see at http://edugamesblog.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/do-racecar-video-games-affect-rl-driving/
“In this instance, researchers looked at racecar-themed video games
promoting a high level of risk taking, and researched whether playing
them led to increased aggressiveness in real life driving.”
In Halberstadt in Germany a piece of John Cage is performed at the moment. The piece is called ORGAN2/ASLSP (as slow as possible). The duration of the overall performance will be 639 years! Very interesting idea, so generations can talk over the piece and talk to each other. We (our generation could today listen to the 6th change in sound in the masterpiece. Unfortunately I will not be able to be there. Probably for the 7th change. 😉
wordle is a nice service to create word clouds check out the one from my delicious account below
This week I have been talking at EduMedia Conference in Salzburg. I have been invited to give a keynote and talked about changes in information technology for learning, changed usage patterns when moving from web1.0 to web2.0. One of the interesting things is how freely people give away personal data today while it was one of the main topics in user modelling research how to acquire user information build personal profiles and use that for adaptation trying to avoid the coldstart problem ;-).
I met several very interesting and inspiring people including Jay Cross, Steve Wheeler, Graham Atwell and also participated in a interesting TenCompetence session about self-organized learning with interesting contributions.
Furthermore I met a former colleague Andreas Auwaerter beeing really active in podcasting for education, nice thing!
Garr Reynolds gives a very interesting presentation about how to present at authors@google. How to avoid “death by powerpoint”? What is the relation between Jazz and presentation. Great ideas and lots to learn.
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I just came across a call for participation for:
Program 1st International Conference on Human Robot Personal Relationship
interesting program. I have not been aware of how far the discussion in this area already go but check out agenda talks like:
So am I blogging or is it my robot 😉
Hi all,
today I came across http://de.woobby.com nice idea all around ranking of things. everybody can create rankings and rank things, the best pub, the best song of a band….
Hi all, back on blogging and back on drummin again. in the last months my son Konrad Lee Specht was born so I was busy with more important things than blogging. furthermore I have started drumming again and after several years of not playing I got myself a roland electronic drum set to be able to play in my flat. nice practice drum set!
So about drummin: browsing some archives and looking back into drummer stuff i found some videos of Jojo Mayer from whom I had some drum lectures in around 88 in Zürich. I like Jojo’s drumming style a lot and he is really big in drum’n base stuff, one of my favourite videos see below:
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BTW the try to get into his concerts you will like it ;-).
Interesting idea but who will work with this thing when having a macbook, probably for mobile game sound or interactive sound games and quizzes 😉
– World’s first music tool software created for the Nintendo DS
– Two patchable dual-oscillator analog synth simulators:
– Four-part drum machine that uses sounds created with the analog synth simulator
– Six-track (analog synth x 2, drum machine x 4) /16-step sequencer
– Delay, chorus, and flanger sound effects available from the mixing board
– Three note-entry modes: touch-control screen, keyboard screen, matrix screen
– Real-time sound control mode via touch-control screen
– Exchange sounds and songs and play multiple units simultaneously through a wireless communications link
