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Blogs in the classroom

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

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2009 Horizon Report

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 … 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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Colloquium on Global Communication

Elizabeth Hanson-Smith sent an invitation to members on the Webheads in Action list to participate online in the Colloquium on Global Communication for the The Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia in Moscow. I accepted to give a presentation together with … 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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Here comes everybody

The 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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Once Upon a School

Juliano Spyer has just directed me to the “Once upon a school” presentation made by David Eggers, Ted Prize Awards 2008 winner. Eggers speaks about 826 Valencia, a San Francisco-based writing and tutoring lab for young people, and urges more … Continue reading

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Impressions and presentation at CParty

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 … Continue reading

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