tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56637502011-10-10T17:47:24.918-04:00Observations, ruminations, and other collections about educational technology in colleges and universities.Phillip D. Longhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15241731910555496221noreply@blogger.comBlogger611100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5663750.post-35290967324661994012011-08-21T00:24:00.005-04:002011-08-21T01:01:37.844-04:00

This is too cool to pass up. Our visual systems are not as good as we might like when it comes to interpreting the data that are really in the external world. The Shadow Illusion is a great example of this, and in its structure tells us something about how the visual system organises data and processes information. The visual system uses a number of queues to help it decipher and attribute

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Kickstarter - VC for the crowds - Follow UpI've been a supporter of the crowd sourcing venture capital model of Kickstarter for some time (see my last post on this blog site, for example). It's a wonderful way to contribute to projects that you think are valuable and see them come to fruition. One of the projects I've been an 'investor' in is the TikTok+LunaTIk Multi-Touch Watch Kit by

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TikTok+LunaTik Multi-Touch Watch KitsThis post is about two related phenomena. The first is crowdsourcing, the second is just about areally cool new product! Crowdsourcing is hardly new. It has been employed in the business world as a means of presenting challenges in design, drug development and related issues and associating creative and useful solutions with financial gain. InnoCentive, for

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I had the pleasure of spending some time recently with the engineering academic staff from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) at their end of academic year senior staff retreat (dean, associate deans, heads of school). My role was novel in that I was the first outsider to have ever been invited to these executive retreats. Either this was going to open up such possibilities for the future

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After 14 hours in a tube with wings I'm again in another hemisphere. The attempt to maintain a bi-hemispheric professional life is bumping against the physical constants of the universe. While time passes inexorably in its linear narrative, the astronomical phenomenon of planetary orbits and angles of incidence make these 14 hours pass differently to an animal carrying evolutionary baggage.

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It was only a matter of time. I found myself in Copenhagen working with the Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation. My MacBook Pro was having problems displaying video output when presenting. This we attributed to software that was installed to capture the video for recording during the presentation. That's still what I think was going on. I did a test when I realized that the issue have

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CloudsOne of the most interesting trends in the last year is the emergence of what I'll call Personal Clouds. This represents the ability for anyone to have web-accessible storage site. The technology is really simple and inexpensive. The one I'm using at the moment is Pogoplug It's dead simple to install.No, I mean that. You can share files, pictures, stream videos, etc, all from the Pogoplug

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This is a long-delayed response to a post by George Siemens about openness and open education losing its way. First off, thanks are in order to George, It's always a pleasure to be prodded, provoked,and challenged by someone with the passion and erudition that he reflects routinely in the various online blogs and sites to which he publishes. The evidence of value is both in the quick

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Aggregate, filter, connect - the TK Manifesto - requires occasional examples demonstrating how one gets from "here" to "there". Thinking about this I'm often reminded of the Gary Larson Farside cartoon in which the scientist is writing the steps mathematically deriving an relationship and gets to a point where he writes "and here a miracle happens" to get past an otherwise impassable sticking

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One of the powerful strategies for cutting through the noise to the signal is the rule of parsimony. This is an approach understanding complexity developed 679 years ago by William of Ockham writing in condemnation of the Papacy of Pope John XXII, which goes "plurality should not be assumed without necessity." This later came to be called "Ockham's Razor". Parsimony, elegance, simplicity, all

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Reading blog posts in my RSS reader this evening, procrastinating while I should be finishing a presentation for tomorrow, I came across an article that describes qualities of success in CEOs. The provocative title was, " Do 'C-grade' students make the best CEOs?" In it the author, Robert Wood (Melbourne Uni B-School) writes:It is not the A or C performance level of a student that determines or

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A very provocative and insightful report was released Nov. 10th, from JISC that attempts to"draw together and synthesise evidence and opinion associated with data-intensive open science"The focus of the consultancy report is on five areas of emerging science that rely heavily on data, information systems, distributed networks, and significant computational resources. The focus also emphasizes the

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Home Robots and Malware AttacksOK - I can't tell if this is just an example of academics clever enough to be 'first' to get a publication out or if I should be really worried. A bit from ASEE apparently fed from MSNBC wants me to worry about my Roomba getting hacked and sent to spy on me at home. We have a pool 'robot' cleaner that rolls around on the bottom of the pool sucking up leaves and

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The National Academy of Engineering recently posted a nice video the next Grand Challenges for Engineering. The list includes:Make solar energy economicalProvide energy from fusionDevelop carbon sequestration methodsManage the nitrogen cycleProvide access to clean waterRestore and improve urban infrastructureProvide access to clean waterAdvance health informaticsEngineer better

