Well they can change the world
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Watch the Xeometrica video perfoming one of the LL4S task. Transgenerational knowledge exchange.


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Alors que la France ne fait pas particulièrement figure de bon élève en matière d’emploi senior, le gouvernement vient de lancer une grande campagne de communication en faveur des plus de 50 ans, dont l’objectif principal est de « provoquer une prise de conscience de tous » et de faire changer notre regard sur la place des quinquas et plus dans le monde du travail.… Continue

The Duran Loriga library in A Coruña launched the Senior activity.

Buscamos abuelos con ganas de aprender herramientas de la Web 2.0 y nietos deseosos de descubrir la geometria en los rincones de la ciudad de A Coruña, el objetivo es que dos generaciones disfruten de tres días de trabajo de campo recorriendo A Coruña con cámara en mano en busca de las formas geométricas que repasaremos p… Continue

Developed by Daniel Weiss in cooperation with Judith Gómez, Rosa Barriero, Ivana García, Jose Ramón Esperante and the Network of Libraries of A Coruña City.

To watch the final results to be published August 17/2009, go to xeometrica

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Paul Polak: Global Poverty Fighter
Paul Polak's strategy involves helping the world's poor earn more by seeing them "as customers rather than charity recipients"… Continue

The other day I found in Youtube a video that gave me the idea why we cannot use the "universal magic" of music to bring together our seniors singing a song. I know there are plenty of examples if you Google for music and seniors, but this video shows a way that we could do it in an easy way. A common project to socialize using the power of web 2.0 tools. Enjoy the music and change the names of the cities for your city name and you will get the pciture.

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Two questions today in this post:

What if the activities we plan to develop are connected somehow with a new kind of European Senior Tourism where we can offer "Learning by doing" experiences based in our activities or maybe we have to do some fine tune in the activities, but cooperation with Travel Agencies, Tourism Offices, etc, etc. is not such a bad idea. The potential clients are already there. Expanding Libraries into another concept.… Continue