<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676</id><updated>2012-01-03T17:01:13.504Z</updated><category term='maputo online facilitation'/><category term='maputo'/><category term='golden gate; 25 april; suspension bridge'/><category term='PALOP'/><category term='zurich'/><category term='social entrepreneurship'/><category term='roof-top football'/><category term='ciberdúvidas'/><category term='Mundus'/><category term='Bridgeport; covered bridge; Yuba'/><category term='Candela'/><category term='blinde kuh'/><title type='text'>Science, Language, Community and Development</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>37</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-2671508776838815186</id><published>2012-01-01T17:46:00.031Z</published><updated>2012-01-03T17:01:13.512Z</updated><title type='text'>A week in Paris, will ease the bite of it ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;as &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7bGtR_ETJE" target="_blank"&gt;Bill Strayhorn&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;was known to say.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Returning to Paris for a brief visit after 30 years, I was &amp;nbsp;reminded of some of the qualities that had remained with me after my first visit. The attention to detail in display like in this fruit and vegetable&amp;nbsp; shop&amp;nbsp;is quite striking:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yfMF4QusyR4/TwCZOKbZztI/AAAAAAAAAOo/fg8MPC7VGIo/s1600/FruitShop.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yfMF4QusyR4/TwCZOKbZztI/AAAAAAAAAOo/fg8MPC7VGIo/s400/FruitShop.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hC-A_0KaPu4/TwCZGIsWi_I/AAAAAAAAAOg/j4qelMeWMXY/s1600/FruitShop2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hC-A_0KaPu4/TwCZGIsWi_I/AAAAAAAAAOg/j4qelMeWMXY/s400/FruitShop2.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;.An aspect of the scale of buildings I noticed is that many edifices in the centre of Paris tend to make one feel rather small. The centres of capitals like Lisbon or Amsterdam I find more satisfyingly human&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;scale, by comparison.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gzDiOk1BCyw/TwCZaWIF5zI/AAAAAAAAAO0/YbHBFTssaLs/s1600/BigDoor.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gzDiOk1BCyw/TwCZaWIF5zI/AAAAAAAAAO0/YbHBFTssaLs/s400/BigDoor.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;The Pompidou Centre complex was worth revisiting just to marvel at its exoskeleton design which looks as innovative today as it did back in the 70’s with its mechanical systems made visible outside rather than concealed inside the structure as is still the norm in most buildings. The escalators connecting the floors are external to the complex.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UhZYnO4oYEI/TwCaFSsub1I/AAAAAAAAAPA/nkhoPA-x_7c/s1600/CentrePompidou2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UhZYnO4oYEI/TwCaFSsub1I/AAAAAAAAAPA/nkhoPA-x_7c/s400/CentrePompidou2.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 4.8pt; mso-line-height-alt: 10.75pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 4.8pt; mso-line-height-alt: 10.75pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Functional structural elements of the building are color-coded:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green" title="Green"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"&gt;green&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;pipes are&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumbing" title="Plumbing"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"&gt;plumbing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue" title="Blue"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"&gt;blue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;ducts are for&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_control" title="Climate control"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"&gt;climate control&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical" title="Electrical"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"&gt;electrical&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;wires are encased in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow" title="Yellow"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"&gt;yellow&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulation_(architecture)" title="Circulation (architecture)"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"&gt;circulation elements&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and devices for safety (e.g.,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_extinguishers" title="Fire extinguishers"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"&gt;fire extinguishers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) are&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red" title="Red"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"&gt;red&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KQdi-6XjtZk/TwCa7fAqxaI/AAAAAAAAAPc/U2NJ7f2Fh1U/s1600/CentrePompidou1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KQdi-6XjtZk/TwCa7fAqxaI/AAAAAAAAAPc/U2NJ7f2Fh1U/s400/CentrePompidou1.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 4.8pt; mso-line-height-alt: 10.75pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;Apparently the designer of the Nike Air trainers was &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHk5O0oplfA" style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;inspired by the Pompidou Centre concept!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-2671508776838815186?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/2671508776838815186/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=2671508776838815186&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/2671508776838815186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/2671508776838815186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2012/01/week-in-paris-will-ease-bite-of-it.html' title='A week in Paris, will ease the bite of it ...'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yfMF4QusyR4/TwCZOKbZztI/AAAAAAAAAOo/fg8MPC7VGIo/s72-c/FruitShop.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-3480119135633422825</id><published>2011-09-04T18:39:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2011-10-11T22:21:05.375+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bridgeport; covered bridge; Yuba'/><title type='text'>First time I've seen a covered bridge</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1KJmaTP0Gy0/TmOxU8c9mqI/AAAAAAAAAOA/xpeFm56n6_M/s1600/RIMG0205.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1KJmaTP0Gy0/TmOxU8c9mqI/AAAAAAAAAOA/xpeFm56n6_M/s320/RIMG0205.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Up in the mountainous former goldrush land of Nevada County, Northern California I had a chance to visit a different type of toll bridge – the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bridgeport_Covered_Bridge2.jpg"&gt;Bridgeport covered bridge&lt;/a&gt; which in its heyday used to charge 1$ per horse and 50 cents per rider to cross above the fast-running Yuba river.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T9u5rTSNtRc/TmOxj6GxhDI/AAAAAAAAAOE/qzDH2DitiNE/s1600/RIMG0211.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T9u5rTSNtRc/TmOxj6GxhDI/AAAAAAAAAOE/qzDH2DitiNE/s320/RIMG0211.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Built in 1862, it qualifies as a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Historic_Civil_Engineering_Landmarks"&gt;Historic Civil Engineering Landmark&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; designated by the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Society_of_Civil_Engineers" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="American Society of Civil Engineers"&gt;American Society of Civil Engineers&lt;/a&gt;. It&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&amp;nbsp;uses a &lt;a href="http://bridgehunter.com/category/tag/howe-through-truss/"&gt;Howe Through-truss design&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; and is one of the longest of the covered bridges still existing in the US.&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LZWOt0P3tfo/TmOx8Iw5ahI/AAAAAAAAAOI/wsz-NYB7VRQ/s1600/RIMG0214.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LZWOt0P3tfo/TmOx8Iw5ahI/AAAAAAAAAOI/wsz-NYB7VRQ/s320/RIMG0214.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Gold-panning is permitted in the Yuba river although given the powerful current on the day due to melting snows upstream I didn’t try my luck.&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Certainly not the first Irishman to trudge through the Yuba River valley, now preserved as a National Park, I naturally enough found myself humming the old Irish tune &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mursheen_Durkin"&gt;Mursheen Durken&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;“As sure as me name is Kearney,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;I’ll be off to California&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;an’ instead of diggin’ praties&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;I’ll be digging lumps of gold”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;The classic 1968 &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhpb_-QGPQ0"&gt;Dubliners version&lt;/a&gt; can be found on Youtube and I had the pleasure of accompanying Dubliner Ronnie Drew on guitar as he sang this in cabaret back in the 80’s in Cork city when he was touring as a solo act.&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vSPSGHUz3ww/TmOySIfdm6I/AAAAAAAAAOM/8QQH6B62ETU/s1600/RIMG0216.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vSPSGHUz3ww/TmOySIfdm6I/AAAAAAAAAOM/8QQH6B62ETU/s320/RIMG0216.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;One also needs to be on the look-out for wandering mountain lions and for poison oak around these parts apparently – didn’t see any of the former and carefully avoided the latter!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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25 april; suspension bridge'/><title type='text'>Golden Gate vs. 25 April</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;While at a t&lt;a href="http://www.ieee-itmc.org/index.html"&gt;echnology management conference&lt;/a&gt; in San José, California I took the opportunity to visit San Francisco.&amp;nbsp; It was interesting to compare its bridge with the Lisbon one I have been crossing regularly over the last 22 years (see &lt;a href="http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-sydney-bridge.html"&gt;earlier post&lt;/a&gt; for comments on Sydney bridge).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lOa18sWvit4/TlqM3Wh-3TI/AAAAAAAAANo/xzkbHs0e_pY/s1600/RIMG0042.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lOa18sWvit4/TlqM3Wh-3TI/AAAAAAAAANo/xzkbHs0e_pY/s400/RIMG0042.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;The Golden Gate suspension bridge with a span of 1,280 metres is said to have the 9&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; longest span in the world for this type of structure while Lisbon’s 25 April bridge with a span of 1,013 metres comes in at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_suspension_bridge_spans"&gt;number 21&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://./"&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uBpOSdBTFw8/TlqNEeC9uSI/AAAAAAAAANs/D2auH5HKtlQ/s1600/RIMG0055.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uBpOSdBTFw8/TlqNEeC9uSI/AAAAAAAAANs/D2auH5HKtlQ/s320/RIMG0055.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;There have been some cases of suicide over the years on the 25 April even though it does not allow pedestrians to cross. The Californian bridge does allow pedestrians – albeit with a helpline for the suicidal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1akXvyhx-Uw/TlqNKAECB5I/AAAAAAAAANw/vlUaXxTZsvw/s1600/RIMG0068.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1akXvyhx-Uw/TlqNKAECB5I/AAAAAAAAANw/vlUaXxTZsvw/s320/RIMG0068.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Cyclists too!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GOWJE6jNkeI/TlqNT3ZpWdI/AAAAAAAAAN0/KcUXXXS_X9A/s1600/RIMG0072.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GOWJE6jNkeI/TlqNT3ZpWdI/AAAAAAAAAN0/KcUXXXS_X9A/s320/RIMG0072.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y91tOIl98cQ/TlqNde6u9xI/AAAAAAAAAN4/QKKAdFXBIEg/s1600/RIMG0089.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y91tOIl98cQ/TlqNde6u9xI/AAAAAAAAAN4/QKKAdFXBIEg/s320/RIMG0089.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Two other points of difference:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;There doesn’t appear to be a permanent separation between the incoming and outgoing traffic lanes as we have in Lisbon. I assume this is to give flexibility in lane assignation in periods of high one-way traffic, but it does assume a high quality of driving discipline on the part of users.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tOEWwJw1t6Q/TlqNncuZr7I/AAAAAAAAAN8/TfRBuhqmepE/s1600/RIMG0094.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tOEWwJw1t6Q/TlqNncuZr7I/AAAAAAAAAN8/TfRBuhqmepE/s320/RIMG0094.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"&gt;On both bridges the toll is paid only on city entry but the Californian predominantly manual cash collection system seems much slower than the Lisbon version which has been largely automatic using the Via Verde RFID-based system for many years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-7839791713019433241?