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 issuesForgive my (hopefully temporary) identity crisis and the switching of files and content from one domain to the other. Wide Open Spaces is up and running again here. Beespace will be the main portal, will link to this blog and contain other goodies still in the making :-) Please bear with me while I experiment [...]
Tagged identity bloggingParticipate and spread the word. Freedom requires not only eternal vigilance but also sustained dialogue and reflection on its nature and meaning.
Tagged Free BurmaParticipating tomorrow in the first blogcamp Brazil. The event is going to spread throughout the WE at Casa Gafanhoto.
It will be interesting to discuss with bloggers from different communities the kind of content and information their blogs generate and how helpful they are in their areas. Interesting issues for me, as a language teacher, are [...]
I have just got an invitation from Patricia Glogowski to join Shelfari , a social media website for book lovers launched last November. You can add titles to your personal bookshelf, connect with friends, browse other users’ bookshelves, recommend books and engage in book discussions. Thanks Patricia, not a bad idea, but something you [...]
Tagged Technology, ToolsMy mind is exhausted, my thoughts fragmented… Many of the questions keep recurring, unanswered. No time or peace to dig deeper, digest or make sense. Cogs in the machine of industrial times, nodes in the knowledge network…
emerging, harnessing, retrieving
disruptive
cogs
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Will Richardson’s latest post is on blogging tools and how the different platforms are becoming easier to handle and offering more and more options for educators like privacy and transparency.
My classes are blogging openly using Wordpress.com as the main tool to which a number of sattelites are connected (Flickr, 43Things, Places and People, [...]
Originally uploaded by beewebhead.
Back from my two-week tour in Europe, which encompassed Barcelona (+some parts of Catalunya), Paris and London. It was a much needed break , a cyclical journey retracing the steps of those who got their inspiration long before me, positioning myself [...]
Tagged PersonalOriginally uploaded by beewebhead.
After a week in Catalunya (Barcelona, coast and countryside) with my son and fiancee, I came to spend the weekend in Paris. This present journey has taken me to the past and to the future.
The first and last time I was in [...]
Later this morning I will be giving the presentation on Open and Participatory Webpublishing together with Patricia Glogowski, with whom I co-moderated the last EVO session on the subject. While preparing the handouts, I remembered the magazine cover and poster offered by Flickr Toys.
Here are the results, which just shows how all these social tools [...]