February 2005 – Barbara Dieu

The Mug Shots Project

February 25, 2005 by Barbara Dieu

.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

Rebels

February 10, 2005 by Barbara Dieu

Bird in Bariloche, which Ale Weser posted to her blog and Aaron’s subsequent comment on it, took me to a poem I wrote about 4 years ago… funny how connections are made. Many would like to be that bird perched on top of the tall eucalyptus tree ready to stay or fly away free to … Read more

OSN 2005: Exploring on-line tools for collaboration

February 9, 2005 by Barbara Dieu

The Online Social Networks 2005 Conference has just started. Over 300 people around the world have signed up and I have just logged in as a special guest 😉 Howard Rheingold ( SmartMobs) , Lisa Kimball (Group Jazz, Joi Ito (ICANN) and Brian Reich (Mindshare Interactive Campaigns) are the keynoters. They organized this online conference … Read more

Can RSS help learners and educators?

February 2, 2005 by Barbara Dieu

Listening now to Mary Harrsch’s presentation at Learning Times. 16 people in the room and Mary is sharing with us her historical sites and photos while she explains how to use different tools like Flickr and how they help her create a community of practice around shared interests. Some sentences and themes that are emerging … Read more

The Internet is About People

February 1, 2005 by Barbara Dieu

Amy Gahran in Contentious blog says…”contrary to popular opinion, the internet is not really about technology. It’s about people, specifically how people communicate. Despite the best efforts of evolution and civilization, human beings still have a lot of rough edges – individually and collectively.” Aaron Campbell in Under the Influence of Epoche points out:” blogging … Read more