Instructional Design , presented by Paula Carolei and Andrea Filatro , will be the next meeting (of a series) organized by Praxis. Once a month, actors from various institutions of the educational scene here in Sao Paulo get together f2f to network and talk about our practice. Although we are all highly connected and/or very … 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
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
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
