six phases

The 6 phases of Project Cycle Management  – just for the records

1. Enthusiasm

2. Disillusionment

3. Panic

4. Search for the guilty

5. Punishment of the innocent

6. Praise and honour for the non-participants

“prof. Popstar”

“Atata timp cat nu esti in mijlocul unei distributii normale, exista o sansa sa fii funky. Oamenii funky nu sunt, cu siguranta, in zona de medie. Cu cat esti mai departe de medie, cu atat este mai mare gradul de funkiness” – afirma in interviu Kjell & Jonas – o pereche de suedezi rasi in cap,  imbracati  in negru -  vorbind  despre business  cu relaxarea unor vedete rock  si  promovand  autencititatea ca o conditie cheie a performantei. 

 “copii teribili ai noii lumi a businessului”, “rebeli cu o cauza”, “human iPods” sau “prof. Popstar”  -  nici ei, nici ideile lor nu intra in tiparele clasice ale unui “guru in business”.

“Funky Business Forever”(2008) - versiunea romaneasca -  va fi lansata oficial sambata 20 iunie 2009 la Salonul de carte  Bookfest – transmisiune directa la  The Money Channel, in jurul orei 15.00.

Kjell Nordstrom si Jonas Ridderstrale:  “Funky Business”(1999),  ; “Karaoke Capitalism”(2005) – versiunile romanesti  publicate  de Editura Publica in  2007

via MoneyLine.ro; articolul intreg la  http://www.moneyexpress.ro/articol_18162/o_criza_funky.html

LLP Awards 2009

source:  elearningeuropa.info Newsletter – May 2009‏

 

The European Awards for Lifelong Learning have been honouring –  since 2007 –  outstanding projects in education and training in Europe in order to give visibility to high quality projects and activities supported by European education and training programmes. These examples of good practice are “success stories”,  and received  either a gold, silver or bronze prize.

In 2009, the European year of Creativity and Innovation, the LLP awards are given to cooperation and mobility projects and networks in Comenius, Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Grundtvig, Languages and ICT that have achieved particularly creative and innovative results with a significant impact.

European Awards for Lifelong Learning in Creativity and Innovation at  http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/publ/pdf/ll-learning/creativity_en.pdf

Pedagogical Songs

source: eLearning Papers n° 13: Innovation and creativity‏: http://www.elearningpapers.eu/index.php?page=doc&doc_id=13996&doclng=6&lng=en

 

extras from  “Pedagogical Songs: learn by doing game based activities” by Santiago Palacios Navarro, Full-time collaborator-professor , Department of Evolutionary Psychology and Education University of the Basque Country:

“In fact, almost all educators agree that songs are included among their most successful teaching tools. Using music in the second language learning is consistent both with linguistic and psychological theories. According to Krashen (1985), comprehensible input and output are important to the acquisition of a second language. He also claims that affective factors such as motivation, attitude, self-confidence and anxiety will affect the amount of comprehensible input learners receive. Therefore, songs can supply comprehensible input in low anxiety situations. Likewise, songs can be used for different purposes. As Saricoban and Metin (2000) have pointed out, songs can develop the four skill areas of reading, writing, listening, and speaking, which are basic in language learning. According to the theory of multiple intelligences proposed by Gardner (1983), those who have a high level of musical-rhythmic intelligence display greater sensitivity to sounds, rhythms, tunes, and music so they immediately respond to music and they will often use songs or rhythms to learn and memorize information.”

 ” Based on games and online activities developed from the study of a song, the project has been implemented throughout the last six years in the “Educational Psychology” course, taught as part of the Teaching degree specialised in Foreign Language at the University of the Basque Country (Spain).”

 Read the entire article at http://www.elearningeuropa.info/files/media/media19202.pdf