Why are we using Facebook, Twitter or Youtube?


It is important to be connected? Well, consider this: If Facebook were a country, it would have sixth largest population in the world.

Mitch Joel, the author of the book “Six Degrees of Separation” is one of the finest thinker of our time. He unravels the fascinating world of new media.
Strategic focus, awesome write-up and presentation yet simple, and easy to understand. 
Now, watch the video (September 2009) and ask yourself: Why are you on Twitter? Why are you making a video in Youtube? Why are you on Facebook?



This is what Joel Mitch is famous for. Excellent thought! So what do you think? Agree with Joel’s “Why”? 

G-Souto
30.07.10
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Coolest ComicCon Toy?


New Boba Fett Electronic Helmet:
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The EU has seen some kick butt female Jedi Protagonists: Barriss Offee in the MedStar Duology and Etain Tur-Mukan in the Republic Commando books, not to mention the original EU kick butt chick Mara Jade Skywalker.

Enter: Kera Holt in a galaxy full of Sith. Does Chuck Norris wear Kera Holt pajamas? I say yes.

SW.com BLURB

A thousand years before Luke Skywalker, a generation before Darth Bane, in a galaxy far, far away...

The Republic is in crisis, torn by plague and conflict. The Sith roam unchecked, vying with one another to dominate the galaxy. But one lone Jedi, Kerra Holt, is determined to take down the Dark Lords -- one act of sabotage at a time. Her enemies are strange and many: Lord Daiman, who imagines himself the creator of the universe; Lord Odion, who intends to be its destroyer; the curious siblings Quillan and Dromika; the enigmatic Arkadia. So many warring Sith weaving a patchwork of brutality -- with only Kerra Holt to defend the innocents caught underfoot. Sensing a sinister pattern in the chaos, Kerra embarks on a journey that will take her to many worlds and into fierce battles against even fiercer enemies. With one against so many, her only chance of success lies with forging alliances among those who serve her enemies -- including a mysterious Sith spy and a clever mercenary general. But will they be her adversaries or her salvation?
Star Wars: Knight Errant, a novel featuring the main character from the forthcoming comic series of the same name, is by John Jackson Miller with cover art by John Van Fleet. It is due out from Del Rey Books in January.
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The Social Network, the film



The new trailer for the movie The Social Network about the creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, is already known.

The film, by David Fincher (Fight Club, Panic Room, Se7en, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, among others) is based on Ben Mezrich' book "The Accidental Billionaires", and tells the story about the founding of Facebook in a dormitory at Harvard.

"Mezrich's prose has a cinematic flavor." 
-The Boston Globe





The movie shows the evolving relationship between Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg in the film) and friends as social networking is gaining shape, strength and fame.

The Social Network will be released in the United States in next October. The soundtrack will be conducted by Trent Reznor, ex-Nine Inch Nails. "Creep" the famous song by Radiohead  is the trailer's theme in a different cover. 



"You don't get 500 million friends without making some few enemies"

I wonder... can we ignore the incredible creativity of some of our students?  Sir Ken Robinson said that school kills creativity. 

Do you agree?! We know that's not true! It depends on each one of us!

Let's pay attention to the creativity of our students! Some are amazing!

G-Souto
19.07.2010
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Exit Camp for Girls in Portugal








During five days ending on 6 July 2010 Exit Camp promoted by IBM in Portugal joined 30 young girls 11-13 years old, among daughters of IBM employees and students from a public school.This year Escola Eugénio dos Santos, Lisbon, ensured the participation of 16 young girls.

Among the activities proposed in the EXIT Camp there was the programming of robots where the young Portuguese girls showed their talent against the British team that were participating in an equivalent program that runned on IBM in the UK.


The video made by Tek explains (Portuguese language) the initiative and its impact. The victory of the Portuguese robots against the British team is a very interesting point.

The aim is to promote Technology among young girls to increase gender equality in their future career.

Equality between women and men is a fundamental right, a common value of the EU, and a necessary condition for the achievement of the EU objectives of growth, employment and social cohesion.


This week will be continued during the school time by an IBM web tool directly linked to the school.

G-Souto
16.07.2010
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New Star Wars Publishing Calendar

http://blogs.starwars.com/eeusuestornii/15

New dates for previously announced novel's with some additions.

*Timothy Zahn's sequel to Allegiance gets a title change to "Hand of Judgement"
*New Essential Reader's Companion by Pablo Hidalgo
*Unfortunately from now until December 7th there are only two new novels coming out:
July 20, 2010 - The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance by Sean Williams.
 December 7, 2010 - FotJ #6: Vortex by Troy Denning. Hardcover.
This Late summer/Fall is the Dark Times from EU novel length fiction.....
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Star Wars Clone Wars Gambit: Siege

Coming soon a review to Karen Miller's latest in the Clone Wars Gambit Duology.

Ipad features & Education ?






Ipad is not for sale in Portugal... not yet.
But when we see this video we are looking forward to experiment this amazing media device! Don't you think? It's like love at first site!

But people who know it well say that tablet Apple is heavier than Kindle. It's necessary to hold iPad with both hands. And it slides easily on our knees.
When we write on Ipad is a bit boring because finger touches stay on screen and the reflexs too.  






The keyboard is strait, the accents and punctuation are very hard to do, even with auto-correction! But browsing is so fast! Image and sound so marvelous!


Tired, they say, but fascinated!

Steve Jobs said that more than a million of Ipad tablet was sold in 28 days! Wow! And more than 5 millions of e-books to the tablet were download in the first 65 days from iBookstore that is dedicated to e-books from Apple.


iBooks App


Reading children's literature, that's amazing. Yet even with all the extras, reading is so natural on iPad, the technology seems to disappear.



Alice for iPad

Do you remember "Alice in Wonderland" here? It was so fun and so beautiful! I was fascinated! I'm not a digital native, but I'm a digital pioneer... and love to be and to follow this amazing evolution of multimedia 

On Youtube you can see some videos with 2 years old children interacting easily ing wit iPad! That's not amazing! Children are born on digital era.






Marvel Comic (demonstration)

For example, reading comics with Marvel application is like to enter in another dimension. True, right?


The application iBooks, as well as being available on iPad, is available on iPhone since April as a free download through the App Store.

The application includes iBookstore (interesting!) wich allows to browse, buy and read on a mobile device, wich has over 60,000 titles available.

When users are reading a book, they may to do marks, highlights and notes. The users of iBooks can also read and right PDF directly in the application. 

And they will be able to read the same book on their iPad, on iPhone or iPod touch!

A new and wonderful media world to use on Education! I 'm sure that young people would like this kind of reading! Exciting!


Education: 


You can use iPad for reading in classroom. Students will be delighted!


G-Souto
10.07.2010
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