Yesterday I received the Armando Rocha Trindade Award for the best Master’s dissertation in the field of distance education for my work “Da Web 2.0 ao e-Learning 2.0: Aprender na Rede”. It felt good, of course, and I’m excited that the prize is the publication by Universidade Aberta. For an online version of the dissertation […]
myMpel 2010
The 1st conference of the Master’s in eLearning Pedagogy (MPEL), labeled “myMpel 2010”, took place last Friday, 14 May, at Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações in Lisbon. It started out as an idea for an informal meeting among teachers and students from the 4 editions of the master’s program to exchange ideas and experiences, organized by […]
Article on PLEs
A new issue of the journal “Educação, Formação & Tecnologias” [PT] – Vol. 2, No. 2 (2009) – is out. I contributed with an article on PLEs – “Personal Learning Environments: Contributos para uma discussão do conceito” [PT]
elChair09 Barcelona
I had a great time at the VI International Seminar on Open Social Learning (UOC, Barcelona). For me, this kind of small scale events is a lot more interesting than big conferences. Bleeding edge ideas and projects and a lot more dialogue than the lecture like format of many conferences. So here’s some (very subjective) […]
Presentation @ EdenPorto09
EDEN’s 7th Open Classroom Conference, that took place in Porto, from 15 to 17 October 2009, was a great event. Good presentations (some excellent) and a very warm and friendly atmosphere among the participants. According to Alan Tait, the President of EDEN, this was the most successful open classroom conference ever.Well, we enjoyed fabulous weather, […]
Presentation @ AIESAD
Here’s the presentation I gave with João Ventura (IST) at the XIII Conference of the Ibero-American Association for Distance Higher Education (AIESAD), which took place in Lisbon and Coruche from 16 to 18 September, 2009. The title of the article is “Blended Learning no Ensino Superior – Um Programa de Formação em e-Learning para Professores […]
Finally
Yesterday I had the public defence of my master’s dissertation. The title is “From Web 2.0 to eLearning 2.0: Learning in the network”, somewhat exploratory and theoretical, without a practical study, as is more common. Profª Maria João Gomes, from University of Minho, was the best one can expect: very competent and very nice.It went […]
Classical music with shining eyes
“Classical music with shining eyes”, by Benjamin Zander, is one of the many pearls that can be found at TedTalks. It’s really worth watching. From the idea of “one buttock playing” to Zander’s definition of himself and of the director’s role, so near to the essence of being a teacher, in my view, it’s around […]
New York 2008
Vimeo is similar to Youtube, with a little less confusion, which makes it easier to find some great stuff. In this case, a 4m20s video of New York in slow motion made by Vicente Sahuc. Sometimes, it’s hard to say why certain things touch us more than others, but this very short film really hit […]