Archive for category PodCamp Barcelona 2010

Drumbeat Festival at PodCamp Barcelona

 

 

Alina Mierluș and Enric Senabre Hidalgo , members of the local committee for the first Drumbeat Festival, to be celebrated in Barcelona from November 3rd to 5th, will explain the origins and philosophy that lies behind this new initiative driven by the Mozilla Foundation.


The Drumbeat platform is born as a new online projects community, with the aim of publicizing and support initiatives that protect and improve the Internet as a public and open, participative and decentralized resource.


Based on this initiative, the First Drumbeat Festival is posed as an international, participative meeting that will reunite in Barcelona diverse and pioneering technology initiatives, open and innovative, on education and learning, based on the message "Learning, Freedom and the Web".

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Dominic Campbell at PodCamp Barcelona!

Dominic will be talking at PodCamp Barcelona about the work he is doing in the UK and the US on the best practice and the future of Gov20, talking about the work of those involved in communications and engagement through to collaboration across government to public service transformation to social innovation.

Dominic is a digital government and social innovation entrepreneur with a background in government policy, communications and engagement.

Having spent 5 years in local government, Dominic established FutureGov in early 2008. FutureGov supports central and local government in the UK to better understand and draw on social technology in the areas of digital democracy and public service innovation.

Dominic is also co-founder of social web start-ups Enabled by Design, a dot org social start up and winners of the inaugural Social Innovation Camp, and TweetyHall, helping people to find and connect with their local politicians on social network site Twitter.

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Barcelona Social Media Café at PodCamp Barcelona!

As part of PodCamp Barcelona 2010 there will be a special edition of the Barcelona Social Media Café

Barcelona Social Media Café/Tuttle Club is based on the Tuttle Club


“the Tuttle Club is a loose group of people who come together to talk and work around social media”


If you are interested in meeting other people using social media, or want to know what it is, come along to Els Vienesos, c/ de la Segarra, 12, El Masnou from 11:00 onwards on Friday, September 17th

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¡Didaktikeitor @ainhoaeus vs. Kultureitor @eraser at PodCamp Barcelona!

@ainhoaeus & @eraser will speak at PodCamp Barcelona about:

Project #twple – Didaktikeitor @ainhoaeus vs. Kultureitor @eraser : 2nd round at PodCamp Barcelona

Now that ICTs are impregnating the world of education and e-learning is on the lips of companies and marketing people, it seems to be a good moment to reflect about emerging concepts such as Edupunk, DIY (do-it-yourself), PLE (personal learning environment) and similar concepts which talk about a change of paradigms, as an inflection proposal of the learning engineering that dominates in the world of e-learning. Chaos versus order? Only apparently.

This dialogued reflection, represented as a confrontation between Didaktikeitor @ainhoaeu (http://ainhoaezeiza.net/) from the university of the Basque Country and @eraser (http://e-learning-teleformacion.blogspot.com/) from the University of Seville is in itself an example of dialogical learning, a transient learning via Twitter with the help of blogs. At the same time, it demonstrates new ways of creating learning communities through the use of tags (such as that used in the project: #TWPLE) – ephemeral communities associated with a specific project that dissolve continuously to form new communities.

This idea of network communities combining the local and face-to-face with the distant in the way of borderline and discordant unstable relations will help social innovation, overcoming the inbreeding and immobility of established communities.

At PodCamp Barcelona 2010 we will continue this process of collective reflection through questions and ideas synthesised in tweets. The #TWPLE hashtag will be reactivated!

Some links related to the project:

Project blog: http://fcom.us.es/blogs/twple/
posts which explain the project:

Project Twitter #twple Welcome to my PLE! … @ainhoaeus vs. @eraser

Project Twitter #twple (I): didaktikeitor @ainhoaeus vs. kultureitor @eraser

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e-Criterium at PodCamp Barcelona!

e-Criterium will do a lightning talk in the Speaker's Corner at PodCamp Barcelona where they will speak about:

Citizen participation to improve the health system, e-Criterium is an idea in action where we all win.

A meeting place for collaboration and exchange, to share collective knowledge of citizens through their opinions made available to everybody: health and other professionals, patients, users, managers, institutions, organisations and participation institutions, such as health councils.

We wish to highlight what is working well, modify what works badly and change what works.

e-Criterium in 4 easy steps

1. Write the history from my role as patient, user, companion, healthcare/other professional, and citizen.

2. Define its subject: opinion, gratitude, complaint, congratulation, suggestion, idea, experience, observation.

3. Write the keywords.

4. Accept the conditions

e-Criterium opens communication and collaboration channels between individuals, citizens, collectives, representative organs and organisations, and institutions, the management institutions of the health system.

e-Criterium was born in Catalonia but is internationally oriented, and we are already working with our colleagues in England, where the website Patient Opinion has been running for three years. And we want to keep on adding… this is only the beginning.

Twitter: @Olfeguir

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Josep Jordana at PodCamp Barcelona!

Josep Jordana will explain, "What is Pirene Lab" in 8 minutes in the Speaker's Corner at PodCamp Barcelona.

What is Pirene Lab?

A Living Lab. A space for digital and social innovation based on design thinking and user centred creation in the context of a mountain region. A mixture between a training centre, an investigation centre and an incubator for business and social initiatives.

