GlobalVoicesOnline – Italy: In Defense of the “Right to die”

GlobalVoicesOnline – Italy: In Defense of the “Right to die”

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[:en] This post was written by Bernardo Parrella and co-authored by me. UPDATE: Eluana Englaro died few hours after this post was written. A legal battle over a young woman’s ‘right to die’ after 17 years in a coma has spurred both vast online commentary and activism in Italy. Mostly in defense of “Eluana Englaro’s choice”, Italian netizens have signed petitions, organized protests, and made YouTube videos of their own ‘living will’ testimonies, in defiance of both prime minister Silvio…

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Al Jazeera Creative Commons Repository

Al Jazeera Creative Commons Repository

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[:en] From the press release: Al Jazeera will release its exclusive Arabic and English coverage produced by the Network’s correspondents and crews in the Gaza Strip online at http://cc.aljazeera.net . The ongoing war and crisis in Gaza, together with the scarcity of news footage available, make the repository a key resource for anyone producing content on the current situation. This the first time that video footage produced by a news broadcaster is released under the ‘Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution’ license…

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From Italy to Palestine: Vittorio Arrigoni writes from Gaza

From Italy to Palestine: Vittorio Arrigoni writes from Gaza

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[:en] Just published on GlobalVoicesOnline an interview to Vittorio Arrigoni. Please have a look at the article. Vittorio Arrigoni is an Italian human rights activist who is currently in Gaza, one of a number of activists who arrived with the Free Gaza movement. Vittorio (Vik) blogs at Guerrilla Radio [it], and also writes for the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto. His posts vividly describe what the people of Gaza are experiencing right now. In one, a doctor describes the effects of…

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Trends in education and organization models

Trends in education and organization models

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[:en] On December 3rd, 2008 I made a presentation for elearning 2.0 initiative at ITC/ILO. There were about 20 persons coming from different parts of the world (from Ivory Coast to Uruguay,from Malesia tu Uganda, Ghana, South Africa…). My presentation was about the trends of education and organization models. You can find my slideshow on slideshare. I would make a special thanks to professor David Wiley as I used a part of one of his presentation on slideshare, called Openness…

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improv wisdom

improv wisdom

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[:en] I knew about “improv wisdom” from “how to save the world”, the Dave Pollard’s blog. You can read here his review of this. As I started reading, I was afraid it was one of the typical “american” book… with the unique tesis, repeated many times for hundreds of pages. I appreciate very much this slim book.. it was very pleasant to read also for me, nevertheless it was in english (not alwasy so easy to read for me) and…

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Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty!

Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty!

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[:en] I cannot miss today’s date with Blog Action Day, this year dedicated to poverty, adding these lines to the more than 9000 blogs around the world that today are joining to this initiative. I learned so many interesting thing since last august, when I knew about this day. There are so many things that everyone of us can do for helping people, I choose Kiva.org but you can do at least, every other 87 things to do! You can…

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Take off!!

Take off!!

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[:en]<p>This is my opening post for the Connectivm & collective knowledge that will start next Monday.<br /> We are about 1600 students from all over the world, followers of George Siemens and Stephen Downes.<br /> We will use many different technology tools and I am very courios to learn how we will face some theoretical and pratical aspects like cultural diversity and time zones. </p> <p>So, either if you like superheroes:<br /> “We are the future, Charles, not them! They…

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UNESCO OER Community Awarded at eLearning Africa

UNESCO OER Community Awarded at eLearning Africa

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The UNESCO OER Community received the 2008 MANeLA Leadership Award. Â It was presented at eLearning Africa last week by Moustapha Diack, Director of MERLOT Africa Network (MAN), and Gerry Hanley, Executive Director of MERLOT. The Leadership Award recognizes the Community’s “significant contribution to the global understanding of the issues and innovations surrounding OER and the OER movement”. The Merlot Africa Network (MAN) established a “MAN-eLearning Africa exemplary practice Award” to recognize exemplary OER (learning resources) and Communities of Practice….

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[OERItaly] Welcome to the workgroup about OER in Italy

[OERItaly] Welcome to the workgroup about OER in Italy

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[:it]Dear Friends, thank you for accepting my invitation to join to this group. At the moment the group is closed and people could join only if they are approved. Please consider to send a short presentation about you and about your interest in this topic. The idea of starting this website is due to have a common repository for sharing ideas and materials, in order to promote the knowledge of OER in Italy. Go to Source[:]

25th April, the day of freedom

25th April, the day of freedom

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[:en]Some months ago I discovered “Threadless: a Community based teeshirt company with an ongoing, open call for tee design submission” . Based on the idea of open innovation, or in other words, that the best ideas come most of the time outside your company. I like it very much: you can participate and taking advantages from the community in various ways. If you are a dress designer, you can submit your design and if it is choosen for print you…

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