Last year I started a company called Smartbird, We focus on web development, social media and graphic design. After many projects for clients, months and sweat, finally we launched our own website. Here is the result:
Docente 2.0 at CISCI 2010 (Orlando, Florida, EE.UU)
Last year while I was working at General Coordination of Teaching, I started a project about social media as a tool of learning and collaborative work between managers and teachers from University of Colima, I called it “Docente 2.0: adopción de los medios sociales en ambientes docentes“. This work is only research, not a application, it’s a literature review, case of study and conclusions about administrative & teaching environments using social media (cloud computing applications). In this article you can find:
- The impact of the Information Technologies (focus in Internet) on the Universities
- Clasification of Social media applications
- Benefits of Social media and Cloud Computing applications
- Social media as a collaborative and communication tool between administrative & teaching environments
- The problems of the e-mail as the only way of online communication
- Implementation methodology
At the middle of Janaury of this year, I decided to send this article to the 9th Iberoamerican Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics CISCI 2010 (29th june to 2nd july) from Orlando, Florida, USA. Fortunately they accepted it for being part of the conference. Not to much to say about it, just happy for my first International participation outside of México. Let me invite you to see the photos of my experience in Orlando on my Flickr.
Finally, I would like to thank to my school, Faculty of Telematics, for all the support, specially to teachers: M. C. Ricardo Acosta and MTI. Silvia Fajardo; and also for the great time shared in Orlando with: M.Eng. Pedro Santana, phD. Antonio Guerrero and Ing. Hugo Cortés.
Note: If you want a copy of my article or presentation, just write me at me(a)hectorguedea.com , I’ll happy to send it to you.
Talk about “Social networking” at the Informatics Forum
I received a cordial invitation by Ing. Emmanuel Alvarez, who is informatic teacher at Bachillerato Técnico #1, University of Colima, to talk about “Social networking” at the Informatics Forum. I really like the idea for some good reasons, the first one, social media (social networking, blogs, etc) is one of my favorite topics and the second one, and most important, the experience of interacting with young digitals users (NEXT generation), so I immediately accepted.
The students’ attendance was so good (438 students in total), I had to give my talk on two occasions for some problems with the size of the place, more than 200 students in each session. Each talk was around 1 hour, some general topics were:
- A brief introduction about the evolution of the comunication, physical and digital.
- What is “Social network” and ”Social Networking”.
- General characteristics of social networking sites.
- History of social networking sites.
- The most important social networking sites and interesting data.
- the usage of social networking and difference between email & social networking sites.
- Advantages and Disadvantages.
- Desktop & Cellphone applications.
- Social networking and youth.
- Social networking and companies.
- Social networking and México.
- The future of social networking.
The killer Google Chrome
Google Chrome has defeated to Safari in late 2009. Throughout the 2009 Google Chrome has been demonstrated excellence in the browser market, but it is incredible that in December 2009 was able to defeat Safari. Why is it difficult to beat Safari?. Safari like Internet Explorer are browsers that come by the default in the own Operating System, for example if you install Windows, you’ll get Internet Explorer, if you install Mac OSX, you’ll get Safari. How a browser like Chrome can beat Safari in a year?. Chrome proved to be light, fast and incorporated extensions as the pioneer Firefox, but not only that, but has earned the confidence of users via the Internet giant: Google and the recently official launch of Google Chrome for MAC OS X, which was one of the most expected by Mac users.
My experience with the elementary students
I was invited by the teacher Mayra López from elementary school Juan Oseguera Velazquez T.M. (Colima, México) for a little talk and Interview by K-12 students. I accepted her invitation for good reasons, first one I wanted to know what the kids at age of 11-13 years old know about computers and technology?, what do they do with them? and what do they want to do with them?. Remember in México our economy is not the same as countries like USA, Canada and others more; we live in a major deficit in technology for economic and cultural problems. Education is one of the sectors that the Government of Mexico has implemented various supports to encourage the process of teaching-learning to student through technology, programs like the Enciclomedia, the technology has been brought to the classroom for the first contact with elementary students. This tool has been one of the most important for this sector, but in turn has had many problems in issues of updating and maintenance of equipment, so, I really wanted to know if elementary students learn about and through the technology . It should be noted that most children in public schools in Mexico are poor, so mostly of them just have money to buy their breakfast or lunch, so it is inferred that many do not have a computer at home.
The topic of my talk was very general, titled “Introduction to Computers”, in my presentation, I included: What are the computers?, What does a computer?, What are the types of computers?, Why are computers useful?, etc.. I tried to keep the student´s attention through a very enjoyable and participatory talk, I did’t do to much, they really were interest in know about computers. In my talk I discovered interesting things with some questions to them. My questions were:
- How many of you have used a computer?
- The answer was: ALL.
- How many of you have a computer at home?
- The answer was: 2 of 33 students.
- How many of you are going to cyber coffe to use the computer?
- The answer was: 27 of 33 students.
- Have you ever used a computer at your school?
- The answer was: None.
- Why not have used it at school?
- The answer was: Not for us, its only for teachers.
Hello world!
This post is just for introduced myself and tell you what do you going to find (about me & research areas and interests) on my personal website.
My native lenguage is Spanish (I’m proud to be a Mexican Engineer), but I decided to write in English for practice it and get within the greater community of professionals who are looking information in English. Maybe at the beginning of my posts I will mess a little bit but I hope soon mastered the language.