Welcome 2010!
This is what the first day of 2010 looks like where I am. Impeccable weather to stay at home and reflect on the past and future decade and how to bring all this together to the present. Happy New Year everyone!
How do YOU connect online?
A quick brainstorm on Wordle generated this Word Cloud to answer D’Arcy Norman’s question.
Tagged connecting networking connectivismTedx São Paulo
About a month ago, I submitted my answers to the questions posed by Tedx São Paulo in order to watch the first event, which expects to gather more than 600 people. We have been asked to answer a number of questions in order to be selected to participate. I have just received confirmation and here [...]
Open Education and Open Educational Resources: Challenges and Perspectives
On behalf of Carolina Rossini, I’d like to invite you all to the Open Education and Open Educational Resources: Challenges and Perspectives Conference to take place on October 29th/30th at the Law school (Direito GV) in São Paulo.
Carolina, who is sponsored by the Open Society Institute, has written a Green Paper as part of the [...]
OpenEd 2009: Crossing the Chasm
I have just come across the June 15th post on the Open Education Conference 2009 site and realized that I am one day late for the travel scholarship offered for the event. Although the deadline was yesterday, June 30th, I am writing this post in the hope the date will be postponed and that this [...]
Kids will be kids
Last January, my 5th blogging anniversary and the end of the sabbatical year went by without pomp or circumstance : 3 posts, sparse tweets, bookmarks and Flickr photos. Although triggered or lead by digital events and networked conversations, most of the contacts were this time f2f- a noisier, tastier and more touchy-feely complement to the [...]
2009 Horizon Report
The 2009 edition of the Horizon Report is being launched today at the ELI Conference in Orlando. The Horizon Report is a long-running qualitative research project that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations. It is exciting to see [...]
Tagged Education, Horizon Report, hz09, NMC, Technology, TrendsDid you know that…
The World Wide Web was invented in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, who envisioned an open, universal information system connecting all people. Now, despite the fact that many attribute to Tim Berner’s Lee the expression the read and write web and that he has been going on it since forever, he is not the one [...]
Tagged campuspartybrasil2009, cpbrasil, cpbrasil2009, floss, readandwriteweb, the history of the web, W3CCampus Party Brasil 2009
Edney de Souza (Interney) is in charge of the Campus Blog at the 2nd edition of the national Campus Party, which will take place in São Paulo from January 19th to 25th 2009.
The mega event, sponsored by Futura Networks and Telefonica, was first launched in Spain and is now yearly organized in Brazil, Colombia and [...]