Monthly Archive for January, 2008

The Power of Blogging

I was just going through some tweets, when I came across this message by Barbara Ganley,

Though overwhelmed with little things to do for the blogging4educators sessions, I decided to take a look to see what kinds of connections where happening through blogging as this is the main aspect we’ve been discussing and participants are eagerly asking questions about how to foster conversations. What a surprise to find such a deep conversation between the student and the author of a video he was reviewing.

The Power of MicroBlogging

There’s not much time to say here everything I’d like to. Too much going on in our session blogging4educators since today we dropped the curtains and our avid participants were already there chatting, interacting and finding themselves around or getting a little lost.
However, I just wanted to keep it registered here something that I find quite amazing and it’s even more clear to me now. For the past year, I’ve been twittering, not so frequently as I wished, but I’m always there through Skype (I get my twitter updates through my skype account) and learning from others. There’s always a resource, a podcast, a blog mentioned by someone in my network that takes me deeper into subjects that I feel like exploring. No, twittering is not shallow. It establishes human contact with powerful mind connections. I guess nobody has the real notion of how it is impacting other people’s lives. Interesting enough that people that I’ve never seen f2f have been giving so many invaluable insights from this brave new online world. Microblogging has proliferated as microspheres of our daily lives in the personal spectrum, as well as professional. It is faster, dynamic, a living thing. I started with Twitter, signed up for pownce, though never used. And just today I checked Gladys Baya’s Tumblr to realize she’s been posting wonderful things there, little treasures of her own. All of a sudden I get to her own world in a different perspective. I’ve been interacting with her so intensely for the past months in preparation to the blogging4educators, but then I stumble into her Tumblr. Suprise. A chest of Gladys’ bits, different from the ones I’m used to, even more complete. Microblogging is another sphere of one’s many facets.
After the pleasant moment of satisfaction to “see” Gladys through different lens, I came across one of her bits that called my attention, kwout. A very cool application and as user-friendly as any web2.0 should be. Thanks, Gladys, for sharing your Tumblr and your other micro-side! Here’s the result of my test with kwout. Just loved it! Microblogging. Connectivity power in a few sentences, fragments of oneself.
Related post: Twitter Strikes me Again

Blogging4Educators 2008

The edublogging adventure is about to start! Well, in fact, participants seem so eager to begin sharing and collaborating that we’ve had a great number of exchanges among them, even though our blogging session hasn’t started yet.
b4eI’ve been working non-stop to give the final touches to our session open spaces together with a very special group of educators. They’re scattered all over the world. The fun thing is that it seems that we never sleep. When it is night for me, Mary Hillis in Japan is there working, then there’s also Nina in Ukraine with a different time zone. So, it’s a 24/7 Blogging Team eager to share what we’ve been experiencing for the past few years individually and with our groups.
The session spaces are shaping up, full of interesting content and resources. Certainly too much to be explored, but the great thing of the Web2.0 is that all the online spaces will be kept open for further explorations when the session is over. Learning never ends. The connections are always beginning with different nodes that will enhance our teaching and will make us better people, more socially engaged and culturally aware.

Testing Blogging Photos and iPhone

This is the brave new world of mobile learning, sharing, showing, reflecting…I’m in awe to find out how to post a photo from the iPhone to Flickr and blog about it. I was just commenting with a friend that I had to find a way to post my iPhone photos directly to Flickr. Yes. It is possible. Flickr gives you a unique email to send the photos to and magic happens. I’m sure many people have been using the system, but it’s exhilarating to find new Web2.0 tricks that can capture instant and precious moments in our lives. Imagine the possibilities for a class of teens! I’d better keep exploring Flickr. I’ve been using it for a while, but never really had time to explore to its fullest.
I’m smiling just like my son in this photo. I’d call this iPhone-Flickr-Blogging experience Mobility2.0.
How cool is it?





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