Teilnehmer – Barcamp Vienna September 28, 2006
Posted by kieslinger in : Uncategorized , add a commentthe barcamp vienna is taking place before this years blogtalk conference, the blogtalk reloaded. unfortunately I will not be able to attend the blogtalk conference as I will be in Crete at the ec-tel06 during that time. so I thought that maybe the barcamp would be a good opportunity to meet some of the people who are going to attend the conference. anyway, when looking at the participants list of the barcamp, I realised that it would be more precise to say, that I would meet some men there. where are the female barcampers I am wondering? are there any around in vienna? I suppose. are they not interested in attending a barcamp. does it sound like an old boys club? or is it intended to be one? (I don’t think so). or is Michaela Sburny from the Austrian Green Party really right when saying that women do not want to socialise after work and do not want to have a beer with colleages? When I heard the other day that statement during a discussion on female researchers and their career opportunities, I felt a strong disagreement (although I agreed with her on many other aspects). actually I do like to go for A beer after work from time to time. so why not attending also a barcamp on a weekend? I will think about registering ;-P
EC-TEL conference September 25, 2006
Posted by kieslinger in : Uncategorized , add a commentI am just preparing myself for the EC-TEL 2006 conference which is going to take place next week. I will be there the whole wek, involved in workshops, project meetings and a round table on the future of European research in technology enhanced learning.
The iCamp project will hold a meeting there as well and we are going to launch our new website during this event. A highlight will be the iCamp poster at the poster reception on Monday evening. Watch out for surprises!
Pinboard wizard::2 September 13, 2006
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Inspired by Ralf Klamma‘s post on his pinboard: beamtenherrschaft: Pinboard wizard I took a picture of my pinboard here at the ZSI, which shows my recently added trophy, namely my token of appreciation from the eLearningAP 2006 conference in Bangkok and a map of the circulation area of modern Bavarian dialects (which must be a piece of memory from my dear Bavarian college, who always stesses that he is from Franconia, but is still within the demarcation line of the Bavarian dialect ,-)
An additional thought that I had when reflecting on the use of my pinboard is that I hardly ever see it. My pinboard is right behind me whereas I may stare all day long at my colleges pinboard, which is just on the wall in front of me. Her’s is much better organised than mine, so I do not mind actually. Mine is just like Ralf’s, I stick things on to it, but I never remove anything.
Stanford Social Innovation Review : Opinion Blog : Socially Redeeming Web 2.0? (July 19, 2006)
Posted by kieslinger in : Uncategorized , add a commentStanford Social Innovation Review : Opinion Blog : Socially Redeeming Web 2.0? (July 19, 2006)
a follow-up on my post on the future of Web 2/3.0 and my arguments on applying social software in areas that support a social, ecological and economical sustainable development of our society. Alhough Web 2.0 is brining forward a structure of networked individualism I would like to see the stress here on the network, not only on the individual.
The editor names a few examples of Web 2.0 in socially relevant contexts:
… many nonprofits are taking advantage of similar new tools. Homelessnation, which has outreach teams in Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto enables ordinary people to create videos of the stories of homeless people. GlobalVoices, co-founded by Ethan Zuckerman, aggregates the best reports from bloggers from around the world about serious issues in their home countries. (Even Mal Warwick, the guru on the oldest technologies in the world, direct mail, has started a podcast.)
implications of personal learning environments September 11, 2006
Posted by kieslinger in : Uncategorized , add a commentPersonal Learning Environments – Live at Edinburgh
My presentation at the PLE workshop at ALT-C in Edinburgh
[ Weblog entry in "The Wales-Wide Web"]
Regular readers will know I have been messing with different video formats for the last three or so months. Thsi is the first video presentation I am really pleased with. I think the live recording is much better than trying to reproduce within a studio the adrenelin of speaking live.We are working on a wiki to give access to the full outcomes of the workshop.
In this short talk by Graham Attwell some important issues such as the misleading policy discourse around eLearning and live long learning are addressed. The SCORM image that is provided in this talk is also worth seeing. Thanks Graham!
technorati tags:personal learning environments, live long learning, eLearning
where are we going? September 1, 2006
Posted by kieslinger in : Uncategorized , 3 commentsIn the very near future, your PC will learn what you want by tracking your online activities and what you do at your computer, then use the Internet and the interests of other people like you to try to fulfill all your wishes.Limited glimpses into that future are possible now. One example that came to my attention today is a new service called Tourb.us (“Tourbus” using the URL http://tourb.us). ..
….What intrigues me about all this is what is suggests for the future. Imagine this sort of software, but will additional development that would enable it to monitor not just iTunes, but everything on your system — and find not just concerts but any sort of event. Combine that with existing collective intelligence engines (like Amazon.com, Digg, etc.) and existing learning mechanisms (like StumbleUpon, etc.) and you would have an artificial intelligence concierge that would scan the Internet, doing your bidding, finding articles, telling you about things you’re interested in and always learning about what you want and don’t want.
I just came across this article when browsing through Erik Duval’s weblog and I must say that it does not impress me too much what some people envision here for the future. Actually this sounds to me as a step back again. I have never been really fond of too much personalisation in terms of automatic tracing of everything I automatic push content. Just because I selected once a green shirt does not mean that I will always like green shirts.
One of the implications that we were all suffering from since the latest ICT developments is the continous information overfow. And he we are again,going exactly into that direction. When I read here that everything on my system will be monitored and I would continously get offers from Amazon to buy this and that and at the same time I will receive tons of offers from hotels in Barcelona, just because I am planning to go there in a month….. I will need a lot of filtering again in order not to be completely overloaded again with information.
Since I sometimes do not even know myself what I want it will be very hard for the system to always learn what I want.
Hey, I think that there must be more intelligent and human-centred challenges out there that these technologies will be able to do for us. Something more in terms of social innovation….
technorati tags:innovation