Valentine's Day!

Cris warm voice has made my day!
Happy Valentine's Day, BaWers!

Food for Thought!

This is shared on the baw08 list. I think I have seen it before.I tried to dig into my delicious account without success.So, I decided to put here.It is the comment section that will add to this food of thought about creativity and educators.It also reminded me of this article, that when I ever read it, it just leave me wondering how much alike is the conditions and circumstances where teachers work around the globe!

Um abracos!

Webehads love hugging!
A Webhead friend, Monica from Brazil, is known for her 'um abracos'( a hug).I asked her to send me san audio to hear how can I say it.My kids are practicing saying um abracos to me at bed time!!lol

Becoming a Webehad 2008

Oh!How long I have been away from here? Fortunately, so many GOOD things were happening around.I hope I will have the time again to keep on posting about webheads heaven world!
I have turned up a very dear invitation form my dear friend, mentor and teacher; Teres to moderate a week at baw08 session.Too much for me to manage with family, writing, work and not an easy teaching load.
A 'Fantabulous' work has been done by Dafne and Teresa!Claps for the hard work behind the scenes done by all moderators and co-moderators!
Allah know how I miss it!!
Here is a screenshot of the EVO08 Kickoff.

WiziQ Session

Yesterday I catched up with WiziQ session with Vance and the gang.It was really F.U.N.I just loved the room! The only thing which was annoying was the echo and the delay of voice.Also, I found a difficulyt in reading the font on the chat area.However, it deos hold great potentialites to be used with students.I am glad I made it there!!

A Gift from Cris!

How on earth I forgot to document Cristina Costa's gift to me for my BC presentation?
These are some photos for the card which I took the minute I got it, with a photo for the cute card with the sweet words.Thanks Crisinah!

Rita's Presentation

Wow! I have been away since May! How cruel I was !
Rita Zeinstejer , a webhead friend from Argentina , contacted me when she was preparing a f2f presentation for teachers in her city about Web 2.0 tools, to have a look at my presentation in June. After several weeks of exchanging emails, she came with a great presentation and a it was
a blast!
Although I was a guest speaker, I didn’t speak! Technology glitches. The sad thing was that I didn’t follow my instincts. My 6th sense told me earlier that day to record your speech, which was already on Word, and send it to Rita. I checked everything and went on a test for my connection and microphone thinking everything will go well It didn’t! These things happen, but when you feel that you left out something, the sense of guilt floats on !

'Humanware 'in WiA

Dearest Teresinha,
I am glad you loved the term. No, unfortunately, I did not coin it, but I used it for what binds us together in WiA community, which has never been used before for the same purpose.
I came a cross "Human ware" on 2005, when I taught students of Medicine. I was surfing the Web for a reading material about computerized health information systems and came across a study, in which humanware meant "overview of the general impact on people and organizations of introducing high-technology solutions into a relatively unprepared environment"
You can find it here:
http://jpubhealth.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/3/305
Half an hour ago, I Googled and I found the term is a name of companies, firms, organizations and more.
Answer.com
Humanware refers to the human costs of computing, particularly associated with schools. This word was first used by Steve Bergen in a speech to NAIS Heads of Schools in Rensellaersville NY in 1984.More=
Webpedia:
A buzzword for both hardware and software that are designed primarily around the end user experience and user interface rather than focusing on the task that the product is meant to accomplish.
Wikipedia:
Refers to a now-defunct division of Citibank that designed the user interfaces for Citibank's electronic products. Founded in approximately 1987, Humanware typically consisted of a core group of several dozen Citibank employees and several dozen freelance consultants.
Whatis.com
Humanware is hardware and software that emphasizes user capability and empowerment and the design of the user interface

In a comment to Cristina Costa

Dear Cris,
I believe that what makes WiA flourishing and blooming is the fact that one is never lonely, never isolated, regardless of your geographical location, whether in a remote village, an isolated town or in any where in the developed world! It is this human –to-human interaction that makes our community a dream, an unreal community when one talks about it to the outer world. All members are leading professionals within their subject fields. They help each other, show interest, care, take time to share (sharing to us is caring!), response to each other whenever needed. We have a "high-peak "sense of security. Confidence is transmitted between keyboards, monitors and Skype chats; to the extent that it leads you to create so many things which, one day, you thought that they are impossible .The human-ware, not hardware or software.
The effective relationships a among WiA members and the positive influence plus the enough support I have received is what led my first year students say to me "You are the best teacher we have in this college. Your lectures are interesting and fun." .My personal instructional delivery has changed because of WiA.
Hala Fawzi
Khartoum,Sudan

Looking Inside a Drawer!

These are pictures I found some weeks ago. I kept them for so long,( since I was studying in Cairo??), telling myself to put nice frames around them.I thought of putting them on webheads heaven blog for what they hold of a Sudanese culture.From how milk was/is? delivered to your door in Sudan,the woman who sees the future to morning coffee(s).Can you realize how the cat looks at the dog on the milk man picture?:-))I couldn't get the name of the artist,only an "abou" can bee seen on his signature.
I love those pictures!