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Janos Blasszauer

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About Janos Blasszauer

  • Birthday 11/01/1965

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    Nagykanizsa, Hungary

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  1. Hi dear friends! It was nice to read your kind words. It's absolutely sure that in the future whenever I feel a need to boost my self-esteem I'll just get back to this page. Sorry for not having reflected on the Bratislava meeting and on your comments earlier. It was really great to meet you guys in Slovakia. Thank you once again for inviting me. I've enjoyed very much your company and have found the meeting very productive. As you might know, I've sent Terry my SWOT analysis of the E-HELP project. Congratulations on pulling off a great project! I'm glad that I could take part in it and even contribute to it. As for the new tools that you could find useful in your teaching, well let me put here some links to sites where you can harvest great many links. You get a short description there about the applications. Let me first recommend this link: The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education — 2008 and then this one: Top tools for e-learning Well, that's all for the time being. I'll definitely get back to this page since it is a real ego booster.
  2. Hereby I'd like to confirm my participation at the meeting in Bratislava. I'll get there by car. It will be an about five-hour drive from my town. I'll arrive around 4PM. I'm looking forward to meeting you all. Best wishes, Janos _______________________ Janos Blasszauer Nagykanizsa, Hungary web: http://www.eltandict.com
  3. This is just a quick note to let you know that I will be able to fit this into my schedule.
  4. I agree. E-HELP also set aside 3,250 euros for a Forum. We can get this free via this Forum. At our meeting in Worthing, Janos suggested that he could deal with the Domain/Webspace issue. Therefore we will have to wait for him to tell us what this might cost us. Sorry for this delayed message. Well, here comes the cost I have calculated. 250 MB webspace: EUR 189 500 MB webspace: EUR 290 750 MB webspace: EUR 377 1000 MB webspace: EUR 435 These webspaces would go with a free domain name registration and they contain MySQL database, and I could install almost any kind of Content Management System like for instance MOODLE. (see e.g. http://www.eltandict.com/mosaic/ )
  5. I am almost absolutely sure that we could organize a meeting here in Nagykanizsa, which is in the south-western part of Hungary close to the Croatian and Slovenian border.
  6. Sorry for saying so but this is something that I have no idea, either.
  7. I also agree with these gadgets. Very good recommendations indeed.
  8. I cannot comment on this one, either for lack of experience. Nevertheless, I am absolutely positive that our institution would be glad to host a meeting.
  9. Sorry for chiming in late in this thread. Nevertheless, I cannot but agree with Carlos's proposal but I must let you know that I have very little experience in such projects. :-(
  10. I like the title "Teaching Citizenship in a Globalized Europe Using ICT" and I also like the E-Citizen term. :-)
  11. Dear All, Here goes attached the required info. Best wishes, JanosBatthyany_Lajos_Grammar_School__Hungary_.doc
  12. Sorry for this delayed message but I was out of town. Hereby I just want to confirm that I am still committed to the project. I must also apologise for having kept a low profile lately. Cheers, Janos
  13. I do not intend to reflect on the original debate question, namely whether we live in democracy or not. Hungary's electoral system can be seen here: http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/2141_B.htm I would just like to join those posters who emphasised the importance of education in democratic societies. I firmly believe that only educated people, educated masses can guarantee/safeguard the proper operation of democracy they are the ones who can correct the flaws. It is well-known fact that just having the right to vote is meaningless if a citizen is disabled by illiteracy or semiliteracy. History has taught us that illiterate and semiliterate people are condemned to being exposed to all kinds of manipulations. If people do not understand the issues properly they just can easily fall prey to manipulative oversimplifications and they cannot make good use of such democratic power as voting. These people fail to master their citizenship rights due to illiteracy. Following this line of reasoning I must say that in my view democracy is inseparable from literacy. To be truly literate, I think citizens must be able to grasp the meaning of any piece of writing addressed to the general reader, and to be critical to the writings. I also believe that a literate person is also one that has the mindset of being open to the events happening around him. This person is curious towards new things and is in the habit of reading newspapers and keeping up with the news. (see below Note 1) Thomas Jefferson made the following famous remark: "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them." This last sentence is a crucial one for a really democratic society is founded on a society with high literacy, common basic moral values and on active citizenship. I do believe that the EU will achieve Martin Luther King's dream of a society which is founded not on race or class but on personal virtue. And referring to MLK I cannot help mentioning one of his great piece of writing on education. Martin Luther King: The Purpose of Education Note 1 The reasoning of the Bush-led government for going into war against Iraq was WMD. Government officials spread the news in the media that Saddam Hussein is a crazy despot who is ready to use chemical and biological weapons against the world -as he actually did in 1988 against his own people- and who is harbouring terrorists. This kind of justification was challenged by those educated people like for instance Noam Chomsky who pointed out that interestingly enough after Saddam Hussein launched a large-scale chemical weapons attack against Iraq's Kurdish population killing thousands the American government did not cut support to the Saddam regime but even increased it.
  14. I do not intend to reflect on the original debate question here in this posting, namely whether we live in democracy or not. Hungary's electoral system can be seen here: http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/2141_B.htm I would just like to join those posters who emphasised the importance of education in democratic societies. I firmly believe that only educated people, educated masses can guarantee/safeguard the proper operation of democracy. They are the ones who can correct the flaws. It is well-known fact that just having the right to vote is meaningless if a citizen is disabled by illiteracy or semiliteracy. History has taught us that illiterate and semiliterate people are condemned to being exposed to all kinds of manipulations. If people do not understand the issues properly they just can easily fall prey to manipulative oversimplifications and they cannot make good use of such democratic power as voting. These people fail to master their citizenship rights due to illiteracy. Following this line of reasoning I must say that in my view democracy is inseparable from literacy. To be truly literate, I think citizens must be able to grasp the meaning of any piece of writing addressed to the general reader, and to be critical to the writings. I also believe that a literate person is also one that has the mindset of being open to the events happening around him. This person is curious towards new things and is in the habit of reading newspapers and keeping up with the news. (see below Note 1) Thomas Jefferson made the following famous remark: "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them." This last sentence is a crucial one for a really democratic society is founded on a society with high literacy, common basic moral values and on active citizenship. I do believe that the EU will achieve Martin Luther King's dream of a society which is founded not on race or class but on personal virtue. And while referring to Martin Luther King I must mention his great text about the importance of good education: Martin Luther King: The Purpose of Education. Note 1 Let me give an example. The reasoning of the Bush-led government for going into war against Iraq was WMD. Government officials spread the news in the media that Saddam Hussein is a crazy despot who is ready to use chemical and biological weapons -as he actually did in 1988 against his own people- and who is harbouring terrorists. This kind of justification was challenged by those educated people like for instance Noam Chomsky who pointed out that interestingly enough after Saddam Hussein launched a large-scale chemical weapons attack against Iraq's Kurdish population killing thousands, the American government did not cut support to the Saddam regime but even increased it.
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