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MsoNormal">From D. Millar 8 June 2006

MsoNormal">Here is my clutter of hyperlinks to interesting collaborative projects most but not all based on storytelling that I heard about in late May at the 2006 Canadian hum & soc sci congress in Toronto - see http://www.fedcan.ca/congress2006/ and its Delegates Guide, a useful overview. I keep adding to this list.

MsoNormal">Metropolis Project http://canada.metropolis.net/index_e.html mainly on immigrant integration, urban problems and political decisions, but the site wants to be a model of knowledge transfer and interconnectivity; see also http://www.yorku.ca/mediar/archive/Release.asp?Release=1102
MsoNormal">Sustainable Dev http://www.iisd.org/ on sustainable development, founded by UNEP ch. Gro Harlem Bruntland's chief of staff Jim McNeil, and http://www.iisd.ca/enbvol/enb-background.htm
MsoNormal">Eco-villages http://gen.ecovillage.org/ and http://www.ecovillages.org/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecovillage
MsoNormal">Third Age and elderhostels http://www.u3a.org.uk/ and http://www.el-se.org/en/ and http://www.aiuta.asso.fr/ and http://www.elderhostel.org/
MsoNormal">Globalization http://www.globalautonomy.ca/global1/ academic research on globalization
MsoNormal">Oral history: see superb overview with bibliography by Marsha MacDowell at http://www.historicalvoices.org/spokenword/resources/collectingohistory.php and the Canadian OH society at http://oral-history.ncf.ca/
MsoNormal">Urban storytelling http://www.memoryarchive.org/en/[[MemoryArchive]] , as well as http://www.chicagohs.org/Collections/film.html , http://humanitas.livewithculture.ca/ , http://murmurtoronto.ca/ , http://storycorps.net/ , http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4516989 , http://www.loc.gov/folklife/storycorps-tour.html , http://www.studsterkel.org/ and its Education link , http://www.h-net.org/~oralhist/ , http://chnm.gmu.edu/ , http://publichistory.concordia.ca/ , http://www.publichistory.org/
MsoNormal">City Idol http://www.cityidol.to a successful attempt to involve youth in generating ideas for, and participation in, city politics, analyzed in http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060527.CITYHALL27/TPStory/TPNational/Politics/ , http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2006-05-04/news_story.php and http://www.nsb.com/newsite/speakerbio.asp?name=Dave+Meslin on the founder of City Idol, Students for Peace, and Toronto Public Space Committee. Vaguely similar ideas of public information participation have been tried in US cities using the name ?Cityspeak?.
MsoNormal">NYC 2002 Listening to the City http://dialogues.listeningtothecity.org/ , http://dowire.org/wiki/[[Listening_to_the_City]] , http://www.civic-alliance.org/pdf/[[0920FinalLTCReport]].pdf and http://www.americaspeaks.org/ online dialogues in the wake of 9/11
MsoNormal">Keith Spicer?s Citizens Forum on Canada's Future http://www.uni.ca/initiatives/spicer.html
MsoNormal">Canada. Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ch/rcap/index_e.html published as a CD distributed to schools and colleges
MsoNormal">CBC Ideas http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/audio/archivedaudio2003.html archives and podcasts, also available as printed text, CDs and cassettes, as well as current broadcasts and call for proposals
MsoNormal">Learn@Singapore http://www.learnat.info/ seems to have jump-started a huge number of student blogs. http://www.misohoni.com/bba/ lists over 200. One of them is http://rinaz.blogspot.com/ which shows how games shaped her learning.
MsoNormal">Learning with online tools: Susan Lister?s http://newmediaworkshops.com/telblog/ describes new s/w and its applications in teaching, podcasting etc. See also Kate Britt?shttp://www.ibritt.com/resources/newsblog.htm , http://www.ibritt.com/resources/ , Michelle Lentz?s http://blog.write-tech.com/ eg CAPTCHA to combat incessant comment spam
MsoNormal">NFB CitizenSHIFT http://citizen.nfb.ca/onf/info , ONF Parole citoyennehttp://citoyen.onf.ca/onf/info are good examples of ?citizen journalism? which as http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=83126 makes clear, US mainstream media would like to co-opt.
MsoNormal">www.dailyKos.com is a group blog on US politics, science and culture in which readers vote to recommend best stories, and comment on them. A Wiki without editing, with ratings.
MsoNormal">WebJunction a site for librarians to discuss success stories http://libsuccess.org/index.php?title=[[Online_Communities#Tips_for_Developing_Online_Communities]] how librarians are creating age-group blogs, wikis, book clubs, community info
MsoNormal">Drik and Pathshala http://www.drik.net/ , http://www.pathshala.net/ news, activism, community-building by photojournalists training rural contributors in Bangla Desh
MsoNormal">The Well started 1985 by the Whole Earth Catalogue and Co-Evolution Quarterly gang http://www.well.com/join.html and its spinoff www.salon.com include conferences, news and questions. See its user agreement.
MsoNormal">MDCN (Mobile Digital Commons Network), e.g. Ile sans Fil http://www.mdcn.ca/tiki-view_articles.php , http://www.ilesansfil.org/tiki-index.php?page=Apropos , http://www.cspeak.net/about.htm incl interactive games, Cityspeak virtual graffiti, art hubs. The Cityspeak name, from the movie Bladerunner, has been appropriated by several other unrelated projects.

MsoNormal">Tout Rennes online dialogue in Rennes France Oct 2005: currently offline ? citizen open line radio / videos / interviews, podcast description in http://www.loiclemeur.com/france/2005/09/radioblogs_12_t.html. See also FLENET?s list of vlogs, blogs en français, tips for their educational use, and campus virtuel at http://flenet.rediris.es/blog/carnetweb.html , http://flenet.rediris.es/blog/actiblog1.html and http://flenet.rediris.es/

MsoNormal">·Development education: http://www.food-force.com and http://www.darfurisdying.com

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