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How will Logan fit into a tradition college atmosphere. His education has been tailored to his interests. And he wants to be happy and healthy when he grows up, something we do not teach children to be. 

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7 EdTech Assumptions | Inside Higher Ed: 'via Blog this'

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The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking | Brain Pickings:

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They're Watching You at Work - Don Peck - The Atlantic: 'via Blog this'

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Hard to believe that 2013, a year of incredible growth for me, is in it's last days. I've learnt so much, connected with some tremendous people through various MOOCs, starting with MOOCMOOC and ETMOOC, participated in Open Spokes and DS106, brushed by ...

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Well, we can blame Cathleen Nardi for tagging me in a blog meme! Cathleen was tagged in Nancy White’s blog … and so it goes.
Strangely, it’s been good to produce eleven random facts about myself: to see how I would label and place myself in the world. I also enjoyed answering Cathleen’s questions. A small reflective moment totally right for New Year’s Eve.
So I’m passing it on – and even as I do I know that some of the people I’ve tagged below would saw off their own feet rather than join in… BUT – it’s a good way to pass on some of the great bloggers that I’ve been reading this year – so it’s win/win either way!


Random Facts about Me

I left school when I was still 16 (okay a month away from my 17th birthday).

My first job was as a laboratory technician.

I loved going to TechnicalCollege – I found ‘vocational education’ really emancipatory – may be I was lucky.

I have made a low budget and sadly unsuccessful feature film.

With my partner, I have taken a production of Godber’s ‘Bouncers’ on a tour of Cretediscos.

My mother was Belgium – and was a teenager in Brussels when it was occupied by the Nazis.

My father was from London and was involved in D-Day when really just a kid himself.

We lived in a flat above a launderette and a shop on a main road in North London.

We escaped to a caravan at the Kentcoast at weekends and for the long summer holidays – this was my salvation.

I was the first in my neighbourhood to go to College – I studied Education and Literature and trained to be a secondary school teacher.

I actually taught English A’levels to adults in the evening.



Questions from Cathleen Nardi (http://cathleennardi.wordpress.com/):

1. Where do you go when you want to think?

I walk to think and to de-stress. I can walk in London, I can walk in the countryside – and best of all I love to walk by the sea.
2. What is your comfort food?

Chocolate… cakes … chocolate cakes!
3. What do you do when you want to relax?

I always used to read to relax – I also love to watch video – most recently I have taken to MOOCs to relax.
4. Name one thing on your Bucket List.

I am lucky enough to do a job I enjoy – better than a bucket list!
5. Why is education important to you?

Like all loves, education is flawed, it can be unfair, it can be corrupted (by bad policy) – but it offers space for energy, excitement, potential, engagement, change…

6. What is the Boldest Act of Defiance you’ve ever attempted?

I think making a feature film with my partner. We were both the first in our families to get a degree – but making our film was the moment when we felt we had gained a ‘voice’. It was so transgressive to do this thing – we lost our house because of it – and still it was the best thing to have done!
7. How do you problem solve?

I wrestle with a problem for a while. I may write about it – I may brainstorm – if it is a really tricky one – I go for a long walk and hope that it becomes clear as I tramp over hills… This usually works.
8. What is the last thing that you made?

This week I have been painting quite a bit. I ‘blind draw’ something and then watercolour it; but also this week I made a collage. I tried a picture of my papa – of when he was holding me when I was just one month old. I tried to get his face – and the texture of the background behind him. I got the background okay – and his hair was excellent – but not the face…
9. What is your favourite piece of art in your home?

This sounds terribly solipsistic, but my favourite piece at the moment is the first collage that I did for #artmooc. I had never made one before and I really got into it. I thought of a small poem that I had written as I chose my pictures and then placed them on the board… It is a dense piece – I made it out of dull newsprint pictures to suit the mood – and most people do not like it… But I love it.
10. What’s is the most creative thing you’ve ever done?

Trying to live life for joy and with no regrets.
11. What would be the title of a book about you?

Memoirs of a working class zealot.



Questions from Me:

1. What do you love most about your life?
2. What is the best thing you have ever done or made?
3. What is your favourite book/author/film?
4. What is the secret of a happy life?
5. What cool thing have you discovered recently?
6. What are you currently fascinated by?
7. What is the secret of your success?
8. What is the source of your joy?
9. What is the most creative thing you have done?

