How do YOU connect online?
A quick brainstorm on Wordle generated this Word Cloud to answer D’Arcy Norman’s question.
Tagged connecting networking connectivismA quick brainstorm on Wordle generated this Word Cloud to answer D’Arcy Norman’s question.
Tagged connecting networking connectivismOn 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 [...]
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 [...]
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, TrendsThe 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, W3CEdney 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 [...]
Could not resist this invite from Cazé (Espaço Gafanhoto) in my inbox – Black Sheep Only and confirmed my presence for Wednesday, 17th (the Results ON Day) to hear what an intrepid group of web entrepreneurs has to say about innovation, entrepreneurship, how crisis is a synonym to opportunity, reflect on strategies and maybe [...]
Tagged entrepreneurship, resultsOn dayEwout 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, STOALast 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, TechnologyLast 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 [...]