October 27 - November 4th at Dadamac November 14, 2010

This review up to, and including, Friday November 4th covers just over a week - as previous reviews were written up on Wednesdays

What happened before

• Fourth week in October at DadamacOctober -  27, 2010 - Previous review.
  

Some discussions and events related to education

• [OER] The BIG Shift: From open resources to open practices - TESSA - October 30, 2010  - From OER (Open Education Resources) list for easy future reference
• [OER] The BIG Shift: - African Virtual University - October 30, 2010  - From OER (Open Education Resources) list for easy future reference 
• OERs UK OU and CDE annual conference - social learners - October 30, 2010  - A very useful distinction between "volunteer learners" and "social learners" from Open Universite  research presented at the Centre for Distance Learning annual conference. I shared it on posterous and with the OER list
• [OER] What to do with students after negative experience of OER? - November 2, 2010 - Keynote given by Professor Josie Taylor, of the Open University on Open Educational Resources and Learning Spaces: Research Questions.
• KRC Improving the Learner Experience and Education We Deserve - November 3, 2010  - the way things are coming together regarding new opportunities for education. 
• Made the deadline for The Future We Deserve - October 31, 2010  - Influenced by what I had heard last at the CDE (Centre for Distance Learning) annual conference I wrote about "The Education We Deserve"
• ICTD2010 - Research needs from a developing world perspective - November 3, 2010  - invitation to input comments in preparation for ICTD2010

Dadamac Day

• Plans for Dadamac Day - Thursday November 4th - October 31, 2010  -  Emails between John and me, making plans and considering the different people who would be at Dadamac Day, their relationships with all that was going on and had been going on, and how that would affect what we covered in the agenda.
• dadamac day notes - notes about notes - November 1, 2010  - the start of notes I wanted to have to hand for Dadamac Day - pointed me to the topic notes.
• dadamac day notes - finance and funding - November 1, 2010  - brief Dadamac Day preparatory notes on finance and funding
• dadamac day - notes about communication practicalities - Zittnet, equipment, etc - November 1, 2010 - brief Dadamac Day preparatory notes on communication practicalites
• dadamac day - notes about eco-things, permaculture, appropriate technology, Attachab - November 1, 2010  - brief Dadamac Day preparatory notes on eco things
• dadamac day notes - education and training - November 1, 2010  - brief Dadamac Day preparatory notes related to education and training
• dadamac day notes - health, welfare and community development - November 1, 2010  - brief Dadamac Day preparatory notes related to health, welfare and community development.
• KRC and "Dadamac Goes Glocal" update and invitation - November 3, 2010  - Dadamac day, the KRC and our ongoing attempts to narrow the gap between academia and practice
• Dadamac Day - These messages of support received with thanks - November 4, 2010 - messages of support

Saw these:

• Scale of the Universe - October 28, 2010  - This is a stunning and beautiful representation of the scale of things. I shared it because it appealed to me.
• An African Answer (Friday 12th of November) and a chance meeting. - October 30, 2010  - I went to this. The information said "An African Answer is filmed in Kenya and is about grassroots peace initiatives ...of two internationally renowned religious leaders from Nigeria, Pastor James Wuye and Imam Mohammed Ashafa, and depicts a dramatic bid by them to bring healing and reconciliation ... following the post-election violence." I was interested because of my involvement with a Minciu Sodas initiative - the Pyramid of Peace - during the post election violence, and because of a chance meeting I once had with "The Pastor and the Imam".