<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Walter,</div><div><br></div><div>The networking site you ask for, seems to be the IAEP list, located at</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a></div><div><br></div><div>This is what visitors can read about this list:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><b><font color="#000000">About IAEP</font></b></div><div><p>"It's an education project."
</p></div><div><p><br></p></div><div><p>Summary:
</p></div><div><p><br></p></div><div><p>(1) Learning practice and theory need to evolve as technology
evolves; we are discussing constructionist (and other learning theories)
research and practice;
</p></div><div><p><br></p></div><div><p>(2) We are engaging in an open dialog between the overlapping communities of software developers and educators;
</p></div><div><p><br></p></div><div><p>(3) We are guiding Sugar software development, as it serves as a
tangible structural underpinning for the application of 1 and 2 above;
and
</p></div><div><p><br></p></div><div><p>(4) We are examining and discussing Sugar's educational importance.</p></div></blockquote><div><form method="POST" action="../listinfo/iaep">
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</form><div><br></div><div>As in other lists, there is a choice of language. Unfortunately there are only two choices in this list, English and German. I donīt think the readerīs choice makes much of a difference but, for the first time visitor might not be that clear. It might be interpreted that postings in other languages are not welcome. I donīt know if that is the case or not. Most of the students in OLPC deployments speak Spanish and so do their teachers.</div><div><br></div><div>The OLPC-Sur list favored by many educators, offers English and Spanish for language choices.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>You ask about social networks. Many teachers write and read postings in the same world-wide networks everyone knows such as Facebook and Twitter. From the messages I read there, neither of them seems to be a venue conducive to any serious discussion about any subject.</div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>Carlos Rabassa</div><div>Volunteer</div><div>Plan Ceibal Support Network</div><div>Montevideo, Uruguay</div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br><div><div>On Nov 18, 2011, at 11:10 AM, Walter Bender wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Is there a social-networking site in your country where<br>the teachers gather? If so, we could hang out with them there. (I've<br>asked this question many times in the past and never gotten an answer.<br>Perhaps you or Carlos could investigate?)</blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>