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"Aléjame de la sabiduría que no llora, la filosofía que no ríe
y la grandeza que no se inclina ante los niños."
Khalil Gibrán



El año pasado Cumplimos 43 años, por lo tanto en buena ley este año de 2008 cumplimos 44 añitos... no sé no sé... el año pasado pusimos y nos dedicamos esta canción... con diez años más joven... que podríamos aportar en este añito más que mantenemos encima... sólo os

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I'm not sure what I'd use this for, but its certainly cool and very cybernetic. Pachube is a service for tagging objects that share data from their sensors.

Services like Pachube could be useful for some kinds of very high-level business intelligence, particularly analyses that cross organisational or national boundaries.

At the moment, however, it does have the feel of a webcams site with graphs and XML, but as more objects, places and devices get wired (or wireless) then something like Pachube becomes an inevitable evolution.

Perhaps someone will find some interesting way of using some of these sensors in one of the many mashup competitions making the rounds currently.

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I've been talking about oAuth a lot to colleagues recently; I'd had it vaguely on my radar for a while, but a conversation with David Recordon from SixApart at EduServ last year convinced me to take a more serious interest in the specification. oAuth is essentially a user-centric authorization mechanism for enabling services to talk to each other.

Currently some services enable interoperability by getting the user to delegate authority to the service to interact with another, essentially by enabling it to impersonate the user. For example, you give Flickr your LiveJournal account details so it can cross-post your photos.

With oAuth, the same functionality is enabled without the security, trust and privacy compromises: the user talks to both services and explicitly grants permission for the services to talk, but without revealing any account details.

There are a great many service-to-service contracts that could benefit from this user-centric approach: employers and universities, for example. Or between employers and applicant's portfolio services.

But is oAuth actually being adopted? Well, the evidence suggests it is, with Google announcing adoption, and discussing integration with its OpenSocial and Google Gadgets technology. For Google this replaces its proprietary AuthSub mechanism with one that can be shared across providers.

For eLearning, the oAuth spec is an important building block in developing distributed as well as federated elearning architecture. With oAuth, users can choose to connect together services that have no existing relationships using a common authorization method.

Even better, oAuth is completely agnostic with regard to identity and authentication protocols and models - it doesn't need single sign-on or any kind of shared identity or authentication model between service providers.

The bottom line - if you are developing an application that needs to talk to an external service API on behalf of the user, then you may need to start looking into oAuth.

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Stephen Downes and George Siemens are giving a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on Connectivism & Connective Knowledge between September and November 2008. Exploring emerging topics in knowledge, learning and technology, It’s going to be held online and will utilize latest Web 2.0 technologies and distributed approaches. What is more important, is that if someone is going to pull this off, it’s George and Stephen, both the most visionary and knowledgeable teachers I’ve ever had online.

If you are interested in this stuff – perhaps think of yourself as an expert, an enthusiastic pro-amateur or a newbie – this is the course you want to take this year, if you are going to participate in any. The course already has at least 1200 registered participants from all over the world and it’s free. If you want to get credits, you can enroll at the University of Manitoba, but this is not a requirement for participation.

I will be joining, hope you will too.

The conference blog
The conference wiki (and enrolling)

• Week 1: (September 7-13) What is Connectivism?
• Week 2: (September 14-20) Rethinking epistemology: Connective knowledge
• Week 3: (September 21-27) Properties of Networks
• Week 4: (September 28-October 4) History of networked learning
• Week 5: (October 5-11) Connectives and Collectives: Distinctions between networks and groups
• Week 6: (October 12-18) Complexity, Chaos and Research
• Week 7: (October 18-25) Instructional design and connectivism
• Week 8: (October 26-November 1) Power, control, validity, and authority in distributed environments
• Week 9: (November 2-8) What becomes of the teacher? New roles for educators
• Week 10: (November 9-15) Openness: social change and future directions
• Week 11: (November 16-22) Systemic change: How do institutions respond?
• Week 12: (November 23-29) The Future of Connectivism

 

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Hasta ahora no nos habíamos hecho eco del III Evento Blog España (900 pre-inscritos) , pero hoy vamos a subsanar ese error, porque Luis Rull, uno de sus artífices ya que hoy a las 12 encuentro on line con Luis Rull, lo podéis escuchar en parasaber y hacerle las preguntas que creáis oportunas ... o in-o-portunas que queráis...
Luis Rull Co-organizador de Evento Blog España (EBE) y

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It's been a wild ride...but XML is 10 years old.

"Ten years ago, on 10 February 1998, W3C published Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. W3C is marking the ten-year anniversary of XML by celebrating "XML10" and extending thanks to the dedicated communities -- including people who have participated in W3C's XML groups and mailing lists, the SGML community, and xml-dev -- whose efforts have created a successful family of technologies based on the solid XML 1.0 foundation. The success of XML is a strong indicator of how dedicated individuals, working within the W3C Process, can engage with a larger community to produce industry-changing results. "Today we celebrate the success of open standards in preserving Web data from proprietary ownership," said Jon Bosak, who led the W3C Working Group that produced XML 1.0. Read the press release and testimonials. Send W3C a greeting and learn more about XML at W3C. "

via W3C

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A while back I had the chance to meet Ramon Molina from the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF). He introduced me to an interesting initiative run by ASEF, the Asia-Europe Classroom. It's still relatively small scale, but shows just what can be done when students and teachers from two continents work together.

The latest new project is 'Citizens of the World', "an interdisciplinary project which encompasses Culture, Science, History, and Sports." Students from the schools involved are asked to pick the most important citizen from their own country, and present them to their partners in other countries. It's a wonderfully simple but effective way to help young people understand and value both their own heritage, as well as their partners' heritage.

A conference for teachers involved in the project is taking place in December, in Malaysia.

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"El conocimiento profundo de las religiones permite derribar las barreras que las separan."
Mahatma Gandhi




"Las religiones también son como el vino: hay gente a la que le sienta mal y gente a la que le sienta bien. Hay personas que con dos copas se vuelven locuaces, abiertas y desinhibidas; otros se vuelven brutos y groseros con la misma cantidad. Con la religión, hay gente que mejora y se

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• Putting people first » Mito Akiyoshi: the digital divide does not vanish with the mobile

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Thailand has been active in ICT in education for many years now, and some schools are already very well equipped. One school I remember particularly well from my visit is Suankularb school in Nonthaburi, just outside Bangkok. They have a great deal of computers, and the students there have used them in a variety of contexts (language and science lessons), as well as developing their skills in computer graphics. They also take part in numerous UNESCO projects such as the Schoolnet project.


On an institutional level, the National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (NECTEC) is responsible for all kinds of ICT development in Thailand (see the English version of the website, no longer updated)

Schoolnet Thailand (English version) is the national gateway for schools. It includes blogs, recent articles on different topics, a library of teaching resources and more. It's provided by the Thai Bureau of ICT, part of the Ministry of Education.

Intel's Thai Skoool site is an online classroom for maths and science. It provides study notes and services for maths, biology, chemistry, physics and earth science. It's a collaborative project with the Thai Ministry of Education and Microsoft.

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