Author Archives: Barbara Dieu

Participatory Media and Practices

Posted on November 12, 2008 by Barbara Dieu

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) … Continue reading →

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Colloquium on Global Communication

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Barbara Dieu

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 … Continue reading →

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Roda Viva – Interactive TV experiment

Posted on October 21, 2008 by Barbara Dieu

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 … Continue reading →

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Instructional Design

Posted on October 14, 2008 by Barbara Dieu

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  … Continue reading →

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1st Web Curriculo

Posted on September 30, 2008 by Barbara Dieu

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 … Continue reading →

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A nagging question

Posted on September 22, 2008 by Barbara Dieu

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 … Continue reading →

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On learning and instructional design

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Barbara Dieu

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 … Continue reading →

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Wordle on Beespace

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Barbara Dieu

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 … Continue reading →

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On community, facilitating, moderating and teaching

Posted on September 7, 2008 by Barbara Dieu

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 … Continue reading →

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Here comes everybody

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Barbara Dieu

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 … Continue reading →

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