10. What is the latest thing that you have made?

11. What would you most like to make or do?



Now It’s Your Turn: Tag –You are IT!

1. Eloise Sentito: http://esonlearning.wordpress.com/@ESonlearning
2. Andy Mitchell http://andydmmitchell.blogspot.co.uk/@AndyDMMitchell
3. Emily Purser http://uncontente.weebly.com/   @erpurser
4. Willa Ryerson http://wryerson.wordpress.com/  @willaryerson
5. Debbie Holley  http://drdebbieholley.com/ @DebbieHolley1
6. Amy Burvall  http://www.amyburvall.com/ @amyburvall
7. Rajiv Bajaj  http://www.rajivbajaj.net/ @rajiv63
8. Rick Bartlett http://drrbb2nd.blogspot.co.uk/ @rbb2nd
9. Kelcy Allwein http://kelcym.wordpress.com/
10. Angela Towndrow http://angelatowndrow.blogspot.co.uk/  @angelatowndrow
11. Maddy  http://mymoocadventure.wordpress.com/ @maddiekp


When you are tagged…

Acknowledge the nominating blogger.
Share 11 random facts about yourself.
Answer the 11 questions the nominating blogger has created for you.
List 11 bloggers.
Post 11 questions for the bloggers you nominate to answer, and let all the bloggers know they have been nominated. Don’t nominate a blogger who has nominated you, or anyone on the above list… and Pass it on!

At the very least, check out the bloggers I’ve listed – they have all inspired and informed me this year…

And here’s hoping that 2014 brings us all much joy.



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  Everything around you that you call life was made up by no one smarter than you……….

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Now when new year is near the door I wish you HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 with peace and happiness . I wish you that all your dreams come true and all your wishes to be fulfilled  . I invite you all to drink a coup a champagne for New Years Eve. For me 2013 was a fruitful year because with my PLN help I win a ipad and I begin to mLearning and I really became a social media curator  https://lucianecurator.contently.com . Also I continue now in December my Nativity Project and also I was honored because Larry Johnson invited me to join Horizon Project Europe Expert Advisory Board http://europe.wiki.nmc.org/Advisory+Board and for this reason in january I invite to read here  my blog  post : Top 20 ed tech trends in 2014 .
In 2013 I begin to post in this blog : TOP 100 monthly and Top 20 weekly and I want to continue my series in 2014.

Next year, in 2014  I really want to find parteners and angel investors who will help us to launch a open source platform for Curation Restart Education Project. Why to READ thousands of blogs / websites to discover startup edtools and mLearning apps when you can read how to use all of them on this Open Source Platform made in Curation Restart Education Project . For more follow https://twitter.com/web20education  Like https://www.facebook.com/CurationRestartEducationProject/ .  In XXI Century Education and around the social web still 2011 new Social Media King is Curation who is about adding value for humans because only they can do what no computer can possibly achieve .The Internet Curator’s role is to seek on the web information related to a specic domain,fillter them, select them, organise, share, present them in a unique mode. Curation is the Art of : searching, selecting, sharing/bookmarking , organizing, interaction, communication and global collaboration . If you are agree with me that Curation is Social Media King not only in social web, but also in XXI Century Education and you are a social media and mLearning  addicted like me who want to change online classroom research I invite you to collaborate in this project and to join our google plus community  https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/100188349857613823793?cfem=1 . 
Curation Restart Education Project  aims to : promote global collaboration using a open - source platform / website where teachers worldwide can discover why Curation is Social Media King who restart Education . First the website will be with invitation only and hwo join must respect terms of use , and after I want this platform to be public accesssible for everyone on the web , windows phone, ipad or other mobile devices . On this website teachers worldwide can discover how to make a flipping class in collaboration and cooperation with others by sharing knowledge each other ; make a global Curation database for startup edtools who can be succesfully integrated in nowadays education ( now I can share 1000 startups 4 education useful for teachers ) , organising wekly webinars and online sessions about curation and many other things.We will have a section in our blog where we will post and describe top 20 startup edtools weekly like you can see here http://bitly.com/Top20LucianeCurator
This year I use list.ly to share my favorite startups,mLearning apps and I invite you to add your comments related to your favorite edtool and ipad app, after you will read about all 500 edtools and mLearning  apps .
In 2013 I follow live #iste13  and after I share  http://bitly.com/iste13edtools
In 2013 I follow live #websummit, here is my blog post  http://bitly.com/top100websummitstartup   






