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

In and out of the box

Aaron points to the Blogging Toolbox: 120+ Resources for Bloggers. Useful for beginners, who have it all in one place, lists of links à la Web 1.0 are still useful apparently,malgre del.icio.us What I really love though is the Flickr Do More and the Toy Collection. Mashups are a fantastic invention and the possibility to … Read more

FlickrCC

FlickrCC is an ingenious hack signed by Peter Shanks, allowing you to easily find photos on flickr that were released under the creative commons license. I will suggest it as a must-have on all my students’ blogs. There is a long list of royalty-free photographs on del.icio.us dekita as well.

A Day on Earth

Michel Benard invited me through Flickr to join him on the “A Day on Earth” project . His idea: let’s all on the planet, take a photograph on 09/29 and share it with the world on a common blog. I was in class this afternoon…this is what my common day is like in Sao Paulo. … Read more

Back from Holidays

I have just logged into this blog today and realized that I have not posted anything since June. This is the first time in two years I skip a month here. Not that it matters so much, but for someone who has been blogevangelizing for some time, this is not a good example to set … Read more

Firewalls of the Mind

Firewalls of the Mind, originally uploaded by bee1. In Lesley’s Graham’s Peregrinations, I found the tip to Letter James, which allows you to insert a personalized text on a given picture motif. I first heard the expression firewalls of the mind used by Vance Stevens . As I looked at the Berlin Wall photo, I … Read more

The Mug Shots Project

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Mug Projeto Tamar, originally uploaded by bee1. Sergei Gridushko from Belarus started the mug shots project with his university students and I decided to join him with my 10th graders in Brazil. … Read more