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This is going to be a new year packed with challenges, good resolutions and good surprises 🙂 The first one has just arrived from Amazon.com – I offered myself a gift for X-mas: a hardcover copy of The New Media Reader. It is thick, heavy and looks very interesting . It also sports a CD … Read more
Somos nos Originally uploaded by beewebhead. From left to right: Grace, Bia, Mary, Eliane, Lilian, me, Salete, Taciro and Debora. We had a good time getting to know each other and telling stories about education.
Last day of classes, end of the year … people celebrating everywhere. Tonight, I am taking part in my first Brazilian Edubloggers f2f encounter with about 30 teachers from Sao Paulo. Others are doing the same all over Brazil. Here it is going to be at the Fran’s Cafe – one of the few wifi … Read more
Le Web 3.0 is almost over in Paris. Here are some links to presentations which I received from the Barcamp Brasil list. Ewan Mc Intosh from Scotland and Mario Asselin from Canada were some of the educators present. The only Brazilian on the list was Andre Avorio (read Etribes and Blaz) , organizer of the … Read more
La Clase Abierta (The Open Classroom) is a blog in Spanish published by Isabel Leal, a teacher of Spanish as a Foreign Language, who worked both in Rumania and France, and her brother Jose Leal, who works for the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Spain and contributes regularly to Aula and Diagonal, El Mundo educational supplements. … Read more
Ewan McIntosh has just skyped me and invited me to take part in the K12 conference Fireside Chat, a warm-up for the K12 Online Conference Week 2 . Lots of participants in the room: Will Richardson, Darren Kuropatwa, Cheryl Oakes, Julie Lindsay, Dave Cormier and many other great bloggers and social tool users. A celebration … Read more
During the FLNW trip, the participants’ adjusting to each other and interaction triggered different reactions, which, as I see it, depend on a number of factors such as our different backgrounds, awareness of the other or lack of it, experience in similar situations, previous and/or future expectations, the importance given to certain contexts, the number … Read more
Just back home, exhausted and jet-lagged but extremely happy to have integrated the 10-day FLNW unconference in New Zealand. Unlike regular conferences, during which presenters pour their words to an audience , the unconference or open space conference boosts the energy by increasing contact and contributions from participants and encourages interaction and connections. We moved … Read more
A ten-day road tour in New Zealand visiting educational centers and talking to different people involved in education: university researchers, vocational school representatives and members from different learning and teaching communities got together to exchange ideas on the future of learning in a networked world. It should be pointed out that most participants were from … Read more
What a rush! I’m now in Santiago do Chile for the 2-day 9th IATEFL conference and only now got a free moment to report on the week in Brasilia (from July 7th to 11th). Got there Friday evening (7th) and Isa Peixoto, who kindly offered to host me for the whole week, came to fetch … Read more