Archive for October, 2008

IN.FORMAT

29Oct08

IN.FORMAT is a blog created by Eugeni Catalán and Jesus Mañosas to explore new ways of giving information within an office context. Tired of the traditional training formats and their poor results, the creators of IN.FORMAT hope to provide useful material in a user-friendly format. Check the blog out here (in Catalan)


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After visiting Citilab to attend UrbanLabs, I told Eugeni Catalán about some of the things they do there – including the project using Scratch to introduce programming to kids. Eugeni checked it out and is setting up a course in his town. Read more here (in Catalan).


Open Politics?

22Oct08

 

Ahir es va celebrar la VIII Jornada Parlamentària sobre Mitjans de Comunicació Audiovisual, el tema va ser Societat, Mitjans i Política: Drets i Deures i segons la pròpia pàgina web del Parlament de Catalunya 
“Participació dels ciutadans: informació i finalitat del registre 
La Jornada serà oberta a tots els ciutadans, que hi podran participar virtualment i fer-hi arribar [...]


 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/studies_and_observations/89045331/ 
Adam has kindly agreed to my request for an interview for the PodCamp Barcelona podcast. Watch this space


 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/studies_and_observations/89041931/ 
This morning I finished reading Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing - a remarkable, beautifully written explanation and call to participation of a new world on our doorsteps byAdam Greenfield. I’ve just read on Adam’s blog that he will be in Madrid at VISUALIZAR’08: DATABASE CITY Go and see him if you can. 
The Handheld Learning conference took place in London this week [...]


 
photos by Enric Senabre 
UrbanLabs has been a very ambitious project which has brought people together from all over Spain and beyond at Citilab-Cornellà to discuss and possibly construct a common vision of where we are going digitally and the crossover to an increasingly blurred “real” life. Unfortunately due to Ana being ill I had to return to Lleida after [...]


 
One Minute Catalan has recieved some very good press in Catalonia, from both El Punt and vilaweb. Click here for El Punt pdf and here for Vilaweb 
Read what Mark Pentleton of Radio Lingua Network has to say about the coverage here


 
The virtuallingua extras webpage is now live. We have created this site so that the students of virtuallingua can have easy access to real material according to their level of English. The site takes advantage of all the great material out there on the web to give interesting, real language content to learners. Check it out here


 
Now that PodCamp Barcelona is over we have a lot of projects to work on including planning for the next PodCamp Barcelona, starting the PodCamp Barcelona podcast (with the objective of maintaing the community in contact and informed), a meeting with one of the main political parties of Catalunya (we’re not sure exactly what about yet) and some very [...]