Carla Raguseo » internet transparency http://carlaraguseo.edublogs.org My professional development virtual hub Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:59:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Obama 2.0 for ELT http://carlaraguseo.edublogs.org/2009/03/24/obama-20-for-elt/ http://carlaraguseo.edublogs.org/2009/03/24/obama-20-for-elt/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:15:04 +0000 carlaraguseo http://carlaraguseo.edublogs.org/?p=61 About a month ago,  I mentioned this to some colleagues at my workplace when we were talking about the wide array of  authentic material the web offers for EFL students, so imagine my surprise when I found this article by Simon Buckland. However, while Mr. Buckland refers to the richness of the new President’s rhetoric, which allows for deep language analysis, I was pointing out the fact that the new administration has refreshed the official website of the White House with a 2.0 style! The renewed  presidential site has a frequently updated blog citizens can subscribe to and also includes weekly video addresses by Mr.Obama himself. This clearly shows the extent to which the new technologies are shaping communication and the way we relate to each other, increasing transparency, even at governmental level. In addition, by using constantly updated authentic resources we are giving new relevance to our language classes and the old phrase that says that the whole world (wide web) is a classroom!

]]> http://carlaraguseo.edublogs.org/2009/03/24/obama-20-for-elt/feed/ 2 E-learning 2.0 and Internet Transparency http://carlaraguseo.edublogs.org/2007/08/04/e-learning-20-and-internet-transparency/ http://carlaraguseo.edublogs.org/2007/08/04/e-learning-20-and-internet-transparency/#comments Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:34:32 +0000 carlaraguseo http://carlaraguseo.edublogs.org/2007/08/04/e-learning-20-and-internet-transparency/ e-learning-20.jpgLast month, Jesica Bassani and I wrote a short article for an important local newspaper to present two new courses that will be launched at our workplace this semester: a blended TOEFL iBT course and an online Business English course. We presented them as E-learning 2.0 since we are designing them on Moodle with a flexible, interactive approach trying to bring the full potential of the Web 2.0 to the learning experience.

To our surprise, the article was “improperly” edited and our names, simply, removed. Luckily, today I was able to find  the full version of our article, which was published in a smaller newspaper that is distributed in neighboring cities.

The whole episode made me reflect on the concept of Internet transparency I’ve recently read about. Journalist Mark Tapscott has said that the Internet revolution is forcing transparency, stressing the importance of bloggers and their capacity to enhance transparency and freedom of expression.(Noticias sobre Internet)

Here are the two articles (in Spanish). Can you spot the differences?

smaller newspaper  second article (no permalink – cache version)

important local newspaper

TGIT ( Thank God for Internet Transparency) ;)

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