Category Archives: Technology

Back to the Roots: some background

Barbara Ganley’s (the bg from bgblogging) invitation to take part in the Guest Series: Food Stories: Memory, Culture, Perspective of her Open View Gardens project took me back in time and roused me from blogging torpor (slow-blogging would be an … Continue reading

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How do YOU connect online?

A quick brainstorm on Wordle generated this Word Cloud to answer D’Arcy Norman’s question.

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Blogs in the classroom

Inevitable, preventable or it does not really matter? By BarryD. on Flickr

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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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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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Participatory 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) … Continue reading

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Roda 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 … Continue reading

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Instructional Design

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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A nagging question

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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