Cristina Costa's Blog (7)

In two days time we will host our mini-conference online. The event is free and open to everyone interesting in discussing about new approaches to learning by mentoring in the digital age. This is event is organised by Vitae - a two year EC funded project, which aims at empowering vocational teachers to mentor their students and colleagues to work competently in the digital world. The Vitae Consortium has invited key speakers… Continue

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The European Association of Education of Adults has recently released in their website that 2009 is going to be the European Year of Creativity and Innovation. Well, that is about time Creativity and Innovation came hand in hnad with education, and also that it gained the recognition it deserves as part of one's learning process and life long development. In my mind, attached to it is… Continue

I am still marveled by the Online Educa Berlin 08 experience. It mainly has to do with the fact that I was able to meet and talk to so many interesting people, and to learn what they are currently doing. NAd these are people I met sometime ago online and have been collaborating with despite or location differences. It hasn't stopped us from truly connecting and bonding. And the proof is that our first face to face get-together just reinforced the learning interactions we had started online. Lik… Continue

I was in Berlin and not only did I have a great time, I also had the opportunity to seriously network and meet people I have been wanting to meet, and to talk to, for so long. This was an incredible event in terms of connecting to people who I had only been able to link to online before. It's great when we are able to combine both worlds, and that is exactly what this new brave world allows us. At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, I feel so connected to a wider world... Anyway, t… Continue

Hi there, everyone seems to be talking about our last online meeting, during which we took some time to explore some of the features of this ning site. Everybody seems to be quite enthusiastic with the RSS feed possibility. I must say I am too! ;-) For those who like me have a hard time keeping up with all these new acronyms, RSS feed means Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary. What it really means is that it is now be notified about the update of content in someone's blog, site, wiki… Continue

Anne Fox was a Guest speaker at the Evolve Community Monthly sessions. The presentation focused on Mentoring and 21st Century Skills. Anne provided us with some quite thought provoking ideas on the new challenges education is facing regarding the demands of the 21st Century Society. Anne advocates mentoring as key for lifelong learning and ongoing further development, not only to learn about… Continue