine which says that sub-Saharan Africa's economy is forecast to grow overall by 4.5% this year. In comparison, economies of countries south of the Sahara together grew by less than 2% in 2009. As much as the infographic, it is interesting to read the comments by readers on what this news would mean for Africa. While some have...

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