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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) and Pedro Valente (journalist).  It also led me to the WikiBrasil event in the evening, [...]

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2008 11 12 Barbara Dieu Media Comments (0)

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 before its polished taped version is shown on TV. The idea is also [...]

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2008 10 21 Barbara Dieu Education
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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  to network and talk about our practice. Although we are all highly connected  and/or very [...]

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2008 10 14 Barbara Dieu Communities
Instructional Design
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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 - the invitations are one way only - not only you are not paid for [...]

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2008 09 22 Barbara Dieu CCK08
Courses and Workshops
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The influent blogueuse

Vile gueuse! Des biens étranges affaires… From Loic Le Meur’s blog, a hilarious parody (in French) on navel gazing blogging. Delicious. À croquer.  Just one of the many different communities and ways of seeing the world on the web. Food for thought coming from the many conversations overheard on the “miss-influences” and behaviour of the [...]

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2008 09 01 Barbara Dieu Blog Camp SP
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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 conversations,  a number of workshops will be offered for those willing to learn more about [...]

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2008 08 31 Barbara Dieu Blog Camp SP
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Events and Conferences
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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 Lab, led by Professor Rogério da Costa.
I was pleasantly surprised by the modern, very organized [...]

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2008 08 30 Barbara Dieu Events and Conferences
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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 the Cmap Tools. Teachers will act as catalysers while Microsoft will intervene as technology experts.
Dr [...]

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2008 08 28 Barbara Dieu Conceptual Maps
Events and Conferences
Trends
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Web Ideologies - a Regional Map

Through Pedro Markun. GJOL and the Italian blog Vision Post, a clickable map (still in Italian but to be translated into English, Spanish, Portuguese and other languages soon) depicts 15 years of theories, encounters, utopias and projections on the Web. (click on the map below to enlarge and again on the other page for the [...]

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2008 08 20 Barbara Dieu Trends Comments (0)

Why teach social media?

Howard Rheingold tells us in this short video snippet why he decided to start teaching courses about social media, using social media.

Is the message effective and is the video the best way to transmit it?
update: and how he does it
Re: Participatory Learning and Social MediaHow I structure my classes in person and online to support [...]

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2008 08 16 Barbara Dieu Video Comments (0)