lots of publications have come around this year and I worked a lot on new publication mainly in Journals and Bookchapters, one of the you can find here from an open workshop where a more evaluation oriented paper appeared with a group from the TenCompetence project.
http://online-journals.org/i-jet/issue/view/30

More will come here soon …

Space Invaders made by Neave Games

so interesting question but what is this about: today I bought a fingerboard 😉 ever tried that, my seven year old was keen on it, so what can you do with that thing ??? going online and using cooliris to search for videos on youtube with fingerboard so you find countless videos of 6-18 year olds doing tricks with their fingerboards, they even create lectures about how to do it? create nice quality movies with slow mo and and stuff.

So did I learn to do an ollie? In any case they learned a lot beside doing an ollie 😉

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

where is mobile content going?

nice one.

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:

• Me Robot, You Jane (Prof.dr. Sally Wyatt, Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
• Improving Human-to-Human Relationships through the Use of Personal Robotics (Mrs. J. Pransky, Kenwood, USA (Video-conference)

So am I blogging or is it my robot 😉