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/7839791713019433241/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=7839791713019433241&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/7839791713019433241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/7839791713019433241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2011/08/golden-gate-vs-25-april.html' title='Golden Gate vs. 25 April'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lOa18sWvit4/TlqM3Wh-3TI/AAAAAAAAANo/xzkbHs0e_pY/s72-c/RIMG0042.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-1822659620336631388</id><published>2011-04-25T16:21:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2011-04-25T16:55:13.264+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Two things learnt in Jordan</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;While in Jordan for the &lt;a href="http://www.educon-conference.org/"&gt;EDUCON&lt;/a&gt; 2011 conference we got a chance to visit Petra and Wadi Rum desert.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;1) At Petra I was intrigued to see the series of rectangular marks either side of the carved entrance to the Treasury. According to our guide Isam, they were the locations of the scaffold used by the artisans to carve the intricate designs higher up on the structure. As the lower part didn’t have this kind of detail they were not necessary there (click picture for a better view).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3hd7KWvcnbg/TbWQnq1y4ZI/AAAAAAAAANY/OKOBSeIiau8/s1600/TreasuryPetra.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3hd7KWvcnbg/TbWQnq1y4ZI/AAAAAAAAANY/OKOBSeIiau8/s400/TreasuryPetra.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w7csskKoDPo/TbWQs2MHB3I/AAAAAAAAANg/MWlBvo64I9w/s1600/TELawrence1914.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w7csskKoDPo/TbWQs2MHB3I/AAAAAAAAANg/MWlBvo64I9w/s200/TELawrence1914.jpg" width="165" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;2) In both the Arab script (here in a carving of T E Lawrence in Wadi Rum) and the ancient pictograms of Bedouin&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;(also in Wadi Rum)&amp;nbsp;the script is right to left. Apparently early written languages (Sumerian, Arabic etc) were right to left because they were carved in stone and this was easier from R to L with early writing instruments.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FDP6DI8z_2Y/TbWQqAjg_VI/AAAAAAAAANc/tkhrcdz6I7s/s1600/BedouinMessage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="81" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FDP6DI8z_2Y/TbWQqAjg_VI/AAAAAAAAANc/tkhrcdz6I7s/s400/BedouinMessage.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;When writing with ink on papyrus in Egypt and parchment in Greece became more common, L to R was more convenient. In fact Greek started out R to L and later changed over and this in turn gave rise to Latin and other modern European scripts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-1822659620336631388?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/1822659620336631388/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=1822659620336631388&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/1822659620336631388'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/1822659620336631388'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2011/04/two-things-learnt-in-jordan.html' title='Two things learnt in Jordan'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3hd7KWvcnbg/TbWQnq1y4ZI/AAAAAAAAANY/OKOBSeIiau8/s72-c/TreasuryPetra.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-8466527859153398255</id><published>2010-12-31T16:23:00.018Z</published><updated>2011-04-25T17:20:22.104+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Singapore 3 - street sights</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The &amp;nbsp;city centre is mostly modern but the Little India and Chinatown quarters feature an interesting &amp;nbsp;mixture of colonial and contemporary architecture&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR4Bm-D_RFI/AAAAAAAAAM8/XfhvAmXEOR8/s1600/MixedArchitecture_Singapore.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="290" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR4Bm-D_RFI/AAAAAAAAAM8/XfhvAmXEOR8/s400/MixedArchitecture_Singapore.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR4Bhzzr9NI/AAAAAAAAAM4/m4gDZA0TFtc/s1600/TheWayToPronounce.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="233" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR4Bhzzr9NI/AAAAAAAAAM4/m4gDZA0TFtc/s320/TheWayToPronounce.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Educational sign in a market complex:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2 style="line-height: 16.2pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;"The way to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.goodenglish.org.sg/improve/lessons-tips/audio-lessons/say-it-right/how-to-pronounce-tuition/"&gt;Pronounce Tuition&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;too-ish-uhn"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;Street sign advertising unusual product at the extensive Mustafa's Department Store:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR4BoW2IPcI/AAAAAAAAANA/5U9bzQZV_Ek/s1600/MustafasStreetAd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR4BoW2IPcI/AAAAAAAAANA/5U9bzQZV_Ek/s320/MustafasStreetAd.jpg" width="196" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;and nearby a warning about inappropriate public behaviour:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR4BeSxS0wI/AAAAAAAAAM0/r6Xvpi3W-gY/s1600/StreetSign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR4BeSxS0wI/AAAAAAAAAM0/r6Xvpi3W-gY/s200/StreetSign.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-8466527859153398255?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/8466527859153398255/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=8466527859153398255&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/8466527859153398255'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/8466527859153398255'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2010/12/singapore-3-street-sights.html' title='Singapore 3 - street sights'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR4Bm-D_RFI/AAAAAAAAAM8/XfhvAmXEOR8/s72-c/MixedArchitecture_Singapore.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-6949041368013231286</id><published>2010-12-31T16:07:00.009Z</published><updated>2011-04-25T17:13:42.814+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Singapore 2 - Buddha Tooth Relic Temple</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR3-vb_-SxI/AAAAAAAAAMs/pu0N8Mmceug/s1600/EntranceBuddhasToothTemple.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR3-vb_-SxI/AAAAAAAAAMs/pu0N8Mmceug/s400/EntranceBuddhasToothTemple.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR3-gaafsBI/AAAAAAAAAMk/v2VTd_XlMos/s1600/RelicOfBuddhasToothTemple.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="245" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR3-gaafsBI/AAAAAAAAAMk/v2VTd_XlMos/s400/RelicOfBuddhasToothTemple.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;There was a ceremony taking place when I came across the temple as I was exploring the Chinatown quarter. Clicking gives a larger version of the photo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Temple roof garden with prayer wheel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR3_AeT63yI/AAAAAAAAAMw/kcq23VZKHzI/s1600/IMGP1144.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR3_AeT63yI/AAAAAAAAAMw/kcq23VZKHzI/s320/IMGP1144.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR3-olirbMI/AAAAAAAAAMo/3MSnp8P_Ux0/s1600/BuddhistPrayerWheel.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR3-olirbMI/AAAAAAAAAMo/3MSnp8P_Ux0/s200/BuddhistPrayerWheel.JPG" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-6949041368013231286?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/6949041368013231286/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=6949041368013231286&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/6949041368013231286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/6949041368013231286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2010/12/singapore-2-buddhas-tooth-relic-temple.html' title='Singapore 2 - Buddha Tooth Relic Temple'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR3-vb_-SxI/AAAAAAAAAMs/pu0N8Mmceug/s72-c/EntranceBuddhasToothTemple.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-1165953321316519737</id><published>2010-12-31T15:58:00.008Z</published><updated>2011-12-17T19:34:42.128Z</updated><title type='text'>Singapore 1 - 57 story hotel</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR33Zg7j81I/AAAAAAAAAMI/ec3xqYCJNjI/s1600/MarinaBaySandsHotel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="280" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR33Zg7j81I/AAAAAAAAAMI/ec3xqYCJNjI/s400/MarinaBaySandsHotel.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;In Singapore for the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.asee.org/conferences/international/2010/index.cfm" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;ASEE GLOBAL COLLOQUIUM ON ENGINEERING EDUCATION&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&amp;nbsp;at the Marina Bay Sands hotel&amp;nbsp;gave the opportunity to check out what some consider an important example of modern hotel construction. The 3 towers of the hotel are joined at the top of their 57 story structure by a Skypark with swimming pool. Although undoubtedly impressive, the casino, luxury shopping mall and general hubris of the undertaking left me with a certain&amp;nbsp;ambivalence.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;That being said, my pre-breakfast and moonlight swims in the vanishing-edge pool at the start and end of each day &amp;nbsp;were unforgettable. Pictures below show the pool during a tropical storm and on a normal day. The city was under a&amp;nbsp;noticeable&amp;nbsp;haze at the time due to the atmospheric effects of&amp;nbsp;forest&amp;nbsp;fires in Sumatra.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR33zb1alBI/AAAAAAAAAMY/OUOaIdrTgTI/s1600/Pool_in_Storm.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="251" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR33zb1alBI/AAAAAAAAAMY/OUOaIdrTgTI/s320/Pool_in_Storm.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR33HzSyZUI/AAAAAAAAAL8/oQwReDNNlMg/s1600/Pool.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR33HzSyZUI/AAAAAAAAAL8/oQwReDNNlMg/s320/Pool.JPG" width="286" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-1165953321316519737?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/1165953321316519737/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=1165953321316519737&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/1165953321316519737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/1165953321316519737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2010/12/singapore-1.html' title='Singapore 1 - 57 story hotel'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/TR33Zg7j81I/AAAAAAAAAMI/ec3xqYCJNjI/s72-c/MarinaBaySandsHotel.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-9197073842623255218</id><published>2010-05-12T17:00:00.018+01:00</published><updated>2011-04-25T17:25:16.082+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Candela'/><title type='text'>Really Madrid</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Was in Madrid recently for the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.educon-conference.org/educon2010/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;IEEE Educon 2010 conference&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Rooftop view from my central Madrid hotel showing arched Moorish-style windows:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S-rQuImGY3I/AAAAAAAAAKA/Y7fNJ1mMqaY/s1600/HPIM1870b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="320" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470414188394734450" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S-rQuImGY3I/AAAAAAAAAKA/Y7fNJ1mMqaY/s320/HPIM1870b.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 306px;" width="244" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Felix Candela was a Madrid-born structural engineer noted for construction work using &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin-shell_structure"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;thin shells&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; made out of reinforced concrete&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; which was very advanced technically for its time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S-rRNn7CkaI/AAAAAAAAAKI/QM6Nkop49YM/s1600/HPIM1874.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470414729380008354" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S-rRNn7CkaI/AAAAAAAAAKI/QM6Nkop49YM/s400/HPIM1874.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;As he spent much of his life in exile during Franco’s time most of the public buildings he designed are outside Spain, principally in Mexico, but the roof of the Our Lady of Guadaloupe church in Madrid is a good example of this aesthetically pleasing combination of material science and geometrical design. The style had its heyday in the period from the 1950’s to 1980’s but has since gone out of favour with the development of more versatile construction materials.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S-rTAESiqqI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/UMFc6XJ32rQ/s1600/HPIM1884.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470416695499860642" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S-rTAESiqqI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/UMFc6XJ32rQ/s400/HPIM1884.