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- Location (Country, State, District):
- Mishawaka Indiana United States
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- http://www.globalvisits.com
- Global Education Projects Sponsored By You or That You're Involved In:
- Founder of Global Visits Inc , a non profit linking students from the US linked with students in Central Asia, Afghanistan, the Middle East and Africa. Also, 15 years international development and education as a Fulbright Scholar and work with the United Nations, USAID, Catholic Relief Services and National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.
- Languages Spoken:
- English and French
- About Me/Reason for Joining the GEC:
- Founder, Global Visits Inc (see web page), international aid and development , worked overseas in Africa, Central Asia, the Middle EAst and Europe), Fulbright Scholar, academic, entrepreneur and busness owner.
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Soviet Time
Posted on August 16, 2009 at 8:19pm —
A Siberian Wind Blows Through Kyrgyzstan
The Russification of Kyrgyzstan
By Baktybek Abdrisaev Page 1 of 1
Posted April 2009
How Russia pushed the U.S. out of a Central Asian stronghold.
MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/AFP/Getty Images
An offer he couldn't refuse: Russia has taken advantage of Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's penchant for personal enrichment.
T
he remote and mountainous Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan has long… Continue
Posted on June 1, 2009 at 5:55am —
Continuing the blogs
Posted on June 1, 2009 at 5:55am —
Number Three: Arriving to familiar sounds
I was whisked away to the VIP l… Continue
Posted on April 10, 2009 at 11:27am — 1 Comment
Number One: Ancient Beginnings
And so the blog begins. I am leaving for Kyrgyzstan this Wednesday, arriving 3 AM on Friday morning, 10 April. My husband and I spent a year in Kyrgyzstan 2003-2004. He was a Fulbright Scholar and I a visiting academic. While there, I also consulted with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, developed projects for Global Visits and developed the American Studies in Central Asia Symposium. It is now in its sixth year. I have been invited bac… Continue
Posted on April 5, 2009 at 10:18pm —
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What a great organization! Please feel free to join our site as well. I look forward to learning more about what you are doing.
Brent
We thought you might be interested in our website. We'd appreciate your support as we work with students and schools around the world to build the green generation: http://ethicalexpeditions.ning.com/
Brent
I wasn't quite sure what kind of tips, advice, strategies or connection you are looking for, nor do I know much about the saturation level of English or computer skills where you are going.
I will make a couple of recommendations of what you might bring with you or consider for another trip.
For our trip to the townships of Cape Town, SA, we brought 25 usb flash drives (1 GB of space). We downloaded and installed portable apps onto the flash drives - look to portableapps.com for the download. This essentially puts all the productivity tools onto the drive at once. The advantage is that the user can essentially use his/her drive instead of the hard drive of the computer they are using and avoid being contaminated by viruses. All of their data can be stored on the drive and there is no reliance upon only one computer.
You might want to consider downloading educational movies onto the flash drives for educators in other countries who do not have access to them.
For communities without Internet access, we are exploring the eGranary - a digital library in a box - http://www.widernet.org/digitallibrary/
We spoke with some profs who had worked with eGranary in Africa - it has great possibilities - data can be added and it can even have a blogging or wiki platform installed on it.
In terms of making connections for teacher/classroom exchanges, at the very least the flash drives can help. While you are there and using the Internet cafe, check out the ning sites to see how heavy or light they are on the bandwidth.
One of the items on my to-do list is to create a resource package or toolkit for educators with TWB to get started with Global Projects. Let me know what advice you could give for what might included in that!
Please let me know what other information I can help out with....
Thanks,
Sharon
One of the GEC members here is coming from Singapore to the US on a Fulbright. Maybe you could leave a note on his page introducing yourself as I'm sure he's looking to make Fulbright connections.
I joined your ning tonight! Looks like a great site.