http://folksonomy.org.uk/?rss=2 Folksonomy.org.uk is a structured repository of digital culture and creative practice. en-au Creative Commons License: (cc), Simon Perkins Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:38:16 +1000 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:38:16 +1000 Constellations 2.0 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?member=2 60 http://folksonomy.org.uk/Folksonomy.gif http://folksonomy.org.uk/ http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1943 Posterous is the easy way to get content online using e-mail You can e-mail content of just about any type such as rich text photos music video Word Powerpoint Excel PDF documents and zip archives to us We will post it online in the most web-friendly format then reply with a public URL that can be forwarded or shared with friends Account creation is never required but if a user does create an account posts from your various e-mail addresses work home and mobile phone can all be integrated into one blog Posterous Inc Fig 1 Susie Blackmon s Posterous weblog available at http susieblackmon com http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1943 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:38:16 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1932 In the archaic theatre there was relatively little divide between spectator and performer seeing and doing people danced and spoke then retired to a stone seat to watch others dance and declaim By the time of Aristotle actors and dancers had become a caste with special skills of costuming speaking and moving Audiences stayed offstage and so developed their own skills of interpretation as spectators As critics the audience sought to speculate then about what the stage-characters did not understand about themselves though the chorus on stage sometimes also took on this clarifying role Richard Sennett 2008 p 125 Sennett R 2008 The Craftsman London Penguin Books Fig 1 Lysistrata Summer 2006 University of Florida http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1932 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:51:50 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1929 We understand microlearning primarily as learning from microcontent - from small pieces loosely joined Weinberger 2002 Microlearning as a term reflects the emerging reality of the everincreasing fragmentation of both information sources and information units used for learning especially in fast-moving areas which see rapid development and a constantly high degree of change While in the past a single authoritative work or even a single authoritative teacher may have been all that was necessary to sufficiently acquaint oneself with a given topic of interest this is increasingly untrue especially as the necessity to quickly learn a lot extends into almost everyoneos work life Books magazine articles a multitude of web resources like online books tutorials encyclopedias forum and weblog postings emails and comprehensive teaching material collections as produced by MITos OpenCourseWare project or the Connexions effort hosted at Rice University form essential ingredients of the source mix of almost any non-institutionalized learning effort - and increasingly of many institutionalized efforts as well Fragmentation of sources has both positive and negative aspects From a produceros standpoint information fragments are much easier to create than larger works Furthermore disaggregated content - theoretically - can be re-aggregated to optimally suit an individual learneros preferences instead of the needs of an idealized common denominator The other side of the coin is that a significant fraction of the consolidation and organization effort is shifted towards the learner It will increasingly be the task of microlearning management systems to assist the learner or group of learners to consolidate information gleaned from such disparate sources into a coherent whole We see personal knowledge mapping as enabled by combined wiki weblog software as a first step in that direction Christian Langreiter Andreas Bolka 2005 Weinberger D 2002 Small Pieces Loosely Joined Perseus Books 2 Langreiter C and A Bolka 2005 Snips amp Spaces Managing Microlearning Microlearning Conference Innsbruck Austria http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1929 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:54:03 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1922 The idea of an open city is not my own credit for it belongs to the great urbanist Jane Jacobs in the course of arguing against the urban vision of Le Corbusier She tried to understand what results when places become both dense and diverse as in packed streets or squares their functions both public and private out of such conditions comes the unexpected encounter the chance discovery the innovation Her view reflected in the bon mot of William Empson was that the arts result from over-crowding Jacobs sought to define particular strategies for urban development once a city is freed of the constraints of either equilibrium or integration These include encouraging quirky jerry-built adaptations or additions to existing buildings encouraging uses of public spaces which don t fit neatly together such as putting an AIDS hospice square in the middle of a shopping street In her view big capitalism and powerful developers tend to favour homogeneity determinate predictable and balanced in form The role of the radical planner therefore is to champion dissonance In her famous declaration if density and diversity give life the life they breed is disorderly The open city feels like Naples the closed city feels like Frankfurt Richard Sennett 2006 Fig 1 Busy street in Naples marlenworld com Fig 2 Paris Les Olympiades 1969-1974 Thierry B 233 zecourt in 2005 3 Sennett R 2006 The Open City The Closed System and The Brittle City Urban Age http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1922 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:41:11 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1917 