A “revolution” in Chilean Education?
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Chile Ayuda a Chile – Telethon Starting March 5th 10pm
Earthquake & Tsunamis Struck Chile
RELIEF ACTION IS NEEDED
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Chile struck by earthquake
Chile was struck by a severe earthquake on Feb 27th at 3.45am
Many cities in the 7th and 8th regions were badly damaged or simply destroyed. Along with that, a sequel of tsunamis hit many coastal villages and towns, wiping out entire locations and taking their inhabitants’ lives. In light of this disaster, Chile has organized a fund raising event starting March 5th at 10pm and ending on March 6th at midnight. (Santiago times, GMT -4)
Please join this initiative by bringing your donations to official collecting points across the country. Also, for Chileans here and overseas, you can follow the Telethon on the Internet and make your contributions by visiting www.chileayudaachile.cl (The Official Site)
- Chile Ayuda a Chile
HOW TO HELP
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From ChileAyudaaChile.cl
You’ll find a number of ways to make a donation from the RELIEF-Fundrasing website.
It is all in Spanish though and largely targeted to Chileans. Still, there is important information to make contributions from overseas.
From your mobile (within the US, to my understanding)
(source: http://www.causecastmobilefundraising.org)
Text CHILE to 90999 to donate $10 to Red Cross via text to donate
- Text CHILE to 23583 to donate $10 to Habitat for Humanity via text to donate
- Text CHILE to 20222 to donate $10 to World Vision via text to donate
- Text CHILE to 50555 to donate $10 to Friends of World Food Program via text to donate
- Text CHILE to 52000 to donate $10 to Salvation Army via text to donate
- Text REBUILD to 50555 to donate $10 to Operation USA via text to donate
- Text 4CHILE to 50555 to donate $10 to Convoy of Hope via text to donate
- Text CHILE to 864833 to donate $10 to United Way
CARITAS-International
https://secure.caritas.org/donation.aspx
American Red Cross
This is the link to Red Cross site in the US
You will most certainly find social networks with information on how to help from your specific location in the world. These networks also provide chances to connect with people with categories such as “I have information about… ” and “I need to find… ” The best example is Google people finder http://chilepersonfinder.appspot.com/?lang=en
Use Twitter, Facebook, Google Groups, Yahoo Groups, MSN, and My Space. However, PLEASE MAKE SURE when donating money, you do so through official sites!!!
BACKGROUND & JUST-IN-TIME INFORMATION
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Chile’s Earthquake account on Wikipedia
Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis
Social Action in social networks
Mauricio Miraglia’s report on Hope For Haiti Now
Santiago de Chile, Jan 232rd 2010
Saving Haiti
I’ve heard recently heard from experts in technology that spaces such as twitter, facebook, myspace and others are pure crap (excuse my language) and most often than not we have all looked down on sites like the giant Youtube, after experiencing sites like TED.com, under the impression that TED.COM has become a Youtube for the smart.
Well, tonight we all got a slap on our face.
In light of the recent earthquake that devastated Haiti with more than 200,000 casualties, one of the biggest fund-raising events after 9/11 took place tonight. TV was not enough. Here’s the story and how technology played a major role to bring us all together.
MTV and George Clooney led an initiative that will at one point down the line… become a milestone for the Internet world: Twitter, Youtube, Google, Itunes, along with Facebook and MySpace, joined in the Haiti Telethon called Hope for Haiti Now! in the next few days we’ll see how much money was collected, and I’m sure it’ll be one the greatest amounts of money since 9/11/2001. Gathering all A artists and broadcasting from the USA, Europe and Haiti, the event was followed from around the world.
US citizens could follow this telethon through all major networks: MTV, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, HBO BET International, CNN International, National Geographic and MTV Networks International. People from around the globe followed it and contributed through YouTube, Hulu, Facebook, MySpace, Fancast, AOL, MSN, Yahoo!, Bing.com, BET.com, MTV.com, CNN.com and VH1.com. Along with the donations while the show was taking place, many Itunes customers will be able to give their money by purchasing parts of the show through itunes.com in about 48 hours!
Amongst the celebrities in this concert we could all watch Shakira, Denzel Washington, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and former US President Bill Clinton, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys, Bono and U2′s The Edge, Coldplay, Keith Urban and Stevie Wonder. Haitian-American Wyclef Jean participated from New York, while Rihanna, Beyonce y Jay-Z did so from London, UK. From Hollywood, LA, Jennifer Aniston, Ellen DeGeneres, Brad Pitt, Halle Berry, Muhammad Ali and Clint Eastwood also made their contribution to this mega concert.
On a sad note, AMERICA could not broadcast the event, although it had been announced, since Spanish translation was not allowed. Weird thing. Thumbs down there!
If you want to contribute with money, please go to https://hopeforhaitinow.org
Would this event have been the same if Youtube, Twitter, and Google hadn’t paired up for a live version online? Would it have been the same if the major network sites hadn’t cooperated bringing their subscribers to participate in the way they did?
Educators (my main audience), IT developers and specialists and everyone involved in the development of the Web industry cannot easily look down on the current tools offered by the Internet. I oppose though the the Web 2.0 term! The web has from its very origin targeted at this type of communication. There are thousands of examples.. just search for Amazon back in 1995 ! and see how they’d already allowed their customers to collaborate in their products’ reviews. In education, back in 2001 through 2003, I had the Web “4.0″ experience! when 2.0 was just coined in 2004.
Collaborative and social communication and action tools have always been at the core and spirit of the Web. We, educators, cannot forget this essential concept and must put this to the use of our learning communities and individuals.
Mauricio Miraglia.
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Happy Holidays 2009! Felices Fiestas 2009!
Solo puedo tener gratitud para con quienes compartimos este 2009…
Cada uno de sus emails… de sus palabras… sus llamas y el contacto virtual..
Un gran abrazo y espero mi tarjeta les guste y haga sentido..
Paz y amor para uds, sus chiquititos, los mas grandotes y sus familas.
http://mauriciomiraglia.com/m/about/happy-holidays-felidades-en-navidad-y-el-2010/
Images and learning- EFL / edu tech
Images represent part of our reality. Most often times they do not represent the whole. However, they help us and help our learners to focus on a significant part of our life experience.
Constructivism and EFL- the question remains…
The field of foreign language instruction evolved from the former grammar -translation and audio-lingual approaches into a focus on speech acts and language functions up until the late 70s when a model known as the ‘communicative approach’ emerged and became the predominant theory to develop EFL curriculum in the classrooms all over the world.
Up to this date, no pedagogical approach based on constructivism has been formally developed and as a matter of fact, both behaviorist and cognitive traditions still have a major impact in language instruction. Much of today’s standardized foreign language testing and computer based instruction still reinforce these traditions.
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