Nigeria
Welcome to the latest update from Cawdnet - working in
Nigeria and the UK to make the most of digital technology
for development.
Content
1. Introduction
2. Cawdnet Campus
3. Newsletter, News Alerts and News boards
4. Teachers Talking Anniversary Celebration
5. Shopping on-line can help CAWD
6. Summary
##########
1. Introduction
This newsletter features our annual celebration of
Teachers Talking - when rural teachers in Nigeria gather
to be online and chat across the digital divide with
friends in the UK. It also demonstrates our new approach
to sharing news, which, for the first time, points you to
Cawdnet Campus.
##########
2. Cawdnet Campus
Cawdnet Campus is our new "virtual meeting place" on the
Internet. It was mentioned briefly in Newsletter 40.
Rather than explaining what it is, and how we hope it
will work, we will simply start to use it to support the
Newsletter over the coming months. Gradually as it gets
increasingly up-and-running we hope you will appreciate
its many features and benefits. Techies may like to know
that Cawdnet Campus runs on Moodle. As with any new
enterprise "teething troubles" are a distinct possibility
- so please be patient with us. Anyone with experience of
Moodle (or interest in it) is very welcome to come and
join Pam pam@cawd.net and Lorraine lorraine@cawd.net on
their learning curve and help to get Cawdnet information
moved to Moodle.
##########
3. Newsletter, News Alerts and Newsboards
We plan to experiment with News Alerts instead of our old
style newsletter.Those of you who subscribe to various
online newsletters will be aware of the news alerts style.
Instead of a newsletter *covering* stories in full it
simply *offers* the full stories. It gives the opening
sentences of each story plus a link to where you can read
more. This makes it much easier for readers to quickly
scan the contents and choose what they want to read in
detail. Thanks to Cawdnet Campus we can now try this
approach. Our story about the Teachers Talking Anniversary
Celebration is our first experiment at creating a news alert.
##########
4. Teachers Talking Anniversary Celebration
Most teachers who attend the Teachers Talking training
programme work in rural schools well away from the
Internet, so our annual on-line get together is a real
cause for celebration. The second annual Teachers Talking
anniversary celebration was held on Friday 17th November.
Florence Bukola Bale, who helped to present the TT course
earlier this year, arranged the anniversary celebration at
Fantsuam Foundation (FF) Community Learning Centre (CLC).
It was judged a great success by those who participated.
During the morning Florence .... click
http://moodle.cawd.net/course/view.php?id=137 for the full
story - you'll find it as "Latest News" in the middle of
the page.
##########
5. Shopping on-line can help CAWD.
As Christmas approaches you may be shopping online. Many
major stores - such as Marks and Spencers, Jessops, Toys R
Us, Currys, Comet, Hamleys, and lots more make a donation
to your chosen charity if you buy online through
easyfundraising. You can nominate CAWD as your chosen
charity. It costs you nothing - in fact there are often
excellent special offers. It's an easy way to shop, and it
boosts our funds - so please check the link for your
favourite suppliers - keep this link to hand - and pass it
on to your friends http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/
##########
Summary
The Teachers Talking second anniversary online celebration
was a great success. The cewlebration story was used to
try out our new "alerts" approach to the Newsletter using
Cawdnet Campus. There was also a reminder that shopping
online through http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/ is a
great way to boost CAWD's funds.