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I'm tired of being on the road. I miss my wife and colleagues back home in Oz. Yet there continues to be no real alternative to keeping abreast of new knowledge than by meeting with the people making it. And they don't live always in my neighborhood (with at least one exception). That said, the threshold for getting me back on the road again has risen. I'm sure that is a good thing in many

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We have a dilemma. Education is desperate need of significant innovation. Yet the more radical the innovation, the more uncertainty is associated with it and the more difficult our institutions have coping with it. Big new ideas don't tend to emerge from the mainstream markets or the companies and organizations that serve them.There are several people that have made their mark communicating this

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Horizon Report 2009 ANZ Edition ReleasedThe Horizon Report Australia Edition for 2009 (you can download the PDF here, or read the web version, aka CommentPress version here)was recently unveiled at a meeting at Griffith University in Brisbane, AU (my home town). In it the expert panel of educators, researchers, teachers and museum professionals came up with the predictions for what technologies

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David Wiley posted recently in his blog Iterating Toward Openness, "Without any special authority to do so, may I please give you a homework assignment? Would you please blog about why you choose to be open? What is the fundamental, underlying goal or goals you hope to accomplish by being open? What keeps you motivated? Why do you spend your precious little free time on my blog, reading this post

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It's hard to remember, and I suspect some of you weren't working in the ed tech biz 25 years ago, but PowerPoint first burst on the scene as "Presentation", written exclusively for Apple by Forethought. Max Atkinson, author of Speech-making & Presentation Made Easy, brings this cheery reminder to us. Forethought was bought by Microsoft in August of 1987 for $14 million. That's $25.92 million in

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The challenge in building any new building is getting it to 'engage' with its surroundings. That's especially difficult if the style of architecture is quite conservative even if there is working going on inside. Enter 3D projections of animations and augmented structure on buildings.The folks at Nuformer Digital Medial have built astonishingly 3D projection system for buildings.This has great

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One of the great things about microblogging, and Twitter specifically, is the insights you get from the wonderful minds of those you follow. @hmason is one of the Twitterati I follow. She recently sent around the TinyURL for a comic about Ada Lovelace. (If that's not a name familiar to you, then you need a history lesson!). I can't resist reposting the comic here, made possible by another social

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The Australian Davos Connection sponsors a Future Summit every year in Australia. The intent is an early example of crossing silos and in the extension to the social networking world, the wisdom of the crowd. This has a potential for being interesting precisely because the size of the 'crowd' in this part of the world is so much smaller.After the first day of the event I have to say it was

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John Seely Brown has been exhorting us to think about collaboration and learning. He recently gave a talk at Indiana University as part of a series on the scholarship of teaching. It's on YouTube but I've embedded it here, as well.

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I'm in the 'innovation business.' That's what I'm in fact paid to do - identify and develop, test and assess digital tools and technologies that may influence learning. But it's an amorphous area of study. Recently I've encountered an interesting perspective that I need to think about. What is rolling around in my head are elements from several activities - designing a new space for innovation

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I know I'm being redundant. I picked this up from Vimeo, which in turn was posted on Facebook by many of my FB friends there. But it's a lovely video and extraordinarily well done. So, to give the meme more momentum, here's the holographic town 'gift' video.World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.You have to appreciate the graphic sensibility, imagination and sentiment of the short.

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It's a pleasure to see and engage with those whose passions direct their work and lives. I was searching for some content to ground a presentation I am giving to a startup team of students and academic staff (aka faculty in the Australian nomenclature) about the wonderful synthetic biology project called iGem. The person who founded this project was a computer engineer named Randy Rettberg. I

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You've probably seen this. After, all it's on YouTube. 'Nuff said, right? Well, in case you haven't ... here's a few of what Microsoft Office Labs is thinking about digital interaction and interfaces in 2019. Yes, it's bit MRish (oh, sorry, that's Minority Report-ish, but it's interesting how the inter-device communication is portrayed as well as the embedded contexts within which devices and

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One of the joys in life is discovering new, interesting people who make you think differently. I've had the pleasure several times over since immigrating to Australia, and one of those moments came getting to know people in the community focused digital arts and industries that get together every year at Create World. Australia's AUC (Apple University Consortium) sponsors the Create World

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Making Learning Design Explicit as Process and ScholarshipIt is one of the givens in the area of innovation that the people closet to a process are often those with the most insight into it, and at the same time least able to do anything to engender it. There is a group of people working on one aspect of this problem, that of making the process of learning, that is the pathways that represent

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Commenting on the post: "Gardner Writes » Blog Archive » The Reverend asked me a question"Blogging has been an aspect of reflection as well as information exchange that I've admired and felt compelled to try to contribute back through my own. But I've never really articulated the essence of why it seems important. It just always did. But then, in reading Gardner Campbell's blog "Gardner Writes" I

