Category: globalvoices
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Get Arabic and English News Perspectives on Meedan.net
Global Voices Online continues to be one of my favorite websites and news sources because it provides such a diverse and eclectic window into perspectives of people who live around our planet. Last week I listened to the NPR Technology Podcast from May 5th, which included the article, “Bridging the Online Language Barrier: Translating the…
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Digital reflections on an anthropologist’s journey to Kunming, China
In November 2009, Kansas anthropologist Linda Davis-Stephens traveled to Kunming, China. Kunming is located in southeastern China, just north of Laos and Vietnam. Linda created and posted to YouTube a 4.5 minute video of reflections and images from her amazing trip. The conference where she presented had 4000 attendees from around East and Southeast Asia.…
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Storychaser digital backpack to Haiti
In 1992-93, when I studied for a year in Mexico, I was blessed to be unofficially “adopted” by the family of one of my college classmates. His parents both worked in the US Embassy in Mexico City at the time, and it was wonderful to get to know their family that year I lived abroad.…
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First certified African American Teacher in Mountain View Gotebo Schools, Oklahoma
Sean Buchanan‘s autobiographical 4.5 minute video he created last week and shared on our Celebrate Oklahoma Voices learning community is outstanding. (“You’re Going Where?“) The way he told this story really caught me by surprise when he shared it. I’ve given away the surprise with the title of this post, which Sean included in the…
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A morning of Skype connections
Earlier this week I was contacted by Dave Winter in Hamilton, New Zealand, via a Skype-forwarded voicemail. Dave wanted to visit about Google Sites and how we’ve used it to configure our project wiki for Celebrate Oklahoma Voices. This morning I got on Skype and was able to visit “live” with Dave briefly before he…
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Social, economic and cultural commentary via remixed multimedia: Meet DJ Spooky
What does the “War on Terror,” jazz, manufactured consent, hip-hop music, remix culture, Led Zepplin, globalization, Radio Head, contemporary Iranian music responding to recent alleged electoral fraud, and a 1924 film commissioned by the Soviet government have in common? These are all themes included in the latest album and DVD project, “The Secret Song” by…
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Silvia Tolisano on Skype in the Classroom and Digital Storytelling
Silvia Tolisano is an amazing educator and teacher-leader. She shared her presentation for the 2009 K-12 Online Conference, “Around the World with Skype,” in both English and Spanish versions. This is one of the best practical video tutorials for using Skype instructionally with students I have ever seen. Sylvia’s “supporting documents” post for this presentation…
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Beatings, Electric Shock and Death for Internet Addicted Chinese Youth
Christopher Stewart’s article, “The Lost Boy” in the February 2010 issue of Wired magazine (not yet available online, apparently) relates horrifying tales of abuse in Chinese “Internet Addiction Camps” for youth. Since 2002 when state-run newspapers started sharing stories about the dangers of Internet addiction, thousands of worried Chinese parents have sent their allegedly Internet-addicted…
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Donate to the Red Cross for Haiti Relief – Be wise and tech saavy
It has been sobering to watch the tragic events in Haiti unfold this week. Good friends of mine are stationed at the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic, and had formerly been stationed in Haiti in the mid-1990s. They are both involved intensively in the relief efforts, the husband/father actually flew via helicopter today from…
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CSS Global Worldview Survey – Please help out!
Students and teachers at the Calgary Science School (CSS) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, have created a Global Worldview Survey, and invite you to participate. The grade 8 students at CSS are currently working on a large scale project dealing with the concept of WORLDVIEW, part of the Grade 8 curriculum in Alberta. As part of…