ReadWriteWeb wrote about interesting use cases for Google Wave this week. One of the articles was about how students could use Google Wave for collaborative note taking. The text goes on to say:
One concern that seemed to pop up several times in the wave was that Google Wave could make it too easy for lazy students to get by. As Justin Neitzey succinctly put it: “I don’t think kids should be allowed piggy back off the work of others.”
I bet[...]
I find it surprising that there are not more good distance learning and e-learning programmes for aid workers and that the ones that exist are so hard to find. Here is a number of courses and programmes that I know of. Please leave a comment if you know of any others.
In this list I am focusing on courses that offer specific skills for humanitarian aid workers and not on more general courses that can also be useful for people working[...]
I recently had the honour to be in charge of a whole-day social media workshop in Solferino, where the idea for the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement was born. This was part of our 150 year celebrations. It was really interesting because the 50 or so participants where from extremly different countries and backgrounds, as behooves an organization with 186 member countries.
It was absolutely fascinating to see that how social media is just as interesting to someone from Belgium as[...]