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Tinkering has a long an illustrious history. And the sad reality is, it's mostly history. Back 'in the day' kids took things apart, radios for example, and messed with the parts. Usually it was a one-way process (the radio never worked again) but the discovery of what was inside and some notion of what was connected to what, combined with the occasional excitement of re-use (that dial, even in

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Orlando - Educause 08: The Microsoft Surface has finally become available to the general public. It has an acrylic top, a DLP projector shooting up to it and Windows Vista PC running the system. The Surface has a 30 in. touch sensitive display, currently with a very small number of apps that accompany it but a number of commercial apps available for purchase.It is very cool to play with. The

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eBooks Getting InterestingI've had my Kindle for nearly a year now. It's got much to like while simultaneously evoking frustrations that drive you crazy. I've been traveling a bit, most recently a brief visit to Oz, and brought my Kindle along for the (long) plane rides. Overall it worked out well, reducing the number of tree-based books in my suitcase library I usually carry. But before the

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Memorial Day – Cambridge, MA It’s a glorious day – 80 deg F (27.2 C) breezy and clear in Cambridge. One of probably two such days we’ll have this spring. Still, it’s welcomed. I’m sitting wondering about all the things that have started to pile up as the summer is hard on its way. The coffee table has several books on it in various stages of being read. “Think, Play, Do”- a recommendation from

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Using the Tools of Science to Teach ScienceA lecture by Carl Wieman(March 7, 2008, Cambridge, MA). The MacVicar Day lecture, a celebration of he life and contributions of Margaret MacVicar, Professor of Physical Science and Dean for Undergraduate Education at the time of her death in 1991, was given today by the Nobel laureate Prof. Carl Wieman (UBC, and UC Boulder). His talk was, entitled, "

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I’m an inveterate reader of the daily newspaper- in my case the paper of record is the New York Times. It’s a cultural inheritance or meme from my family who for generations has been involved in one way or another in the newspaper business. I say this with considerable license as some of the involvement has been indirect at best. My father, for example, never wrote for a newspaper that I know

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The advent of virtual worlds and in particular the prominent media play of Second Life has brought a 3D panorama to wider attention. If you have been in the USA in the past two months, and you pay even passing attention to the media, you've been unable to avoid Linden Labs Second Life and new story lines from CSI:NY and The Office during prime time broadcast television. This follows Law & Order

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7-10-28 - The NY Tines 'Styles' section had an intriguing article on kidwebsites today. These are the sites like WebKinz, Club Penguin, and the like. Their membership numbers are impressive. Club Penguin claims 4.7 million members while WebKinz reports 6 million 'visitors' (is that the same as members or recurring participants? I don't know...)I had an introduction to Club Penguin. Some months

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During the introduction of the Claire Maple address at the start of the SAC meeting (known as the Snowmass conference to many) the announcement was made as to the future location for SAC. The Snowmass Village is beautiful. The valley has been a respite each year for those of us who attend regularly, using the Rocky Mountain venue to renew friendships, walk in the mountains, learn what's coming up

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( Dateline - Broad Institute & MIT Dept. of Biology with the Office of Educational Innovation & Technology - OEIT) - High schools (22 from the Boston & Cambridge area school districts) and MIT undergraduates have been getting a new an introduction to genomics through an exercise in diagnosing cancer. The premise is there are two different kinds of leukemia (AML, and ALL). Under a microscope they

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Transforming Digital Content into LearningWhat a striking contrast. We tend to forget in our rarified technology rich environments how wide the variance is in tools, policies, and technology literacy in K-12 environments. Denver public schools, for example, have range of very progressive programs. But even in the midst of that there are still policies that disenfranchise the students and their

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Recently the NY Times printed a guest column by Mark Helprin advocating treatment of copyright and intellectual property the same as any physical property or land. The notion that intellectual property has a limited grant of exclusivity afterwhich it returns to the public domain was challenged as analogous to the federal government confiscating your home when you die, depriving your relatives of

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One of the Reasons I Love My MacI ran across this dashboard widget while reading Michael Mann's terrific website 43 Folders. This little dashboard widget is a wonderful waste of time for those moments when you just need to remember what matters. Here's an example of the finely crafted gibberish that this little gem produces:Completely myocardinate error-free meta-services whereas extensible core

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Asserting Fair UseA terrific panel session was held on Saturday, April 28th, on fair use and copyright. Panelists included:Hal Abelson, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MITPatricia Aufderheide, professor in the School of Communication at American University where she also directs the Center for Social Media Wendy Gordon, professor of law and Paul J. Liacos Scholar in