Children learn about themselves others and the world they live in through play Outdoor environments for play and learning can provide rich experiences for children who seek fantasy and adventure and are innately curious about nature Children s environments particularly school and neighbourhood playgrounds parks and gardens have the potential to facilitate learning through social emotional cognitive and creative opportunities Unfortunately in America the play and learning potential for many outdoor play spaces is underdeveloped Lauri Macmillan Johnson Fig 1 The Adventure Playground 160 University Avenue Berkeley California is an example of an open-ended play environment Fig 2 commercially available play environments often work to regulate engagement according to social norms 3 Johnson L M 2004 American Playgrounds and Schoolyards - A Time for Change In School of Landscape Architecture Tempe AZ The University of Arizona Press http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1917 Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:33:07 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1916 The role of the character in a role-playing game has long been debated Yet no character can exist without the context of a game world The character always has a relationship to its surroundings the easiest way of creating a character is often through providing a context Even if one supposedly plays oneself in a fictional world a character - a variation on the ordinary persona - will soon emerge Markus Montola amp Jaakko Stenros 2 Montola M and J S eds 2008 Playground Worlds - Creating and Evaluating Experiences of Role-Playing Games Finland Ropecon ry http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1916 Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:33:03 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1912 Michel Foucault s reflections on power uniquely parallel a position accepted by a significant segment of philosophers of technology that is that technology is not simply an ethically neutral set of artifacts by which we exercise power over nature but also always a set of structured forms of action by which we also inevitably exercise power over ourselves According to this position technology can be associated with diverse human behaviors with distinctions among them often less clear than for either artifacts or cognitions Technological activities inevitably and without easy demarcation also shade from individual or personal into group or institutional forms Mitcham 1994 209 The elaboration of the theoretical origins justification and cultural impact of human institutions is one of the hallmarks of the analysis of power undertaken by Foucault His work therefore could make a valuable contribution to the discussion of the position in the field of the Philosophy of Technology of those who view technology primarily as activity Jim Gerrie Techn eacute 7 2 Winter 2003 2 Gerrie J 2003 Was Foucault a Philosopher of Technology Techn eacute Research in Philosophy and Technology 7 Winter 2003 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1912 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:01:28 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1907 The Representational State Transfer REST style is an abstraction of the architectural elements within a distributed hypermedia system REST ignores the details of component implementation and protocol syntax in order to focus on the roles of components the constraints upon their interaction with other components and their interpretation of significant data elements It encompasses the fundamental constraints upon components connectors and data that define the basis of the Web architecture and thus the essence of its behavior as a network-based application Roy Fielding 2000 1 Cody Fauser James MacAulay Edward Ocampo-Gooding and John Guenin High level overview of a RESTful Rails web service 2 Fielding Roy Thomas Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures Doctoral dissertation University of California Irvine 2000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1907 Mon, 31 May 2010 20:07:04 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1905 Most public policy discussion of new media have centred on technologies-tools and their affordances The computer is discussed as a magic black box with the potential to create a learning revolution in the positive version or a black hole that consumes resources that might better be devoted to traditional classroom activities in the more critical version Yet as the quote above suggests media operate in specific cultural and institutional contexts that determine how and why they are used We may never know whether a tree makes a sound when it falls in a forest with no one around But clearly a computer does nothing in the absence of a user The computer does not operate in a vacuum Injecting digital technologies into the classroom necessarily affects our relationship with every other communications technology changing how we feel about what can or should be done with pencils and paper chalk and blackboard books films and recordings Rather than dealing with each technology in isolation we would do better to take an ecological approach thinking about the interrelationship among all of these different communication technologies the cultural communities that grow up around them and the activities they support Media systems consist of communication technologies and the social cultural legal political and economic institutions practices and protocols that shape and surround them Gitelman 1999 The same task can be performed with a range of different technologies and the same technology can be deployed toward a variety of different ends Some tasks may be easier with some technologies than with others and thus the introduction of a new technology may inspire certain uses Yet these activities become widespread only if the culture also supports them if they fill recurring needs at a particular historical juncture It matters what tools are