Feb

8

Lecture capture and participatory media for education: a talk for eL@B

February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment

I suppose there comes a tolerance of living with a degree of chaos. Knowledge is quite loosely coupled, I find.The page I showed with the links came originally from a talk I did at the November eLearning at Brookes (eL@B) meeting on Participatory Media for teaching in Higher Education. The link to the slightly updated [...]

Dec

22

A week with an Android - well worth it.

December 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I got an HTC “Hero” on 3 Mobile a week ago (early Christmas pressie from my beloved) and I am very pleased. There have been a few teething glitches and a few things I might do differently, but - well - wow!
I have had Ericssons for more than 10 years so switching to a different [...]

Oct

22

If the Twitterverse isn’t fed from outside, it is just an echo chamber #pcthe

October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The question of whether you can rely on Twitter to filter your reading is problematic. Yes following 8,000 people (or however many) will probably serve to satisfy most information needs. I am sure that by some number (10? 100? 1000?) a Twitter follower will be deep into a long tail of duplication. The other 40,000,000 [...]

Oct

19

US Government Cloud Computing strategy; where is the UK in this respect? #ssbr

October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The Federal Government will transform its Information Technology Infrastructure by virtualizing data centers, consolidating data centers and operations, and ultimately adopting a cloud-computing business model.
via govcloud.ulitzer.com
This article reports a Booz Allen Hamilton report on the cost model being used to drive US Govt data policies towards the adoption of “cloud computing” platforms. They offer three [...]

Oct

15

Wi-Fi Direct: a step towards the mesh? via Slashdot

October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Wi-Fi Direct will connect at existing Wi-Fi speeds– up to 250 mbps. Wi-Fi Direct devices will also be able to broadcast their availability and seek out other Wi-Fi Direct devices.
via mobile.slashdot.org
Some of you might have heard me witter on about widely distributed databases (e.g. bit torrent) and mesh networks (e.g. OLPC). I made a few [...]

Sep

2

Mail lists and more open social software

September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Chris Rust sent me a link. He said:
An Innocuous list you might want to give to the new staff course? Even better, you might get them to discuss adding their own?! Best wishes Chris
————————— Original Message —————————-
Subject: TP Msg. #961 The Ten Worst Teaching Mistakes
From:    “Rick Reis” [deleted]
Date:    Tue, September 1, 2009 12:56 am
To:       tomorrows-professor [...]

Aug

25

New lecturer’s work blog

August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment

There is a tradition of keeping “work blogs”. Scott Wilson’s workblog is a touchstone for this kind of online identity and presence. Scott writes a lot on identity and presence and education (and here and here). This is written in my workblog. I feed stuff into here from my Posterous account. I use Posterous to [...]

Jul

12

Can a PeopleWeb be built on restricted vocabularies? @andypowe11

July 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Andy Powell (@andypowe11) shared the text of Ramakrishnan & Tomkins (2007) “Toward a PeopleWeb”. According to the authors, “Attentional metadata is increasingly sought after and is beginning to accumulate in significant volume, suggesting a paradigm shift - and simultaneously raising serious questions about user privacy.” (63) A shift from what to what, I wonder? They [...]

Jul

10

@eframework technical model: a key enabler of open education dialogue? #jiscssbr

July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment

e-framework.org
The eFramework people have published their technical model here: http://www.e-framework.org/Resources/TechnicalModel/tabid/1008/Default.aspx The model depends on continuing feedback from the community. Their aim is to develop “… a common approach to the description of service-oriented design and analysis,” and provide “… a neutral means to articulate the design of software services” in order “…to assist international education [...]

Jun

21

Much retweeted abt retweeting; an emergent etiquette? apophenia: Understanding retweeting on Twitter

June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The purpose of this paper is simple. We wanted to explore retweeting as a conversational practice. In doing so, we highlight just how bloody messy retweeting is. Often, folks who are deeply embedded in the culture think that there are uniform syntax conventions, that everyone knows what they’re doing and agrees on how to do [...]

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