word groups , Prezi and mindmap to follow

As mentioned previously the OLDS MOOC is taking up time. I don't find a Prezi very easy to follow, impressive though. On a mind map I am just lost. But I may get the hang of it later.

So here are some words for the next week or so to make connections with other posts and groups-

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#mosocoop                #mtw3

OLDS MOOC            city

Communication          radio

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#mosocoop        face to face meeting in March ? cloud on Cloudworks can be worked with for design science
                          http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/6588
                       main focus - sustainability

#mtw3                design science could be a theme
                         first conferences started with learning organisation and technology
                          critique can be a block to implementation ; the will to form has many shapes
                           work foundation conclusion can include knowledge unlatched, universities also disrupted
                               links back to learning organisation

OLDS MOOC          my project open video production
                               also virtual worlds / digital literacy

Cities                         “ThinkTank – Ideal City of the 21st Century” http://digital.leuphana.de/
                                  My interest is blended cities, more resource for online versions
                                   playable Bristol         Exeter / Phonic FM      Twinity Berlin etc.

Communication           IPEX  /  Cross Media  /  London College of Communications Futures Conference
                                     OhmyNews International ( archive from about 4 years ago, UK bandwidth catching up)

Radio                              Wild Show Thursday mornings 10 - 12 Phonic FM is a bit of real time and space away from my screen
                                        ( assumes CD players working, else mp3)
                                         topics to include scifi weekend , animation, Sundown
                                          open resources / copyright , can we use sound, images on YouTube
 

                         

OLDS MOOC - learning log week one

Copied from Cloudworks. My portfolio is at

http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2639

I think this has been a classic week. Not sure why. Partly just emerging from holiday drift but mostly I think there has been a shift in the positioning of web resources. Surveys show that most kids wanted a tablet as a present. Whether they got one I don't know. There were reassuring announcements on book sales. But now HMV is in trouble.
Cloudworks is falling over due to massiveness, but the OU must be confident to want to try out the limits.
I do find the different platforms hard to follow. Different clouds for different purposes. Twitter and YouTube easier to use. A lot to get used to - Bibsonomy still not absorbed.
I don't think my questions on theory have got through yet. Maybe later. I would welcome a lot more on what design science is. I come across the same words in management but I'm not sure the theory is the same. (My colleague Linda Shelton is updating the cloud on Design Science though she is not on the course)
Also the set and project approach is very like Action Learning. Though I don't find this in the theory references. There is a LinkedIn group for the International Foundation for Action Learning, current question "What is absolutely essential for an effective set?"
It was good to hear in the video that forming groups for projects is expected to take a while. I am continuing the video production even with a very small group. I may get some interest from Facebook. It seems ok to involve a local support or whatever. Since so many bits and pieces of social media are in use this seems likely to happen anyway.
I am also going to explore Google+ . I use gmail and some other bits but so far have not replied. I suspect Google has just raided my email list but I could be wrong, there may be more to this. The video of the hangout works very well.
I am going to follow the digital literacy and virtual worlds projects but not sure how much I can contribute.
This MOOC is not what I expected. In new jargon I now think I had heard about an x-MOOC, transmission of existing knowledge. I had no idea a project or p-MOOC could be designed as massive. Still not sure how it will work out.


Posts on this Posterous blog may be a bit erratic over the next few weeks. The OLDS MOOC is truly massive and there is a lot to check out. They are using social media a lot so you don't have to sign on for the course. YouTube for example has most of the intros , some future weeks already there.

Next post a few words in groups. 

Xerox has moved how far away from IPEX?

Still thinking about Xerox. Not sure what they are doing. It could be that print equipment for print service providers is not a priority.

more later

Six or ten years ago there was an "In The Balance" debate that turned out to be very friendly between Heidelberg and Xerox. IPEX will be very different without either of them.

There is something about the Japanese companies that they keep going on an aim. Not sure what it is. 

Trade shows still part of Blended Learning @Bett_show @Ipex_World

seems to have got lost

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Date: Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:13 AM
Subject: Trade shows still part of Blended Learning @Bett_show @Ipex_World
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Learning can be analysed by academics but is also part of normal life. The word has a simple meaning for most people. So a lot of things can relate in the same blog post.

BETT is a tech show. Now moving to ExCel, it was the last big computer show at Olympia. It continues even though teachers are using Twitter and soforth. I will know more about blended learning when the MOOC course is happening. The topic may come up at BETT. There is still some benefit in "real time and space". Feel free to discuss online of course. The people at BETT will have already decided to be there.

IPEX has also decided to move to ExCel from Birmingham. (ExCel is in East London not far from the Olympic Park) But the exhibitors are cancelling. Jeff Jacobson wrote in a Xerox blog -

In times of change and transformation, one is given the unique opportunity to look at things differently – to step out of the comfort zone and take a different look at how things get done.

which means that the stand is cancelled. In reply to a comment he added

 there are international trade shows, such as Hunkeler, which we will attend due to its continuous feed focus – an important offering to our customers and the industry. It is also our intent, at the current time, to participate in Drupa.

So drupa is looking strong as a special occasion once every four years. Heidelberg and HP have already cancelled for IPEX in 2014.

However there could be a gap around drupa for Cross Media Live, a show launched last year in Islington. This is intended to happen every year, more suited to the pace of digital developments. I hope this year that the Furures Conference organised by the London College of Communications will be at the same time and with nearby locations. But online this year is much like last year. The move from print to print as part of communication has taken decades. Print changes over centuries. So we can blog about LCC Futures 2012 as if it was 2013.

BETT though is to be considered day by day. I still don't know what Michael Gove has to say about it. Adobe will not be there, they   left most trade shows a while ago. The Serif stand looks interesting, volume licences for a suite of software once known as dtp.
 

