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The new generation of Internet has notoriously been a decisive factor in direction-making of society through using interactive tools, which enables (re)build the knowledge. Here, everything becomes more dynamic and the interaction is increasingly more natural, both in visual terms and programming language. Thus, the Information and Communication Technologies, especially the Web 2.0, have been incorporated into educational processes. This article deals with the representation of scientific models using computer applications. Thus, it was planned and developed a technology product (interactive portal - Ealuno), using the resources of the Web 2.0, considering its use as an action tool for Physics teaching and learning. We discuss about how this way of presentation is inserted in Science/Physics class and described its functions. This is an investigation characterized as a participant research. In this case, we assume two positions, since we represent the Science teachers who teach for a technological society and the members of this technological society, that is, we represent the Physics classroom conditioned by new ways of communication from defined and legitimized positions in this social structure. Our results indicate that the student configuration allows different ways of record and representation of the reality that promotes to it a utility in the mediated action, being this utility in the interactivity power and in the access to virtual environments, permitting to provide to users interaction and motivation for the Physics teaching and learning process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes a hypermedia didactical material related to the following astronomical phenomena: Seasons, Moon Phases, Eclipses. Although being beautiful and close to our daily life, these contents seem to be complex to teach and difficult to learn. In this scenario, the hypermedia material presented can help students to understand these phenomena related to astronomy and enable them to interact with the course content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting form one of the most remarkable characteristics of cyber art, "interactivity", in a context of generalized hybridization of the procedures and technological devices available in the current hypertechnological era, this article will emphasize the festive dimension within contemporary artistic practices, especially in its technological and digital components. In order to take both its "creationist" and "reflexionist" aspects into consideration, the proposed interpretation will start with the questions introduced by classical anthropology about festivity: What does the community establish in cyber art? Which kind of community is established there and what is sacrificed in digital or cybernetic art? These questions are articulated with the discussion proposed by Hans-Georg Gadamer and Richard Schechner about the task of building the reflexive game, present in the piece of art as such. The purpose is to, throughout the article, gradually present the peculiarity of the experience of "the festive" in computing and numerical arts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is centred on the relationship between new communication and information technologies (ICT) and spatial planning, particularly in what concerns the valorisation of ICT in planning objectives and practices. Assuming that is desirable to achieve a deeper understanding of the impact of ICT on planning in face of the importance of the so-called network society, its effects on spatial restructuring, and the changing nature of planning, this paper focus on the complex interactions between ICT development and planning change, relying on recent theoretical analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The development of new programming technologies leads to constant changes in the creation of online applications, assigning permanent metamorphic features to these systems. Web 2.0, a new concept in the internet, now used as platform for the development of applications - which offer an array of different services - proposes a paradigm shift concerning previous Web 1.0, and that is not only for designers, who need to rethink the way they project, but also for the users who interact with the system and manage to manipulate content as they desire and browse the Web more objectively. This article proposes a new careful consideration of the actual role of a Web designer in view of the new paradigms of Web 2.0. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]