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Project Happiness – video for happiness

20 November, 2006 by sky Leave a Comment

The buzz is growing on Project Happiness. And I think it’s a reflection of how attractive it is to all of us to be able to see video rather than just read words on a page. We get so much more out of even a short video snippet of our friends than we do from a written email (which is so easy to misunderstand!).

Jeff Buderer of OneVillage Foundation has summed up some of what we’re doing, plus provided valuable links to others who are using video in their work across Africa. So take a look at what he has to say.

What does the “World’s largest table” have to do with ethics?

8 September, 2006 by sky Leave a Comment

Over at Dropping Knowledge they say they’ve built the world’s largest table. And also the world’s most technologically advanced table. Indeed it may well be. Go read about the project, which is well worth knowing about. (As I write this, their big get-together in Berlin begins in a few hours…) [Read more…]

Blogs and Ethics

24 December, 2004 by sky

What responsibility does a blog author have to check out his or her facts and ensure that what’s posted is at least correct information?

Take a look here, and then follow links to form your own opinion. More on this later on.

Curriculum Examples

11 February, 2004 by sky

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

14 January, 2004 by sky

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.

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