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Yahaya Abdullahi
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> - WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for October 2014: David Leeming
> [3 Updates]
> http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/t/4de4b93b4d88ddb1
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> Topic: WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for October 2014: David
> Leeming
> Url: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/t/4de4b93b4d88ddb1
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> ---------- 1 of 3 ----------
> From: Pankaj Khare <pkh...@ignou.ac.in>
> Date: Nov 10 01:34PM +0530
> Url: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/msg/81ad3508b1d59812
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> Congrats David....
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> *D**r. Pankaj Khare *
> MTech, PhD
> *Registrar*
> *Stu*
> *dent Registration DivisionIn**dira Gandhi National Open University*
> Maidan Garhi, New Delhi 110 068 India
>
> Phone: +91-11-29571316, 29571302
>
>
>
> ---------- 2 of 3 ----------
> From: Sarita Kumar <sarita....@gmail.com>
> Date: Nov 10 05:32PM +0530
> Url: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/msg/48b68f6a574981d2
>
> Great..Congratulations David.
>
>
> --
> Sarita Kumar
> Associate Professor
> Acharya Narendra Dev College
> University of Delhi
> India
>
>
> ---------- 3 of 3 ----------
> From: "David Leeming" <da...@leeming-consulting.com>
> Date: Nov 11 08:07AM +1100
> Url: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/msg/20617c5af677ee69
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I am quite honoured by this but surprised too, as the page is quite old and
> I have not updated it for some years. It’s a good reminder to do so!.
> Wikieducator still retains an essential place in any engagement I have in
> regard to digital literacy and the tutorial is still very useful and
> appreciated by people I have worked with especially teachers. In this part
> of the world we still have appalling connectivity, with almost all rural
> schools in Solomon islands unconnected; those that are struggle with some of
> the highest bandwidth prices in the world; even in Honiara it is not true to
> say that broadband is widely available if you go by any contemporary
> definition. I pay USD 420 per month for a 256 connection – add on purchasing
> power to the equation and for most the Internet is way out of reach beyond a
> meagre allocation of megabytses in their mobile phone top-up, quickly
> gobbled up by Facebook. The dominant telco hasn’t changed their ADSL prices
> since at least 5 years or more, and the authorities seem to be dominated by
> neoliberal ideologies, the consequences of the resulting uneven market
> response means that most school children still go through their entire
> school careers without acquiring any digital literacies. However, even with
> these challenges we see some light, a new satellite Internet company Kacific
> is launching a Ka-band HTS satellite in a couple of years that will bring
> cable-like connectivity in terms of prices to any inhabited island in the
> region, which should shake things up tremendously in favour of the digitally
> marginalised. So my point is that many educators and learners have not yet
> had the chance to benefit from collaboration and creativity tools such as
> Wikieducator, this will change and with benefits of scale that may mean
> content communities take on critical mass and educational institutions will
> begin to engage with the technology seeing it as more widely applicable. So
> I remain a huge fan of WE.
>
>
>
> David Leeming
>
> Solomon Islands Rural Link
> P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands
>
> +677 7476396 (m) +677 24419 (h)
>
> www.rurallink.com.sb
>
>
>
> From: wikied...@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikied...@googlegroups.com]
> On Behalf Of Sarita Kumar
> Sent: Monday, 10 November 2014 11:03 p.m.
> To: WikiEducator
> Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for
> October 2014: David Leeming
>
>
>
> Great..Congratulations David.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Pankaj Khare <pkh...@ignou.ac.in> wrote:
>
> Congrats David....
>
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Dr. Pankaj Khare
>
> MTech, PhD
> Registrar
> Student Registration Division
> Indira Gandhi National Open University
> Maidan Garhi, New Delhi 110 068 India
>
> Phone: +91-11-29571316, 29571302
>
>
>
> On 8 November 2014 17:55, Ramesh Sharma <ram...@oerfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> The WikiEducator <http://wikieducator.org/UPE> User Page Expo ("UPE" to its
> friends) is an ongoing event to acknowledge WikiEducator user pages that are
> particularly informative, innovative, visually appealing, or otherwise just
> plain clever.
>
> We are happy to announce the winner for October 2014. He is David Leeming.
> Lets learn more about him and the excellent work he is doing.
>
>
>
>
> UPE Award 4 October 2014
>
>
> <http://wikieducator.org/File:DLeeming1.jpg> DLeeming1.jpg
>
> <http://wikieducator.org/User:Leeming> David Leeming is a consultant in ICT
> for development and education based in Honiara, Solomon Islands. In addition
> to being an experienced project manager and workshop facilitator, he
> specialises in ICT for education, educational technology and sustainable
> rural development. He has worked as the Technical Advisor to the Solomon
> Islands People First Network, and more lately on the delivery of education
> services to remote areas, as manager of the <http://www.schoolnet.net.sb/>
> DLCP project establishing distance learning centres connected with VSAT
> broadband Internet in Solomon Islands. The People First Network (PFnet) is a
> rural connectivity project consisting of an HF radio email network of "email
> stations" managed by remote and rural communities. Applications of
> information sharing and knowledge building are run over the network,
> including distance learning, financial and commodities, government, health
> and other information. Further, he has also been involved in to design an
> Oceania implementation of the “One Laptop per Child” (OLPC, popularly known
> as the “$100 laptop”) programme. He has facilitated workshops on national
> ICT strategy building, working with stakeholders in Solomon Islands and
> PNG.
>
> Let's congratulate <http://wikieducator.org/User:Leeming> David for being
> the UPE winner for October'2014!
