By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Ten Steps to Better Photographs
I thought this was a pretty good guide and accords with my own experience taking digital photos. I especially like the advice on deleting photos: don't. You can't tell by looking at the camera whether or not you've taken a good photo. But also, though, you shouldn't depend on being able to fix the photo in Photoshop. If you can take another photo with different settings, do so. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How Do You Know?
I have been toiling with a few problems recently, not just the answer to the question, how do I know, but also others ranging from the discussions around the measurement of blog impacts, to my criticisms of the Canadian Council on learning, to my own doubts when I present a talk that is, in my own eyes, less than effective. I've tried to capture some of the issues I wrestling with in this item (and related items on the nature of concepts, learning and ownership, the virtual and the physical, and the definition of knowledge). These are - at least in my mind - all aspects of the same problem, which I think I'm getting closer to here. Stephen Downes, Half an Hour June 19, 2007 [Link] [Tags: Web Logs, Canada]. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Mom, Dad....Meet Wii
I've been seeing more and more posts like this - I'm enthusiastic about the Wii, and I don't even have my own yet! "I really see an application for that motion control," writes Wendy Wickham, "especially for things like physical therapy and such. And I think Nintendo is on the right track". More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Nature Precedings
Nice to see - the journal Nature is posting preprints online. "Nature Precedings is a place for researchers to share documents, including presentations, posters, white papers, technical papers, supplementary findings, and manuscripts. It provides a rapid way to disseminate emerging results and new theories, solicit opinions, and record the provenance of ideas. It also makes such material easy to archive, share and cite. The whole service is free of charge". More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Cancer of DRM Infects iTunes PLUS
Mike Seyfang asks what he did wrong. The answer, of course, was to use iTunes plus. I may really like my MacBook, and really like my iPod (even though it died when I dropped in on the plane from Japan). But I will never use iTunes, not u8ntil I can download some five cent MP3s from it. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Better Conferences - Response Needed
Tony Karrer is looking to build a better conference. Perhaps he missed my post on how I would organize a conference. No matter. If you have suggestions, send them along to him. Maybe we can collectively reinvent this tired art form. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Richard Van Eck Presentation On Digital Game-Based Learning
From the summary: this podcast "discusses the theory behind the effectiveness of games in teaching and learning; what the past can teach us about if, how, and when to implement digital game-based learning; and what this will mean for colleges and universities". More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Britannica Blog: Web 2.0 Forum
Nothing like a little deliberately seeded contrarians to drive up the hit counter to what would otherwise be an unremarkable site. Britannica has Andrew Keen and Michael Gorman telling us how stupid Wenb 2.0 is, and Clay Shirky offering the reply, with some others playing supporting roles. The whole point of the exercise, of course, is to reinforce the role of the authority through these high-profile postings. Yawn. We've seen it before. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Communities: Dancing with Fire?
Martin Dugage asks, "Why is it that the strongest advocates of a networked economy fail to see the importance of communities, which they wrongly equate to social networks?" And Nancy White responds, "Perhaps our resistance or worries about community may come from the fact that communities are like dancing with fire." With the right practice, she says, they are great - but otherwise, there is the risk of getting burned. She sketches some of the elements of this practice - but I still think that groups depend on sameness, which means the members must already be relevantly the same. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Elearning Jobs in Moncton
This is really local news, but from my perspective it's significant news, as I've played a part in it. Desire2Learn, an LMS company based in Waterloo, Ontario, is setting up a branch office here in Moncton. In the building where I work, in fact. And they're hiring. This is partially (maybe mostly) the result of a project we at NRC are working on with them. On the NRC side, the real credit for getting this project pulled together and funded belongs to Rod Savoie. The University fo Moncton is also a partner in the project. Anyhow, D2L is having a big launch and Technology and Career Exhibition on the 28th here at the Scientific Park. For myself I will say that while I have focused on the e-learning technology and theory (which I think played a role in the project). More...
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