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

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

Learning to Interact and Interacting to Learn

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

A turn of twitters

While loading my photos from London to Flickr, I surfed toLeigh´s wiki, clicked on Graham Wegner, who is teaching generation Z. I eyeballed his Authentic Identity, laughed at the identification with Hugh McLeod’s cartoon, which I repost here (so you do not have to click on yet another link) because this is what prompted me … Read more

Mojiti

Lilian Starobinas , blogging at Discurso Citado, points me to Mojiti, a new platform and tool through which you can collect your favorite videos from top video sharing sites online and bring them all together to one place, transforming a passive experience into one that is engaging and exciting . It allows you to personalize … Read more

All Open

Check out from the wealth of resources, collaborative projects, ideas and creative remixes which spring from openness on the web. Open Source Cinema is a collaborative documentary project to create a feature film about copyright in the digital age. Brett Gaylor, the man behind it, gives his perspective on copyright through a manifesto. Chris Harvey … Read more