m4Lit on the BBC (again!) and at the World Bank
July 19, 2010
June was a good month for m4Lit. It were featured on the BBC for the second time: I was interviewed on the World Service radio programme Digital Planet (listen live). The episode featured other…
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TEDx Soweto – A great day out!
April 29, 2010
The first TEDx Soweto happened on Freedom Day — 27 April in South Africa — appropriately held at the Apartheid Museum. The theme was “The Age of Participation”. It was a fun…
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What’s the real innovation behind m4Lit?
April 15, 2010
At the World Bank’s Innovation Fair “Moving Beyond Conflict” event in Cape Town, Parvathi Menon, the CEO of Innovation Alchemy gave a short but very insightful presentation on…
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March 15, 2010
On Saturday 15th March the Reading Association of South Africa held a conference called “Literacy Works: Best practices in literacy teaching and a focus on mew media: their place in literacy…
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October 16, 2009
This is a draft paper to be presented at mLearn 2009, Florida, USA, about the m4Lit project. Abstract: The m4Lit (mobile phones for literacy) pilot project will create a mobile novel (m-novel),…
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October 16, 2009
(Source: Shuttleworth Foundation, CC-BY) On 30 September 2009, the world’s first mobile novel – or m-novel – published in both English and isiXhosa was launched. Kontax, a teen mystery…
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