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Thanks for your input! I appreciate it when other take the time to assist with promoting the site and its uses. However I also am aware that 'content is king' having come from a web design background. This was certainly in…"
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"I would also add that numbers play a role. If I knew that there were dozens "attending", I would attend myself. I'd like to say that I am guilty myself of not promoting the site itself despite my obvious ability to do so, so will make…"
Roly Hermans replied to Roly Hermans's discussion An example of disaster education working ..."We have heard another story of the New Zealand disaster education resource 'What's the Plan Stan' saving lives and injury. During the recent Chile earthquake, some children who had been schooled in New Zealand made their family…"
Roly Hermans posted a discussionWatching a tsunami?
During the recent tsunami alert around the Pacific as a result of the Chile earthquake, many people did not heed the warnings and actually headed to beaches to watch. Here in New Zealand, some of those who did this reportedly said that the expected height of the tsunami was only a few centimetres, which they could not see as being dangerous to them. They added that they would have run if they had seen anything more dangerous than that coming. Well, to show how foolish that response was,…See More
Justin Sharpe replied to Roly Hermans's discussion Suggestions to increase use of Edu4drr"Roly,
Thanks for the input and advice. It is hard to find a balance between a simple interface and give everybody what they want. In oarticular the resource button has adrop-down menu in order to cater for the different types of resources that there…"
Roly Hermans replied to Roly Hermans's discussion Suggestions to increase use of Edu4drr"Here's a blog entry I received from one of my LinkedIn contacts just after writing the above post. It gives some interesting info about 'call to action' buttons - some of which may apply to sites like Ning.
http://ow.ly/1cVik"
Roly Hermans posted a discussionAn example of disaster education working ...
One of the few pieces of good news to come out of last year's tsunami tragedy in Samoa was the story of 10-year old New Zealander, Abby Wutzler, whose quick actions saved the lives of her family and others at the beach when the wave hit. She had learned about tsunami in What’s the Plan Stan lessons at school in New Zealand, so recognised the signs and did all the right things on the day. What's the Plan Stan is the Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management's disaster education…See More
Roly Hermans posted a discussionStorybook about disaster risk reduction
As part of the What's the Plan Stan educational resource we developed for the New Zealand Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Managment, we wrote a storybook for students (see attachment). The five stories all feature Stan, the dog who is the main character in the What's the Plan Stan educational resource, along with the five children characters who also feature in the resource. Each story looks at a particular kind of disaster (earthquake, volcanic eruption, tsunami, flood and storm),…See More
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- At 9:26am on March 23, 2009, Justin Sharpe said…
- 'What's the Plan Stan?' is a very interesting resource. It would be good to know how it was disseminated among the educational community. So for instance how were teachers using the resource? Were they trained in any way or directed to the resource by a formal curriculum? I would also be interested to what your team thinks of the resources that I put together (click on the curriculum sub-menu on the resources tab above) to support teaching and learning of hazards and preparedness in the UK, where overall perception is less, due to the infrequency of such events as the flooding in 2007.
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International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage
Posted by Rohit Jigyasu on May 15, 2012 at 5:34am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Please note that application for the course has been extended to 31 May 2012. Details are available at http://www.ritsumei-gcoe.jp/heritagerisknet.dmuch/itc/index.html
Which countries visit Edu4DRR most?
Posted by Justin Sharpe on March 26, 2012 at 5:57pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
As a geographer I was intrigued as to where our visitors and users of Edu4DRR come from, so I made this list! With flags too! Do we need groups for the more popular countries? What do you think?
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Children of the Tsunami
Posted by Briony Towers on March 13, 2012 at 3:42am 0 Comments 0 Likes
This beautifully made documentary investigates children's experiences of the Japanese tsunami and nuclear disaster. It will be of real interest to anyone who works in the field of child-centred disaster risk reduction. The children articulate their experiences with great insight and in doing so, they further challenge the notion that children are passive victims of disaster who must rely on adults to speak for them. Of particular interest, is the children's desire to take what they have…
Continue School board apologizes for tsunami death
Posted by Justin Sharpe on January 24, 2012 at 9:42am 0 Comments 3 Likes
The following news story has come from NHK, the Japanese TV station which broadcasts via satellite in English, but is an important step and a warning about the dangers of ignoring safety messages!
The education board in Ishinomaki City, northeastern Japan has admitted responsibility and apologized for the large number of deaths among students at the Okawa Elementary School in last year's tsunami.Continue
70 of the school's 108 students were killed in the March 11th…
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Climate Change and Disaster Risk Online Course
May 21, 2012 to June 20, 2012 – Online
Climate Change and Disaster Risk (CCDR) is a four-week specialization course within the Natural Disaster Risk Management Program that aims at supporting the global agenda of Managing the risks associ…
Organized by Jesus Dominic Dizon | Type: drr/cca, online, course
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