Category Archives: Events and Conferences

Did 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 … Continue reading

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Campus 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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Same 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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Blogcamp SP

Off to the second day of Blogcamp SP, an informal gathering of bloggers, journalists, midia crowd and social activists which is happening again at Espaço Gafanhoto. This year, besides the usual list of suggestions posted at the entrance, networking and … Continue reading

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A hectic haptic heretic week

The immersion process started this week at Fapcom with the 3rd Communication Symposium.  I had never heard of the place before this – a recently built Catholic college offering new media studies. They have recently partnered with PUC Collective Intelligence … Continue reading

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From Meaningful Learning to a World Collaborative Net of Knowledge Builders

Last Wednesday, Dr Alberto Cañas’ presented on Cmap Tools at PUCSP (Pontifícia Universidade Católica) The event was sponsored by Microsoft, which has recently partnered with the university to develop a collaborative portal (Potencial Ilimitado) for students to develop knowledge using … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Educacamp

The first Educacamp in São Paulo which will bring together edubloggers takes place at Espaço Gafanhoto next Saturday, June 28th. It has been organized by Lucia Freitas (read Ladybug), Ceila Santos and Cybele Meyer. It will be a good opportunity … Continue reading

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