A group of fantastic Webheads is getting ready to submit the proposal for next year’s Electronic Village Online Session. It’s just amazing to have 9 amazing ladies collaborating on a Wiki to draft our proposal, review what was done, add new features, suggest new ways of doing old stuff, interacting, sharing personal matters, discussing about the e-tools to be used, making sense out of knowledge to be shared with other educators around the globe eager to learn as much as we are! It’s uplifting, it activates my brain, it excites me, it makes me want to go way beyond, take the plunge into unknown cyberspaces. This it true networking, knowledge co-creation, friendship. I feel so close to all of them, although I only know Erika face-to-face.
We’ve been using a PBwiki and a Yahoogroups to collaborate, I’ve just build a Pagecast in
Pageflakes to show the girls its potential and to try something new for the next session (Inspired by Vance’s own
Pageflakes), we’ve created a Wiki, a Blog, a Yahoogroups for next session. We subscribed for a bookmarks account, but we’re yet to decide if it’s going to be a
delicious account or
blinklist. Negotiation is a key element in the team. Nothing is imposed. It is all discussed and the group looks for a solution that will make everybody comfortable in the learning process. We’re getting there even with everybody’s busy schedule. Everyone, in its own special way, contributes to the whole.
What could be more rewarding than being among friends, have great fun, learn and share with others what you’ve learned? What is the name people tag it? Web2.0, School2.0, Learning2.0? Well, I guess it’s a mix of all we’ve been experiencing online, so let’s just call it Life2.0! Thanks, girls, for giving me this opportunity!
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We had a blast with the gastronomic talk and very special guests. The topic food generated a non-stop conversation full of yummy stuff for more than an hour. We talked about typical dishes in Brazil, the US, Switzerland, Russia, Ukraine and Egypt. The dialogue was enriched by the presence of Lúcia Santos from Brazil talking about a very simple and easy to make appetizer, Nina Lyunkln talking about typical dishes in Russia and Ukraine, and Randa Effat about a wonderful sweet that she prepares in Egypt.