Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Kids will be kids

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 … Continue reading

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Tweets on 2008-06-11

@coyenator “We” really are smarter than me – totally agree – but how do “We” earn “My” living? # @lucychili lots of words, written and spoken, flashing in inter-combinations from distant places and times immemorial 🙂 # @coyenator P2P? http://tinyurl.com/hgfjc … Continue reading

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Learning in the 21st Century

Alex Hayes, Janet Hawtin and other members of the TALO list are mobilizing a “Learning in the 21st Century” f2f round table and discussion on Safety and Privacy online. It will hopefully involve not only educators but also parents, students, … Continue reading

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Tesol, WiA and New York

I am back home in São Paulo after an exhausting but delightful 10-day stay in the Big Apple, where I not only had the opportunity to attend some great presentations, meet up with the webheads in action, extend contacts and … Continue reading

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Privacy and Social Networks

I got this excellent video from Neli Mengalli on Friendfeed about privacy in social networks like for instance Facebook and Orkut. Most people do not realize what lies behind the apparent ” free safety” of these closed gardens. This video … Continue reading

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Live Blogging Platform

How does it feel to be an independent TV broadcaster? Although still in beta, Moguluspromises to give you everything you need to launch your own live 24/7 television broadcaster, blending your webcam, video clips from YouTube, and your own original … Continue reading

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Mojitos in London

Josie Fraser is arranging a spring meet-up while I am in London from April 16th to 19th. Mojitos for geeks, edubloggers, educators and like-minded people at Jrinks in Soho, London, on Tuesday 17th April, around 6.15pm. Updating after the meet-up. … Continue reading

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Feevy

Rudolf Ammann pointed me to Feevy, a new cool dynamic aggregator widget by Spanish Compania de las Indias Electronicas. It allows you to display content from other blogs in your website in order of updates. Check out the result here … Continue reading

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Electronic Portfolios

Via Nancy McKeand I got this reference to Dr Helen Barret’s how to create an electronic portfolio using WordPress, which is what I have been showing my stds to do. I have been also trying to collect my stuff scattered … Continue reading

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Talo Swapmeeting

Talo Swap meeting started in Adelaide, AU and will be shorty followed by WomanAdelaide. JoKay and Corwin hosted a group in Second Life (Wasp and Boracay) while Stephen Ridgeway and Alex Hayes transmitted the event live through Breeze. It was … Continue reading

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