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-9197073842623255218?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/9197073842623255218/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=9197073842623255218&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/9197073842623255218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/9197073842623255218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2010/05/really-madrid.html' title='Really Madrid'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S-rQuImGY3I/AAAAAAAAAKA/Y7fNJ1mMqaY/s72-c/HPIM1870b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-2572568446654845212</id><published>2009-12-25T21:53:00.008Z</published><updated>2009-12-25T22:15:36.351Z</updated><title type='text'>What's that sound?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;A memorable aspect of Sydney is the regular sight and sound of the monorail train hurtling overhead as you stroll through the streets of the city centre.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/SzU10pTdSNI/AAAAAAAAAJY/ut33-sluv9s/s400/monorail_1.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419296905167194322" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/SzU11B1_QCI/AAAAAAAAAJg/2wOLhGxMsEY/s400/monorail_2.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419296911754477602" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/SzU11VLtMHI/AAAAAAAAAJo/n6G-jBUWULw/s400/monorail_3.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419296916945842290" /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/SzU11fpbTBI/AAAAAAAAAJw/fa1-HcLrmeo/s1600-h/monorail_4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/SzU11fpbTBI/AAAAAAAAAJw/fa1-HcLrmeo/s400/monorail_4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419296919754853394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;The photo below shows another street near Darling Harbour. Many of the signs and ads are in Chinese as well as English - I was surprised by the ubiquitous  Chinese in this part of the city. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/SzU2nh0wXvI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/bEZqk6m0YGI/s400/monorail_5.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419297779332701938" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/SzU11fpbTBI/AAAAAAAAAJw/fa1-HcLrmeo/s1600-h/monorail_4.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-2572568446654845212?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/2572568446654845212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=2572568446654845212&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/2572568446654845212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/2572568446654845212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2009/12/monorail-overhead.html' title='What&apos;s that sound?'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/SzU10pTdSNI/AAAAAAAAAJY/ut33-sluv9s/s72-c/monorail_1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-3742162808469887547</id><published>2009-12-25T20:13:00.022Z</published><updated>2010-02-19T23:10:11.823Z</updated><title type='text'>On Sydney Bridge</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/SzUsG9KhOqI/AAAAAAAAAJA/5L1hpVQRoEU/s400/Image128.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419286224619780770" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sydney harbour is a pretty impressive sight and its bridge one of the main landmarks (after the Opera House).&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/SzUqLcOhH1I/AAAAAAAAAIY/c_4ucEhX9Lc/s400/HPIM0432.JPG" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419284102654271314" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/SzUqLjCX1rI/AAAAAAAAAIg/B7w0JmmU3aw/s400/Image124.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419284104482379442" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;What surprised me when I got up on the bridge at the end of a weekday afternoon was the number of people who were walking across it from the business side  -  obviously returning home after a days work - some in suits carrying briefcases, others in jogging gear.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/SzUrFH3ZArI/AAAAAAAAAIo/bQODAxFiudA/s200/Image137.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419285093620974258" /&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/SzUrmqYtHrI/AAAAAAAAAIw/uS3hjeUS0kE/s200/Image135.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419285669823192754" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Couldn't imagine the same thing happening on Lisbon's 25 April bridge - in fact I believe its against the law to cross it on foot!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Mind you, I read recently that they temporarily grassed over the entire Sydney Bridge one day and held &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8324591.stm"&gt;an enormous picnic there&lt;/a&gt; - now that's a creative idea.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/SzUvt3nDm2I/AAAAAAAAAJI/RqT84WR8tK8/s400/Sydney-bridge-brekkie.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419290191678643042" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;PHOTO: http://www.news.com.au/travel/galleries/gallery-e6frflw0-1225791052158?page=7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-3742162808469887547?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/3742162808469887547/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=3742162808469887547&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/3742162808469887547'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/3742162808469887547'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-sydney-bridge.html' title='On Sydney Bridge'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/SzUsG9KhOqI/AAAAAAAAAJA/5L1hpVQRoEU/s72-c/Image128.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-7274596537676517155</id><published>2009-09-09T17:46:00.022+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-31T16:57:54.809Z</updated><title type='text'>Great Barrier</title><content type='html'>Knowing I was going to be at this year's &lt;a href="http://www.asee.org/publications/jee/REES.cfm"&gt;Research in Engineering Education Symposium&lt;/a&gt; which happened to be near Cairns, Australia got me thinking about finally seing a real coral reef - a boyhood fantasy of mine dating back to reading the classic Coral Island by RM Ballantyne in my pre-teen days (and one which I seemed rather unlikely to fulfill growing up in Cork, Ireland in the 50s).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379511997806824434" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/SqfdqP46S_I/AAAAAAAAAHA/fI0vFX8d3y8/s200/CoralIsland_shark+attack.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 200px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 135px;" /&gt; After the symposium finished I had a free day and managed to book a boat-trip out to a platform floating over the Great Barrier Reef.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379512534283173490" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/SqfeJea1vnI/AAAAAAAAAHI/4ks1wTKcFeI/s200/Reef_Platform.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 215px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 395px;" /&gt;I was concerned that I would have to remain onboard as I have a health problem which means I have to avoid exposure to strong sunlight but to my delight they supplied lycra suits and all we needed to go snorkelling over the reef ... so off I went exploring what I am told is the only living organism large enough to be seen from space.&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379513364730544242" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/Sqfe50E7AHI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/PNDUfRrQm0E/s200/Reef_Snorkelling.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 153px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 324px;" /&gt; &lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379515896796866594" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/SqfhNMwk6CI/AAAAAAAAAHY/3wGS-0t8F8A/s200/barrier+reef2.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 250px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 367px;" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, dream fulfilled 50 years down the line!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-7274596537676517155?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/7274596537676517155/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=7274596537676517155&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/7274596537676517155'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/7274596537676517155'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2009/09/great-barrier-reef.html' title='Great Barrier'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/SqfdqP46S_I/AAAAAAAAAHA/fI0vFX8d3y8/s72-c/CoralIsland_shark+attack.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-4936908187139256743</id><published>2009-02-09T17:04:00.014Z</published><updated>2009-10-20T19:18:30.390+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='zurich'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blinde kuh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social entrepreneurship'/><title type='text'>The blind leading ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:Oe_P6EZjvB0NeM:http://home.datacomm.ch/steinerpulimeno/images/kuh.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 109px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 96px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:Oe_P6EZjvB0NeM:http://home.datacomm.ch/steinerpulimeno/images/kuh.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Some years ago I set a text in an exam for my business students about a rather unique example of entrepreneurship I had come across: a restaurant in Zurich where the majority of the staff were visually impaired.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; FONT: 12px Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Passing through Zurich on my way back from the Research in Engineer Education symposium in Davos, presented an opportunity to check it out at first hand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; FONT: 12px Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 120px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 86px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:oLG0sggNCf0U8M:http://www.justhungry.com/images/blinde_kuh_entrance.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;S&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;o, after about half an hour of trudging around a residential suburb of the city I came upon the Blinde Kuh (Blind Cow – named after a German children's game similar to the Blindman's Buff I played as a child), an imposing two-story building in its own grounds. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Times New Roman"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Entering the brightly lit entrance hall the friendly and apparently sighted young receptionist told me that one usually needed to book in advance but as I was alone they should be able to fit me in and she then picked up the phone and confirmed this with staff inside. I was told that my waitress Andrea would come to collect me in a few minutes but first I should my food and drink from the menu on the wall and I should stow any light emitting objects lie cell phone or watch in the lockers in the hall.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; FONT: 12px Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;A few minutes later I was introduced to Andrea, a young woman in what looked like an old-fashioned waitress uniform. She turned her back and in basic English explained I should put my hands on her shoulder and once I had rather hesitantly complied led me through thick curtains into a dark hall, through double doors down a sloping corridor in complete darkness. Finally through more curtains and we were obviously in a large room, full of rather noisy people and as I stumbled behind my guide the strong smell of food reminded me I had developed quite an appetite walking around looking for this place. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;I was guided to a seat at the end of a table and soon after I had awkwardly seated myself a and fumbled around in front of me to see what was on the table, Andrea was back with my beer and starter. She told me that if I needed anything I could just say her name and she would come. She added laughing that I was sharing a table with 7 beautiful young women. “Yes we are 7 beautiful young women” confirmed a voice from just next to me to laughter from the rest of her companions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; FONT: 12px Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;It transpired they were work colleagues on a girls night out to celebrate the birthday of one of the group. We went on to have a really delightful dinner-table conversation and they even got me to sing a little of an old Irish ballad, Roisin Dubh which seemed to go down well with the nearby tables. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; FONT: 12px Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;My initial feelings of almost infantile dependence on entering this large dark space were now replaced by a certain sense of liberation: I would not normally have joined a table of 7 young women in a restaurant, much less revelled in the company and begun singing after a single beer. Whats more, after repeated empty fork arriving at mouth incidents I was soon enthusiastically eating my main course (pasta and salad) with my hands, aided by some kind of baps it was served with. I noticed people at other tables seemed quite noisy and boistrous and got the distinct impression the total darkness encouraged us to behave in a slightly larger than life fashion. