May 11, 2010

The University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley) routinely records a variety of faculty lectures every semester and publishes it on the internet since 2001. The recording was done with audio and video. This kind of regular publication of content for audio / video called a podcast.

Especially for UC Berkeley, they named it  For those who are interested can go directly to the home page and download the lecture you want. Bids his courses – average only at the beginning of the semester, but there are quite varied subjects: molecular biology, politics, communication sciences, physics and even philosophy. I myself just listening to lectures so far biology, but the professor deserved thumbs up. They could deliver lectures with a solid and clear in time – average one hour, and some even have a can communicate with a few jokes to entertain. If you use iTunes or another program that can download podcasts directly, you can sign up to RSS feeds from the relevant subjects and new content will be downloaded instantly once they are published.

UC Berkeley is not the only university that opened classroom content to the world. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is also having the program Open Course Ware (OCW). But unlike such webcast.berkeley where we participate in the lecture hall, the concept of OCW is a publication of the material – material that used to lecture at MIT. (more…)

December 22, 2009

After the earthquake which hit Haiti last January 12, EI (Educational International) has launched an appeal for urgent action and a special fund to assist its member organizations Haiti – National Confederation of Haitian Teachers (NCHT) – to resume their duties in support of the teacher (s) and promotion of education, and for assist the teacher (s), people of Haiti and their families affected by the earthquake.

Since the mid-January, EI (Educational International) has regular contact with members of the Executive Office CNEH to assess the impact of disasters in schools, teachers and students to determine what the best way for EI (Educational International)  and cooperating partners to help reduce the impact of a huge humanitarian crisis.

A delegation attending the conference CNEH IE to North America and the Caribbean, organized by the Caribbean Union of Teachers (CUT) and Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers’ Organization (TTUTA) in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 25 and February 26, 2010. Regional conference marked an opportunity for EI and members of organizations involved in working groups for support in Haiti to meet with representatives from CNEH to discuss a project to support the unity and teacher (s) affected (e) s. They identified two main priorities include the rehabilitation of the structure of union organizations at all levels (federal and Federation) and to strengthen its contribution to the reconstruction of Haiti’s educational system. (more…)