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I’ve been in Juneau for a few days taking part in the American Association for the Advancement of Science Arctic Science Conference . I was privileged to have the opportunity to run a distance education segment in partnership with my colleague Carol Gering … which morphed for natural reasons into a session on science education in general. What follows are thoughts based on my presentation and having heard from a variety of scientists, eduthose who teach online leave the familiarity of the face-to-face classroom for the uncharted terrain of the online environment, whose constraints and affordances often lead to very different practices. The trans-classroom teacher who ...
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Please see my previous post on the process behind this post. I have created a PDF version and below the blog post version, so you have the format of your choice.Is the revolution justified?IntroductionIt is common for observers and bloggers in educational technology to proclaim that current educational practice is, in some way, ‘broken’. It is seen as not delivering deep learning, or failing t
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The student as consumer: affordances and constraints in a transforming HE environment. Section 3 – Lecturers, students, producers and consumers. Constructing consumption: what media representations reveal about today's students ...between news articles, which it does well enough, but with many missing affordances & constraints Flip needs to be browser functionality, not a web app. Maybe such functions will push ...By applying an organised system of work that replaces good intentions with method, we are able to define and then record our systems and organization. This pinpoints the responsibilities of every individual in carrying out their duties, encourages continuous improvement and consolidates process management.confusion can arise when this pattern is broken — say, a door that opens by pushing a button on an adjacent wall — and a person then needs to figure out how to operate the door. constraints limit possible actions, while affordances show ...
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Norman tries to separate out the realities of physical constraints/inherent properties which will affect affordances from cultural conventions, that is where there is nothing inherent in devices or design to afford a particular action, ...This was a harder exercise than what it may appear… For this “Top #” I wanted to focus solely on academic articles , and I wanted to provide a variety of topics – kind of like an overview of the main issues or areas in K-12 online learning/virtual schooling academia. Unfortunately, I think I’m a little heavy on my own work – which isn’t really reflective of the literature base – as Cathy Cavanaugh would probably be the main heavyweiAs I lay in bed fighting the flu this weekend I found myself once again reading Braudel’s Civilization & Capitalism . In my view, Braudel’s approach to history provides a model example of what an object-oriented analysis might look like. Braudel does not tell the story of the emergence of capitalism from the standpoint of ideas, political conflicts, nations, or “great men”, but rather from the standpoint of what he calls “material civilization”. Material history consists of those const
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In email today an old friend of mine asks, Currently I’m having a bit of a spat with other graphic designers over in another pocket of the Internet. My question is: can design be understood to have an ontology, can there be an ‘ontology of design’? Does this make philosophical sense? I’m wondering if the assemblage that is my discourse, field, discipline, community, etc. can be understood as a thing? I like the notion of tracing it through all of those lenses and coming to a networked defiA gold mine of straight talk and encouragement fore people living with diabetesHowever, when McLuhan claims that the media is the message he's not simply talking about
affordances and constraints that play a role in what sorts of artifacts are possible, but also the role that media play in affording or ...
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Over at the OOP , Graham expands on my post about Caesar. I’m having tremendous difficulty articulating what I’m trying to get at in a way that is accessible to others who have predominantly worked within hermeneutic or meaning-centered orientations of theory (I use this term generically to refer to any predominantly semiotic, semiological, hermeneutic, deconstructive, discursive, or sociological approach to theorHowever, these singularities or differences embodied in the material come to be treated as affordances and constraints, presiding over the sort of carving that gradually emerges. Does the result come from the artist, from the medium, ...