available to a culture but it matters more what that culture chooses to do with those tools Henry Jenkins Katie Clinton Ravi Purushotma Alice J Robison Margaret Weigel MacArthur Foundation 2 Jenkins H K Clinton et al Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture Media Education for the 21st Century MacArthur Foundation http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1905 Mon, 31 May 2010 10:44:37 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1902 The reason that a focus on Web 2 0 is significant and needed is because the popular web applications it represents are driven by users providing endless and virtually unlimited information about their everyday lives To put it in Lash s terms they are clearly on the inside of the everyday they are up close they afford direct and routine connections between people and software We have not yet begun to think through how this personal information might be harvested and used A starting point would be to find out how this information about everyday mundane lives is being mined how this feeds into relational databases and with what consequences the very types of question that are being asked by the writers discussed here Alongside this it is also important that we consider how the information provided by users and other similar users might affect the things they come across If we return to Last fm which learns users tastes and preferences and provides them with their own taste-specific online radio station it is possible to appreciate how the music that people come across and listen to has become a consequence of algorithms This is undoubtedly an expression of power not of someone having power over someone else but of the software making choices and connections in complex and unpredictable ways in order to shape the everyday experiences of the user How we find the books that shape our writing could be a question we might ask ourselves if we wish to consider the power that algorithms exercise over us and over the formation of knowledge within our various disciplines I know of at least two occasions when Amazon has located a book of interest for me that has then gone on to form an important part of a published work This is not just about Amazon it would also include searches on Google Scholar the use of the bookmarking site Del icio us the RSS feeds we might use or the likely coming applications that will predict locate and recommend research articles we might be interested in Readers based in the UK will also by now be considering the power of algorithms to decide the allocation of research funding as the role of metrics in the forthcoming Research Excellence Framework REF are finalized David Beer 996-997 Beer D 2009 Power through the algorithm Participatory web cultures and the technological unconscious New Media amp Society 11 6 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1902 Sun, 30 May 2010 20:12:00 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1896 Digital Libraries began as systems whose goal was to simulate the operation of traditional libraries for books and other text documents in digital form Significant developments have been made since then and Digital Libraries are now on their way to becoming Knowledge Commons These are pervasive systems at the centre of intellectual activity facilitating communication and collaboration among scientists or the general public and synthesizing distributed multimedia documents sensor data and other information Digital Libraries represent the confluence of a variety of technical areas both within the field of informatics eg data management and information retrieval and outside it eg library sciences and sociology Early Digital Library efforts mostly focused on bridging some of the gaps between the constituent fields defining digital library functionality and integrating solutions from each field into systems that support such functionality These have resulted in several successful systems researchers educators students and members of other communities now continuously search Digital Libraries for information as part of their daily routines decision-making processes or entertainment Most current Digital Library systems share certain characteristics They are content-centric motivated by the need to organize and provide access to data and information They concentrate on storage-centric functionality mainly offering static storage and retrieval of information They are specialized systems built from scratch and tailored to the particular needs and characteristics of the data and users of their target environment with little provision for generalization They tend to operate in isolation limiting the opportunities for large-scale analysis and global-scale information availability Finally they concentrate on material that is traditionally found in libraries mostly related to cultural heritage Hence despite the undisputed advantages that current Digital Library systems offer compared to the pre-1990s era the above restrictions limit the role that Digital Libraries can play in Knowledge Societies which will serve as important educational nuclei in the future Together with the general community the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries has initiated a long journey from current Digital Libraries towards the vision of Knowledge Commons These will be environments that will impose no conceptual logical physical temporal or personal borders or barriers on content They will be the universal knowledge repositories and communication conduits of the future common vehicles by which everyone will access analyse evaluate enhance and exchange all forms of information They will be indispensable tools in the daily personal and professional lives of people allowing everyone to advance their knowledge professions and roles in society They will be accessible at any time and from anywhere and will offer a user-friendly multi-modal efficient and effective interaction and exploration environment Achieving this requires significant changes to be made to past