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;My 7 companions departed in excellent spirits and I was left to finish the meal on my own. The food did seem particularly tasty, due perhaps to a heightened sense of taste, and I must say it was a very satisfying experience eating and drinking in this ambience. Andrea must have been in attendance somewhere nearby because whenever I said her name she was on hand to attend my request. When I had finished I was guided out again and found myself blinking in the brightly lit foyer paying my bill.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 15px; FONT: 12px Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;As I set off back to my hotel I reflected that I had often tried to imagine what it would be like to be blind but now realised it is one of those things you can only appreciate at first-hand and the memory of the evening is likely to stay with me a long time. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-4936908187139256743?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/4936908187139256743/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=4936908187139256743&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/4936908187139256743'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/4936908187139256743'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2009/02/blind-leading.html' title='The blind leading ...'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-3538976821726026860</id><published>2008-02-20T13:07:00.005Z</published><updated>2009-09-09T18:34:41.877+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maputo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='roof-top football'/><title type='text'>Maputo roof football</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2255/2063737186_2fad890248_b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: pointer" border="0" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2255/2063737186_2fad890248_b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When working in Maputo recently, on my way to and from the 9th floor office in the Baixa (city centre) where I was involved in a teacher-training course, I used to watch these boys playing roof-top football every day. Fascinating but unnerving! Please click  to see a larger photo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-3538976821726026860?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/3538976821726026860/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=3538976821726026860&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/3538976821726026860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/3538976821726026860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2008/02/maputo-roof-football.html' title='Maputo roof football'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2255/2063737186_2fad890248_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-4188386844710028594</id><published>2008-02-20T13:04:00.002Z</published><updated>2008-02-20T13:07:13.429Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maputo online facilitation'/><title type='text'>Voltando a  Maputo</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2086/2182565847_d887eb12f6_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2086/2182565847_d887eb12f6_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Numa recente visita a Maputo tive o prazer de me reencontrar com algumas dos participantes no nosso curso online de 2006: Ravieza, Camilo e Mario Ângelo (tive pena de não conseguir contactar mais pessoas mas estive lá pouco tempo).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Foi muito gratificante ouvir sobre as duas formações na área de inclusão social realizadas por eles em 2007– uma em parceria com a FDC e outro a ECOSIDA. Já sabia que havia muito potencial dentro do grupo que fez a formação comigo e é sempre bom ver isso traduzida em trabalho feito; aguardo com muito interesse notícias dos próximos trabalhos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-4188386844710028594?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/4188386844710028594/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=4188386844710028594&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/4188386844710028594'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/4188386844710028594'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2008/02/voltando-maputo.html' title='Voltando a  Maputo'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-6638325772613439004</id><published>2007-03-25T14:37:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-05-12T18:16:28.826+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Decíamos ayer...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Estive recentemente na conferência &lt;a href="http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/"&gt;IADIS Web-based Communities&lt;/a&gt; em Salamanca onde apresentei uma &lt;a href="http://clientes.netvisao.pt/bill/F2FcourseDesign_IADIS2007.pdf"&gt;comunicação&lt;/a&gt;. Aproveitei para visitar a universidade, uma das mais antigas de Europa, e vi a famosa sala de aula de Frei Luís de Léon, que me fez reflectir um bocado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O sacerdote e poeta, Frei Luís de Leon (1527 – 1591) dava aulas na Universidade de Salamanca, onde teve problemas com a Inquisição que prendeu e assim o manteve, durante cinco anos, em Vallodolid.Quando foi libertado, regressou à Universidade de Salamanca. O seu regresso causou grande surpresa e também muita curiosidade. Assim, quando leccionou a primeira aula depois de libertado, a sala encheu-se, pois toda a gente queria saber o que ia dizer sobre os cinco anos de cárcere. Quando os alunos fizeram silêncio, Frei Luís começou:&lt;br /&gt;“Como estavamos a dizer ontem ...”.&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/RgZ9WP0JTBI/AAAAAAAAAAg/38rq8idlU1w/s1600-h/AulaFrayLuisdeLeon.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S-rhUHsB7UI/AAAAAAAAAKg/-vgkAchUNbU/s1600/FreiLuisDeLeon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 343px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S-rhUHsB7UI/AAAAAAAAAKg/-vgkAchUNbU/s400/FreiLuisDeLeon.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470432433172245826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="PT"&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="PT"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;ttp://www.flickr.com/photos/paco_calvino/747350656/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="PT"&gt;A sala de aula dele está preservada como no século XVI&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;e olhando para aquele espaço e lembrando os auditórios das nossas instituições de ensino superior actuais, faz-me pensar que o célebre Frei podia regressar ainda&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;hoje aos actuais auditórios e iniciar a sua aula da mesma forma. Bom, claro que o sacerdote teria que marcar com antecedência se precisasse do projector para o Powerpoint mas, fora este pormenor, creio que se sentia perfeitamente à vontade a dar as suas aulas! &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-6638325772613439004?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/6638325772613439004/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=6638325772613439004&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/6638325772613439004'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/6638325772613439004'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2007/03/decamos-ayer.html' title='Decíamos ayer...'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S-rhUHsB7UI/AAAAAAAAAKg/-vgkAchUNbU/s72-c/FreiLuisDeLeon.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-1205197138352967212</id><published>2007-02-04T19:53:00.001Z</published><updated>2010-05-12T18:06:25.110+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PALOP'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mundus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ciberdúvidas'/><title type='text'>os PALOP's ou os PALOP?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S-rgBb0kDOI/AAAAAAAAAKY/zyxnDmqsDH4/s1600/Mundus1.pdf.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S-rgBb0kDOI/AAAAAAAAAKY/zyxnDmqsDH4/s400/Mundus1.pdf.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470431012647603426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/RcY7lS-D1zI/AAAAAAAAAAM/RfhvLqORa-8/s1600-h/Mundus.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Tirei há tempos uma assinatura à excelente revista Mundus cujo número deste mês é dedicado a "Ciência nos PALOP's".&lt;br /&gt;Bom, neste mesmo número acontece que há &lt;a href="http://clientes.netvisao.pt/bill/EntrevistaMundusJan2007.pdf"&gt;uma entrevista comigo&lt;/a&gt; onde falo sempre "dos PALOP" (é assim que aprendi).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ora bem, os dois não podem estar certos.&lt;br /&gt;Segundo o &lt;a href="http://www.publico.clix.pt/nos/livro_estilo/nova/21-siglas.html"&gt;Livro de Estilo do Público :&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Não fazem plural: as FAPLA, as ONG, as OT (Obrigações do Tesouro), os PALOP, as PME.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;E ainda no&lt;a href="http://ciberduvidas.sapo.pt/pelourinho.php?rid=530"&gt; Ciberdúvidas &lt;/a&gt;confirma-se:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ora, em português o apóstrofo serve para assinalar a supressão de um fonema, em geral vocálico (em diferentes registos e por diferentes razões). É possível que seja o plural que se quer marcar, o que é igualmente inútil, pois as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://ciberduvidas.sapo.pt/php/resposta.php?id=136"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"&gt;siglas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; d&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ispensam essa marca&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ainda por cima uma sigla consubstanciando um plural: PALOP = Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;I rest my case!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-1205197138352967212?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/1205197138352967212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=1205197138352967212&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/1205197138352967212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/1205197138352967212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2007/02/ser-os-palops-ou-os-palop.html' title='os PALOP&apos;s ou os PALOP?'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S-rgBb0kDOI/AAAAAAAAAKY/zyxnDmqsDH4/s72-c/Mundus1.pdf.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-116401390368374814</id><published>2006-11-20T09:04:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-11-23T18:45:08.176Z</updated><title type='text'>TIC para a Inclusão Social, Setúbal</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/1600/Rede_Setubal3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/Rede_Setubal3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No Sábado passado estive num encontro estimulante em Setúbal onde fui convidado pela rede temática das TIC para a Inclusão Social da &lt;a href="http://www.equal.pt/non_acessible/"&gt;Equal&lt;/a&gt;,  para falar sobre a minha experiência nas formações online em Moçambique e a sua relevância para comunidades de prática e aprendizagem online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soube na sessão que já há trabalho interessante a ser desenvolvido neste sentido no bairro de Belavista.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/1600/Rede_Setubal2.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/Rede_Setubal2.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um dos aspectos que saiu nos nossas conversas durante os trabalhos tinha a ver com a importância de “e-learning” ser uma actividade pessoal – ou seja tem a ver com pessoas e não tecnologia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Outro comentário salientou o valor de ouvirmos falar de trabalhos de sucesso na África. Concordo plenamente – normalmente os media nos trazem noticias de problemas e miséria (RTP Africa é uma excepção neste campo mas é pouco visto pelo público em geral, creio).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/1600/Rede_Setubal1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/Rede_Setubal1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uma pergunta que ficou um pouco no ar: será que a experiência de formação à distancia em Moçambique (cursos do &lt;a href="http://www.ilo.org/ciaris/"&gt;CIARIS&lt;/a&gt; em parceria com a &lt;a href="http://www.estbarreiro.ips.pt/"&gt;ESTBarreiro&lt;/a&gt;) pode também ter relevância para pessoas a trabalhar na área de inclusão social aqui na região de Setúbal. Não sei a resposta neste momento mas a pergunta é pertinente.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-116401390368374814?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/116401390368374814/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=116401390368374814&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/116401390368374814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/116401390368374814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2006/11/tic-para-incluso-social-setbal.html' title='TIC para a Inclusão Social, Setúbal'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-116136312574056851</id><published>2006-10-20T17:38:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-21T00:23:42.643+01:00</updated><title type='text'>... ainda a Turquia</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/lorry_mosque.