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UMapper – U Map it!

Published on 2008-08-06 in Brazil, BrazilBridges, CarlaArena, Cities, Collaboration, Culture, EFL, Learning, Webheadsinaction, architecture of participation, education, elearning, multiliteracies, web2.0 and webheadsinaction. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .
Vacation, trips. Maps are part of our reference, our guide.
Just found out about UMapper and couldn’t resist testing it. I had fun playing with it, getting different perspectives from the city I love. It’s easy to use and has great potential for the classroom, as students can collaborate to create a roadmap for others to learn more about their countries, hometown, or neighborhood.
Here’s my first example, but I plan to explore more and add photos and more information about the city of my heart, Brasilia!
http://www.umapper.com/maps/view/id/4121/

UMapper / Explore / Brasilia via kwout

Live Blogging with Google Docs

Published on 2008-07-11 in Brazil, BrazilBridges, CarlaArena, Collaboration, Connections, architecture of participation, blogging, braztesol, conference, edutechbr and webheadsinaction. 6 Comments Tags: , , , , , .
Now that BrazTESOL is about to start, and I won’t be there physically to attend presentations, I thought it would be appropriate to share with you what I just read. Interesting way to take notes during a presentation and share it with the world using Google Docs and live blogging.
I’d love to hear from you if you test it.
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/

Official Google Docs Blog via kwout

Brasília on the Web2.0Wednesday

Published on 2008-06-25 in Brazil, BrazilBridges, CarlaArena, Cities, Collaboration, Connections, Culture, People and Places, Podcast, Web2.0Wednesday, voicethread and web2.0. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

Brasília, my hometown.
I was born in Brasília, I grew up there, I’m raising my kids there.
Brasilia so distant now
Brasilia of unique architecture, a planned city becoming mature in unexpected ways
Brasilia, gastronomic, cultural, bureaucratic, green, concrete in appearance
A city of immigrants built in the 1950s
Inaugurated in 1960.
Brasilia still to become Whatever we want it to be
Brasilia, my hometown which I long for
Brasilia, My beloved city that I’ll always call home.
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Although the album had already been prepared some time ago, I took this chance to mix it and remix it with the great incentive of sharing with my blogger buddies. Here’s my contribution to the fun Web2.0Wednesdays.
In 2006, my students produced a podcast about Brasília that you can listen to here. _____________________________________
I’m currently living in Key West, so here’s the Voicethread I created some time ago for my students about Key West.

Here are some of my Key West photos.
 
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Brazilian Uplifting Music

Published on 2008-05-17 in Brazil, BrazilBridges, CarlaArena, Collaboration, Connections, Culture, music, twitter, worldbridges and writingmatrix. 11 Comments

carlaarena’s Music Profile – Users at Last.fm via kwout

It all started with a tweet from Robert Squires. He sent me a funny video in YouTube and he said he was into so Brazilian fine tunes and if I had any suggestions…Well, I kept procrastinating, for it’s totally insane to make a playlist of Brazilian music, as there are so many fantastic singers and songs that I couldn’t even count for in a lifetime.
Networking again in the webheads group and I was answering an email from Robert Squires about Ning. Then, I just had an off topic moment telling him I was still thinking about the music playlist. Ronaldo, my great friend and wonderful sax player, replied saying he was in for the list. Great, I thought. Who would be better than Ronaldo for amazing Brazilian tunes. I added a page to the wiki we collaborate, BrazilBridges, and immediately after was Ronaldo there. To prove that passion leaves behind all kinds of procrastination, for I know how busy Ronaldo is right now!
I had a huge to-do list this morning. Forgot everything! Once I connected to last.fm, I spent the morning exploring my new passions and old ones, singing along, remembering, feeling uplifted, thinking how blessed I am to have been born in a country where music is everywhere, is part of our lives. Rythm, fine tunes, talents, wonderful beats…They give us the tone, the essence of who we are. I forgot about the other things I had to do. Happiness on a Friday morning is what counts!
I’m a proud Brazilian who loves these connections, networking, and sharing the best of what we have.
For more, check our BrazilianBridges.
What would you add to my Brazilian beats list?

Notes from TESOL – Suresh Canagarajah

Published on 2008-04-03 in BlogEd08, Brazil, Webheadsinaction, blogging, blogging4educators, education, tesol08, webheadsinaction and wiany. 2 Comments
Suresh Canagarajah’s Keynote

Mutual engagement joint enterprise shared repertoire
You can’t impose outside pedagogies in communities.
How do you create an identity in a Community of Practice?
If you want to be part of the community you need to negotiate your space in the community (Communities of Practice – Etienne Wenger)
This negotiation enriches not only you, but the whole community.
In this search of identity, you can also find your other identities. Brokering- the use of multimembership to transfer some elements of one practice to the other.
Moving from a centralized organization to a constellation of pracices based on plurality and diversity.
Changes in TESOL? Going global but also thinking local?! Plural collective voices, diversity of practices
A global organization can bring these local communities together.
We are being challenged to see how English is being used in our communication due to the nature of groups interactions.
The third space. Local communities being brought together.
Effective brokering: Contextualize deconstrut translate representImagine Reflect

FoodBridges Show #1

Published on 2007-09-22 in Brazil, BrazilBridges, CarlaArena, Culture, ErikaCruvinel, Food, FoodBridges, Podcast, Webheadsinaction and worldbridges. 1 Comment
food.jpgWe 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.
The team also gave their recipes that will impress guests and are just so practical to make. There’s so much in there for you that we won’t take your time writing about it. Just enjoy the Podcast that goes from mouthwatering food to recipes.
Also, you’ll find more soon on our wiki http://foodbridges.pbwiki.com
Enjoy!
Cheers!
The Gastronomic Team,
Carla Arena, Illya, Erika & Dennis Oliver

Connections Through Food – Barbecue

Published on 2007-08-23 in Brazil, BrazilBridges, CarlaArena, Connections, Culture, FoodBridges, Webcastacademy, Webheadsinaction, worldbridges and writingmatrix. 14 Comments

Nancy White inspired me to do something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time, show some photos I have of a Brazilian barbecue at my in-laws, and talk a bit about the dynamics of a Sunday barbecue in Brazil. Also, I listened to very interesting ideas about food and customer relationships at the Social Customer Manifesto and linked what I heard to a video of a Brazilian consultant, Waldez Luiz Ludwig, talking about the fact that the consumers nowadays don’t buy a service, but a feeling. Yes, a feeling! My guess is that this is one of the reasons for the success of the Brazilian Barbecue houses in the US.
Oh, the trick of the Brazilian Barbecue: inviting people you enjoy being around with and having some tasty Caipirinhas!
A Personal Note I guess this is certainly a start for FoodBridges at the Webcastacademy! Jeff LeBow, the screencast is a way to thank you and sing a happy birthday to you! Parabéns! After all, we connected many times on Sundays with a smell of barbecue in the house.

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