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Tan Lin from an email interview with Chris Alexander, Kristen Gallagher, and Gordon Tapper in Galatea Resurrects I think the idea of what is "neutral" in a reading experience, and how to make what is "neutral" in a reading visible is important to Heath , which in some ways outsources the "labor/work" of the reader to other parties, who appear to be "looking on," maybe commenting, maybe reading, maybe writing, mPaul has his interview with Graham Harman up over at anotherheidegger blog. It’s filled with lots of interesting tidbits about his writing process, his influences, and his experiences navigating academia. There is also more discussion about the possibility of a philosophy video game. A while back Bogost asked me what, exactly, I would be interested in with respect to such a game. Apropos of recent discussions of constraints and affordances, I’m not even sure such a game would be possibleWhat Communication Experts Need To Know - Ideas, Tools and Resources to Communicate More Effectively With New Media Technologies
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Super Chef is an online magazine that follows the careers, empires, trends, media, and brands of super chefs in America and abroad.Neighbors are frightened, and intrigued by my glass recycling binThe following “interview” with me appears in the July/August 2009 issue of Interactions magazine , the ACM’s journal on interaction design. I say “interview” because it’s basically an edit on the sprawling chat Tish Shute had with me for her site , back in February of this year; as we know, even minor editorial alterations can produce disproportionate shifts in tone and emphasis, and that’s certainly the case here. I should say from the outset that I don’t have much use for the ACM, an
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Running into Jamie Smith this morning reminded me that I’ve been remiss in putting notes from some of the interesting NMC 2009 Summer Conference sessions I attended. Ruben Puentedura ’s session on “The Infinite Canvas Reloaded: Digital Storytelling, Webcomics, and Web 2.0” was particularly interesting. Using Scott McLeod’s concept of the digitaPersonal finance and money commentary, news, resources, tips, and tricks.The following “interview” with me appears in the July/August 2009 issue of Interactions magazine , the ACM’s journal on interaction design. I say “interview” because it’s basically an edit on the sprawling chat Tish Shute had with me for her site , back in February of this year; as we know, even minor editorial alterations can produce disproportionate shifts in tone and emphasis, and that’s certainly the case here. I should say from the outset that I don’t have much use for the ACM, and in
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Judith Harris, Punya Mishra en Matthew Koehler presenteren in Teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge and Learning Activity Types: Curriculum-based Technology Integration Reframed het TPACK-raamwerk als een meer effectieve manier om technologie te integreren binnen leersituaties. Docenten moeten volgens deze auteurs kennis hebben van technologie, didactiek , content en context, en van de onderlinge verbanden tussen deze aspecten. De auteurs verklaren de kloof tussen eeProvides consumer information on life insurance, car insurance, business, home, and individual or group health insurance.I published two journal articles recently on the use of wikis in teaching and learning, and I'm making them available here on this blog. The links below allow you to download the full papers in .pdf format. I have also published several book chapters recently on the use of wikis in education which I will make available here over the next few weeks - so bookmark this space! A key message from both papers is that although students enjoy working and learning together, to facilitate effective collab
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The Apostle Paul once wrote that he could see things 'through a glass, darkly'. He was trying, I feel, to capture what it felt like to see things, but without complete clarity. And I know what he meant, because this week, when I should have been over in Gdansk to speak at the European Distance and E-learning Network Conference, I am sat at home recuperating after keyhole surgery. As I have previously written, EDEN is one of my favourite annual events , and I have attended at least Yesterday we presented the first excerpts from a report on the future of transportation : The Digital Nexus of Post-Automobility , published by the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University. Authors are K. Dennis and J. Urry. Here’s a presentation of this important report, with excerpts on car to car swarming . Dennis and Urry: 1. Summary: “In this Report we specifically focus upon the ‘system’ of automobility. In particular, we frame automobility within a cluster of raIn the May 2009 issue of “Learning and Leading with Technology” Punya Mishra and Matthew Koehler discuss the TPACK framework in their article, “Too Cool for School? No Way!” The article is available electronically to ISTE members only. According to Mishra and Koehler: Expert teachers consciously and unconsciously find ways to orchestrate and coordinate technology, pedagogy, and content into every act of teaching. They flexibly navigate the affordances and constraints of each technolog