Trade shows still part of Blended Learning @Bett_show @Ipex_World

Learning can be analysed by academics but is also part of normal life. The word has a simple meaning for most people. So a lot of things can relate in the same blog post.

BETT is a tech show. Now moving to ExCel, it was the last big computer show at Olympia. It continues even though teachers are using Twitter and soforth. I will know more about blended learning when the MOOC course is happening. The topic may come up at BETT. There is still some benefit in "real time and space". Feel free to discuss online of course. The people at BETT will have already decided to be there.

IPEX has also decided to move to ExCel from Birmingham. (ExCel is in East London not far from the Olympic Park) But the exhibitors are cancelling. Jeff Jacobson wrote in a Xerox blog -

In times of change and transformation, one is given the unique opportunity to look at things differently – to step out of the comfort zone and take a different look at how things get done.

which means that the stand is cancelled. In reply to a comment he added

 there are international trade shows, such as Hunkeler, which we will attend due to its continuous feed focus – an important offering to our customers and the industry. It is also our intent, at the current time, to participate in Drupa.

So drupa is looking strong as a special occasion once every four years. Heidelberg and HP have already cancelled for IPEX in 2014.

However there could be a gap around drupa for Cross Media Live, a show launched last year in Islington. This is intended to happen every year, more suited to the pace of digital developments. I hope this year that the Furures Conference organised by the London College of Communications will be at the same time and with nearby locations. But online this year is much like last year. The move from print to print as part of communication has taken decades. Print changes over centuries. So we can blog about LCC Futures 2012 as if it was 2013.

BETT though is to be considered day by day. I still don't know what Michael Gove has to say about it. Adobe will not be there, they   left most trade shows a while ago. The Serif stand looks interesting, volume licences for a suite of software once known as dtp.
 

Negroponte ahead of BETT and Learning Technologies, comment on rote learning

Nicholas Negroponte is a keynote speaker for the Learning Technologies conference

http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/programme/

I guess he may also visit BETT but I can't find a web page if he also speaks there.

This blog links to YouTube from a recent speech. In the questions section he happens to mention the UK, a minister and views on rote learning. About 34 minutes in. Could this be Michael Gove? Will this sort of comment be repeated?

Last year at BETT  I though there was some positive potential in leaving the tech lessons open. But it seems to be that Gove has insisted on a tight definition for the subjects he thinks are important. There have not been many reports of positive results on ICT during the year. I am still trying to keep an open mind.

Negroponte did not have a lot to say about a safer internet. Maybe he will include this at BETT. Bandwidth is now comparing with hardware as a block on curiosity.

By the way, train could be a way to connect Olympia and ExCel. North London Line now heads way East I think. Not sure about this but a few weeks still to check.

Projects for MOOCs - Ideal City and MoSO #mtw3 #mosocoop

Yesterday the Cloudworks based face to face launch of the MOOC course seemed to be ok, at least well attended. The numbers may have been more than expected. Some versions of the online feed did crash. I heard it ok on Quicktime. A lot was based on Google and YouTube. The YouTube archive turned up quite quickly but there was no sound. Anyway, lots of content to come back to and it seems likely a lot will be on YouTube so it is open to anyone. You don't have to do the whole thing.

It turns out this will be based on projects in groups. So my impression of a MOOC as transmission is wrong. Maybe these groups could be extended. I will try out a project for MoSO, a model of sustainable organisation. This is a site based at the CQI that tries to present ideas from Edwards Deming for a current set of interests. 

There is video in support of this. Also LinkedIn and soforth. I should get help in rethinking this as if it was a MOOC. There will be a face-to-face meeting in March so maybe the course project will be advanced by then.

I am also interested in a MOOC about an ideal city. I may not fit in too well as I have some doubts about celebrity architects and the way cities are going. Building into new spaces is much too casual I think. East Devon still has some green space not taken over for a Science Park. It could stay that way if we put more thought into using virtual technology with the existing resource in the city centre. So I will try this out on the group ( this MOOC also looks like it is based on sets ) .

#mtw3 continues in online mode but may be face2face at some time. The Twinity version might have a model of the Work Foundation later but meanwhile we use a cafe as a location that is also in Twinity Berlin. So this could fit with the course conclusion.

Over To You, BBC World Service, OhmyNews International. Citizen Journalism

As I remember the last broadcast Over To You is considering change in the nature of radio. The download is not there yet but probably will be soon.

Radio could go the way of social media in general, lots of bits for listen again at no fixed time. Will it be in 18 months or fifteen years?  What strikes me is that the terms change but this conversation has been going on for around five years already. Like the Guardian and other established media the BBC rarely mentions OhmyNews and Citizen Journalism. There have been conferences in Korea and sound is available I think. (Can't find my mp3backup at the moment)

extract from Wikipedia
In addition to straight news reporting and op-ed submissions, OMNI publishes photo essays, poetry and can attach video and audio to the citizen reporters' articles. All articles are available via RSS feeds and Twitter.
The 2nd Annual Citizen Reporters' Forum was held by OhmyNews in Seoul, Korea from July 12 to 15, 2006.
The 3rd Annual Citizen Reporters' Forum was held in Seoul, June 27–29, 2007.

I think it was the first one I went to.

I have submitted an AudioBoo but this is waiting moderation. When I last looked there was nothing available so either few people listen to the BBC World Service or they have not got round to moderation so far this week. Probably there will be something in time for the broadcast on Sunday.

I have put the same clip onto Soundcloud so you can track it.

Longterm I hope there will be a lot more exchange of clips with the BBC. I know they are working on an archive. It seems to be ok to play bits from YouTube on local radio.

My main question is still why the World of Music was scrapped? The extracts from tracks on the Strand are so short they are just annoying. You have to use YouTube as well. Not easy when trying to fall asleep.