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<p><span style="color: #282828; font-family: 'segoe ui wpc', 'segoe ui', tahoma, 'microsoft sans serif', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #ffffff;">Hi all and sorry for the delay in answering this mail. I had doubts about
where to send this answer: to the geoforall global list or to the Teacher Training & School Education thematic one (I'm not sure how active this list actually is).</span><br style="color: #282828; font-family: 'segoe ui wpc', 'segoe ui', tahoma, 'microsoft sans serif', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #ffffff;">
<span style="color: #282828; font-family: 'segoe ui wpc', 'segoe ui', tahoma, 'microsoft sans serif', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #ffffff;">Thank you Nikos for your ideas, very inspiring. My 2 cents:</span><br style="color: #282828; font-family: 'segoe ui wpc', 'segoe ui', tahoma, 'microsoft sans serif', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #ffffff;">
<span style="color: #282828; font-family: 'segoe ui wpc', 'segoe ui', tahoma, 'microsoft sans serif', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #ffffff;"> - in my humble experience I had learned that we need to focus on teachers,
and that it is not an easy task to motivate them. We don't need to worry much about students: they'll probably go faster than teachers and this fact may put teachers in an uncomfortable situation</span><br style="color: #282828; font-family: 'segoe ui wpc', 'segoe ui', tahoma, 'microsoft sans serif', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #ffffff;">
<span style="color: #282828; font-family: 'segoe ui wpc', 'segoe ui', tahoma, 'microsoft sans serif', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #ffffff;"> - in the Batoví project our first intention was to work with Primary and Secondary
simultaneously. The experience -here- showed that was better to work first with Secondary until we have a tool specially customized for working with school teachers (and students). At gvSIG they are now in this job and we'll hopefully have a new version soon.
Anyone in the network that would like to learn more about it or would like to contribute please tell me and I'll let them know</span><br style="color: #282828; font-family: 'segoe ui wpc', 'segoe ui', tahoma, 'microsoft sans serif', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #ffffff;">
<span style="color: #282828; font-family: 'segoe ui wpc', 'segoe ui', tahoma, 'microsoft sans serif', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #ffffff;"> - if Ela needs any help for updating the wikipage of the Teacher Training
& School Education thematic group just let me know</span><br style="color: #282828; font-family: 'segoe ui wpc', 'segoe ui', tahoma, 'microsoft sans serif', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #ffffff;">
<span style="color: #282828; font-family: 'segoe ui wpc', 'segoe ui', tahoma, 'microsoft sans serif', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #ffffff;"> - I agree with Nikos idea that each Lab should make a webpage and to have
a Central webpage which will share the news (etc.) to all Labs and each Lab has its own webpage, in the local language, for the teachers and students. Although it's not easy, it's a very good idea</span><br style="color: #282828; font-family: 'segoe ui wpc', 'segoe ui', tahoma, 'microsoft sans serif', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #ffffff;">
<span style="color: #282828; font-family: 'segoe ui wpc', 'segoe ui', tahoma, 'microsoft sans serif', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #ffffff;"> - regarding connections with existing education networks I can try to connect
with OLPCs and other similar networks</span><br style="color: #282828; font-family: 'segoe ui wpc', 'segoe ui', tahoma, 'microsoft sans serif', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #ffffff;">
<span style="color: #282828; font-family: 'segoe ui wpc', 'segoe ui', tahoma, 'microsoft sans serif', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #ffffff;"> - in regards to Phil's idea of organizing a teacher training workshop during
an event near you for teachers & educators from local schools and universities we have already been doing this and we'll continue doing it. By the way we are organizing a training activity with a High School that will have a special event during September
10th (with special media coverage). It will be great to have an online exchange with any -preferably- Spanish speaking member of the group in order to present the initiative. So if anyone in the network would like to join just tell me (it will be between
10 and 13 local time, -3 UTC)</span><br style="color: #282828; font-family: 'segoe ui wpc', 'segoe ui', tahoma, 'microsoft sans serif', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #ffffff;">
<span style="color: #282828; font-family: 'segoe ui wpc', 'segoe ui', tahoma, 'microsoft sans serif', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #ffffff;"> - the idea of a competition is great; we already tried to implement one here
but we still haven't done it.</span><br style="color: #282828; font-family: 'segoe ui wpc', 'segoe ui', tahoma, 'microsoft sans serif', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #ffffff;">
<span style="color: #282828; font-family: 'segoe ui wpc', 'segoe ui', tahoma, 'microsoft sans serif', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #ffffff;">That's all for the moment, thanks.</span><br style="color: #282828; font-family: 'segoe ui wpc', 'segoe ui', tahoma, 'microsoft sans serif', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #ffffff;">
<span style="color: #282828; font-family: 'segoe ui wpc', 'segoe ui', tahoma, 'microsoft sans serif', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #ffffff;">Best wishes to all,</span><br>
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