tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-126234962011-04-21T17:41:14.195-05:00Blogging about Colombian EducationA little space to share some thoughts about the situation, potential and possibilities of ICT in Colombian Education.
Disclaimer: None of my thoughts compromise the organizations I work for. Just in case.Diego Lealnoreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12623496.post-67937839651504059642007-12-29T10:02:00.001-05:002007-12-29T10:02:10.325-05:00My first moblogThis was quite tricky. In the end, I had to set up gmail from my mobile...Diego Lealnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12623496.post-37255676452427448382007-12-29T09:56:00.001-05:002007-12-29T09:56:15.489-05:00Diego Lealnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12623496.post-25603472243613968412007-03-04T18:03:00.000-05:002007-05-21T11:56:28.991-05:00A new year, a new life, a new placeHello there,After six months of my last post, I finally have online my own website. So, this blog is moving to http://www.diegoleal.org. There (I hope) you will find new and interesting tools.Thanks to Blogger for helping me out to start my online presence!Diego Lealnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12623496.post-1154714598408009812006-08-04T12:57:00.000-05:002006-08-08T11:36:13.613-05:00A few ideasAfter thinking about the talk I had with Stephen, and participating in a meeting to evaluate the videoconference service used in last week's seminar, I've ended up with some draft ideas about what could make sense in the use of ICT in Colombia (meaning, where could we go):To have a higher coverage: According to Nielsen, ITU, NIC, etc., (in a page compiled by ExitoExportador), the Internet users Diego Lealnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12623496.post-1154714266601378942006-08-04T12:56:00.000-05:002006-08-08T11:33:05.880-05:00About videoconference and high speed networks...According to some of the people leading in Colombia the high speed networks initiative, videoconference is the "killer application" in these networks (just like e-mail was the killer app on Internet).Stephen Downes said in his second presentation that we really don't need something like RENATA (the Colombian High Speed Network) or Internet2, because most of the things that can be done with them Diego Lealnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12623496.post-1154390686228318862006-07-31T18:55:00.000-05:002006-08-02T16:43:00.186-05:00Seminar in Bogotá, ColombiaSo, the last week we held the Seminar Workshop "Strategies for the use of High Speed Networks and Learning Objects" in Bogotá. We were lucky enough to have presentations by Stephen Downes, Peter Stucki, Rachel Smith, Christina Siroskey, Victor Castelo and Tom Boyle. The event's proceedings will be available soon in the ColombiaAprende portal. So far, here are links to some comments on the first Diego Lealnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12623496.post-1154280300342304372006-07-30T12:11:00.000-05:002006-08-17T10:21:59.730-05:00A new beginningSo, this is my first post in this blog I'll try to keep alive. The person responsible for getting me to say something into the blogsphere (after a lot of time of being just a lurker) is Stephen Downes. He came to Bogota last week to help us with a couple of presentations in a conference about Educational uses of Learning Objects and High Speed Academic Networks. I got the chance to talk a lot Diego Lealnoreply@blogger.com