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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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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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Tesol, WiA and New York

I am back home in São Paulo after an exhausting but delightful 10-day stay in the Big Apple, where I not only had the opportunity to attend some great presentations, meet up with the webheads in action, extend contacts and conversations but also talk to ex-students of mine, see my cousin, walk around, photograph [...]

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Going Solo

This post is long overdue thanks to demon PROCRASTIGNAT, which Augustine, I and many others have more than often met. As she warns us, mind the gap!
long gaps of time without writing make you feel guilty and now the gap has stretched so wide that it’s almost an ocean…
So eaasy to insert a gap!

My thoughts [...]

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Campus Party Brasil

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 [...]

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Spaces and places

Some context on the spaces/places I am immersed in (full screen)

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Cooking up a Storm in Education

Robyn Jay (a.k.a. Bubbling Brooks) and Alexander Hayes (a.k.a Limitless Infinity) invited me to deliver the closing keynote for the Sydney E-learning event organized by Learnscope NSW on November 2nd (check your time). Here is a more complete program of the workshops offered and a link to the NSW Learnscope Blog

I will be interacting from [...]

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Learning 2.0 in Shangai

Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach skyped me the other day to ask me whether I take part in panel presentation she will be giving for the Learning 2.0 conference in Shangai on Monday 17th 9 am (check your local time). Got the time wrong and missed it . Appeared there 24 hours later. Pathetic!
Sheryl [...]

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Live Blogging Platform

How does it feel to be an independent TV broadcaster?
Although still in beta, Moguluspromises to give you
everything you need to launch your own live 24/7 television broadcaster, blending your webcam, video clips from YouTube, and your own original content into your own unique TV program.
This may transform the dreaded ppt presentations in class or [...]

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U-Learning

Last week, while I was chatting informally (on Skype) with Alex Hayes , he invited me to contribute with a definition of M-Learning for the CIT National TAFE M-learning conference he is giving in two weeks. Most people associate M-Learning to mobile phones and so did I until a short time ago. However, there is [...]

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