Community Media/News

February 2009
Campus-based educational FM: Developing effective educational programmes for FM - Planning, designing and producing courses for radio. Training workshop 1: 16-21 Feb; Training workshop 2: March/April 2009; Location: Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST); Kakamega, Kenya; Trainer-facilitators: Mr Opiyo Makoude and Ms Joyce Njango Mwaura

December 2008

 * Open-source radio pioneer KRUU FM, from Iowa, USA contributes a comprehensive Volunteer Handbook for Community Media/ Radio practitioners. It also contains a sample Volunteer Agreement. This Handbook can also be used as a Template for NGOs interested in Volunteer Management.

November 2008

 * Radio Mange'lete Workshop on Organisational Development for 99 women from 33 NGOs, November 3-5, in Kenya. Partners include Commonwealth of Learning, KCOMNET and ECONEWS. See the Pre-Workshop Summary


 * Free Wiki Skills Training workshop for Community Radio / Media Practitioners, Nov. 3-7, 2008, a 5-day online course with facilitator support (Randy Fisher). Please register at: http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Registration ~ please also to invite your colleagues and other interested folks.


 * Caribbean Network of Community Multimedia Centres, 2nd Regional Conference, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, November 17-21. Partners: Commonwealth of Learning & UNESCO. See Workshop Overview.

September 2008

 * Free Connectivism and Connective Knowledge is a 12-week course that will explore the concepts of connectivism and connective knowledge and explore their application as a framework for theories of teaching and learning. It will outline a connectivist understanding of educational systems of the future. George Siemens and Stephen Downes – the two leading figures on connectivism and connective knowledge  - will co-facilitate this innovative and timely course.

July 2008

 * PCF-5 conference in London, UK
 * Jeffrey Town workshop, July 17-19, 2008, with Skype Chat / Q&A from KRUU-FM

May 2008

 * OER - Learning materials from a Community Radio - Governance workshop posted in the Resources section of the WikiEducator Community Node. Donated by Ian Pringle.
 * OER -Lessons Learned from Course Development, from the Commonwealth of Learning.

April 2008

 * Technical and Content Training Workshop on Community Radio - Nomad & Maara, Maharastra, India (Center for Education and Documentation (Bangalore)