The World Wide Web was invented in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, who envisioned an open, universal information system connecting all people. Now, despite the fact that many attribute to Tim Berner’s Lee the expression the read and write web and that he has been going on it since forever, he is not the one who … Read more
Edney de Souza (Interney) is in charge of the Campus Blog at the 2nd edition of the national Campus Party, which will take place in São Paulo from January 19th to 25th 2009. The mega event, sponsored by Futura Networks and Telefonica, was first launched in Spain and is now yearly organized in Brazil, Colombia … Read more
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 week (it’s already old news), we had the 1st WebCurriculo conference, which took place at PUC SP and was blogged and streamed live. I submitted a paper about my 10-year school experience using social tools, networks and interaction in the classroom to complement, extend and transform the curriculum. This was a challenge I set out … Read more
Off to the second day of Blogcamp SP, an informal gathering of bloggers, journalists, midia crowd and social activists which is happening again at Espaço Gafanhoto. This year, besides the usual list of suggestions posted at the entrance, networking and conversations, a number of workshops will be offered for those willing to learn more about … Read more
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 … Read more
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 the Cmap Tools. Teachers will act as catalysers while Microsoft will intervene as technology experts. … Read more
One of the advantages of being on a sabbatical is that you have time on your hands and the possibility of reading all the books you have always wanted to dive into, going to conferences and workshops you’d barely have the strength or energy to attend and being available to meet and talk at length … Read more
The first Educacamp in São Paulo which will bring together edubloggers takes place at Espaço Gafanhoto next Saturday, June 28th. It has been organized by Lucia Freitas (read Ladybug), Ceila Santos and Cybele Meyer. It will be a good opportunity for me to get acquainted with more local educators and find out what how they … Read more