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This afternoon Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Vice President, Technical Strategy and Innovation, IBM, Visiting Professor, Engineering Systems, MIT, spoke at the Media Lab. His talk, "Towards a 3D Internet: Broadband on the Brain", was really about virtual worlds.He views virtual worlds as simply part of the Internet, an extension of it, beginning with Arpanet (Internet 1.0). This was the 'individual'

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Have you thought about how the mission of an institution is or is not conveyed by the design of the spaces in which the people of the insittution live, work, study, ressearch and play? Last Friday that occupied an intense day of brainstorming using scenario planning techniques. The occasion, a meeting with Herman-Miller design teams, was to consider the future of learning spaces.Four scenarios

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The Carnegie Foundation, and specifically the Knowledge Media Lab therein, is once again challenging the higher education community to think carefully about the implications and potential unintended consequences from the movement toward Open Educational Resources (OERs) in the higher education landscape. There are lots of conversations on this topic (see for example the worlwide discussion taking

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Emerging Technologies Workshop - EDUCAUSE Mid-West Regional Conference March 13, 2006Chicago, IllinoisBelow is a general outline of the emerging technologies session that was put together by Cyprient Lomas (UBC and ELI Fellow), and myself for a 1/2 day workshop talking to people about emerging technologies. We're doing it in another two hours so I'll come back and give a sense of how it

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The world is changing with adoption of new technology rollouts, faster than ever in history. The story is mass participation. For example, take the growth of blogs.34 million bloggers in 2005. RSS - no need to say more about this. Podcasting - what's the problem with podcasting? You need a "pod" - it remains an elite phenomenon. It's broadcasting on a personalized basis all over again. Tags -

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Reading the Google keynote talk by Larry Paige, co-founder, at the latest Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas, I read about the packaging of the set of Google applications we’ve all downloaded individually. The Google Pack (http: // pack.goggle.com) combines Google Earth, Picassa , Google Pack Screen Savers, Google Desktop, and the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer (though who uses that now

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If you haven't paid much attention to the work going on in Europe around the Ariadne project you should probably take some time out and look carefully at it. This morning I'm sitting in a conference/workshop in Skelleftea, Sweden, called "Emerging Pieces in the Education Puzzle"(http://www.campus.skelleftea.se/ep). The presenter this morning is Erik Duvall, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, &

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Attending Sessions?Educause took place in Orlando, Florida, this past week. Orlando ranks up there as one of my least favorite cities on the planet. This leads me to have serious reservations in the best of circumstances. The Educause conference has expanded in size to the point that there are only a limited number of conference venues that can provide suitable space for the main plenaries,

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This is an aside from the general topic of this blog - but I can't not comment on the recent film "Good Night,and Good Luck" (co-written, directed and acted in by George Clooney). My father was blacklisted in the McCarthy era. His world forever altered by the experience, and our family changed in untold ways. I was proud of him for holding fast to his beliefs even if he was initially seduced by

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Brainstorming in New Haven This morning I'm sitting in the board meeting of the Horizon Board, the New Media Center's annual (at least for the last 3 years) as we're kicking off the discussion about what technologies are on the 'horizon'. But the conversation richer than just the crystal ball gazing (fun as that might be). It also includes what technologies are currently widespread in

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The explosion of blogging, social bookmarking, and related collaboration tools (e.g., image sharing tools like Flickr) has changed given new tools for expression, self-publishing, & exploring common interests. I'll be talking at the Web Publishing User Group meeting about the uses and limitations of some of these tools. Here's the list that we'll try to cover: - blogging * how it might

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Moblogging is bringing the journal writing process into the field. With many servicws you can post write to your blog site from your SMS tool.

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Hybrid learning describes a point on a spectrum of pedagogical strucutres that vary along the dimension of "presence", where presence refers the frequency, mechanism, and formatin in which the learning group (the 'class') comes physically meets.

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Wow - I've been out of the day-to-day exponential growth happening in the blogsphere for quite a few months. Coming back to poke around and I encounter Amazon Light ver. 4 (an alternate interace to Amazon.com) , DropCash(donation system), and Del.ici.ous( social bookmarks). I ran into all of this in about 45 min. of online play (ok - 45 min. is a little bit of an underestimate as I got sucked

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology If the complexity and byzantine nature of copyright law isn't already crystal clear, the software design that the MIT music sharing tool, announced today (10-26-03), is yet another piece of evidence. Taking advantage of more liberal licensing agreements for analog music distribution, MIT students did an end run around the law. This is a creative response

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In the continuing quest to teach old dogs (me) new tricks (RSS, blogging, and the like), welcome to my Ed Tech Trends blog. This is going to be a slow go at first, but I hope to develop the discipline to add content, ideas, and generate some dicussion as things pick up. For the moment, I want to start by pointing out a wonderful description of OpenCourseWare that arrived in the latest (aka

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