Enzo Silva blog » Uncategorized

eLearning Project Management – a Quick Video Overview

enzofsilva — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:23:33 +0000

This is a well done short video overview of elements of project management geared toward eLearning projects.

Simple and straight to the point…

Entire Novels on Twitter – Starting with Moby-Dick

enzofsilva — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:05:15 +0000

Dan Coulter created a robotic feed that tweeted automatically 140 characters from Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick every hour. This is an interesting concept that remind me of when novels used to popularly come in “episodes” on newspapers with cliffhangers making the readers “stay tuned for scenes of the next episode”…

More detail on the story can be found on Sea-Fever’s blog post and other places around the Web, of course.

An interesting idea would also be, instead of spilling out the entire novel, to actually ADAPT them to the Twitter/SMS dialog format. But I guess that is yet to come.

Social Media Revolution – Evolution

enzofsilva — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:40:37 +0000

Let’s think about the impact these emerging technologies can have on Education, on learning, on other fields (not just marketing)… not sure “revolution” is the term, but definitely an “evolution” of the way people communicate. Technology is more than ever shortening distances, including the distance between learners and content, subject matter experts AND, maybe more importantly: other learners, creating best practice communities in a matter of clicks…

The Wall Street Journal’s Article on Business 2.0 and MUVEs

enzofsilva — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:44:39 +0000

This recent article discusses the urge to using Second Life for marketing is “morphing” into a vision of utilizing these environments for learning.

Physics in Second Life?

enzofsilva — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:32:08 +0000

Havok4, the “physics” engine in Second Life still has some flaws. But is it possible to teach physics in Second Life? Interesting posts highlighted here.

School 2.0 Manifesto

enzofsilva — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:03:41 +0000

Written by educators, this manifesto is an example of the ideas that flourish in the minds of some avant-garde educators. Even though this manifesto focuses more on school settings (facing different challenges), many of the ideas here are also valid in solely e-learning environments.

http://school20.wikispaces.com/School+2.0+Manifesto

Information R/evolutuion

enzofsilva — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:45 +0000

We DO need to rethink our assumptions about information and how we produce/find it. Rethinking this process and how new technology can help building knowledge is crucial for a change in the learning sytems we now build.

Tim O’Reilly’s (as close as you can get to a) definition of Web 2.0

enzofsilva — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:56:14 +0000

Web 2.0 – some concepts

enzofsilva — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:54:40 +0000

The Machine is Us/ing us

enzofsilva — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:50:30 +0000

I might be repetitive here, but how long is it going to take for all of us to realize we have new and powerful interactive tools that could shape the way we learn?