social learning, open education, and petty battles with rivals over power and money…
From the monthly archives:
My first day here in Seville for the ZEMOS98 Festival on the theme of Expanded Education was capped off by an unexpected treat, the chance to see one of my long-time heroes, the multimedia artist Vicki Bennett, AKA People Like Us.
In addition to the voluminous media on her site, I highly recommend you check out [...]
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BuddyPress: Friends activity, originally uploaded by umwdtlt.
It’s exciting to see Jim Groom’s pioneering work integrating WordPress Multi-User with BuddyPress and bbPress not only being recognised, but being pushed forward in the higher ed community.
I highly recommend reading an overview written by Joss Winn at the Learning Lab at the University of Lincoln on their own [...]
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Caravaggio’s Guitar Hero, originally uploaded by Roberto Rizzato ►pix jockey◄.
So in the course of a talk hosted today by UBC’s Center for Cross-Functional Inquiry in Education, Dr. Suzanne de Castell made a brief aside referencing an article (it might have been this one or this one) called something like “Can Rock Band save rock?” Dr. [...]
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I’m coming late to this, but I got a big kick out “In search of the click track“, a recent post on the new-ish blog Music Machinery. By analyzing slight variations in tempo via charts, it seems fairly straight-forward to determine which drummers are employing external cues to maintain a steady beat.
Blogger Paul Lamere starts [...]
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Thanks to Jason for scoring me a ticket to the sold-out preview showing of RiP: A Remix Manifesto, the long-awaited release from Brett Gaylor, germinating and mutating for some time over at http://www.opensourcecinema.org/. It was a fun and stimulating night out.
For somebody familiar with the works of Lessig, Doctorow, Negativland, et al there isn’t a [...]
The EduGlu Turntablism, Mark II, originally uploaded by WFMU.
A short follow-up to my post yesterday on the WFMU Fundraising Marathon (which just may be the finest thing I have ever written)…
I am pleased to report that for a second year running I have won naming rights to a turntable in the WFMU studios (thus doing [...]
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The Best Show on WFMU – 2009 Marathon, originally uploaded by notladj.
So it’s something of an annual ritual (see here and here) for Abject Learning to offer its meagre but heartfelt mojo to the WFMU Fundraising Marathon (background here). As I’ve written in the past, the legendary freeform station is a towering cultural touchstone in [...]
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Every night Pinky tries to get some sleep, only to be kept awake by a bizarre school building slideshow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUoYAj7Nosg
The Pinky Show presents Scary School Nightmare
Thanks to Draggin for the pointer to this and some other goodness I will be blogging soon.
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In-Flux