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Apesar de ter comentado depois da minha primeira viagem pelo interior de Turquia – de Istambul até Iskesehir na Anatólia Central - que a zona era “relativamente pobre”, regressando pelo mesmo caminho quatro dias depois, talvez com um olhar mais objectivo, cheguei à conclusão que na verdade não é bem o caso. É uma terra relativamente verde e fértil e com alguma indústria: fábricas têxtil, alumínio e cimenteiras etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/train_countryside.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tirando as mesquitas, não é muito diferente do Alto Alentejo e realmente bastante longe daquilo que eu inicialmente pensava. &lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/playground_mosque.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os meus colegas turcos disseram-me que as zonas Kurdas mais para o Este, perto da fronterira com Iraq, são bastante mais pobres, mas na zona da Universidade de Anadolu fiquei com a ideia que os nossos alunos não iriam sentir grandes diferenças entre a vida estudantil de lá e de cá.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/Market_Fastfood.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Passando por a Istambul, notei novamente a justaposição fascinante entre a vida duma cidade moderna, do século XXI, a as construções e estilos da vida de outra épocas. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/street_SultanAhmad.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Rua na parte antiga da cidade&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/1600/Station.8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/Station.5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Estação de comboio central&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/1600/Besiktas.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/Besiktas.1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="PT"&gt;Besiktas, uma das partes modernas de Istambul, vista do Bósporo.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-116136312574056851?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/116136312574056851/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=116136312574056851&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/116136312574056851'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/116136312574056851'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2006/10/ainda-turquia.html' title='... ainda a Turquia'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-115943262984519600</id><published>2006-09-28T09:35:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-21T09:41:34.863+01:00</updated><title type='text'>As Bolonhas?</title><content type='html'>Deı uma breve apresentacao hoje sobre a mınha escola e sobre o meu trabalho na area de Actıve Learnıng a 12 membros do Departamento de Engenharıa Cıvıl da Unıversıdade de Anadolu.*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/presentat%3F%3Fon1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os colegas aquı em Turquia tem dıfıculdade em ver a logıca dos cursos de lıcencıatura de 3 anos: apesar de terem mudado ja ha 2 anos para o sıstema de ECTS de Bolonha, decıdıram contınuar com cursos de 4 anos. Aquı estas decısoes sao tomadas ao nıvel da Unıversıdade e nao ao Mınısterıo como em Portugal e dızeram que nao era prevısto mudar de 4 para 3 anos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Outra pergunta que alunos e docentes me colocaram era porque nos em Portugal aında nao mudamos para o ensıno em ıngles em areas como a engenharıa para os nossos dıplomados serem melhor preparados para o mercado de trabalho ınternacıonal (!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*&lt;em&gt; sou obrıgado a escrever num teclado sem acentos.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-115943262984519600?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/115943262984519600/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=115943262984519600&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/115943262984519600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/115943262984519600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2006/09/as-bolonhas.html' title='As Bolonhas?'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-115936521229818619</id><published>2006-09-27T14:15:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-09-30T22:20:32.456+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Em Anatolıa</title><content type='html'>Cheguei a Eskisehir no plano alto de Anatolia no ınterior de Turquıa anteontem para fazer uma visita a Universidade de Anadolu no ambıto de Erasmus* .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anadolu.edu.tr/eindex.htm" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.anadolu.edu.tr/eindex.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A viagem de Istambul levou quase 6 horas de camioneta, passando por terras rurais e relativamente pobres. No entanto quando cheguei a Eskısehir vı que e uma cıdade bastante grande e moderno - algo parecıda com a cıdade de Aveıro e ıgualmente ınfluenciada pela presenca da unıversidade, que e bastante grande com 20 mıl alunos no campus e aında maıs 1 mılhao a distancıa!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O campus principal e bonıto e amplo com zonas verdes, jardım japones, restaurantes e cafes, supermercado, cınema, muıtos multibancos alem das estruturas academıcas normaıs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/1600/Turkey%202006%20025.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/Turkey%202006%20025.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dısponıbılızaram um gabınete bem equipado para o meu uso durante os 4 dıas estou aqui. No departamento de engenharıa cıvıl o ensino e totalmente em ıngles, implicando que os estudantes tem um ano inicial de consolidar a lıngua antes de comecar a lıcencıatura de 4 anos. Tem o sıstema de ECTS e cursos flexiveis de Bolonha a funcionar ja ha 2 anos mas apostam na licenciatura de 4 anos. &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hoje deı uma aula aos alunos de 3 ano de Gestao de Constru&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/group_debate2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;cao em ıngles sobre a Inovacao - foram muıto participativas e correu bem. No fim fiz uma apresentacao sobre a mınha escola e o Instituto Politecnico de Setubal e houve bastantes perguntas. Fora do futebol sabe-se pouco aqui sobre Portugal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Depoıs tıve um almoco com o Vıce-Presıdente da Unıversıdade - chegueı a perceber que estao a apostar muıto no Erasmus e mobılıdade e que em termos de organızacao e informatizacao dos nossos servıcos podemos aprender bastante da experıencıa deles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Amanha vou realızar uma sessao para os docentes e postgrads do Departamento de Engenharıa Cıvıl dedıcado ao tema de Actıve e Collaboratıve Learnıng e depoıs tenho mais 6 horas de camıoneta a Istanbul. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*&lt;em&gt; sou obrıgado a escrever num teclado sem acentos.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-115936521229818619?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/115936521229818619/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=115936521229818619&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/115936521229818619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/115936521229818619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2006/09/em-anatola.html' title='Em Anatolıa'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-115790690429009237</id><published>2006-09-10T17:44:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-09-27T14:56:14.380+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Podcast: Formação e Comunidade</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/1600/PortMaputo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 393px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 261px" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/PortMaputo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT"&gt;Durante os cursos online em que estive envolvido em Guiné Bissau e Moçambique, uma questão que tem-me preocupado tem a ver com o seguimento depois de acabar o curso. Tentei explicitar as minhas ideias como convidado no blog &lt;i&gt;Communities of practice for development&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://joitskehulsebosch.blogspot.com/2006/07/training-courses-linking-people-and.html#links"&gt;Communities of practice for development: Training courses, linking people and community&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT"&gt;Depois fui entrevistado sobre o tema e o podcast está aqui:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-FAMILY: trebuchet ms"&gt;&lt;a href="http://joitskehulsebosch.blogspot.com/2006/08/practical-examples-interview-with-bill.html"&gt;Communities of practice for development: Practical examples: Interview with Bill Williams on ILO/CIARIS experiences in lusophone Africa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-115790690429009237?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/115790690429009237/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=115790690429009237&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/115790690429009237'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/115790690429009237'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2006/09/podcast-formao-e-comunidade.html' title='Podcast: Formação e Comunidade'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-115393775581837260</id><published>2006-07-26T18:51:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-30T20:10:40.266+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Conservação e reabilitação na Acrópole</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/1600/acropolis1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/acropolis1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estive em Atenas este mês para participar numa &lt;a href="http://www.worldses.org/conferences/2006/greece/education/"&gt;conferência&lt;/a&gt; e aproveitei para visitar a Acropole. Foi impressionante estar dentro de um eléctrico moderno com ar-condicionado no centro de uma capital europeia, moderna e movimentada como Atenas, e de repente ver as colunas magnificas duma construção milenar a dominar o centro da cidade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visto de longe, a estrutura parece bem conservada mas aproximando, subindo o rochedo, vê-se que o Parténon, o monumento principal deste grupo, está a ser alvo de um processo de recuperação profundo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O monumento tinha-se deteriorado significativamente ao longo do século XX e dois problemas tinham que ser colmatados para preservar este exemplo do património mundial:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt; a estrutura, sendo de mármore (principalmente CaCo&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;), tem estado a sofrer progressivamente dos efeitos da poluição atmosférica do meio urbano e industrial: assim o mármore é transformado quimicamente em gesso (uma forma de CaSo&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;4&lt;/span&gt;) que começa a cair aos poucos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;   &lt;li&gt; duas tentativas prévias de recuperar a estrutura (uma no século XIX e a outra no XX) não foram efectuadas da melhor maneira uma vez que utilizaram ferro para reforçar partes da estrutura e o próprio ferro é também sujeito aos efeitos de corrosão. Também substituíram partes da estrutura em mármore por outros materiais como betão.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;ul&gt;      &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/1600/partenon_restaura%3F%3F%3F%3Fo.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/400/partenon_restaura%3F%3F%3F%3Fo.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Portanto, neste momento está a decorrer &lt;a href="http://www1.greece.gr/CULTURE/CulturalHeritage/ADigitalSolution.stm"&gt;um mega-processo de recuperação&lt;/a&gt; onde a estrutura está a ser desmontada e reconstruida progressivamente em que o mármore original está a ser protegido com uma camada anti-erosão. Ao mesmo tempo os erros dos processos anteriores estão a ser corrigidos para levar toda a estrutura ao seu estado original. A reconstrução do Parténon irá incluir partes que ficaram fora em processos anteriores resultando num espécie de &lt;a href="http://ysma.culture.gr/enim/Newsletter%201_eng.pdf"&gt;puzzle muito complexo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/1600/marmore%20antigo%20e%20novo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/marmore%20antigo%20e%20novo.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aqui é possível ver onde o novo mármore foi adicionada à pedra original. A cada peça é atribuído um número único para permitir a remontagem posterior. A parte branca vai depois receber um tratamento para criar uma pátina que recrie o aspecto da pedra original.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-115393775581837260?