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Diplomado: Historia y Crítica de la Arquitectura Mexicana Contemporánea

14. August 2008

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Diplomado: Historia y Crítica de la Arquitectura Mexicana Contemporánea

MARCO te invita al Diplomado: Historia y Crítica de la Arquitectura Mexicana Contemporánea Exponentes: Arq. Agustín Landa V, Arq. Roberto Romero, en sesiones de interlocución entre ambos exponentes. Catedráticos del Taller Cátedra Blanca CEMEX-ITESM, del ITESM Campus Monterrey. 5 sesiones del 23 de agosto al 27 de septiembre Sábados de 11:00 a 1:00 pm Costo: $1,250 pesos [...]

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Supercool School Introducation

8. June 2008

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I just saw this screencast of Max Senges giving an introduction to SuperCoolSchool. an online applciation to democratize education, an online, realtime classroom which anyone can enjoy. check out max’s blog

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[download] Casey Reas @ University of Applied Arts

16. April 2008

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I just saw a conference Casey gave a few days ago, but since im the kind of dude that likes to download and watch stuff on the go,i didnt want to see it all online. So i just went ahead and find the mov file for everyone to download enjoy: casey_reas_500_512.flv 2008-Apr-15 15:49:03 88.1M video/x-flv casey_reas_500_512.gif 2008-Apr-15 14:46:15 296.7K image/gif casey_reas_500_512.mov 2008-Apr-15 14:32:54 209.0M video/quicktime casey_reas_500_512_256kb.mp4 2008-Apr-15 15:11:10 106.7M video/mp4 casey_reas_500_512_64kb.mp4 via tagr.tv

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new processing book

9. April 2008

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I have the power !!!! Hopefully Processing might be part of the curriculum for digital artists and designers program at ITESM.

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My school is a shopping mall!!

2. April 2008

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First came starbucks, they placed one right in the middle of campus. I first thought they where building an extension of the new biotech lab, or some kind of space for students to hack around. but no no no, it was a over priced, over hyped coffe shop. We have a space crisis at campus, there [...]

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Twext: Learning New Languages on OLPC

31. March 2008

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A few days ago, Gabriel Saldaña shared Twext a new project for language learning aimed mainly at the OLPC and secondly at practically any other platform. It is a software based 100% on Javascript so it can be embedded pretty much anywhere they use a technique called “Parallel Text” which places pieces of text side by [...]

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Our education system going deeper underground

5. December 2007

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(There is too much panic in this town)   Today localnewspaper “El Norte“ published on their first page the results of the most recent PISA evaluations of the OECD. Sadly by some bad implementations on educations strategies our averages went down. We are the last in line… Why other countries can improve their results while Mexico keeps getting worse ? [...]

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Re: Felipe Bracho

4. December 2007

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Dearest Dr. Bracho…We are so grateful that you took the time to respond to our open letter. But really disappointed with your arguments, nevertheless we wrote you a poem to show our gratitude: “Oh Dear Felipe, how much we despite you let me count the ways !” No, really…It seems you payed nulled attention nor read the [...]

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Apuntan a Muñoz por Enciclomedia

3. December 2007

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La investigación de la Comisión de Educación Publica de la Cámara de Diputados involucra a Ramón Muñoz, Jefe de la Oficina la Presidencia para la Innovación Gubernamental durante el sexenio de Vicente Fox, con irregularidades en las licitaciones del equipo del programa Enciclomedia. El documento señala que el actual senador del PAN debe ser investigado, [...]

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Re: for Gilad

22. October 2007

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Gilad left a question in another post, the answer turn out to be so extend that i had to make it a post. HJ - I’m curious - do u know of specific areas in Mexico which are planned to receive the device? Any gov’t initiative to buy a bunch of them and distribute?As cool as [...]

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