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Participatory Media and Practices

This week my interest and involvement with social media in education granted me another invitation to participate as an “interaction facilitator” by twittering the Roda Viva interview with Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder),  together with Pedro Markun (communicator and social activist) and Pedro Valente (journalist).  It also led me to the WikiBrasil event in the evening, [...]

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2008 11 12 Media
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Colloquium on Global Communication

Elizabeth Hanson-Smith sent an invitation to members on the Webheads in Action list to participate online in the Colloquium on Global Communication for the The Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia in Moscow. I accepted to give a presentation together with Sus Nyrop from Denmark, Cristina Costa in England, Rita Zeinstejer from Argentina and Ronaldo Lima [...]

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2008 10 27 Communities
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Roda Viva - Interactive TV experiment

Last night, Bel Colluci, from TV Cultura asked me (through a quick message on Gtalk) to participate in an “experiential participatory transmission” they are conducting: streaming the Roda Viva interview program raw and live footage on the Web a week before its polished taped version is shown on TV. The idea is also [...]

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2008 10 21 Education
Media
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Instructional Design

Instructional Design , presented by Paula Carolei and Andrea Filatro , will be the next meeting (of a series) organized by Praxis. Once a month, actors from various institutions of the educational scene here in Sao Paulo get together f2f  to network and talk about our practice. Although we are all highly connected  and/or very [...]

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2008 10 14 Communities
Instructional Design
Praxis
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1st Web Curriculo

Last week (it’s already old news), we had the 1st WebCurriculo conference, which took place at PUC SP and was blogged and streamed live. I submitted a paper about my 10-year school experience using social tools, networks and interaction  in the classroom to complement, extend and transform the curriculum. 
This was a challenge I set out [...]

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2008 09 30 1stWeb Curriculo
Events and Conferences
Web Curriculum Comments (4)

A nagging question

I have been increasingly invited to take part in events, conferences and even keynotes.  So far so good - it means people deem I have something to give and share.  However, with very few exceptions, I notice a recurring pattern - the invitations are one way only - not only you are not paid for [...]

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2008 09 22 CCK08
Courses and Workshops
Education
Technology Comments (2)

On learning and instructional design

On the Online Toys and Tools discussion forum,  Sirin Soyoz from Istambul states
As far as I experience, it is instructional design that facilitates learning and learners must take on new roles in the learning process.
This is very much the discussion now taking place in Week 6 of the FOC08 course, which I am also following  [...]

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2008 09 09 CCK08
Courses and Workshops
Education
FOC08 Comments (5)

Wordle on Beespace

I foolishly assumed that by giving Wordle the feed to my blog, it would automatically scan ALL the posts for word frequency and I would be able to visualize the most common semantic fields covered. Not yet there but  Jonathan Feinberg (and IBM) are on it. Like George says on the Connectivism Course Forum:

Given the [...]

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2008 09 09 CCK08
Courses and Workshops
Education Comments (3)

On community, facilitating, moderating and teaching

I will try to bundle two weeks of questions, readings and reflections on what I have observed until now.
What is an online community?
This is the first question in the FOC08 course and Leigh introduces the topic with a warning and some advice.
Most people use the phrase “online community” very loosely …and it is important that we try and [...]

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2008 09 07 Communities
Courses and Workshops
Education
FOC08 Comments (0)

Here comes everybody

The Power of Organizing without Organizations
I have just posted my introduction to the Moodle Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Course which is about to start. The course, which has already been nicknamed MOOC (Massively Open Online Course) because of the number of participants - about 1600), will be co-facilitated by Georges Siemens and Stephen Downes
Although [...]

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2008 09 04 CCK08
Courses and Workshops
Education
Trends Comments (7)