Stills from Twinity, cup cake and cake stand

Tests continue on Beach for You

I don't understand how to scale things in Sketchup. The cupcake is much too small but the cake stand is big enough to be seen, even in low light.

Cake stand could be like a base for an object, 3D printing suitable while an actual cake is hand crafted.

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Phonic Christmas Party #PhonicParty sample YouTube

Here are some existing clips already on YouTube and Soundcloud

Suggest #PhonicParty as tag for any clips from the 22nd. If Creative Commons is selected in the advanced settings, then the remix button appears.

More samples please, also #PhonicParty to find them

maybe this will work, or try the link

Will David Willetts be speaking at BETT? @Future_learn #FutureLearn @Bett_show

There is strong support for FutureLearn, the new MOOC from the OU and others

http://www3.open.ac.uk/media/fullstory.aspx?id=24794

(MOOC by the way is an academic term for the web, massively open courses online )

Futurelearn has been warmly welcomed by UK government. The Minister for Universities and Science responsible for higher education in England, David Willetts, said:
"The UK must be at the forefront of developments in education technology. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS) present an opportunity for us to widen access to, and meet the global demand for, higher education. This is growing rapidly in emerging economies like Brazil, India and China.

“Futurelearn has the potential to put the UK at the heart of the technology for learning agenda by revolutionising conventional models of formal education. New online delivery tools will also create incredible opportunities for UK entrepreneurs to reach world markets by harnessing technology and innovation in the field of education."

Last time at BETT Michael Gove announced an end to the ICT curriculum as something centrally defined. I thought this could be quite interesting but it seems to mean that technology is not very important compared to the subjects that still are defined. What is this "revolution in conventional models of formal education" ? There could be more about this.

http://www.futurelearn.com/



Background on Design Science meetings #mosocoop #mtw3 #winterlude4 #designscience

This post is some background on topics I am relating to over the next few months. The #mosocoop project has agreed to arrange a meeting about Design Science and Sustainability on March 14th. There will be online conversation around this starting in January. Some of the issues will also come up in #mtw3, a conference on Management Theory at Work. Design science relates to teaching but I think the #mosocoop event will concentrate on sustainability. Also at this time of year there is usually a Winterlude, a period of reflection over which technology shifts in time for BETT. #mosocoop is not really about technology but publishing is mostly online.

More about design science in previous posts on this blog and on these websites-

#mtw3

#mosocoop

and on Linkedin, groups

mosocoop

mtw3

Adobe and four layers of mud - draft #BETT_show

This is a start on trying to outline a timescale for technology. There will be a better version around the time of BETT. Not that Adobe will be at BETT I think but they have been previously and it is always an occasion to check things out.

At Learning Technologies there is another floor for Learning and Skills where a less digital world continues. There is still interest in print and InDesign for example. Upstairs the Adobe approach continues Macromedia emphasis on Flash. So it suggested some evidence for a future archaeologist concluding this was on some sort of sequence.

Recently Adobe has turned to analytics and marketing. I am still not sure what this is about. It seems to be structured from some other place. It is not clear how it fits with existing connections with Adobe. There was very little about this at Cross Media Live for example.

I also think there is another layer of mud for virtual worlds but the timing for this is muddled. I vaguely remember Adobe Atmosphere and looked it up on Wikipedia. 

Atmosphere existed between 2001 and 2004. It was software to create worlds. Maybe a business model selling land would have worked better. Maybe it was too hard to produce a stable version at that time.

I don't know in any detail what is happening with Twinity. Linden Labs are launching new products for mobile. Some sort of 3D world is emerging. 

Time shifting and radio, Wild Show this Thursday, Scatman, Spacex

When we looked at the design envelope I was probably at the disruptive end of one axis, close to the ceiling. JD and Chris are closer to the sediment on the floor, they keep to the idea of a radio show in real time. Of course this will continue.

But clips on YouTube or Soundcloud or somewhere makes sense also. This week I will be in London on Thursday but plan A is for prerecording to cover the first half hour. Interview with Scatman with added tracks. I happened to meet him earlier today and have been invited to his show on Saturday. So I will have to leave Spacex fairly quick after the talk. Should be ok but I think talk about galleries will not have much space on the Wild Show till next year. Apart from keeping up with Scatman we have the Phonic benefit party to promote.

