Phone calls to video, Wild Show walk to the #CozmicMeadow

Last week on the Wild Show Chris and I walked from the Exeter High Street to the Quay and then the Flood Prevention area which we described as part of the Cozmic Meadow. I took some video as we went and have learnt a bit about lip sync so the sound from the radio can be edited in. The third one has gone a bit strange. I think the solid background of grass has prompted some mixing options that then went in some other direction. 

Anyway

This is roughly where the Morning scene is located for Any High Street. More on this when it arrives at RAMM.

Chris mentions the cobbles on Exeter Quay. Not ideal for a wheelchair suspension. He may mention this again.

The start of the Cozmic Meadow.

I mention the possibility of a Superheavy concert with Raphael Saadiq also booked in case Mick needs a rest.

Now I know a bit more about how to edit I could just mix bits of the Superheavy members in other locations. Or link to local Exeter singers with related styles. A combination of reggae, singer songwriting, soforth. Send the mp3s to India for something extra and a mix.

Meanwhile the blow-up Stonehenge is expected to arrive soon at the Lee Valley Park. On the 8th it will be in Victoria Park

Thing is, how will it travel from Victoria Park to the Lee Valley Park? It could be by canal or by bike alongside the canal but rumour is that the pathway is closed. No clear info about the canal. Hackney Wick station is only open enough to go west. But after the Olympics this route should be possible again.

Photos and video welcome of Stonehenge in this sort of location. It could all be done in Photoshop later but let us hang on also to reality.

Guardian on UK University funding, nothing about e-learning #crossmedia12

This is a bit off-topic for Cross Media Live but not by much. Print culture has a lot more influence than many people realise. The idea of a university in a specific location has a lot to do with print equipment. And law of course. It was once illegal to print anything in the UK except in London, Oxford or Cambridge.

Today the Guardian in print (Education towards the back) has a couple of stories about funding

I think there is a bit of a slant from the way the Ikea photo is presented. Presumably the editor believes that most readers prefer the existing architecture on UK sites. Somehow a campus set up somewhere else is not as solid. There could have been a photo of a pop-up yurt as shown at Olympia during Learning Without Frontiers

But there is nothing about the web at all. Maybe this is just the view of Guardian print journalists. Or maybe it reflects the views of the UK academics quoted in the text. In another article Peter Scott writes about neoliberal triumph and market forces. This is the context often presented for the online offers available from other sources. A recent Guardian story questioned the role of Pearson. But it seems to me that commercial solutions for e-learning are gaining attention in the absence of much else from the existing UK universities.

I expect the next sensible Guardian journalism about the web and universities to be in a special pull-out section sponsored by Stanford and MIT. 

Meanwhile in Exeter the Central Library will be closed for a year or so while the building is improved and we get another cafe in the city centre. Architecture continues as a central feature for most sites. The university forum still has no bookshop but the students seem unconcerned. This may be because they are away. Will the student union newspaper report any new campaigns when the term begins?

#mtw3 / #mosocoop online ahead of #crossmedia12 22-24 Aug dupe

(this seems to have got lost in the Posterous system, so reposted)

Summer drift is fine as the Sidmouth folk week is starting up.

But I would like to get more into theory towards the end of August ahead of Cross Media Live on 3rd and 4th September. The topics are not new but they are associated with print culture so could be quite disruptive. UK universities are still based on print to a large extent so there is a loop back to how a conference is organised.

I am thinking about the three days 22 -24 th Aug to look again at the #mtw3 material and maybe link in the #mosocoop ideas. (#mosocoop is intended as a more open version of #cqimoso, linked to the CQI ) . The opening talk by John Burgoyne might be followed by "scientific leadership" and how to avoid traffic jams in China. Cloudworks has an #mtw3 cloud and could also be seen as an example of design science, as described by Diana Laurillard in a recent book.

Deming secrets include the aspect that quality theory is not just prescriptive. The "new economics" can explain why companies cease trading. Also worth exploring is what Deming learnt in Japan.

Suggestions welcome on links and topics. A later face to face event will have to be edited down to fit a day. But online could go in various directions. It is already clear that LinkedIn and Facebook relate to other groups.

Video on Cross Media Live from drupa, shows the print conenction.

Lords on UK Broadband, confusion? think about online television #EX1to4

I still can't find much response to the Lords report on UK broadband that considers television.

One report suggests the industry is "confused"

On the main "pipe dream" - switching telly online - there is a lot to consider. The nature of the content would change quite a lot.

Surely our UK media have something to report?

Radio and DJ for Design Science

Yesterday the Wild Show was ok on Phonic FM and I now have sound clips of the phone in. It was sort of designed. There was a plan. Archive from the Summer Games, the Winter Games and also Chris on Tramper wheelchair doing most of the same route through Exeter High Street towards the flood relief area, now known as the Cozmic Meadow.

We did not need the archive as the phone worked out ok. So we can now do another design or rough knowing there is a backup of content.

Meanwhile I am working through the video on a DJ of science.

