A primer to an educational log of the weblog
Saturday, January 06, 2018
 
Formento Photographers: Lucia Amoros
Formento Photographers: Lucia Amoros

Saturday, August 21, 2010
 
EDUTEC-E published last year a paper about the weblog in educational context. It is very easy to read. This paper works about design considerations thinking in teaching and learning contexts and the use of weblog inside them. It shows common uses inside university contexts and training environments. At the end, it comments possibilities and problems that we can find when we decide work with this software.
Monday, December 08, 2003
 
AN INTERESTING EXPERIENCE IN THE LINE TO RESOLV PROBLEMS

Last day any people ask me about interesting references in virtual world. To me one of this more interesting is VIRTUAL U. In the paper of JOEL FOREMAN, associated professor of George Mason University (US) he speak about it.

VIRTUAL U is to me, the first virtual world when we speak in formal education. In this experience there are more than four universities of US work together.

When Nuit start her presentation, the line was the same to me: think in all and created a system to observ all with all. We can not separate in little things the complexity of the human and the social relations. If I think in education the line is similar. We need ecological systems to look for what happen or to work close of what happen.

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Thursday, November 20, 2003
 
WORKING ABOUT CULTURAL CRITERIA IN DISTANCE LEARNING.

Since time ago I started to read the anthropologist Edward T. Hall (thanks Derrick about it) and more late I started to work with Myndi to create a list of questions usseful in training and e-learning enviroments with cultural considerations. In last post I have some comment.

Hall, Edward Twitchell (1914--)

The book The Silent Languaje (1959) and Beyong Culture (1966) were a good job to help us in our background. Right now, all of this had meaning thanks the chat with Derrick and Mark and the meetings with Myndi (thanks to be patient with me). The main goal is answer at "What questions can be interesting when we want to work in diferents context of training? If in the future we create an on-line tool to determinate cultural considerations in e-learning environments, What do you think about this list? Is possible to you understand these items?

Interactional/Learning
*Community lore -what gets taught and learned:
Community description.
Teaching Content.
Student Interests.

Organizational/Learning
*Learning groups- educational institutions:
Number of students (Primary School).
Number of students (Secondary School).
Number of students (University).

Economic/Learning
*Reward for teaching and learning:
Reward for class accomplishment.
When finish a course...
When finish a class...

Sexual/Learning
*What the sexes are taught:
Subjects taught to men.
Subjects taught to women.

Territorial/Learning
*Places for learning:
Description of classroom in Primary School.
Description of classroom in Secondary School.
Description of classroom in University.
Is home-schooling accepted? Is it common? Are field trips encouraged? Are they
common?

Temporal/Learning
*Scheduling of learning (group):
Number of hours of class per day (all three levels).
Length of each class (all three levels).

Instructional/Learning
*Enculturation- Rearing (crianza)- Informal learning- Education:
National Day
Labor day
Religion/s
Main holidays- explanation of meaning
Typical food
Typical fruit
Typical drink
Average number of children per family
Average number of women in the workforce
How common are non-traditional families? Please describe.
How common are traditional families? Please describe.

Recreational/Learning
*Making learning fun:
Plays in class.
Common techniques.
Contextual examples.


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ALWAYS I FORGET...

Thanks to Tammi I was reading an interesting paper on the University of California at Berkeley: How Much Information?2003.

Uau! The unit of information is so big, so big: 2 exabites have the total volume of information generated in 1999. Back of this:

2 kilobites: a typewritten page
1 megabite: one small novel; 2: a high-resolution photograph; 5: the complet work of Shakespeare
1 gigabite: a pickup truck filled with books
1 terabite: fivety thousand trees made into paper and printed; 10: the print collections of the U.S. Library of Congress.
2 petabites: all US academic research libraries; 200: all printed material
5 exabite: all words ever spoken by human beings.

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Monday, October 27, 2003
 
VYGOTSKY

Communication & education. And more, the relation between this two concepts has a common point: put solution when we have problems, I think that this is the way of the education:authonomy and resolve problems. Vygotsky worked about this and his researches had interest in the cultural context.

Michael Cole (PhD in Psicology at the Indiana University) is a professor that take his research and offer perspectives and new works with computers. We can find a little biography about his focus of research and any interesting papers in this web.
He said: "For the past decade I have been engaged in a large, and growing, analysis of a large number of special "microcultures" ("Fifth Dimensions") that have been designed to promote the intellectual and social development of children."


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Friday, October 17, 2003
 
CULTURAL REQUIEREMENTS

The same with the hyperlink, all at once. The mind think all at once and I think that the live is look for the order, have control of all. However, the problem is when anything happen all of a sudden. We haven´t time to think, is this a Cultural change? We can say this and as a matter of fact anything happen when someone wants understand a behaviour but he/she can not.

Edward Hall (1914), anthropologist, wrote in The Silent Languaje (1959): "culture has long stood for the way of life of a people, for the sum of their learned behaviour patterns, attitudes, and material things" (pp. 31).

In training telematics systems we can have a knowledge according to the students (asking by e-mail, creating databases, by phone...). However, we can not see theirs, and we can not where and how is his context or what is happing in a particular moment. We communicate each other because we have a convention (code) but we can lose the meaning (the particular meaning that everyone have) in a ciberclass. A teacher, can be sure is all students have a correct understanding about the meaning of one particular content?Martinez Sanchez (1994) recognize that this is a problem when people work with Net and training.

A friend of mine say: -To my the life is be married and take care of my children; another say: - I like have a lot of relationships at the same time, but only I have one boyfriend; another say - I like work and this is my life because I like studied, of course I have hobbies but in effect I don´t have friends because never have time to meet people.

The meaning that everyone have about this sentences have a different support mediated for: a particular culture (parents and fiends), a group culture (friends and collegues), a social culture and the mass media culture (a new code whith a different conventions). I think that is interesting look for what particular criteria have every particular culture but if we ask each other how is own social culture we can answer - I don´t know, is normal. What is "culture"?

Hall wrote about this and personaly, I think that for this the tittle of his book is The Silent Languaje, speak about something that anyone speak because "is normal". But... I have hope, now importants professors write about the skin of the culture (for exemple Derrick De Kerckhove in 1997: The Skin of Culture: investigating the new electronic reality) and the ciberculture now is a not-space to observe what are happening when people of the other context have communication. If we can speak about "touch" the culture always is a good moment to analice what happen in teaching context and in distance teaching context.

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Tuesday, October 07, 2003
 
HABBO HOTEL

Habbo Hotel is a fun and gentel virtual world. Perhpas this perception is because was the first time that I eat a virtual hamburger, I changed of virtual color of my hair without any money and was in the virtual swimming pool in may.

Habbo hotel is from UK, have free chat rooms and no free (in free chat romms you can sitt down with others to speak, drink a coca, eat... and sometime you find friends that can invited you to have a beer in privated chats rooms).

Who is possible speak? You are an avatar(representation of you) with a "speech bubbles" (littles windows of chat).

Friends of CENT show me this new virtual posibility of live last year.

This is time to work or time to play? To me I have not very clair, but usualy this is time to play.
In this moment there are 1.585 persons, then, have a good moment!

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