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At Monday’s Horizon Forum meeting, Dr. Ursula Zurita (FLACSO Mexico) presented her research on social participation and educating for social participation in Distrito Federal and her plans for further investigation nationwide in Mexico. Dr. Cristobal Cobo (FLACSO Mexico) followed-up with a presentation and discussion on technologies and education in Latin America. Dr. Arthur Harkins, Garth Willis and I closed the session with a discussion on future collaboration University of Minnesota-FLACSO collaboration.

You can also download these files as a podcast:

• Click here to download an mp3 of Ursula Zurita’s presentation
• Click here to download an mp3 of Cristobal Cobo’s presentation

UPDATE: The wrong files were uploaded. I’ll work to get the files with the FULL conversations online.

Additional files related to Cristobal Cobo’s presentation:

• Video (In English) 50 MB.
• PowerPoint (In Spanglish) 3MB
• Slideshare version of the PPT slides (In Spanglish, full screen)

SECOND UPDATE: Additional video formats are available at http://www.colaboratorios.net/video

The Horizon Forum meeting will be an all-day event held on April 30, 2007. Stay tuned for more details!

Just a quick note… Scott McLeod at Dangerously Irrelevant compiled a list of his take at what the top 30 education blogs might look like, based on Technorati rankings. He ranks himself at #24. Congratulations, Scott!

The list, itself, is interesting. Read his post, then download the Excel file.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports their take of the top ten trends affecting education in 2005:

1. The browser-based application
2. Firefox
3. Wikipedia’s news reporting
4. The $100 laptop
5. Podcasting
6. A renewed debate on what students are doing on the Internet
7. OpenOffice.org 2.0
8. Web 2.0
9. Moodle
10. Blackboard’s takeover of WebCT

Read the original article.