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Speaking of Lessig , two interesting cases emerged this week that help illustrate Lessig’s position that, when thinking about the architecture of cyberspace, “code is law.” In Code , Lessig argues that all of the rules, tendencies, affordances, and constraints of/in cyberspace are the result of human decisions, actions, and, ultimately, code. What we can and cannot do there is governed by the underlying code of all of the programs and protocols that make up the Internet, which can, alternatAbstract Most research on text-based synchronous computer-mediated communication in language learning has used output logs as the sole data source. I review interactionist and sociocultural SCMC research, focusing in particular on the question of technological determinism, and conclude that, from whichever perspective, reliance on output logs leads to an impoverished picture of the experience of SCMC users and of phenomena relevant to learning. The assumption that output logs are an adeqMost research on text-based synchronous computer-mediated communication in language learning has used output logs as the sole data source. I review interactionist and sociocultural SCMC research, focusing in particular on the question of technological determinism, and conclude that, from whichever perspective, reliance on output logs leads to an impoverished picture of the experience of SCMC users and of phenomena relevant to learning. The assumption that output logs are an adequate data
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Read Write technology provides
both affordances and constraints for how we understand and act in the world. This “new” technology and our understanding and use of it are limited by the means we are necessarily employing. ...My professional career has been somewhat checkered. I first started work as a technician in media and technology back in 1976 when things were a lot less sophisticated than they are now. I entered into the world of academia when my interests in learning technologies grew beyond how they worked and I became interested in how they could be harnessed to support and enhance learning and teaching. Being a student at the Open University gave me some insight into what people go through when they are stAffordances and Constraints of Second Life for Teaching. by Tom Werner on March 6, 2008. I recently gave a presentation about the
affordances and constraints of Second Life for teaching (what's good about it and what's challenging about ...
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0 | Posted by eejlee, Thu, 01 Jan 1970 22:34:04 +0100
Damn why didnt i find this video earlier!
It is Blunderbuss
Blunder-Meaning being clumsy or Lightning
Buss-Meaning gun
But unfortunately 50 bastards before me commented blunderbuss
Which is kind of sad since Ive been suffering for insomnia of late :(
1 | Posted by pikovsky, Thu, 01 Jan 1970 11:01:44 +0100
Thx it's my newest thing =-) and I'm slightly drunk!
2 | Posted by peja, Thu, 01 Jan 1970 17:51:57 +0100
It's only an *awesome* idea if you want a fire in your kitchen
3 | Posted by xiaolue, Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:21:32 +0100
OMG i laughed so hard xDDD
4 | Posted by potkonjak, Thu, 01 Jan 1970 21:15:24 +0100
he said BESIDES THE PING PONG BALLS
5 | Posted by apironti, Thu, 01 Jan 1970 14:12:23 +0100
Pd la tua democrazia e inesistente
i democratici non esistono in quel partito se nemmeno accettono un persona come Beppe grillo come candidato
Si inventeranno di tutto Beppe ma noi andiamo avanti
Hanno paura, hanno ga perso lo sanno percio' cercono di sbatterti fuori
sono uomini con un piede nella fossa, li faremo fuori politicamente, democraticamente mooooolto pacatamente
proprio come vogliono loro!!
6 | Posted by seongsoo, Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:33:12 +0100
Me or you? I can assure you I am not...either way-your spelling was off. Either on OBAMA or both OBAMA and DUMB
7 | Posted by kuroe, Thu, 01 Jan 1970 07:30:01 +0100
I really doubt he wouldn't use an HD camera, I think the file his editing program puts it in is not an HD format
8 | Posted by valeri, Thu, 01 Jan 1970 16:19:52 +0100
lol neil ur such a pedo xD
9 | Posted by kckuo, Thu, 01 Jan 1970 15:15:19 +0100
OHH I KNOW ITS QUAGMIRe
10 | Posted by djperrea, Thu, 01 Jan 1970 14:18:13 +0100
And for a country like the Netherlands, it's far more likely to work. But the USA has a much bigger population and 50 states, each of which would have different laws. I'd be OK with a system that's OK for everyone. But when a country as large as the US tries to socialize health care, what happens is crappy health care for most, decent (but 10 times as expensive) health care for a very very small minority.
11 | Posted by apugliese, Thu, 01 Jan 1970 15:13:32 +0100
nice Phil Collins reference haa
12 | Posted by leej9, Thu, 01 Jan 1970 08:41:54 +0100
I'll be getting the hardened edition (PS3).
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