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

Cultural and Technological Appropriation

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

cogs, nodes & codes

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

Barcamp Floripa

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

Virtual worlds, real learning?

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

Awakening The Heroes Within

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

My students’ blogging environments

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