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/115393775581837260/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=115393775581837260&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/115393775581837260'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/115393775581837260'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2006/07/conservao-e-reabilitao-na-acrpole.html' title='Conservação e reabilitação na Acrópole'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-115229214575898496</id><published>2006-07-07T18:04:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-04-25T16:48:18.218+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Rich Felder no Minho: Active Learning e embaraço terminológico</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/1600/Rich-informal-7-00.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/Rich-informal-7-00.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"&gt;Assi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"&gt;sti duas excelentes sessões em Braga esta semana, integradas no ciclo de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ecsaude.uminho.pt/postgrad/advanced.htm" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';" title="http://www.ecsaude.uminho.pt/postgrad/advanced.htm"&gt;workshops educacionais&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"&gt; da Escola das Ciências da Saúde da Universidade de Minho.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"&gt;Os convidados, &lt;a href="http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/" title="http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/ ."&gt;Richard Felder e Rebecca Brent&lt;/a&gt; dos EUA, são pessoas com um volume muito significativo de trabalho publicado na área de pedagogia do ensino superior e sobre a aprendizagem centrada no aluno.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"&gt;A sessão de manhã foi dedicada  às técnicas de &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Columns/Active.pdf"&gt;Active Learning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; , aprendizagem que na abordagem dos convidados se pode considerar como resultado dum leque de técnicas para tornar o aluno na sala de aula mais activo e mais autónomo. A própria sessão foi organizada de forma a exemplificar várias das técnicas e havia ainda vídeos do Felder a aplicar os seus métodos em aulas de química. Houve também bastantes referencias aos estudos realizados na área que apoiam a sua convicção sobre o valor desta abordagem. Fiquei convencido que estas técnicas podiam ser incorporadas na nossa prática pedagógica aqui na ESTBarreiro sem grande transtornos e trazendo benefícios significativos. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"&gt;Depois do almoço, os trabalhos foram centrados nas técnicas de &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Papers/Coopreport.html"&gt;Cooperative Learning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; que se pode considerar como instrumentos para tornar os trabalhos de grupo mais activos, eficazes e fielmente avaliados para todos os participantes.  Foi referido também a aplicação desta abordagem no &lt;a href="http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Papers/ABET_Paper_%28JEE%29.pdf"&gt;ensino de engenharia.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"&gt;Entretanto, percebi que a definição de Active Learning  que eu e uma colega tínhamos incluído num &lt;a href="http://clientes.netvisao.pt/bill/SystematicApproach_WSEAS2006.pdf"&gt;artigo&lt;/a&gt; recentemente aceite para publicação e que vou apresentar numa conferencia em Atenas brevemente, não corresponde em todo rigor com a que o Dr. Felder utiliza. Mas, sabendo que vários autores utilizam a designação duma forma ligeiramente diferente, não me preocupei bastante. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"&gt;Mais preocupado fiquei, quando no intervalo mostrei ao Dr. Felder a definição de  Cooperative Learning no nosso artigo e ele me responde logo “That’s looks more like a definition of Collaborative Learning, not Cooperative Learning”.  Fiquei um bocado consternado: será que me enganei e baralhei as duas definições?  Bom, como na literatura existe alguma ambiguidade entre os dois termos, tive  bastante cuidado na minha citação, pensei eu, mas…? &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"&gt;Assim, mal cheguei a casa depois das 6 horas de viagem da Braga, fui correr para consultar a fonte (&lt;a href="http://www.asee.org/jee/upload/SamplePages_87-101.pdf"&gt;Smith, Sheppard, Johnson and Johnson&lt;/a&gt;, 2005 autores também bastante eminentes na área) e realmente não me tinha enganado: &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;Cooperative learning is the instructional use of small groups so that students work together to maximize their own and each others learning.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms"&gt;E aquele que o Dr Felder  definiu como Cooperative Learning é o mesmo que o artigo de  S, S, J e J classificou como “&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;Carefully structured cooperative learning”&lt;/span&gt;. Phew!!  Então pode se dizer que ambos têm razão.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"&gt;Conclusão: mesmo entre as figuras muito eminentes numa determinada área, podem existir algumas diferenças de terminologia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-115229214575898496?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/115229214575898496/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=115229214575898496&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/115229214575898496'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/115229214575898496'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2006/07/felder-no-minho-active-learning-e.html' title='Rich Felder no Minho: Active Learning e embaraço terminológico'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-115225656592981075</id><published>2006-07-07T08:10:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-07T18:42:54.403+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Presentes Gregos</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT"&gt;Na próxima semana estou em Atenas para apresentar &lt;a href="http://clientes.netvisao.pt/bill/SystematicApproach_WSEAS2006.pdf"&gt;uma comunicação&lt;/a&gt; numa conferencia:&lt;span style="font-size:+0;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;The 3rd WSEAS/IASME International Conference on ENGINEERING EDUCATION (&lt;a href="http://www.worldses.org/conferences/2006/greece/education/"&gt;EE'06&lt;/a&gt;). O trabalho será depois publicado como um &lt;i&gt;extended article&lt;/i&gt; na revista WSEAS Transactions on Advances in Engineering Education .&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT"&gt;A conferencia é em Vougliami, 15 km do centro do capital grego, e faz parte das celebrações dos 10 anos da &lt;a href="http://www.worldses.org/wseas.htm"&gt;WSEAS&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;span style="font-size:+0;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT"&gt;World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="PT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+0;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(que diz no seu website &lt;i&gt;“&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i  style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT"&gt;pronounced: "W" – seas” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span lang="PT"&gt;mas que eu, realmente, a falar em inglês nunca consigo dizer desta forma porque soa que estamos a referir às casas de banho). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="PT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-115225656592981075?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/115225656592981075/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=115225656592981075&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/115225656592981075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/115225656592981075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2006/07/presentes-gregos.html' title='Presentes Gregos'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-114959774484883059</id><published>2006-06-06T13:36:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-06-06T13:42:24.846+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Adequação a Bolonha</title><content type='html'>A Direcção Geral do Ensino Superior confirmou hoje o registo das adequações a Bolonha dos cursos de Licenciatura em Engenharia Civil e Engenharia de Conservação e Reabilitação da ESTBarreiro/IPS e a autorização para o início do seu funcionamento em 2006/2007.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Isso é um grande alívio para toda gente da minha escola, depois do clima de incerteza que tem reinado nos últimos meses.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-114959774484883059?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/114959774484883059/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=114959774484883059&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/114959774484883059'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/114959774484883059'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2006/06/adequao-bolonha.html' title='Adequação a Bolonha'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-114675279278819385</id><published>2006-05-04T15:16:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-10-20T19:22:25.090+01:00</updated><title type='text'>… o Inglês, ver!</title><content type='html'>&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;assessment and evaluation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;skills and competencies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;formal and non-formal (or, informal) learning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;technical and soft skills &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Uma colega do ISEL, Isabel Carvalho, pediu a minha ajuda em explicar a diferença entre os termos ingleses acima, que têm aparecido com alguma frequência nos debates sobre questões de educação e pedagogia. Bom, apesar de eu saber mais ou menos intuitivamente a diferença em cada caso, mesmo assim senti alguma dificuldade em explicitar plenamente os significados de cada. Fica mais complicado pelo facto de que às vezes são empregados duma forma não diferenciada em conversa informal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ora, acabei por fazer o que se faz quando confrontado com estas situações: recorrei ao Google. As explicações que seguem não são definitivas e pecam por se apoiarem mais em definições e não em exemplos práticos, mas podem servir como ponto de partida - os comentários e sugestões são bem-vindos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;assessment and evaluation &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;The term assessment refers to the systematic gathering of information about component parts of the thing to be evaluated.&lt;br /&gt;The evaluation process is broader than assessment and involves examining information about many components of the thing being evaluated and making judgments about its worth or effectiveness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ae0/e_what.html" href="http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ae0/e_what.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ae0/e_what.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;skills and competencies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Competency: A characteristic and measurable pattern of behaviours and knowledge that causes or predicts superior performance in a given role or set of defined responsibilities.&lt;br /&gt;Competence may be defined as the solving of problems by developing those solutions that prevent their recurrence, and doing so with minimum utilization of energy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;There are two types of skills: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Basic skills typically are acquired by workers prior to entering the labour force. They consist of literacy, problem-solving, numerical reasoning and written communication.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Occupational or job-related skills required by employees are those skills necessary to perform a specific job or function.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sla.org/chapter/cmi/Programs/2002-2003/2003Feb5Program.ppt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;http://www.sla.org/chapter/cmi/Programs/2002-2003/2003Feb5Program.ppt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Formal and non-formal (or, informal) learning&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Formal Learning: the institution controls both the objectives and the means of learning;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Non-formal Learning: the learners control the objectives but not the means; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Informal Learning: the learners control the means but not the objectives; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Self-Directed Learning: the learners control both the objectives and the means.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.stemworks.org/Bulletins/SEB93-3.html" href="http://www.stemworks.org/Bulletins/SEB93-3.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;http://www.stemworks.org/Bulletins/SEB93-3.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;technical and soft skills&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Parafraseando:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learning about the subject matter is only one of the necessary talents every technology professional should cultivate. The human component to support technical duties requires good communication and relationship skills, otherwise known as soft skills. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;However, I tend to prefer the designation professional rather than soft (seems to help get these skills taken more seriously!