WL08/5: Building Social Justice through Electronic Media
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Conference
WE LEARN 5th Annual (Net)Working Gathering & Conference on Women & Literacy
Building Alliances / Construyendo Alianzas
March 7- 8, 2008
Fordham University at Lincoln Center (New York City)
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Session: Building Social Justice Through Electronic Media
Participants will get hands-on experience on how to participate in the Poverty, Race, Women, and Literacy Discussion List (NIFL) and learn how to work with a wiki, a web page that anybody can contribute to. We will focus on the "Women and Literacy" section of the Adult Literacy Education Wiki. Participants will consider ways to use these tools to create safe, reflective and collaborative electronic environments to address "Building Alliances", especially around gender, race, and class. Participants can add their stories, thoughts and questions and read what other students and teachers have to say.
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Thoughts from one of the presenters -
Wikis
Programs can think about building coalitions by creating a shared wiki space to develop lists of common resources and needs. Think about community resource mapping or what is being call "mobsourcing" - opportunities for groups of people to collaborating to answer a question.
News items that are of interest to coalition partners could be collected and updated collaboratively on a wiki site.
There are free resources out there like pbwiki that allow users to work with wikis for free.
Discussion Lists
When talking about discussion lists, it is important to talk about the ways to manage them as part of your life (e.g., having separate email addresses for discussion list subscriptions, separate folders, using digests to control when you get them, etc.).
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