How do YOU connect online?
A quick brainstorm on Wordle generated this Word Cloud to answer D’Arcy Norman’s question.
Tagged connecting networking connectivismEducation
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 [...]
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, TrendsCampus 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 [...]
OER at STOA
Ewout ter Haar (STOA) and Carolina Rossinni (Berkman Centre) organized an open informal meeting on Open Educational Resources at USP last Friday morning. Invited international speakers, Melissa Hagemann ( OSI ) and Joel Thierstein ( Associate Provost from Rice University and CEO from Connexions ) came together with a group of Brazilian academics to give a [...]
Tagged OER, STOASame or different languages, cultures and practices?
Last August, I was honoured to receive an invitation from Larry Johnson and Alan Levine to join the New Media Consortium (NMC) 2008-9 Horizon Project Advisory Board (pdf file), a multi-disciplinary and international team whose annual work informs the annual Horizon Report on Emerging Technologies for teaching, learning and creative expression. I was a bit [...]
Tagged Education, Horizon Report, NMC, openness, OSS, Praxis, TechnologyParticipatory 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, [...]
Tagged abciber, Collaboration, Jimmy Wales, participatory media, rodaviva, Social Tools, wikibrasil, wikimediaRoda 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 [...]
Tagged broadcasting, creativity, innovation, interactive media, Jane Bennett, Roda Viva, TV Cultura