Technological progress in recent years has brought not only new opportunities in higher education through Web 2.0. The newly created virtual worlds like Second Life ® (SL) provide a new basis for teaching at universities. Students and faculty can in the interaction of them newly designed virtual worlds through their virtual deputies, called avatars. SL is the new learning and teaching methods that have yet to make. Today there are already many universities in SL and offer courses, seminars and infrastructure for teaching and project work available. The new educational opportunities are enormous, but little exploited. First experiences show that it is above all the virtual replication of traditional forms of education, find the application. The further development and elaboration (technical and didactic) seems to be certain. Now raises the question, we have to go today? The need Kalaidos College your virtual university in SL? What are the advantages of the virtual campus of the University Kalaidos for working students and faculty?
WE'G The University Health, part of Switzerland is Kalaidos University, master's degree in a Web 2.0 technology to facilitate communication and exchange among students and between students and instructors. The first experiences show that the practices related to the "Web 2.0 medium" used, but still seems a little "static" to be.
A very important event will take place this Friday in Cologne (see below). Unfortunately, the media (including the right blog PI News) have hardly mentioned. I will be there, and looking forward to seeing you numerous. It is an important opportunity to show that criticism of Islam nothing to do with racism, xenophobia or fundamentalism law.
counter xenophobia and reactionary Islam defense special event of Critical Islam Conference occasion of the so-called "Anti-Islamisation Congress"
Speakers: Ralph Giordano, Mina Ahadi and Hartmut Krauss Friday 12 September 2008 Cologne Hostel Riehl, An der Schanz 14 Start: 18:30 , fee: 5 € Organizer: Central Council of Ex-Muslims, editorial background, Giordano Bruno Foundation
The popular blog critical of Islam "hegab, nekab and other trash," (250,000 visitors within a year) has now been deleted by a hacker, including Facebook group, I've found this great video. It is a recording from the Saudi state radio "Alriyadhiya", a sports and youth channel. In the broadcast, it's about the relationship of male youth with her sisters. In the video, the report asks single pair young people on the street for their opinion. I could not resist it, to translate the interview for you into German, so you could take a look how the youth in Saudi Arabia thinks.
The interview is on Saudi dialect, so are many terms and phrases difficult to translate, but I have done my best.
We realize that it can be seen clearly through the clothes and the way these young people that they are not very stringent conditions for Saudi believers.
Here's the translation: (R: the man on the right, L: the man on the left)
Journalist: When you're the last time went out with your sister? She taken to a restaurant? With what you ate out?
R: eat in restaurants, we do not know. eat with their parents at home, so what else, never.
L: These are our traditions,
R: take my sister to go for shopping, going out with her, that must not be ...
Journalist: What is your name?
L: Naief ..
Journalist: Naief So, we are growing now in 2007, the girls, and with them grow their claims ..?
interruption
L: There is another problem when I take my sister into a shopping center, or to another place, I will fault, that their eyes are opened to greater things, you know, when it is sitting at home, covered (gasp), you know, then their thinking is limited to certain things, you know, in their homes, their family and so, for her husband, their future, but if I take her to a shopping mall, they will see the other girls, you know you, and you certainly know the situation (flirting and internet and telephone links are meant here) and they will see the other girls ... (he hesitates to say it), they will start on things to think, that must not be You know what I mean?
Journalist: So you think that girls nowadays are so ignorant and clueless?
L: But they already know what's going, but if they think at home when they are at home is, with her family, then we pay attention to it, but if we take them to a shopping center, they will see boys, the other girls what they wear, the new Abajas (the Saudi black woman's dress), then it is influenced by ,
Journalist: So, so your sister does these things not in school, at university? Does she see these things not in the Bluetooth, the internet ..?
L: neee, neee, neee! So as for my sister, there is no such thing, neee. My sister, she is conservative (orthodox, pant) I swear by Allah that they absolutely never leaves the house,
Journalist: Why?
L: (Mad) brother, that's up my sister! It is my shame! How should I take to the outside? Am I right, or not? Is it true?
Journalist: That's your opinion ..
L: No, that's the truth! It is important to express them, if you tomorrow, may prevent Allah, something happens (in the moral sense), my face will be in the sand (that is a great shame and disgrace will finish me), or the wrong?
Journalist: why we say, take care of your sister, she noted, not more ...
L: On the contrary, I care very good care of them, all what she wants, she'll get from me immediately, Journalist: (skeptical) You sure?
L: But clearly, but that I take with her outside, and shopping malls to that every man they see, that is, and you are my brother, that's impossible In our time, you say we in the years 2007, 2007, there is the greatest depravity! 2007 is all (decadent, reprehensible) happens! I will take with them to the shopping center where the girls wear tight, immoral Abajas? This simply does not work!
The inscription Allah will reward you richly, her youth Saudi Arabia! This is our true reality and these are our traditions, Allah may take away not us!