I think there could be a DJ of design science. My friend JD tells me that a radio presenter should not assume too much knowledge. This is just as well. we could just claim to know enough about design science to invite some guests or phone calls or borrow sound from somewhere else. I'm not sure how much actual air time I could take up. Usually I get 30 minutes but most of this should be music. But we can link to more or less anything through the Facebook group. Search on Wild Show, phonic FM.

soundtrack for the Cozmic Meadow

Also I have suggested a concert with Superheavy and Raphael Saadiq in the area of flood prevention that is probably not needed during August. Not sure when this will happen but design continues.

#mtw3 / #mosocoop online ahead of #crossmedia12 22-24 Aug

Summer drift is fine as the Sidmouth folk week is starting up.

But I would like to get more into theory towards the end of August ahead of Cross Media Live on 3rd and 4th September. The topics are not new but they are associated with print culture so could be quite disruptive. UK universities are still based on print to a large extent so there is a loop back to how a conference is organised.

I am thinking about the three days 22 -24 th Aug to look again at the #mtw3 material and maybe link in the #mosocoop ideas. (#mosocoop is intended as a more open version of #cqimoso, linked to the CQI ) . The opening talk by John Burgoyne might be followed by "scientific leadership" and how to avoid traffic jams in China. Cloudworks has an #mtw3 cloud and could also be seen as an example of design science, as described by Diana Laurillard in a recent book.

Deming secrets include the aspect that quality theory is not just prescriptive. The "new economics" can explain why companies cease trading. Also worth exploring is what Deming learnt in Japan.

Suggestions welcome on links and topics. A later face to face event will have to be edited down to fit a day. But online could go in various directions. It is already clear that LinkedIn and Facebook relate to other groups.

Video on Cross Media Live from drupa, shows the print conenction.

Daily Mail, how to compare with the BBC? UK media and print culture

Apparently there is now dispute about whether the Daily Mail is now the top website representing the UK for a global audience.

This may be connected with the enthusiasm for the House of Lords vision to do away with broadcast telly as we know it. ( see previous post )

A free for all over the web, a mix of video and whatever.

The Guardian was opposed to BBC plans for local video but then they gave up on their own ideas. Expect much more of this sort of mixture from the former print newspapers. The BBC is doing too much / too little to promote the UK. Here is a photo of a BBC star with added value from opinion. soforth.

Whatever happened to the Daily Mirror? Was there ever a plan?

Thinking about previous story about Guardian story on FT I realise there is something different. The FT could continue print publication during the week as a promotion for the website. The losses could be contained. But for the Guardian it might be more difficult. On the LinkedIn Cross Media Live group it has been pointed out that publishing just at the weekend might not be viable as the presses would be doing nothing most of the week. What happens with the FT colour magazine at the moment? Is it just out of date by a week? Seems ok for what it is.
 

Diagram again Facebook group virtual worlds, link ISO management standards #twinity #mtw3 #mosocoop

Virtdiag

I am going to concentrate on this for a bit. The diagram comes via Facebook groups about virtual worlds. there are several and I am not sure how they link. Maybe start here-

or search Facebook on  "immersive, world, quality"

Background, #mtw3 has an interest in "scientific leadership" and the Work Foundation is working on academic publishing as an example of innovation. The CQI Deming SIG also has an interest in publishing and a system model related to the one shown in the diagram.

So I'm interested in where the detail of the diagram comes from. From James OReilly on Facebook I discover the relevant standards

ISO 19796    elearning

ISO 29990 informal training

ISO_29110  small units software development

This model in the diagram is about crowd funding but could relate to other situations.

My own top problem is with the supplier list for virtual worlds. I still don't understand when Twinity will restore the streets. Do they have funding for map data? Very hard to make a case for a virtual Work Foundation given the current uncertainty.

Worrying really, I am turning to the Daily Mail, Guardian lost on education

Since I stopped buying the Guardian in print every day I find all kinds of stuff online, some of it surprising.

The House of Lords suggesting tv moves online is a bit of news but not widely reported. 

Michael Hanlon in the Daily Mail blog has a refreshing perspective, looking back before colour tv and seeing the Lords proposals as fairly obvious in the long term. This is the sort of big science approach. The tech will work out. But the details over the next year or so could be more complicated.

I find the Guardian less sweeping and there is nothing about tv.

More worrying is the takes on the web in education, or rather the lack of it. Yesterday there was an article about the lack of contact hours in university degree courses. Consider this para-

Warwick University is determined to keep seminars small. But Prof Ann Caesar, pro vice-chancellor for education and student experience at the university, stresses that there is a "serious cost" to this. "There is a hidden cost with dissertation and project supervision work," she says. "You read drafts and comment on them – often over email, so it won't be counted as extra contact hours. It is labour intensive, but absolutely vital so students don't feel they are on their own."

So email is not considered as contact? Where is this coming from? Is it just Warwick? Makes no sense at all. Is it just a Guardian thing? 

A while ago there was a special page on skills sponsored by BAE Systems

This kind of thing is unlikely to turn up in Education Guardian as normal.

Then there was the article with a critique of Pearson

What to think? My guess is that the Guardian probably reflects quite a lot of views in UK education. That learning can be on offer online with conversation through email etc. may come as a surprise.