HIVAIDS Portal/LearnShare HIVAIDS Africa/Messaging

Sharing knowledge

Welcome to the HIV AIDS Portal

Strengthening Treatment Literacy information sharing with Community Media practitioners.

Subscribe to our LearnShare HIV AIDS discussion group!!

Home | Workshop & Learning Materials  | Organisations | People  |  Discussions | Community Media space | 

Messaging

AMARC Leadership

• AMARC leadership (Ivory Coast) - in partnering with COL, IAS and EcoNews for this important initiative in the Ivory Coast
  • Bridging / Networking - groundbreaking initiative to bring two(2) communities together, without a history of sharing and involvement.
  • workshop is an activity within a process (i.e., workshop is a tangible reference point for pre-workshop, and post-workshop activities)

IAS Participation & Contribution

• Leads up to AIDS 2010 conference in Vienna (International AIDS Society)

COL - Advocacy for Effective Learning Programmes)

• Wiki is a repository for open education resources, materials, good practices
• Collaboration happens in many forms, and at many levels - online and offline
• Leads up to Pan-Commonwealth Forum (PCF-6), in Cochin, Kerala, India, 2010
• Designing Effective Learning Programs (DELP) is a skill and outcome
• Tangible outputs on wiki
  • number of organizations
  • size of community of practice
  • numbers of materials
  • number of learning programs, plans, etc.

• Traditional ODL vs. Modern ODL - distinctions
  • Traditional ODL - full courses, units
  • Modern ODL - learning activities, modules (i.e., developing learning activities around a specific piece of content)

Participants

• Roles - different people have different and valuable perspectives

Criteria for Attendees - Workshop Participation

The criteria we have discussed are community radio stations that are

• Broadcasting in geographic areas where AIDS is a issue and HIV infection rates are high
• Committed to health programming; open to new approaches to “educational” programming; willing to start new or improve existing health-HIV/AIDS programmes through the LearnShare process
• Open to collaborative approaches, especially working with AIDS counterparts, in developing and running learning programmes
• Willing to participate in an ongoing process of programme development about HIV/AIDS: online, in person and through other forms of networking and exchange (phone, email, content sharing, etc.)
• Willing to participate in the Ivory Coast workshop and conference
• Track record for follow-through