Ewout 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 … Read more
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 Horizon Report on Emerging Technologies for teaching, learning and creative expression. I was a bit … Read more
Last night, Bel Colluci, from TV Cultura asked me (through a quick message on Gtalk) to participate in an “experiential participatory transmission” they are conducting: streaming the Roda Viva interview program raw and live footage on the Web a week before its polished taped version is shown on TV. The idea is also to get online … Read more
I have been increasingly invited to take part in events, conferences and even keynotes. So far so good – it means people deem I have something to give and share. However, with very few exceptions, I notice a recurring pattern – the invitations are one way only – not only you are not paid for … Read more
On the Online Toys and Tools discussion forum, Sirin Soyoz from Istambul states As far as I experience, it is instructional design that facilitates learning and learners must take on new roles in the learning process. This is very much the discussion now taking place in Week 6 of the FOC08 course, which I am … Read more
I foolishly assumed that by giving Wordle the feed to my blog, it would automatically scan ALL the posts for word frequency and I would be able to visualize the most common semantic fields covered. Not yet there but Jonathan Feinberg (and IBM) are on it. Like George says on the Connectivism Course Forum: Given … Read more
I will try to bundle two weeks of questions, readings and reflections on what I have observed until now. What is an online community? This is the first question in the FOC08 course and Leigh introduces the topic with a warning and some advice. Most people use the phrase “online community” very loosely …and it is important that … Read more
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 number of participants – about 1600), will be co-facilitated by Georges Siemens and Stephen Downes … Read more
When observing and reacting, I relate first and foremost to human beings. I do not believe this springs from my need of belonging, building a role or forming a community. What I have observed: Some people trying to understand how all this happens but do not manage to follow as they expect, feel they are … Read more
Fortunately, I do have some of the technical skills the course requires and know how to find my way in a distributed environment. However, as I mentioned before, I was consuming, commenting and contributing to f2f encounters and trying to digest them in the blog as well so I did not post anything FOC08 on … Read more