Portal do Professor do Brasil

Authors

Carlos Eduardo BielschowskySalto de línea Carmem Lúcia Prata Salto de línea Ministerio de Educación de Brasil. Secretaría de Educación a Distancia. Brasilia, Brasil.

Abstract

Portal do Professor do BrasilSalto de línea Salto de línea Artigo completoSalto de línea Salto de línea Under the name Proinfo Integrado there is a collaboration of the Ministry of Education and the State Secretary of Education to implement information and communication technologies to improve educational processes in Brazilian public schools. This program involves different actions such as ICT infrastructure implementation in 75 thousand public schools, increase the ability of thousands of teachers and creation of digital content. Moreover, it is essential to create good working environment so that once teachers have the needed ability, they will be motivated with educational ICT issues on their classrooms. Along with this aim, this program created the Portal do Professor (teacher’s homepage) which consists on gathering the teachers into virtual communities to share experiences and ideas, share contents and activities, increase the production of individual and collective methodologies and materials, have access to the specific contents of the subject, etc. This page was created approximately a year and a half ago and has an average of 11 thousand visits per day, around a million different users from which 60 thousand are frequent users.

Keywords

Educational technology, teacher training, virtual communities, educational homepages, online learning.