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.zdnet.com.au/jobs/print.htm?TYPE=" href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/jobs/print.htm?TYPE=story&amp;amp;AT=39160083-39023216t-20000000c" at="39160083-39023216t-20000000c"&gt;http://www.zdnet.com.au/jobs/print.htm?TYPE=story&amp;amp;AT=39160083-39023216t-20000000c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-114675279278819385?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/114675279278819385/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=114675279278819385&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/114675279278819385'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/114675279278819385'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2006/05/o-ingls-ver.html' title='… o Inglês, ver!'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-114665556281493554</id><published>2006-05-03T12:13:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-06-06T13:34:00.916+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Engenharia e escultura</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/1600/NCIris.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: centre; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/NCIris.jpg" border="5" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recebi recentemente um convite para assistir a inauguração da &lt;a href="http://www.ncirl.ie/site/news_view.asp?id=98&amp;pageId=1142&amp;amp;sectionId=49&amp;amp;level=0"&gt;NC Iris&lt;/a&gt;, uma escultura da Vivienne Roche, amiga de longa data, em colaboração com a empresa de engenharia Arup para o campus da National College of Ireland no centro de Dublin. Não foi possível estar presente mas as fotos da instalação, inspirada pela forma da íris e do lírio, são impressionantes, penso. A Vivienne costume trabalhar em materiais como aço e madeira mas inspirada em &lt;a href="http://www.rubicongallery.ie/exhibitions/description.php?ExhibitionID=55"&gt;formas da natureza&lt;/a&gt; como o oceano, a praia e as flores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A colaboração com a &lt;a href="http://www.arup.ie/news.htm"&gt;Arup Ireland&lt;/a&gt; vinha por causa da dimensão da peça (mais que 14 metros) e a sua sofisticação técnica – é fabricada em inox e as cores mudam conforme a hora do dia e a época.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A empresa Arup é conhecida pelo seu envolvimento na emblemática &lt;a href="http://www.arup.com/australasia/project.cfm?pageid=1523"&gt;Sydney Opera House&lt;/a&gt; em Australia, no &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Georges_Pompidou"&gt;Centre Pompidou&lt;/a&gt; em Paris e na polémica &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Millennium_Bridge"&gt;Millennium Bridge&lt;/a&gt; em Londres entre outros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Arup foi fundado em 1946 por Ove Arup, mas a &lt;a href="http://apqckm.blogspot.com/2005/03/communities-of-practice-at-arup.html"&gt;filosofia da firma&lt;/a&gt; é interessante em que tem algumas coisas em comum com as visões mais contemporáneas das novas corporações da época &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html"&gt;Google.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-114665556281493554?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/114665556281493554/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=114665556281493554&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/114665556281493554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/114665556281493554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2006/05/engenharia-e-escultura.html' title='Engenharia e escultura'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-114564464239592694</id><published>2006-04-21T19:35:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-23T16:28:13.400+01:00</updated><title type='text'>to b-on?</title><content type='html'>A minha instituição mantém uma subscrição para o serviço &lt;a href="http://www.b-on.pt/"&gt;b-on&lt;/a&gt;, a Biblioteca do Conhecimento on-line, e recentemente recebemos um questionário para avaliar a nossa utilização do mesmo. Tive que admitir que as minhas experiências na b-on me deram mais frustração que resultados.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ou seja, sei que os índices e depósitos científicos mais importantes se encontram incluídos lá - ISI, Elsevier etc, mas para mim encontrar artigos que preciso de consultar não é fácil (algumas que até sei mesmo que existem).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Busca 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;bill williams participation online&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Tenho duas publicações em jornais internacionais com as palavras online e participation no título; fiz várias pesquisa no b-on e não localizei nada.&lt;br /&gt;Fazendo em Google, encontro logo várias referências a trabalhos relacionados ou mencionando os meus (mas não os artigos).&lt;br /&gt;Em &lt;a href="http://scholar.google.com/"&gt;Google Scholar&lt;/a&gt; chego logo a um dos meus artigos. E ainda descobri que uma tese de doutoramento em química orgânica feito em Alemanha em 2002 cita um artigo meu publicado em 1973 (ou seja antes da altura que se pode encontrar artigos disponibilizados online).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Busca 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;rui carrilho gomes&lt;/em&gt; (um colega meu com artigos publicados em revistas internacionais)&lt;br /&gt;B-on: não encontro nada&lt;br /&gt;Google: também não&lt;br /&gt;Google Scholar: Encontro um artigo dele&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conclusão: para certas áreas o Google Scholar é mais eficaz (e muito mais fácil de utilização diga-se)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Resumindo: as minhas primeiras tentativas não foram muito frutíferas.&lt;br /&gt;Entretanto, recebi hoje um manual de utilizador de B-on. Nas suas 18 páginas o livrinho explica em pormenor os vários tipos de busca possível e nos próximos dias comprometo-me seguir as instruções religiosamente para ver se consiga ter melhores resultados.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas para mim ainda fica uma questão de fundo: porque precisamos dum manual para tirar proveito duma ferramenta comercial (e não barata) enquanto uma ferramenta gratuita como o Google Scholar se pode utilizar com sucesso imediato sem necessidade de instrução adicional?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-114564464239592694?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/114564464239592694/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=114564464239592694&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/114564464239592694'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/114564464239592694'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2006/04/to-b-on.html' title='to b-on?'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-114451968913960505</id><published>2006-04-08T18:39:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-09T11:41:27.476+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Aqui em Maputo ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/1600/trabalho_online1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/trabalho_online1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... o curso tem tido momentos muito bons. Apesar de alguns problemas logísticos nos primeiras dias, já estamos com um bom ritmo de trabalho nas sessões presenciais e sinto que entre o grupo de 18 participantes, de variadas entidades e ONGs, e a equipa de coordinação, Dra Susana Maleane do Centro de Estudo Africanos do UEM e Dr Valerito, investigador do CEA, e o proprio, temos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/1600/Ravieza_Camilo_Celina_em_debate.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/Ravieza_Camilo_Celina_em_debate.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;um bom conjunto de pessoas, capaz de levar para frente uma boa formação e frutuosa partilha de conhecimentos na faze online a decorrer durante as proximas 8 semanas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os trabalhos têm sido divididos entre o f2f (face to face) e online com mais tempo dedicado ao primeiro, dado que o acesso a rede durante o dia é um bocado lente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No primeira dia, como previsto, partilhamos algumas momentos importantes de &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/1600/trabalho_online2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/trabalho_online2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;aprendizagem na vida de cada um e depois falamos de teorias de aprendizagem como constructivismo e constructionismo social.&lt;br /&gt;E já no terceiro dia tivemos uns exemplos destes conceitos postos na prática quando trabalhamos em grupos para preparar e apresentar formas de explicar “às comunidades” do que concretamente estamos a referir quando falamos de Exclusão Social. Neste sessão, realizada em regime de team teaching com o professor de sociologia, Dr Valerito, alguns grupos optaram por uma apresentação mais classica, um elemento a falar apoiado por posters, e claro que aprendi bastante sobre a realidade em Moçambique assistindo estas intervenções. &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/1600/Apresentacao_Tchamo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/Apresentacao_Tchamo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas a abordagem mais marcante para mim (e olhando para as reflexões colocadas online depois, para quase toda gente) era o grupo que optou por começar com uma pequena encenação dramática onde os membros do grupo representaram pessoas da comunidade a tentar comunicar com o chefe da escola local (uma aluna que faltava porque tinha que buscar bidões de água, um deficiente em cadeira de rodas, um representante local que não conseguia ser compreendido pelo chefe). A dramatização foi muito viva e foi só depois de estabelecer estes exemplos nos nossos mentes que else partiram para uma abordagem com posters elucidativos&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/1600/o_sem_voz.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/o_sem_voz.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/1600/ExSoc2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/ExSoc2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/1600/ExSoc3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/ExSoc3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-114451968913960505?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/114451968913960505/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=114451968913960505&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/114451968913960505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/114451968913960505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2006/04/aqui-em-maputo.html' title='Aqui em Maputo ...'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-114366379843858344</id><published>2006-03-29T21:19:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-03-29T22:53:44.293+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Uma vantagem do portfólio electronico ...</title><content type='html'>... é que permite usar hiper-links, como no meu &lt;a href="http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2006/03/o-ttulo-science-language-community-and.html"&gt;post anterior &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;e  assim torna o texto mais interessante, a abre mais possibilidades de leitura, penso.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-114366379843858344?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-114366139067991865</id><published>2006-03-29T20:36:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-03-29T20:43:51.360+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Horário da formação em Maputo</title><content type='html'>Ao pedido dos organisadores, mandei a minha proposta para o horário e programação do curso de formação que vou realizar na Universidade Eduardo Mondlane.&lt;br /&gt;Bom, pensando em 5 e meio horas por dia sugeri um program começando às 9.00, pausa para almoço e acabando as 16.30 como pode ver &lt;a href="http://clientes.netvisao.pt/bill/maputo_program.pdf"&gt;aqui&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas não tinha lembrado que quando trabalhava em Chimoio, começamos o dia cedo (7.00) e de facto a programação que acabei de receber de Maputo prevê um início as 8.00, pausa para lanche ás 11.00 e acabar os trabalhos às 14.30.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-114366139067991865?