A Porfolio
Barbara Dieu Through Loic Le Meur, le French blogueur, who has just moved to San Francisco, I got this link to the 10 Future Web Trends. I wonder how this will translate into education and if any new media is being used at the French lycee where his son is now. I would love to see my … Read more
The TALO network reaches once again beyond the technology enhanced online space to engage in proactive e-learning hands-on events. The focus of the FLNW2 trip to Thailand from January 16th to 28th is to seek ways to network in a wider and more culturally diverse reference group and give both physical and virtual participants the … Read more
Last week, while I was chatting informally (on Skype) with Alex Hayes , he invited me to contribute with a definition of M-Learning for the CIT National TAFE M-learning conference he is giving in two weeks. Most people associate M-Learning to mobile phones and so did I until a short time ago. However, there is … Read more
Manuel Netto and Lucia Freitas officially started Blogcamp Brazil ..150 enrolled…about 70 here in the main room and more outside. Although an unconference is usually descentralized and usually spreads out in several rooms according to different themes, all crowded in here around Wasabi (Fresh News from your Friends Beta Version), a combination of Orkut and … Read more
Participating tomorrow in the first blogcamp Brazil. The event is going to spread throughout the WE at Casa Gafanhoto. It will be interesting to discuss with bloggers from different communities the kind of content and information their blogs generate and how helpful they are in their areas. Interesting issues for me, as a language teacher, … Read more
This morning, I attended online the second talk of the series “Writing in a Multiliterate Flat World”, a presential three-day workshop Vance Stevens is giving in the framework of the 26th Summer Course open learning initiative led by the Open University of the Basque Country in San Sebastian, Spain. There were only four of us … Read more
I have just got an invitation from Patricia Glogowski to join Shelfari , a social media website for book lovers launched last November. You can add titles to your personal bookshelf, connect with friends, browse other users’ bookshelves, recommend books and engage in book discussions. Thanks Patricia, not a bad idea, but something you could … Read more
A quick update: finally on holidays (from school) but still very active. The article “Pedagogical affordances of syndication, aggregation, and mash-up of content on the Web”, I worked on with Vance Stevens in the past two weeks, has just been published in the June edition of TESL-EJ . On Friday 6th, I will be giving … Read more
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
celular antropafago Originally uploaded by fbar. François Bar has just sent me a link to the Abaporu blog, part of a research project he is doing with Francis Pisani and Matt Weber on the appropriation of new technologies, more specifically mobile technology. Abaporu (aba = man; poru = to eat, in tupi-guarani) is also the … Read more