beespace.net » cparty http://beespace.net Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:22:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Impressions and presentation at CParty http://beespace.net/impressions-and-presentation-at-cparty/ http://beespace.net/impressions-and-presentation-at-cparty/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:50:13 +0000 Barbara Dieu http://beewebhead.net/2008/02/13/impressions-and-presentation-at-cparty/ Continue reading →]]> This is my 2nd day at CParty, interacting with mostly youngsters from different tribes (gaming, bloggers, barcampers, open source geeks, robotics, digital divide activists, greens), who are camping and mingling at the Bienal building. A show of cameras, journalists, ego massage but also sharing and lots and lots of conversations. I have documented some of it in Flickr.

A young journalist, in search of news, expressed his astonishment when he asked me for an interview “What are you doing here? Do you have to be here?” When I dutifully explained, he couldn’t contain himself any longer and fired: “Do you think you are discriminated against?”, Jeez…I stared at him dumbly. “What do you mean?” He was in turn disconcerted…I mean…your age…you being a woman and a teacher…”

Hey! I did feel very educational dispelling the dualistic digital immigrant and digital native stereotype. Here is a pic of another interview (in Spanish) which shows me with the barcampers (notice the reference to age/gender/job here again: Barbara tiene 54 años,/los chicos de barcamp). Can’t a 54-year-old teacher feel like a “chica de barcamp”? They have so much to teach me!

UPDATE: An interview for Nova Escola which highlights key points.

and here is a mix, remix and re-use presentation on blogs…and communities of practice…

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Getting ready to spend my week inside Campus Party Brazil. For a whole week (from February 11th to 18th 2008), thousands of participants interested in the digital world will come for one of the largest events of the electronic/digital world. At the same time, the Mobile World Congress is taking place in Barcelona (which reminds me one of the first urgent items on my sabbatical planning list is a mobile)

Teachers, students, researchers, scientists, artists, journalists, entrepreneurs and all those interested in the latest technological trends will attend the event to freely exchange content and share their digital experience.

I will be involved in a presentation about blogs and also helping out and participating in the Campus Barcamp.

There is a general livestream covering the event. I will try to keep you updated (in English) twittering, flickering and posting here.

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