In preparing to make recommendations for an upcoming event at the University of California in Irvine, I took a look at the relative desirability of using a blog rather than using an email listserver to facilitate interaction in a large group of people.
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Curriculum Examples
Kemmy Lim, one of our curriculum volunteers, located a good online reference yesterday, which I think is exemplary at least of the form in which we hope to present our Curriculum for Ethics and Peace at a future date. The web site cultivating peace is that of a Canadian group Classroom Connections which began in 1997 as a local educational support organization in Ontario. It has provided resources to teachers in 75% of school districts nation-wide.
And there’s a great online example of how a topic within the curriculum might be made available. This example is a Lesson overview where each topic is described, there’s an overview, and there are links (URLs) to handouts, overheads, articles, and even videos (though they don’t have videos online, as we hope to do that for short ones).
It is my hope that we can document our curriculum this well!
Locating Peace Studies
In the past couple of months we’ve been conducting a search for peace education and peace studies programs we can list. We thought we might have to conduct a thorough search of the web to find these, but there are more and more sources of information coming online all the time.
Let me cite two of them here – which you might like to look at.
Online Donations
I’d like to talk about PayPal here, because it’s used by so many folks nowadays, but also because I believe it’s pretty reliable and we’ve been using it to handle our online donations for a while now. So I can give you the benefit of some short experience here.
Where do you find Ethics?
Where do you find ethics?
I’m looking right now at how we can begin building a “curriculum” for ethics and peace. Not exactly what you expect the CTO to be doing, but we have to start somewhere. To me the word curriculum means a course of study and does not connote solely that you’re attending some school or course – it is a very broad concept for me. People study things all the time, in their daily lives, and we want to make it easier for people of all ages to think about, and study, ethics and peace.