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. http://www.vancestevens.com is back. Geocities has not been kind to my site. First I lost FTP and then my domain redirect, and then all my files disappeared. At that last straw I wrote them and they restored the files but the domain redirect never came back, so I've set it up elsewhere and installed a Moodle at http://www.vancestevens.com/moodle/.
Bluehost seems to have a problem with the pull-down javascripts in the menu matrix below. If these don't work, please choose a mirror site by clicking here or scrolling to the bottom of the page. I'll try and fix this, but after summer.

Recent projects and presentations: http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/ | Renewing for 2008: Multiliteracies for Collaborative Learning Environments, Sept-Oct 2007 | Under construction: Web 2.0 Workshops for Iran 2008 and for Sudan Jan 2008 | My most recent presentations on Slideshare.net/vances | Second chance for Second Life | EuroCALL presentation on Mastering competencies for collaboration and aggregation in distributed learning networks | Institutionalizing Web 2.0 for Learning in the Arab Region, Alexandria Egypt | Blogging and Tagging lectures in Spain July 2007 | Writing in a flat world: better blogging through social networking at WiAOC 2007 | Plenary address in Ankara | My Seattle TESOL 2007 presentation | | Video presentaton: vance2006antwerp | Spring 2006 presentations on Multiliteracies in collaborative learning environments | TESOL EV Online 2006 Session: Establishing and maintaining 'Web presence' 2.0 | Online presentation on Blogging at QETN in Qatar | Let's go blogging now at TTTT Conference, Abu Dhabi, April 2005 | CALL IS Academic Session at TESOL 2005, San Antonio | Workshops in Tunisia, July 2004

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Family News: Vance and Bobbi are still in Abu Dhabi where Vance has become a Computing Lecturer at Petroleum Institute and Bobbi teaches KG1 at ACS | Dusty graduated cum laude from UC Irvine in June 2007 | Glenn graduated from San Francisco State University in December 2003, got a a TEFL Certificate in Mexico, and is now teaching ESL in Abu Dhabi while working on hs M.A. online

Search WWW Search www.vancestevens.com

Our Seasons Greetings at New Year 2007
are at our Homepage: here and Vance's new blog here and at a Webheads Wiki here

I have moved the voice message widget that was here to my blog http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/

*This from Geocities 23 Apr 2002, regarding my Travel site: "Your web site, http://www.geocities.com/gvstevens seems to have been receiving a large amount of traffic. Our records indicate that you're using more than the allotted amount of data transfer we provide for a free web site, which is 3 gigabytes per month (measured on an hourly basis). That means that during the past few days we had to temporarily turn your site off to keep the bandwidth within this limit." - As this is not a revenue generating site, I have no plans to upgrade it,so if you find it down, please try again later. Also, my password for this site no longer works, so I am unable to update it at present and aside from the above message Geocities is not communicating with me. In late 2003 I rec'd word from Geocities that if I didn't make changes to this site it would be taken down. Despite the fact that I can't touch it (no working password, no two-way communication with Geocities), this never happened, and well into 2007 it's still up.

Incidentally, this does not affect my ESL_Home, Papers, Webheads in Action, Scuba, Caving, or Running sites - Vance

What to do about Internet Censorship? This site is now mirrored at these URLs

• /vance_stevens/index.html or http://www.vancestevens.com (hosted at Bluehost) and
• http://www.prof2000.pt/users/vstevens/index.html (hosted in Portugal)

If you have trouble visiting links from this site try copy / pasting the URL your browser takes you to with its corresponding link from the mirror site.

You might be affected if you are in

• China - access blocked to sites hosted at Geocities, Tripod, and Homestead
• Vietnam - access blocked to sites hosted at Geocities; not sure about Tripod and Homestead
• Tunisia - access blocked to sites hosted at Geocities; but this site is visiible at the mirror and Tripod and Homestead are ok, so I think this move has resolved the problem for Tunisia
• Other countries such as Cuba, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and UAE ... also restrict internet access to some extent but I have no indication that my pages are blocked in these countries.

An article about a study on Internet filtering in China is still available in May 2008 at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2540309.stm. The article refers to this study: Real-Time Testing of Internet Filtering in China: Documentation of Internet Filtering Worldwide, by Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman at Berkman Center for Internet & Society Harvard Law School - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/test/index.asp

With regard to China, in 2008 the Portuguese and http://vancestevens.com mirrors seem to be working from there. However, the Register.com redirects such as webheads.info are not working, though you can reach the links through their direct URLs such as http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/webheads.htm in the case of Webheads.info. Also, there are links from those pages to other files at Homestead, which are not mirrored anywhere, and not available in China. However, two of my contacts in China were able to reach all of my sites through methods suggested below:

• In January 2008 this free download was working in some countries: http://anchorfree.com/downloads/hotspot-shield/
• Visit http://www.cnproxy.com/proxyedu1.html which lists a number of proxies that you can try in your browser settings instead of the proxy you may have ve been provided.
• A contact recommends the following as working in China: http://www.prioxy.com/ ($29 per year and blocked in UAE) and http://www.torproject.org/ (free, also blocked in UAE).
• Test the proxies listed using a site or software called Proxyfox. When I searched for this software on Google I got sites with a lot of Chinese characters, so there must be information here useful especially in China.
  • Once you have determined a proxy address that works in China or UAE, in your browser (for IE this is what you do) pull down Tools / Options and click on the Connections tab.
    • At that point you have to know if you are on a LAN connection - or a dialup or DSL, etc. - and either:
      • click on Settings (for your own ISP)
      • or LAN Settings (if you're on a LAN)
  • and replace whatever is entered under 'use a proxy server' with the IP address of the server you're aiming for and its port setting.

For example, suppose the server that's working today is 200.206.191.145:6588. The digits following the colon are the port setting. You put the 4 sets of numbers separated by dots as the address of the proxy server, and the numbers following the colon at the port setting.

If any of this applies to you, good luck,

Vance

This posted on Wednesday November 22, 2006 http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/1730/software-to-skirt-web-censorship

Software to Skirt Web Censorship

People in China, Cuba, Iran, and other countries where the government censors what they see on the Internet could soon have access to a lot more information. Citizen Lab, at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies, has announced that it will release software on December 1 that allows people in those countries to see blocked Web sites. The software, called psiphon, allows someone in a country that doesn't censor the Internet to send someone in a Web-censored country a URL that enables the recipient to visit any Web site. --Andrea L. Foster

Psiphon is a censorship circumvention solution that allows users to access blocked sites in countries where the Internet is censored. psiphon turns a regular home computer into a personal, encrypted server capable of retrieving and displaying web pages anywhere http://psiphon.civisec.org/

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April 16, 2007

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