development strategies which shaped the functionality operational environment and other aspects of Digital Libraries Knowledge Commons will have different characteristics They will be person-centric motivated by needs to provide novel sophisticated and personalized experiences to users They will concentrate on communication and collaboration functionality facilitating intellectual interactions on themes that are pertinent to their contents with storage and retrieval being only a small part of such functionality They will remain specialized systems that will nevertheless be built on top of widely-available industrial-strength generic management systems offering all typically required functionality In general they will be managed by globally distributed systems through which information sources across the world will exchange and integrate their contents Finally they will be characterized by universality of information and application serving all applications and comprehensively managing all forms of content Yannis Ioannidis http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1896 Tue, 25 May 2010 00:26:02 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1895 when scholars use systems of reference to link one work to another they establish and exercise underlying fabrics of trust These fabrics serve to tie researchers to other researchers teachers to students and creators to users over time and place into durable and productive scholarly communities The linked works represent the common pools of knowledge - the knowledge commons - over which members of these communities labor to produce new knowledge And the links work the trust endures and the commons nourishes the intellectual life if and only if cited material is preserved so that when a link is made the reader is able to check the reference at the other end Donald J Waters 1 Waters D J 2006 Preserving the Knowledge Commons Understanding Knowledge as a Commons From Theory to Practice MIT Press http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1895 Mon, 24 May 2010 23:58:07 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1894 With the Internet nurturing the sharing spirit inherent in people commons has taken on a new meaning Free software proved spectacularily that the commons is a viable alternative to commodification The term Digital Commons is widely used but only losely defined Still it has an obvious evocative power and the potential to reconceptualize our knowledge environment and to unite those fighting for its freedom Charlotte Hess will give an overview of the historical and contemporary uses and meanings of the commons common-pool resources and common property as they apply to both natural and digital resources The challenge she takes up is to build shared understandings and definitions in this rapidly emerging area of scholarship which will give rise to appropriate collective action Wizard of OS 12 June 2004 2 Hess C and E Ostrom 2006 Understanding Knowledge as a Commons From Theory to Practice MIT Press http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1894 Sun, 23 May 2010 23:53:29 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1881 Browse through over 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago To start surfing the Wayback type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start and press enter Then select from the archived dates available The resulting pages point to other archived pages at as close a date as possible The Internet Archive http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1881 Fri, 07 May 2010 17:53:00 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1880 User-oriented digital information search environments call for flexible information access interfaces that may interact with a dynamically changing searcher view in capturing a variety of media Optimal use of conventional libraries and bibliographic databases requires a general understanding of the knowledge structure of the collection domain Hsieh-Yee 1993 Pennanen amp Vakkari 2003 Novice searchers without such understanding however can seek the help of librarians and intermediaries when they get lost in search processes Increasing numbers of digital libraries and online resources on the Internet provide potential users with opportunities to access and interact with these resources directly from offices and homes Such trends seem to offer searchers useful information access environments for a variety of information resources However in such environments novice searchers are forced to seek the information they need without the help of librarians or other intermediaries In reality many novice users of digital libraries do not have a general understanding of the knowledge structure of the digital collections held by these libraries Eventually they may give up pursuing their information needs when they get lost during search processes or obtain unsatisfactory search results This research project seeks to find a way to overcome such limitations of existing information access interfaces developed for traditional libraries and bibliographic information services Specifically we explore a qualitative research method for eliciting the knowledge structure of novice searchers and patterns of its modification in their search and learn processes and build on it a na iuml ve ontology for time and space Makiko Miwa amp Noriko Kando 2007 Hsieh-Yee I 1993 Effects of search experience and subject knowledge on the search tactics of novice and experienced searchers Journal of the American Society for Information Science 27 3 117-120 Miwa M and Kando N 2007 A na iuml ve ontology for concepts of time and space for searching and learning Information Research 12 2 paper 296 Available at http InformationR net ir 12-2 paper296 html Pennanen M amp Vakkari P 2003 Students conceptual structure search process and outcome while preparing a research proposal Journal of the American Society for Information Science 54 8 759-770 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1880 Fri, 07 May 2010 14:21:04 +1000