Now Because Curation is Social Media King
Finally 150 best edtools and mLearning apps voted by teachers worldwide  http://bitly.com/100eddies13edtools Best Free Education Web Tool 2013 - Edublog Awards
View more lists from Edublogs


I hope you like all and for this reason I invite you to discover more than 1000 in my boards updated daily with startup tools , windows phone and ipad apps to mLearning
http://www.pinterest.com/lucianecurator/boards/

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I’ve taken EdinburghUniversity’s E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC (Massive Open Online course) twice this year. The first time it was my first ever MOOC and it provided some of the most immersive and engaging learning in which I have ever participated. 44000 students took #edcmooc that first time – engaging with it and each other months before it started.
We were in FaceBook and on Twitter then Google+ and into Communities… This social side kept me engaged and happy. I found support and encouragement – and made friends of strangers (Fraingers). Brilliant.

I told myself that I needed to take the course again to engage with the technical tools – which I’d sort of avoided … But – then came PennState’s #artmooc and MoMA’s #artinquiry - courses only tangentially related to my work. I found that so much benefit came from these contingent encounters - and blogged about that (below).
Then #edcmooc came around again and I was one of eight people invited to act as a Community Teaching Assistant (CTA) – and I just could not resist.
My first #edcmooc was to learn MOOC… and now we could learn CTA by being CTA. Fabulous! (Also – frankly – I was really flattered to be asked!)
It was a delicate task to be a CTA attempting to add to the experience of new #edcmooc’ers whilst not in any way diluting their experiences. But we plunged in with good will and optimism and positive regard for the new students … and hey – it seemed to work. Rajiv Bajaj blogged about his #edcmooc experiences (http://pursuingmoocs.wordpress.com/) – and the CTAs. He said that we had been light touch but supportive enough to hold on to those who might otherwise has spun off. We had been friendly and caring and useful and valued.
With my own students, rather than *teach* digital literacy, I wanted them to discover the joy and potential of digital learning the way I had. All were encouraged to join either #edcmooc or #ds106. A final joy for me has been that one of my ‘meat’ world students has taken and passed #edcmooc.
Next http://becomingeducational.wordpress.com/ - blogging about our new module. #becomingeducational has embedded within it everything learned from #edcmooc, #artmooc and #artinquiry. 
2013 – what a year for MOOCs! Happy 2014!

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Dear friends I wish you all a Blessed Christmas with peace in your soul and happiness in your heart . May the coming year to make all your dreams come true and all your wishes to be fulfield .Now I invite you to sit near fireplace and listening carols ...

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  2013.12.25 O Espírito estava pronto mas a carne permanecia fraca. Era assim que me sentia uns dias antes do Dia de Natal acerca desta coisa que sabia tinha que ser feita. Mas a voz suave na cabeça dizia; “Tens que fazer!” Apesar das muitas desculpas que inventava como; “Já estou a fazer a coisa … Continue reading →

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  2013.12.25 The Spirit was willing but the flesh was weak. That’s how I felt a few days prior Christmas Day about this thing I knew I had to do. But the little voice in my head was saying; “You got to do it!” Despite the many excuses I came up with like; “I’m already … Continue reading →

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2013.12.16 ACÇÃO MISSIONÁRIA AURORA – AMA PROJECTO TCHUMA TCHATO EM PARCERIA COM TFI CARTA DE NOTÍCIAS 07/2013 – 20131216_TT2013/14_CN07 (Nota: Em Inglês é a NL05) Quem desprezará o dia das coisas pequenas? (Zacarias 4:10) tem sido a nossa lição desde que chegámos a África a 22 de Outubro. Ilusões de grandeza por vezes entravam o … Continue reading →

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2013.12.16 AURORA MISSIONARY ACTION – AMA TCHUMA TCHATO PROJECT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TFI NEWS LETTER 05/2013 – 20131216_TT2013/14_NL05 Who has despised the day of small things? (Zechariah 4:10) has been our lesson since arriving in Africa October 22. Illusions of grandeur sometimes get in the way of what God has planned and so like this … Continue reading →

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I had to start over with this website. Spammers added so many files that my server host threatened to shut me down. Good opportunity to create a new theme. Coming soon.
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