Saori Fotenos's blog

I need a couple of days at the school to show the teachers the blog we have up and teach them how they can start blogging themselves. I will make sure they have a plan and a commitment to add a couple of entries in the coming months. When I get back to Stanford, I will continue working on a audience for these posts, which I have already started this year.

You can find a link to the first encarnation of our Vamos Blogar blog at http://projetouere.blogspot.com. We have a couple of digital portfolios up, but there are many more to come.

It's all in Portuguese, but feel free to add translations in English in the comments if you feel like. Please preface it with [en] in the title if you remember it.

My mentor for RDVP, Allen Long, has suggested I make a list of the things I can be doing at Stanford and those I could be doing in Rio for assessing where I should be for the remainder of the program. This is mostly brainstorming, but any opinions/suggestions are welcome.

After reassessing the project with insight from my trip to Brazil, I have had to change the deliverables and their dates.  Here they are:

Having spent Thanksgiving break in Rio working at Projeto Uerê, I am reporting back on some minor changes to the project.  Overall it was a great success and despite the dire situation of many of the children, I was inspired and deeply moved by the work Yvonne and everyone at the school are doing to give the children a chance in life.

This was a short presentation I did for a class taught by Professor Lyris Wiedemann (Head of Portuguese Department at Stanford) trying to capture what Vamos Blogar is all about. Some of the highlights are the deliverables as they stand on November 2005, before the on-site trip scheduled for Thanksgiving Break.

Here is how the success of my trip to Rio will be measured.

1. Do we have a fully fleshed out (albeit still iterative) storyboard for the user interaction of posting and retrieving an entry?

This is a private blog entry so I can start

Listening to the other projects and the feedback given to each by Stuart and the other fellows, I have another possible pitch for mine.

Blogriculum. Building a literacy curriculum around emerging multimedia blogging infrastructures.

Gearing up on my project. If we want street children to blog, we've got to start ourselves. How easy is this?