Dick Sblog

Words from a man with passion about online educational collaboration

Entries from June 2006

OK, I should have known better

June 28th, 2006 · No Comments

OK, I should have known better. No sooner had I posted my rant when I had a call from an old colleague who was astonished that I hadn’t made any reference to iEARN. Started in 1988, iEARN is the world’s largest non-profit global network that enables teachers and young people to use the Internet and [...]

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Introductory rant

June 23rd, 2006 · 2 Comments

Back in the late ’90s I worked on a fabulous project called ‘Web for Schools’. We trained 700 teachers from across Europe to create web resources (the hard, html way) and they trained their students; then they linked up to collaborate. For many of them, the results were astonishing – the kid’s knowledge and skills [...]

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Tags: collaboration projects