Mountain regions require their own solutions, and not just technological ones. Broadband Internet connection arrived in many the villages of the Pyrenees just a year ago. It is low quality, expensive and there are still "holes". Open and distributed models, as opposed to centralised models, are not just an option but a necessity.

The Internet of things, devices and sensors, one of the next evolutions of Internet requires a special interpretation in mountain regions, small agricultural operations with animals, the importance of the atmospheric temperature, land management and cultural patrimony etc

Ecosystem and sustainability, fashionable terms these days, are a historical reality in these zones. The urban and the rural have much to share and exchange.

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Ande Gregson at PodCamp Barcelona!

Ande Gregson, founder of media140, will be talking at PodCamp Barcelona about:

media140 – growing a global community from nothing

"media140 is a social media community with a worldwide reach helping organisations understand the potential of social technologies. As industry professionals, we invest in pioneering ways to make change for industry, audiences, brands and the bottom line"

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Kfé Innovación special at PodCamp Barcelona!


The second of the workshops programmed during PodCamp Barcelona is the Kfé Innovación/Innovation Café which will take place on September 14 in the cafe La Tarte du Jour (C/ Torrent Vallmora, 16, El Masnou) from 18:00-20:00.

Here's the post that the innovation cafe folks have written about it:

In the special PodCamp Barcelona Kfé Innovación we've decided to give another twist to our format. The idea that we've developed in Kfé Innovación Seville (one expert, 10 participants, thousands of ideas) will be taken to the extreme to create a "list of concerns and recommendations" arising from the "most difficult questions of the summer". Let's explain…

In the next few days Kfé Innovación and PodCamp Barcelona will launch a series of questions in social networks, with the objective of discovering general "concerns"  with respect to the Internet (innovation, businesses, institutions etc.). This is what we mean by "the most difficult questions of the summer".

What will we do with the answers? Participants of PodCamp Barcelona will get together on Tuesday, 14th of September in a debate about your opinions and suggestions. The aim is to develop a summary of your contributions.

The questions are the following:

1. What is innovation? #KFEPC1
2. What is the possibility that Internet will provoke a real social change within five years? 0=none, 10=every (you can include comments) #KFEPC2
3. Which sector or institution needs to urgently change to incorporate the "2.0 philosophy"? #KFCPC3
4. An example of best practice in education. #KFEPC4
5. An example of best practice in public administration. #KFEPC5
6. An example of best practice in business. #KFEPC6
7. An example of best practice and citizen participation. #KFEPC7

Each question has an associated #. Opinions will be channelled (always using the corresponding #, please) in the following ways:

– Twitter. Please, don't forget the #
– As a comment on this post. You can answer all the questions in the same comment if you want. Please put the corresponding # at the beginning of each answer.
– By leaving a comment on our Facebook fan page.
– On the PodCamp Barcelona website, as a comment on the post (same format as above, with the corresponding #).

We remind everybody that the special Kfé Innovación session will be on Tuesday 14th of September at 1800 in El Masnou. If you can't attend you'll be able to follow the session on Twitter with #KFEPC or via streaming on the PodCamp Barcelona website.

(NB this event has no intention of being thought of as representative of the opinion of society. It's not a survey. The idea is simply to open the debate which will take place in the Kfé Innovación session at PodCamp Barcelona 2010).

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Scratch Català at PodCamp Barcelona!

The first workshop in PodCamp Barcelona 2010 will be: Scratch programming workshop for kids from 8-99

The workshop, led by Eugeni Català from Scratch Català, will take place from 18:00 to 20:00 on September 13 at Els Viensos.

What is Scratch?
Scratch is a fun visual programming language created by people at MIT and focused on youngsters from 8-99. With it you can create interactive stories, animation, games, music, art. Your imagination is the only limit.

The main character is the cat Scratch, but it is possible to use other existing figures or create new ones to use in the projects.

"Construction blocks" are arranged by type and colour to make it easy to follow the programme and have to be placed in the corresponding space for the cat to do what is desired on the stage.

Once the programme has been made it can be posted to the MIT website so everybody can see and enjoy it — you'll be surprised by the number of people who'll be interested in your project. There are more than 1,209,000 projects which can be learned from as all our public and can be downloaded to see how they were created without any type of limitation, everybody shares their work and the community learns together.

It really teaches knowledge and experience sharing in an open and collaborative way.

How does programming help kids education?

Programming helps in the acquisition and improvement of mathematical concepts such as coordinates, variables and random numbers as well as comparisons and conditions. It also stimulates creative expression, logical thinking and the use of new technologies. This knowledge will open the door to future professions.

Many schools are incorporating this discipline in their curriculums, thereby achieving the development and improvement in the process of design and creation. Kids begin with an idea, create a prototype, experiment with it, evaluate what doesn't work well, look for collaboration with others to finally revise and redesign.

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Rafa Pardo at PodCamp Barcelona!

Rafa Pardo will talk at PodCamp Barcelona about Health and Community.
His talk will deal with social networks, current state of health services, the potential of community creation offered by this environment and how communities have been and can be created using social networks, either in a general social network or in a more theme based one.

http://inquietudesmaimonides.blogspot.com

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