2009 Horizon Report

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The 2009 edition of the Horizon Report is being launched today at the ELI Conference in Orlando. The Horizon Report is a long-running  qualitative research project that seeks to identify and  describe emerging technologies likely to have a large  impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative  expression within learning-focused organizations. It is exciting to see … Read more

Did you know that…

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The World Wide Web was invented in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, who envisioned an open, universal information system connecting all people.  Now, despite the fact that many attribute to Tim Berner’s Lee the expression the read and write web and that he has been going on it since forever, he is not the one who … Read more

Campus Party Brasil 2009

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Edney de Souza (Interney) is in charge of the Campus Blog at the 2nd edition of the national Campus Party, which will take place in São Paulo from January 19th to 25th  2009. The mega event,  sponsored by Futura Networks and Telefonica, was first launched in Spain and  is now yearly organized in Brazil, Colombia … Read more

Black Sheep Only

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Could not resist this invite from Cazé (Espaço Gafanhoto) in my inbox – Black Sheep Only and confirmed my presence for Wednesday, 17th (the Results ON Day)  to hear what an intrepid group of web entrepreneurs has to say about innovation, entrepreneurship, how crisis is a synonym to opportunity, reflect on strategies and maybe start … Read more

OER at STOA

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Ewout ter Haar (STOA) and Carolina Rossinni (Berkman Centre) organized an open informal meeting on Open Educational Resources at USP last Friday morning. Invited international speakers, Melissa Hagemann ( OSI ) and Joel Thierstein ( Associate Provost from Rice University and CEO from Connexions ) came together with a group of Brazilian academics  to give a … Read more

Same or different languages, cultures and practices?

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Last August, I was honoured to receive an invitation from Larry Johnson and Alan Levine to join the New Media Consortium (NMC)  2008-9 Horizon Project Advisory Board (pdf file), a multi-disciplinary and international team whose annual work informs the annual Horizon Report on Emerging Technologies for teaching, learning and creative expression. I was a bit … Read more

Tweets for 2008-11-18

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via @lucychili Watching Back: a list for kids who care about technology and freedom http://craphound.com/littlebrother/ # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Participatory Media and Practices

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This week my interest and involvement with social media in education granted me another invitation to participate as an “interaction facilitator” by twittering the Roda Viva interview with Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder),  together with Pedro Markun (communicator and social activist) and Pedro Valente (journalist).  It also led me to the WikiBrasil event in the evening, … Read more

Tweets for 2008-11-11

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@fugita aproveite pois não sei quando será a próxima vez 🙂 # na ABCiber ouvindo a 2a mesa redonda do dia – por que ler para o público se podemos fazer isso nós mesmos? # passando adiante: flashmob pela liberdade na Internet, contra o PL Azeredo: SP, sexta, 18h, Paulista 900, canteiro central… # testing … Read more