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
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 … Read more
Howard Rheingold tells us in this short video snippet why he decided to start teaching courses about social media, using social media. Is the message effective and is the video the best way to transmit it? update: and how he does it Re: Participatory Learning and Social MediaHow I structure my classes in person and … Read more
We have just started the second semester of 2008 and my intended quiet and leisurely sabbatical has turned into frantic activity again – as intense as when at school with my students (miss them but not the system). I’ve had some busy weeks lately trying out, creating and deleting databases and scripts, surfing in circles … 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
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
Forgive my (hopefully temporary) identity crisis and the switching of files and content from one domain to the other. Wide Open Spaces is up and running again here. Beespace will be the main portal, will link to this blog and contain other goodies still in the making 🙂 Please bear with me while I experiment … Read more
Today I got a fright…when I tried to open Bee online, I had a blank page. This is the problem when we have free hosts…when something goes wrong, we cannot complain. When it finally came alive, Harry’s Blogspeak comment line was gone (it used to be a free service). Fortunately, he was kind and considerate … Read more