>
> with best wishes,
>
> Dr. <http://wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller> Nellie Deutsch and Ramesh
> Sharma <http://wikieducator.org/User:Rcsharma>
>
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> - WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for October 2014: David Leeming
> [3 Updates]
> http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/t/4de4b93b4d88ddb1
>
>
> =============================================================================
> Topic: WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for October 2014: David
> Leeming
> Url: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/t/4de4b93b4d88ddb1
> =============================================================================
>
> ---------- 1 of 3 ----------
> From: Pankaj Khare <pkh...@ignou.ac.in>
> Date: Nov 10 01:34PM +0530
> Url: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/msg/81ad3508b1d59812
>
> Congrats David....
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> *D**r. Pankaj Khare *
> MTech, PhD
> *Registrar*
> *Stu*
> *dent Registration DivisionIn**dira Gandhi National Open University*
> Maidan Garhi, New Delhi 110 068 India
>
> Phone: +91-11-29571316, 29571302
>
>
>
> ---------- 2 of 3 ----------
> From: Sarita Kumar <sarita....@gmail.com>
> Date: Nov 10 05:32PM +0530
> Url: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/msg/48b68f6a574981d2
>
> Great..Congratulations David.
>
>
> --
> Sarita Kumar
> Associate Professor
> Acharya Narendra Dev College
> University of Delhi
> India
>
>
> ---------- 3 of 3 ----------
> From: "David Leeming" <da...@leeming-consulting.com>
> Date: Nov 11 08:07AM +1100
> Url: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/msg/20617c5af677ee69
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I am quite honoured by this but surprised too, as the page is quite old and
> I have not updated it for some years. It’s a good reminder to do so!.
> Wikieducator still retains an essential place in any engagement I have in
> regard to digital literacy and the tutorial is still very useful and
> appreciated by people I have worked with especially teachers. In this part
> of the world we still have appalling connectivity, with almost all rural
> schools in Solomon islands unconnected; those that are struggle with some of
> the highest bandwidth prices in the world; even in Honiara it is not true to
> say that broadband is widely available if you go by any contemporary
> definition. I pay USD 420 per month for a 256 connection – add on purchasing
> power to the equation and for most the Internet is way out of reach beyond a
> meagre allocation of megabytses in their mobile phone top-up, quickly
> gobbled up by Facebook. The dominant telco hasn’t changed their ADSL prices
> since at least 5 years or more, and the authorities seem to be dominated by
> neoliberal ideologies, the consequences of the resulting uneven market
> response means that most school children still go through their entire
> school careers without acquiring any digital literacies. However, even with
> these challenges we see some light, a new satellite Internet company Kacific
> is launching a Ka-band HTS satellite in a couple of years that will bring
> cable-like connectivity in terms of prices to any inhabited island in the
> region, which should shake things up tremendously in favour of the digitally
> marginalised. So my point is that many educators and learners have not yet
> had the chance to benefit from collaboration and creativity tools such as
> Wikieducator, this will change and with benefits of scale that may mean
> content communities take on critical mass and educational institutions will
> begin to engage with the technology seeing it as more widely applicable. So
> I remain a huge fan of WE.
>
>
>
> David Leeming
>
> Solomon Islands Rural Link
> P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands
>
> +677 7476396 (m) +677 24419 (h)
>
> www.rurallink.com.sb
>
>
>
> From: wikied...@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikied...@googlegroups.com]
> On Behalf Of Sarita Kumar
> Sent: Monday, 10 November 2014 11:03 p.m.
> To: WikiEducator
> Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for
> October 2014: David Leeming
>
>
>
> Great..Congratulations David.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Pankaj Khare <pkh...@ignou.ac.in> wrote:
>
> Congrats David....
>
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Dr. Pankaj Khare
>
> MTech, PhD
> Registrar
> Student Registration Division
> Indira Gandhi National Open University
> Maidan Garhi, New Delhi 110 068 India
>
> Phone: +91-11-29571316, 29571302
>
>
>
> On 8 November 2014 17:55, Ramesh Sharma <ram...@oerfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> The WikiEducator <http://wikieducator.org/UPE> User Page Expo ("UPE" to its
> friends) is an ongoing event to acknowledge WikiEducator user pages that are
> particularly informative, innovative, visually appealing, or otherwise just
> plain clever.
>
> We are happy to announce the winner for October 2014. He is David Leeming.
> Lets learn more about him and the excellent work he is doing.
>
>
>
>
> UPE Award 4 October 2014
>
>
> <http://wikieducator.org/File:DLeeming1.jpg> DLeeming1.jpg
>
> <http://wikieducator.org/User:Leeming> David Leeming is a consultant in ICT
> for development and education based in Honiara, Solomon Islands. In addition
> to being an experienced project manager and workshop facilitator, he
> specialises in ICT for education, educational technology and sustainable
> rural development. He has worked as the Technical Advisor to the Solomon
> Islands People First Network, and more lately on the delivery of education
> services to remote areas, as manager of the <http://www.schoolnet.net.sb/>
> DLCP project establishing distance learning centres connected with VSAT
> broadband Internet in Solomon Islands. The People First Network (PFnet) is a
> rural connectivity project consisting of an HF radio email network of "email
> stations" managed by remote and rural communities. Applications of
> information sharing and knowledge building are run over the network,
> including distance learning, financial and commodities, government, health
> and other information. Further, he has also been involved in to design an
> Oceania implementation of the “One Laptop per Child” (OLPC, popularly known
> as the “$100 laptop”) programme. He has facilitated workshops on national
> ICT strategy building, working with stakeholders in Solomon Islands and
> PNG.
>
> Let's congratulate <http://wikieducator.org/User:Leeming> David for being
> the UPE winner for October'2014!
>
> with best wishes,
>
> Dr. <http://wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller> Nellie Deutsch and Ramesh
> Sharma <http://wikieducator.org/User:Rcsharma>
>
> --
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> University of Delhi
> India
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