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Web Ideologies - a Regional Map

Through Pedro Markun. GJOL and the Italian blog Vision Post, a clickable map (still in Italian but to be translated into English, Spanish, Portuguese and other languages soon) depicts 15 years of theories, encounters, utopias and projections on the Web. (click on the map below to enlarge and again on the other page for the same effect)

Placed on the axis comprised by Free Goods / Markets and Trust/ Scepticism,  profiles of the most famous Web and social network thinkers portray the main “thought schools” :the Founders in the middle, Panglossians and Web Tribals; Lisergics and Neo.com; Hackers and Cyber-Soviets and finally the Tecno-Retro and Post Virtuals.

The original map was posted in Il Manifesto on July 26th 2008.

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2008 08 20 Barbara Dieu Technology
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An intense blended experience

One of the advantages of being on a sabbatical is that you have time on your hands and the possibility of reading all the books you have always wanted to dive into, going to conferences and workshops you’d barely have the strength or energy to attend and being available to meet and talk at length to people whom you only read about online and you’d seldom make contact with if on a normal 8 to 5 school timetable. Just awesome!

Pure joy to spend a leisurely weekend with your parents on the coast and not have to drive back in the Sunday night traffic but sleep over and make it on Monday morning late. Fantastic to host friends coming from abroad, visit the latest exhibitions and show them around town.

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. I have finally managed to upload all the recordings I made of the Fortaleza Hornby Forum to Podomati and although I have also enrolled (somewhat late) for Leigh Blackall’s open online workshop on Facilitating Online Communities and keep trying to answer the assignments in my mind, I have fallen behind in the posts and comments.

This week and next lots to digest and will have to put on my thinking and creative cap - tomorrow a workshop and discussion on CmapTools with Dr. Alberto Canãs, Associate Director of the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. Next week, a series of presentations and debates at the 3rd Communication and Mobility Symposium, featuring a stelar list of national and international speakers. On Wednesday 27th, an invitation to join a discussion with Peter Weill, Director of the Center for Information Systems Research & Senior Research Scientist at MIT Sloan School of Management and the last weekend of August will be devoted to Blogcamp SPaulo.

Somehow I feel I cannot miss the opportunity of this overview of seemingly different but converging fields, capturing the energy of these f2f events and interacting with those who are present. I will try to record this blend of online and real experiences in writing when I can.

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2008 08 19 Barbara Dieu Blog Camp SP
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Why teach social media?

Howard Rheingold tells us in this short video snippet why he decided to start teaching courses about social media, using social media.

Is the message effective and is the video the best way to transmit it?

update: and how he does it

Re: Participatory Learning and Social MediaHow I structure my classes in person and online to support more student-centric, collaborative learning.

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2008 08 16 Barbara Dieu Technology
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Tweets on 2008-08-08

  • #080808 Grey and rainy day in São Paulo, Brazil. #
  • #080808 Loved symbology, colours, allusions to Chinese culture,different sketches, focus on arts,creativity, education, inventions & people #
  • watching opening Olympics - fantastic! #

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DIY

We have just started the second semester of 2008 and my intended quiet and leisurely sabbatical has turned into frantic activity again - as intense as when at school with my students (miss them but not the system).

I’ve had some busy weeks lately trying out, creating and deleting databases and scripts, surfing in circles to figure out which open source tools to use to design and best integrate my new separate domains - barbaradieu.com (personal page/bio/publications, etc), beespace.net (past and ongoing personal projects + blog + wiki) and creatingripples.org (to host different projects for professional/cultural development for teachers). Being, becoming and sharing experimentation spaces. A new system and a new language.  I hope I can find my focus and get something concrete online soon.

I am sure I would feel much freer without these possessions. It would be certainly much easier and practical to park them all on one or several of the Web 2.0 existing platforms online, not worry about the maintenance and link to them as I have done until now.  However, I am not only fond of architecture, design, building and tinkering but also have some time on my hands and invested in some lifetime space. I love a challenge, learn by doing and would like to understand/see more clearly which tool fits best for each function, how they interact (or not)  and what is necessary to bring them all together, make them work for communication and learning.

Now there is a lot of information online, forums and IRC channels -  all this is very time-consuming though and I would definitely advance more quickly if I had a (some) helping hand(s)  to guide me through some of the process. Rudolf Ammann, with whom I have been collaborating closely at dekita.org, initiated me in the use of many of these tools and has kept a sustained conversation for 3 years now, guiding me, giving me a number of tips, pointing to tutorials. There is a limit to what one can ask from one person though. Out of love, it’s time to set him free :-)

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Tweets on 2008-08-06

  • @jasper @markun @tdoria @avorio vou no Mercado Municipal com ele para o almoço - qual sugestão para a ultima noite dele aqui? #
  • @jasper @markun @tdoria @avorio desculpe gente - peguei transito horroroso e ainda de taxi - vamos combinar algo para amanhã? #

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Tweets on 2008-08-05

  • happy hour e provavelmente jantar no Josephine na Jacques Félix 253 #
  • @tdoria @markun @avorio @carrapatoso estou com Jay Cross http://www.jaycross.com/ hoje à noite - drinks? #
  • 2 pm and almost night outside - lights on - watching out of the window - signs of a phenomenal rainstorm approaching #
  • Welcome to twittersphere, @susanmarandi and hope you are having a great time at #Worldcall08 in Fukuoka - hugs and enjoy the steam sauna :-) #
  • @jaycross having breakfast and driving up to SP for lunch…hope we can meet sometime today. #

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Tweets on 2008-07-31

  • #Worldcall08 looking forward to your impressions, photos and coverage of the event :-) #
  • @gabinardy oh no…clash and personality conflict … verdade é que seu cabelo é lindo e tem uma personalidade especial :-) #

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Tweets on 2008-07-28

  • back in the city after superb sunny WE in the countryside with part of the family - long barbecue hours, caipirinha and siesta in hammoc :-) #

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