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Social Norms
After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at lainiciativadecomunicacion.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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Educator's Reference Desk - Global

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The Educator's Reference Desk is an Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents, and anyone interested in education worldwide. It is a project of the Information Institute of Syracuse. The Educator's Reference Desk consists of a collection of Internet-based resources, a question archive, lesson plans, and a search interface to an education database called ERIC. This initiative grows out of an interactive service called AskERIC, which was discontinued by the U.S. Department of Education in December 2003.
Communication Strategies
The Educator's Reference Desk is designed to help educators find resources about educational research, education issues, or the practice of education. It uses the Internet (The Educator's Reference Desk site) to provide access to various kinds of information, including:
  • Resource Collection: 3000 Internet sites, educational organisations, and electronic discussion groups on a variety of educational issues. Examples of issues covered are counseling (e.g., peer education programmes), educational management (e.g., school safety), educational technology (e.g., distance learning), evaluation (e.g., alternative assessment), family life (e.g., home schooling), general education (e.g., learning theories), and specific populations (e.g., rural education). Many of the resource pages include contact information for organisations working in those areas so that users of the website may follow up for further details.
  • Question Archive: 200 responses to questions received through the AskERIC Service, including ERIC citations, Internet sites, discussion groups, and/or print resource information.
  • Lesson Plans: 2000 lesson plans that have been written and submitted - on the AskERIC site - by teachers from the United States.
  • ERIC Database: 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. The searchable database is updated monthly.
Development Issues
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Sources

SANTEC September 2003 Information Update No. 3; and Educator's Reference Desk site; and letter sent from Jennifer Barth to The Communication Initiative on December 19 2003.