A Porfolio
Barbara Dieu My mind is exhausted, my thoughts fragmented… Many of the questions keep recurring, unanswered. No time or peace to dig deeper, digest or make sense. Cogs in the machine of industrial times, nodes in the knowledge network… emerging, harnessing, retrieving disruptive cogs nodes codes playing with words
Almost a week has gone by since I returned from Florianopolis and I have not yet had time to blog about it. Ouf, c’est la course. It was a most energizing weekend, during which I met dynamic and engaged young people I would not have come into contact with, had not been this event. Not … Read more
The copy of Pierre Levy’s Collective Intelligence I bought online arrived just as I was packing my backpack to fly to Barcamp Floripa. I threw it into my bag and started reading it as soon as the plane took off. The quotes below set the mood for the new “anthropological space” I first experienced in … Read more
I am listening now to Leigh Blackall´s keynote for the WiA online convergence. He insists on flexibility when creating content under the Creative Commons License. Check his slides on Flickr and the recording should be up on the Webheads site soon.
Originally uploaded by beewebhead. Stumbled across the Eduserv symposium when Alan Levine posted a reminder on Twitter. My first time video/sound combination of real and virtual in SL. Very exciting to think of the possibilities it offers, but the connection was slow so I had trouble in following it and got disconnected. As Stephen Downes … Read more
I will be participating in two events on the same weekend – from May 18th to May 20th I will be inFlorianopolis, SC attending Barcamp Floripa. The first barcamp in Brazil also happened in Florianopolis …but last Septembe, when I was flying to NZ for the FLNW. Barcamp SP, which I was very much looking … Read more
Through Stephen Downes I got this tip to Make Internet TV, which comes in handy as I am planning to have a group of students produce their own hero journeys using one of Carol Pearson’s heroic archetypes. Planning, writing , filming and performing their own stories may prove a stimulating quest for all of us. … Read more
Will Richardson’s latest post is on blogging tools and how the different platforms are becoming easier to handle and offering more and more options for educators like privacy and transparency. My classes are blogging openly using WordPress.com as the main tool to which a number of sattelites are connected (Flickr, 43Things, Places and People, del.icio.us, … Read more
Barbara Dieu Originally uploaded by Pentti Impiö. Teemu Leinonen invited me some time ago to present at ITK2007, Interactive Technology in Education – the largest conference in Finland about information- and communication technology in educational use. I got worried when I learnt I would far away from home on the day of the conference and … Read more
Originally uploaded by beewebhead. Back from my two-week tour in Europe, which encompassed Barcelona (+some parts of Catalunya), Paris and London. It was a much needed break , a cyclical journey retracing the steps of those who got their inspiration long before me, positioning myself in different spaces, with different people at different times, reflecting … Read more