The slow build up

I need a small number of people to take a look at my pilot exhibition, and leave me some feedback. It would be best if they are people who have an interest in online communities, in researching the internet, in online exhibition or something else related but if time continues to pass without me finding any then I?ll have to relax the criteria. So I?ll start out by being tentative and discerning, and then day by day I will increase the exposure and the volume until I end up deperately making a nuisance of myself like the guys in Brick Lane or Rue de La Huchette trying to steer passers by into their restaurants.

Torimbia

Torimbia, originally uploaded by Saul GM.

This is to cheer me up on a cold November weekend stuck al day at the computer.
Somewhere near Llanes, Aturias, N Spain.

Looks a bit like Rhossili or Dorset or somewhere else I can't quite remember, never having been there.

Apple Mac OS X on x86: a first test - ZDNet UK Reviews

Stands to reason doesn't it. If Apple want to start making Macs powered by Intel chips then the Mac OS X system will also find it's way onto cheap PCs.

Apple Mac OS X on x86: a first test - ZDNet UK Reviews: "
Apple Mac OS X on x86: a first test"

Ultralab blogs still broken

Blogs hosted on the ultralab blog server have been unavailable since last Thursday, for reasons not explained. So I would be pretty frustrated about that by now if it weren't for the fact that I decided to allow my own ultralab blog to gracefully decline after the other problem with the comments system only a week or so before.

So I'd better link from here now as well.
My new research blog is at distributedresearch.net/blog

RSS feed here , comments RSS here

Stephen Downes, Jay Cross, George Siemens

George Siemens explaining his theory of connectivity in a multimedia conversation.

Stephen Downes, Jay Cross, George Siemens:

"I had the pleasure of engaging in a presentation/conversation (done in Breeze - audio quality varies a bit) with Stephen Downes and Jay Cross today. The topics were varied...but the general thread is our on going attempt to describe how learning does and should happen today. In the process, we discussed networks, subjectivity, corporate responsibility to develop better people, metrics for measuring training effectiveness...and so on. It's easy to enter a flow stage of conversation with Jay and Stephen."

CiteULike: Frequently Asked Questions

Not as good as Furl or delicious for social bookmarking, but CiteUlike is deigned for academic papers and it's probably a good place to search for them, and if you can run BibTex it will generate your bibliography for you.


CiteULike: Frequently Asked Questions: "What is CiteULike?

CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there's no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser. There's no need to install any special software.

Because your library is stored on the server, you can access it from any computer. You can share you library with others, and find out who is reading the same papers as you. In turn, this can help you discover literature which is relevant to your field but you may not have known about.

When it comes to writing up your results in a paper, you can export your library to either BibTeX or Endnote to build it in to your bibliography."

November is officially impossible

There’s a 6,000 word report to write from scratch

A 4,000 word report to complete

A pilot exhibition to put on

An action research project to progress

Lots of literature to read

More planning to undertake

Compulsory online conversations to contrive

4 other people’s work to peer review.

two birthdays.

Registration and finance problems

All of this on top of EveryDayLife which is hard enough anyway..

And a lot of unneeded harrassment from all quarters.

See more progress on: Survive November

EducationGuardian.co.uk | E-learning | Breaking with convention

Education Guardian surveys the online HE sector without even bothering to mention Ultraversity.


EducationGuardian.co.uk | E-learning | Breaking with convention: "Online delivery and distance learning were touted as the means of widening participation in higher education for employed adults, part-timers, people with special needs, and armies of students in emerging economies such as Russia, south-east Asia and China.

But virtual learning environments (VLEs) failed to deliver as cutting edge technology outstripped pedagogy and the essential human dimension. Quality suffered and a catastrophically high rate of students dropped out of online degrees. "