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, TechnologyThe Power of Organizing without Organizations
I have just posted my introduction to the Moodle Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Course which is about to start. The course, which has already been nicknamed MOOC (Massively Open Online Course) because of the number of participants – about 1600), will be co-facilitated by Georges Siemens and Stephen Downes
Although [...]
Socializing and Connecting
As I joined late, I had a certain difficulty in finding who the other people from the course were for there was little interaction with them in the first phase. There is an introduction thread in the discussion area of the wiki but this, from what I gather, served mostly for people to [...]
I had seen the FOC08 course on Wikieducator but did not realize it was happeningt until Alex nudged me. The opportunity for conversation that drew me in - educators I know f2f , others with whom I have collaborated online, names I have seen in other spaces and places and finally the possibility of meeting [...]
Tagged Communities, COP, facilitation online, FOC08, multicultural issuesOff 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 [...]
Tagged blogcamp connecting networking