International Educational Perspectives_2

The first International Education and Educational Technology Meeting was opened by Marcos Teles, from Mentat, who introduced, welcomed the international guests and announced the common structure to be covered: context, main educational indicators and best practices for application of technology in basic education of respective countries. Denise Aguiar, the grand-daughter of Amadeu Aguiar, Bradesco Bank … Read more

International Educational Perspectives

As a member of the Praxis Community, I was invited to participate in the 1st International Education and Educational Technologies Meeting, sponsored by Fundação Bradesco. The presenters, who will be also taking part of the 8th International E-learning Congress in Brazil the following days, are: Paula de Waal, from Padua, Italy; Kwanyoung Kim from South … Read more

Campus Party Colombia

Campus Party Colombia starts today in Bogotá and features a round of interesting conferences, activities and workshops aimed at the public who visits the event. Carolina Botero is in charge of Campus Blog and Teemu Leinonen (read Flosse Posse) will be presenting on Inquiry Learning Online – Utilizing Network for Capacity Building. Last February I … Read more

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 and … Read more

Keynote venues

Here are the links of the venues of the e-learning presentation I have just got from the NSW Learnscope blog For those of you unable to attend the face-to-face Elearning07 event there are two opportunities for you and your team colleagues to get involved, both dependent on internet connections and your local firewall settings : … Read more

Preparing the menu for conversations 1

I have prepared some appetizers, some food for thought throughout this week before the keynote. If you have a little time, please throw in your two cents. The questions will be posted in the various social media (twitter, Facebook, lists) and collected for the conference. You can post the answer here, on the wiki (open) … Read more

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 … Read more

Mobilize This

Mobilize This connects creative Australian youth using emerging technology. A series of discussions and forums hosted by several educators will run from 7am to 16 pm on October 19th, Darwin time (check your time zone). Several Australian organizations are backing it. Read, participate and find out how digital technologies are changing the way young people … Read more