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/114366139067991865/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=114366139067991865&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/114366139067991865'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/114366139067991865'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2006/03/horrio-da-formao-em-maputo.html' title='Horário da formação em Maputo'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-114366090780014607</id><published>2006-03-29T20:32:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-15T22:52:39.130+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Today Barreiro, tomorrow Maputo ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;Como mencionei num post anterior, vou amanhã a Maputo para ministrar um curso presencial. Extracto dos meus termos de referencia:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aplicação Piloto &lt;a href="http://www.ilo.org/ciaris/"&gt;CIARIS&lt;/a&gt; em Moçambique &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TERMOS DE REFERÊNCIA&lt;br /&gt;Colaborador Externo – Bill Williams&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contexto&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O Projecto Estratégias e Técnicas contra a Exclusão Social e a Pobreza / Portugal (STEP) do Bureau Internacional do Trabalho (BIT)&lt;a title="" style="" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=24857676#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1"&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt; desenvolveu uma plataforma informática, o CIARIS – Centro Informático de Aprendizagem e de Recursos para a Inclusão Social, a qual utiliza as tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TIC) com o objectivo de reforçar as capacidades operacionais dos actores envolvidos na concepção, implementação e avaliação de projectos de luta contra a exclusão social. A versão actualmente existente é uma versão de carácter global, que não se encontra ainda adaptada aos contextos específicos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A formação em Moçambique insere-se num processo de realização de testes piloto em países lusófonos, tendo o Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade Eduardo Mondlane como co-organizador&lt;a title="" style="" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=24857676#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2"&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;. Os objectivos principais desta formação são:&lt;br /&gt;- reforçar a capacidade de 20 técnicos na área da luta contra a exclusão social;&lt;br /&gt;- colocar em prática a plataforma de formação;&lt;br /&gt;- a aprendizagem de metodologias básicas de formação online;&lt;br /&gt;- a definição de um primeiro processo de adaptação de parte dos conteúdos CIARIS à realidade local;&lt;br /&gt;- avaliar a viabilidade da utilização dos seus suportes tecnológicos;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A formação de facilitadores tem como objectivo a criação de uma carteira de facilitadores Moçambicanos que possam vir a desempenhar futuramente essas funções.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="" style="" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=24857676#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1"&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt; Financiado pelo Ministério do Trabalho e da Solidariedade Social de Portugal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="" style="" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=24857676#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2"&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt; Em articulação com o Projecto STEP/Portugal.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-114366090780014607?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/114366090780014607/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=114366090780014607&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/114366090780014607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/114366090780014607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2006/03/today-barreiro-tomorrow-maputo.html' title='Today Barreiro, tomorrow Maputo ...'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-114366060348385741</id><published>2006-03-29T20:29:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-03-29T20:30:03.486+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A visão do Nelson Trindade</title><content type='html'>Na intervenção do Prof Nelson Trindade na nossa sessão do IPS sobre portfólios (veja post anterior), havia muitas coisas em que não estava completamente de acordo com a visão pedagógica dele, mas havia duas questões que levantou que realmente fizeram ressonância comigo:&lt;br /&gt;1)      Referindo a “professores que têm 30 anos de experiência na carreira” opinou que muitas as vezes têm um ano só de experiência e 29 de continuar a fazer o mesmo.&lt;br /&gt;Bom, acontece que tenho 30 anos de carreira (ou mais) e um motivo meu em reflectir aqui, é para analisar um pouco e tentar fazer alguma integração dos vários fios da minha carreiro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2)      Chamou atenção à necessidade de ter uma nova palavra para descrever quem está a aprender (learner em inglês) para evitar os conceitos de transmissão de conhecimentos inerentes nos termos como formando, aluno, estudante etc.&lt;br /&gt;Pessoalmente tenho utilizado o termo aprendente (penso que o NT prefere o aprendizente mas para mim isso complica demasiado) já há alguns anos em cursos e as pessoas normalmente o adoptam sem problemas.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-114366060348385741?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-114365991539156620</id><published>2006-03-29T20:15:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-31T12:05:32.826+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ficha de docente</title><content type='html'>No processo de preparativos para adequação de Bolonha dos curso da minha escola, foi nos pedido o preenchimento duma ficha sobre o perfil academico de cada docente.&lt;br /&gt;Está &lt;a href="http://clientes.netvisao.pt/bill/ficha_docente_bw_2006.pdf"&gt;aqui &lt;/a&gt;a minha.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-114365991539156620?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/114365991539156620/comments/default' title='Post 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src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-114365929950568574</id><published>2006-03-29T19:55:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-03-29T21:51:39.213+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ántiguidades académicas pessoais</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/1600/HigherDipEssay.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/HigherDipEssay.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/1600/thesis.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: right;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5628/815/320/thesis.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Numa recente visita a minha terra (Irlanda) fiquei intrigado a encontrar dois trabalhos meus do início da minha carreira (anos 70) que não tinha visto há decadas - um que foi publicado na altura e outro trabalho de fim de curso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ambos foram dactilografados (claro) mas enquanto em 1973 o meu foco era na quimica teorica, em 1975 já estava mais preocupado com questões ligadas a educação e desenvolvimento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A minha primreira publicação académica foi em 1973 no Journal of the Chemical Society mas infelizmente naõ está disponível online (os arquivos online começaram mais tarde).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-114365929950568574?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/114365929950568574/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=114365929950568574&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/114365929950568574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/114365929950568574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2006/03/ntiguidades-acadmicas-pessoais.html' title='Ántiguidades académicas pessoais'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-114349714289412256</id><published>2006-03-27T23:03:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-15T22:29:25.426+01:00</updated><title type='text'>O título: Science, Language,  Community and Development</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT"&gt;Uma das funções que pretendo para o meu blog é de ajudar a mim próprio fazer sentido das várias fazes da minha carreira na educação. Carreira esta que tem englobado duma forma ou outra as quatro áreas no título: Ciência, Línguas, Comunidade e Desenvolvimento.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT"&gt;Acabei um mestrado em Química na &lt;a href="http://www.ucc.ie/"&gt;Irlanda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;em 1973&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;e fui logo dar aulas da química na &lt;a href="http://www.uoa.edu.er/"&gt;Universidade de Asmara&lt;/a&gt;, Eritrea, África Oriental. Algum tempo depois quando a universidade se fechou devido à guerra civil (na semana que cheguei ao país o Imperador Haile Selassie foi destituído num golpe militar), fui dar aulas numa escola secundário em Nairobi Quénia.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT"&gt;Mais tarde, voltando a Europa, completei um ano de pedagogia e trabalhei como professor de química em Londres até 1986. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT"&gt;Depois fui como professor de química para leccionar no &lt;a href="http://www.fao.org/sd/researchinstitutions/result.asp?search_mode=advanced&amp;lang=en&amp;amp;country=MOZ"&gt;Instituto Agrário de Chimoio&lt;/a&gt;, Moçambique. Antes, claro,&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;foi necessário aprender a língua portuguesa para desempenhar as minhas funções de docente na língua oficial da RPM, que implicou um curso intensivo de dois meses em Lisboa. Acontece que gostei tanto da experiência de aprender português assim que depois de completar o meu contracto de dois ano e meio em Moçambique, vim para Portugal com a intenção de ser professor de línguas. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT"&gt;E assim foi, comecei a dar aulas no sector privado na &lt;a href="http://www.international-house.com/schools.htm"&gt;International House&lt;/a&gt;, depois tirei uma pós-graduação da &lt;a href="http://www.cambridgeesol.org/teaching/delta.htm"&gt;RSA-Universidade de Cambridge&lt;/a&gt; na área, e em 1998 comecei como docente no IPS.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT"&gt;A próxima fase da minha carreira foi quando comecei a tirar cursos na área de aprendizagem online (Universidade de Innsbruck e Universidade de Londres) em 2001 e 2002 e depois fui convidado para ser tutor online num curso do &lt;a href="http://ioewebserver.ioe.ac.uk/ioe/cms/get.asp?cid=882&amp;882_1=830&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;var1=6&amp;amp;var2=CCOET"&gt;Institute of Education&lt;/a&gt; da Universidade de Londres. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT"&gt;Ultimamente tenho feito alguns trabalhos de formação online para o &lt;a href="http://www.ilo.org/ciaris/pages/english/index.htm"&gt;ILO&lt;/a&gt; e na próxima dia 30 volto a Moçambique, quase 20 anos depois da minha ultima visita lá, para ministrar um curso na&lt;a href="http://www.uem.mz/"&gt; Universidade Eduardo Mondlane&lt;/a&gt;, Maputo (1 semana presencial e 8 online). O curso é na área de combato à exclusão social e o meu papel é no âmbito de facilitação e design técnico-pedagógica.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-114349714289412256?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/114349714289412256/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=114349714289412256&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/114349714289412256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/114349714289412256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2006/03/o-ttulo-science-language-community-and.html' title='O título: Science, Language,  Community and Development'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24857676.post-114349545587863619</id><published>2006-03-27T22:36:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-15T22:25:41.753+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Portfólio, blog e motivação</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="PT"&gt;Depois de assistir uma sessão na minha instuição, o &lt;a href="http://www.ips.pt/home.html"&gt;Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal&lt;/a&gt;, dedicada à utilização de portfólios como instrumento de desenvolvimento profissional, decidi iniciar uma experiência pessoal neste âmbito. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="PT"&gt;Até agora nunca tive ocasião de elaborar um portfólio meu mas já orientei participantes em vários cursos na sua elaboração e em base desta experiências decidi que para valer a pena eu pensar em organizar o meu portfólio será necessário reunir duas condições:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ol start="1" type="1"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="PT"&gt;o processo dar gozo a mim próprio (ou seja,      ao fim ao cabo, estou a trabalhar tanto para criar uma reflexão pessoal      como escrever para os meus colegas ou outros leitores). Todos os      portfólios mais interessantes que já vi tinham uma vertente pessoal e      individual bastante forte.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="PT"&gt;ser um processo mais ou menos descomplicado      para incentivar um contributo regular.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="PT"&gt;Por este motivo decidi optar por criar um blog pensando que mais tarde pode ser expandido para um portfólio electrónico.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24857676-114349545587863619?l=s-l-c-d.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/feeds/114349545587863619/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24857676&amp;postID=114349545587863619&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/114349545587863619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24857676/posts/default/114349545587863619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://s-l-c-d.blogspot.com/2006/03/portflio-blog-e-motivao.html' title='Portfólio, blog e motivação'/><author><name>Bill Williams</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188325296255086172</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CCzwNWKSd9Q/S_pU8qMjqXI/AAAAAAAAAK4/YzBardQ8sJM/S220/Jan08_C.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
