WORKSHOP NOTES

I am putting together a workshop on collaborative intelligence.

I ll do it in two flavours, one for the IT CAMP for NGO's in the Greater Mekong Subregion, and the other one for the Business Intelligence community, Michael from Verizon will be there too, apparently. Both workshops to be help consecutively due to some strange planetary coincidence
at the end of February.

I ll post a link to the slides here

Cheers

Just Enough Series

After tons of lectures and workshops somehow I don't feel like talking about lectures anymore.

(this is the subtle meaning: I have had just enough of this stuff)

Anyway for the record, Subjects Taught:

Operations Management
Human Computer Interaction
Software Engineering
Knowledge Management
Software Quality Management
Social Networks for Collaboration
Citizen's Media for Human Rights

I have got a few audio visual recordings and slide-sets available if you want to check something out. Sample slides will be posted on slideshare.

About New Technologies

Using weblogs and wikis as a classroom collaboration and communication tool
can be very effective

Working in non english speaking countries, this is both an opportunity and a challenge

Here at PSU Phuket I have asked
my students to set up blogs and gave a couple of assignments

Their links are pasted as comments below

It's tough, but we are getting there

More to come!

PDM

Blog Assignment 4th year seminar

JANUARY 2006
SEMINAR TASKS

- Create a blog using any tool that you like
- Create Profile, load picture
- Career Focus: enter a post where you explain your career goals
- Post your resume
- Link to your project presentation and write a brief comment (project sheet, slides, code)
- Career plan: how are you planning to achieve your career goals
- Write and present a summary of your research paper

PLEASE POST A LINK AS A 'COMMENT' BELOW THIS POST INDICATING
NAME, STUDENT ID, BLOG URL

Human Rights and the death penalty in Thailand

Please carry out the following assignment

1. Start a blog using blogger.com. or any other blog tool that you like (research your options)
2. Create a brief profile describing yourself, your academic interests and professional goals
3. Post your Resume (optional)
4. Research the following topic

What are human rights?
What is Amnesty International (Thailand?)
http://www.hrweb.org/legal/undocs.html
http://www.amnesty.or.th/index_th.asp

5. Write a paragraph to comment on the death penalty based on the stories published this month in the Phuket Gazettem reported below
6. Enter a comment below this post with your name, student ID and the URL of your blog

Thanks
Aj Paola


Story 1.
Monday, January 16, 2006
Victim’s mother ‘does not want killers executed’CARDIFF, UK: The mother of Katherine Horton, raped and murdered on a beach on Koh Samui on New Year’s Day, does not want her daughter’s killers to be executed, a British newspaper has reported.The News of the World quoted Elizabeth Horton as saying that Bualoi Kosit, 23, and Wichai Somkhaoyai, 24, should instead spend the rest of their lives behind bars for raping and killing her 21-year-old daughter.Mrs Horton told the newspaper: “I’ve never believed in the death penalty, but I believe life means life.“A life sentence would be appropriate. I don’t agree with taking anyone’s life and Katherine wouldn’t believe in that either. I don’t think that serves any purpose.“If they are behind bars until they die it will stop it happening to anyone else.”Bualoi and Wichai have pleaded guilty to raping and murdering Ms Horton – offenses that carry the death penalty in Thailand. However, it is normal for Thai courts to halve sentences for those who plead guilty or, in the case of a death sentence, to commute the penalty to life imprisonment.The two are due to be sentenced on Wednesday.



Story 2. (Phuket Gazette)

Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Amnesty slams death sentence callBANGKOK (The Nation): Amnesty International Thailand (AIT) yesterday supported the mother of murdered British student Katherine Horton, who has said she does not want to see her daughter’s killers executed.The alleged killers, Bualoi Kosit, 23, and Wichai Somkhaoyai, 24, who are due to be sentenced tomorrow at Surat Thani Provincial Court, face the possibility of execution for raping and murdering Ms Horton on January 1.But the victim’s mother, Elizabeth Horton, has said she opposes the death penalty. “I’ve never believed in the death penalty, but I believe life means life,” Britain’s News of the World newspaper quoted her as saying. “A life sentence would be appropriate.”AIT praised Mrs Horton for her magnanimity and urged Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra – who has called for the death penalty in this case – to learn the virtues of forgiveness from Mrs Horton.“Elizabeth Horton does not agree with the prime minister,” the group’s statement read. “Her call for life sentences is conciliatory justice that we hope the prime minister and Thai society will adopt in dealing with the case.”
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Phuket, Thailand13:08 local time (GMT +7)