Assume most things subject to delay but follow up for later.

Comment on Design Science from Antony Upward #mtw3 #mosocoop

Sometimes the comments are not that visible so I am reposting this one

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Will,
Thanks for this post... appreciated.

Do you know the work of the UK licensee of The Natural Step - Forum for the Future - and their work on Sustainable Business Models?

In terms of a definition of design science. A few things.

- Design science can be said to originate in Herbert Simon's classic1969 work "sciences of the artificial". Clearly computer design (user interface etc.) is a good example of design, but in fact as people like Russel Ackoff have observed there is a close connection between all problem solving and design. Late 19th C pragmatic philosophers like Charles Sanders Pierce considered design to be a different type of thinking - abduction - cf. deduction and induction. People like Ackoff was particularly looking a system thinking and design.

- check out my ever expanding bibliography of works related to design science and sustainability.

I think I've not added some of my latest finds on this topic.

- Check out programs like the Masters of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation - http://www.ocadu.ca/programs/graduate_studies/mdes_strategic_foresight_innova... - this is a Canadian example but based on discussions in this group its not unique https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=phd-design. The OCADU program is focused on applying design approaches to anything which isn't "a thing" - policy, business model, process, etc. etc.

- Finally in terms of design and sustainability and organizations I've got a draft article (which I'm currently shopping around)... entitled "Design Science to the Rescue? Knowledge Production for the Sustainable Organization". I'll email that to you.

Cheers
Antony

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I have found a website for Forum for the Future and a link to a course they offer

Also found some guidance on "abduction" . 

And I now have a copy of the paper - "Design Science to the Rescue? Knowledge Production for the Sustainable Organization"
Let me know if you would like a copy and I will check case by case with Antony.

My guess is that this will be published in time for an actual #mtw3

I will ask about abduction at the Deming meet on Thursday.

Design Science, looking back to Deming and at User Experience #mosocoop #mtw3

Earlier today I got an update from Antony Upward on his work on a Strongly Sustainable Business Model. I am interested in this both in relation to a Model of a Sustainable Organisation - MoSO - an update on Deming ands also #mtw3 , a conference on applied management theory.

Antony Upward includes Design Science as part of his approach

The Management Theory at Work - #mtw3 - online phase has found Design Science as part of John Burgoyne's take on whatever follows the end of leadership, and in Diana Laurillard's recent book on designing teaching. So I am looking for more on Design Science to connect this as a flow.

The impression I get is that interest in Design Science has come through work on computer interfaces and websites. I can't find many references on this though, except on YouTube so this link is worth repeating

At the Futures Conference at the LCC I heard several speakers discuss user experience as part of design for websites, mobile and games. Probably a lot the method could be described through terms developed by Deming but it is worth exploring how the new terms are used. There are various descriptions of a learning loop and it may be easier to accept the words people start with.

Back to Antony Upward. His recent blog post describes a presentation from the late stages of his PhD research

Two more links he suggests -

If you want an good intro on what SSBMG is doing take a look at http://slab.ocad.ca/SSBMs_Defining_the_Field and the new posts this week at http://slab.ocad.ca/SSOs_Towards_a_Definition.

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By the way, slightly off topic. Last week discussing the problems of web access in villages near Exeter ( Devon, UK ) I came across a new phrase - "unsustainable communities" . It seems not to be official but I have found it on sites complaining about bad bandwidth. Apparently a "sustainable community" is the sort of place that should have broadband. But by implication there are "unsustainable communities" as well. Presumably these are places where there is no obligation for broadband to be available. Not sure I have got this right. But definitions of "sustainable" vary so if there really is an official policy on "unsustainable communities" it would be interesting to know what this means.  

Convergance, found through Facebook #mtw3 #mosocoop

Still not sure where Twinity is going. It may have stopped developing for a while. Bringing back the streets may not just depend on affording the map data. I guess hosting the data has a cost also. So I am trying to think of other ways of relating to real space.

Meanwhile I keep getting info through this kind of link. Can't follow it all but what I find is making sense.

Any sort of conference or meeting such as #mtw3 or #mosocoop can benefit from online presence in various forms.