The Teacher’s Personal Portal: the Virtual Faculty or the Net behind the Classrooms

My article El portal personal del profesor: El claustro virtual o la red tras las aulas [The Teacher’s Personal Portal: the Virtual Faculty or the Net behind the Classrooms] has just been published in the last issue (#223) of Comunicación y Pedagogía, a monograph about Social Networks in the framework of communication and education.

For those already familiar with my recent interests in open access, open science and open education, you’ll find the article is based on my former The personal research portal: web 2.0 driven individual commitment with open access for development, though this one is lighter (in all senses), fresher, and includes a new section about Open Educational Resources (OER).

Acknowledgments

As it always happens, I had already submitted the article when I discovered Tíscar Lara‘s article Blogs para educar. Usos de los blogs en una pedagogía constructivista [Blogs to educate: blog uses in a constructivist pedagogy]. I would have undoubtedly used it for my article had I found it before.

Actually, she’s published another article in a Monographic about Blogs in Education issued by the Spanish National Center of Educational Information and Communication (CNICE), whose Head of web contents and educational Television, Carmen Candioti, visited us last October to take part into the Web 2.0 and Education Seminar. The monograph is a good gathering of interesting experiences and reflections about educational blogging and Education 2.0 in general.

When I was writing the article, I couldn’t get out of my head the people that, later on, formally created Grupo Nodos ELE. Grupo Nodos ELE is a group of Spanish as a Foreign Language teachers whom I really admire for their resolution and commitment to work online to share knowledge and efforts to improve their own works. It all began with scattered personal blogs and it’s evolving into a rich virtual community of practice. My kudos to them for that brilliant initiative and the passion they show.

Another initiative I want to highlight is Aulablog, whose blog keeps the Spanish speaking community up-to-date about Education 2.0 projects: I mean, real projects where people do things. Your needed daily dose of reality.

And I want to thank Lorenzo García Aretio, the coordinator of the monograph, and Adolfo Estalella for encouraging me to (re)write the article. Their task was not easy for them, so thank you.

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If you need to cite this article in a formal way (i.e. for bibliographical purposes) I dare suggest:

Peña-López, I. (2008) “The Teacher’s Personal Portal: the Virtual Faculty or the Net behind the Classrooms” In ICTlogy, #52, January 2008. Barcelona: ICTlogy.
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7 Comments to “The Teacher’s Personal Portal: the Virtual Faculty or the Net behind the Classrooms” »

  1. We love you too, Ismael. Oye, qué gran artículo, y sobre un tema que a mí en concreto me interesa mucho (como se puede ver en los últimos post de Nodos ELE).

    Por cierto, veo que la revista en que lo publicas tiene su sede en Utrecht, que es donde yo trabajo ahora (en el Cervantes). ¿Hay alguien por aquí que esté trabajando en temas de 2.0 y enseñanza de lenguas?

    Un abrazo

  2. Aaaaaah, vale, vale! :D :D :D

    Pues no, la gente que conozco de la revista tratan más temas de comunidades de práctico en el ámbito del desarrollo y la cooperación al desarrollo.

    De todas formas, la sede sí está en Utrecht pero los editores están desperdigados por el mundo. Es lo que tiene esto de “la Interné” ;)

  3. Pingback: Monográfico Blogs en educación | Todo sobre informatica

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