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Virtual worlds in education - a story so far

bssnews — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:17:24 GMT

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Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services are Dead, Long Live IT Services 2.0!

mychentw — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:34:58 GMT

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Web 2.0 and repositories - have we got our repository architecture right?

Ariadne88 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:33:28 GMT

This is a very thoughtful and interesting presentation. I really like your point about replicating in IRs what we have done with collections in print. I currently intern at an IR, and am learning a lot about the process and the politics, and slideshows like this really open up my eyes to a few things. Thanks for creating this!

Web 2.0 and repositories - have we got our repository architecture right?

PatrickD — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:01:06 GMT

Thanks for sharing. Cool some interesting input for my workshop at OAI6 Where I ask: "What can repositories learn from the web 2.0?"

Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services are Dead, Long Live IT Services 2.0!

eduservfoundation — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:31:07 GMT

Conclusions we are on a roller-coaster in the dark - our eyes need to get used to the dark we might as well get as close to the front as we can so that we can see better and to have more fun but, can only do that within reason because there is a necessary hype-curve gap between those at the bleeding edge and those, like IT services, who need to run real services experiment with what is out there see yourselves as enablers as well as providers

Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services are Dead, Long Live IT Services 2.0!

eduservfoundation — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:30:30 GMT

Slide 10 I hope this presentation hasn’t given the impression of trivialising the issues here universities are complex orgs with complex requirements ensuring high-quality research and teaching, management the scholarly record, dealing with QAA type issues and so on on the other hand, it is not unusual for orgs under threat of disruption by new technology to assume that they are somehow immune Brian suggested that we can "learn to stop worrying about web 2.0". I'm going to suggest more or less the opposite. I think that we need to "learn why we should start worrying"

Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services are Dead, Long Live IT Services 2.0!

eduservfoundation — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:29:32 GMT

Slide 9 least comfortable with this part of the talk shared service agenda in wider public sector we have been pretty good, largely thanks to coordinating role of JISC Athens, Chest, JISCMail, the national data centres, the JANET infrastructure and so on SS and Web 2.0 both result in users going outside the institution to external services to get things done SS driven by the institution Web 2.0 driven by the individual what’s different is who is in control and what the business drivers of the third-party service are Google Apps a good example here could see individuals, departments, or even whole universities outsourcing their email and office provision not just application layer – could outsource storage and compute power as well – Amazon S3 all of which is potentially very disruptive not just to institutions but to current shared service providers like Eduserv and the JISC-funded services

Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services are Dead, Long Live IT Services 2.0!

eduservfoundation — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:28:10 GMT

Slide 8 ...ignores the impact of social networking our community tends to consider ‘content’ in isolation from the ‘social networks’ that need to build around that content what web 2.0 tells us is that building social networks around content is critical – Flickr, Slideshare, YouTube, etc. global concentration works building institutional services prevents social networks forming

Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services are Dead, Long Live IT Services 2.0!

eduservfoundation — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:27:37 GMT

Slide 7 big agenda currently around open access to scholarly material seen most obviously in IR, scholarly publications, the OA movement and the associated political agenda open data – open access to research data of one kind or another re-usable learning objects solutions tend to be institutional – seeing the institution as the natural home for curating and exposing its stuff – though not always - JORUM but…

Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services are Dead, Long Live IT Services 2.0!

eduservfoundation — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:26:47 GMT

Slide 6 at CETIS conference in Birmingham a while ago Ian Stinson talked about the IT services perspective and the UCISA top 10 issues list talked in part about VLEs and how critical they have become to the institution yet… much of the meeting was about how VLEs are not meeting learner’s needs pedagogically PLEs and PREs putting the user in control of the tools they use going out and using external Web 2.0 services drawing the treads beck together internally

Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services are Dead, Long Live IT Services 2.0!

eduservfoundation — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:26:08 GMT

Slide 5 so, I want to briefly touch on 4 themes in remainder of this talk when I blogged the talk I only had three but an extra one seemed to fall out in the wash these themes are some of the things that I see getting talked about a lot in elearning and eresearch circles I hope I’m not teaching my grandmother to such eggs at this point

Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services are Dead, Long Live IT Services 2.0!

eduservfoundation — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:25:33 GMT

Slide 4 to a certain extent… these presentations are from the outside looking in Brian and I have both worked in for IT services but it was some time ago I cut my teeth at the Uni of Bath first job was to connect a Camtec PAD to a GEC X.25 switch hope that brings a useful perspective eduserv charitable mission… working with yourselves

Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services are Dead, Long Live IT Services 2.0!

eduservfoundation — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:23:22 GMT

Slide 3 Wikipedia: “A digital native is a person who has grown up with digital technology such as computers, the Internet, mobile phones and MP3.” is that a useful notion? I don’t think so I am not one – first use of mainframe computer in 78, first email over JANET in 84, and so on JISC study into the Google Generation showed that while ‘young people’ may understand the mechanics of using technology – not nec. to best advantage more useful – see tech as a way of getting a job done vs. being scared of it

Virtual worlds in education - a story so far

shrifootring — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:19:43 GMT

Thanks Andy! This is lovely :-)

Second Life in 3600 seconds

guestf37291 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:39:55 GMT

Porn isn't banned in the adult version, only the one for teenagers

OpenAthens LA 2.0: An introduction

guest189d51 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:24:07 GMT

Thank you Dave! Matt Durant

Second Life in 3600 seconds

GwynethLlewelyn — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:58:56 GMT

Very interesting presntation. It seems that at first you're most focused on the technical possibilities and the use, but finish on a dark note, mostly because of "too much hype" (and some technical complexities). Well, with hype totally dying down in mid-2007 or so, and Second Life continued growth, I wonder what you current opinion is? Granted, the technical difficulties still exist :)

Virtual World Watch - summary of Second Life Snapshots

eduservfoundation — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:33:12 GMT

The snapshots themselves can be found at http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/slsnapshots

Using Second Life to support events

eduservfoundation — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:14:12 GMT

Note that this presentation was part of an hour-long session with both a RL and SL audience - it therefore doesn't capture everything that happened in the session.

Virtually where? Are 3-D virtual worlds such as Second Life having an impact on learning?

jamei — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:22:40 GMT

i love this games

Does metadata matter?

guestd2efc7 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:50:24 GMT

Andy -- please tell me that you were holding up something other than AACR2 as "what you are reading now". ;-) (The context, of course, isn't clear from the slides...)

Does metadata matter?

scilib — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:57:09 GMT

I think this is a key slide for the presentation - you need metadata where machines can't do a good job of deriving a self-description (and a ranking)

Does metadata matter?

eduservfoundation — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:54:21 GMT

Actually z39.50 was supplemented by these some time ago - and various other things such as OpenSearch have come along since.

Does metadata matter?

eduservfoundation — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:56:17 GMT

Actually z39.50 was supplemented by these some time ago - and various other things such as OpenSearch have come along since.

Does metadata matter?

eduservfoundation — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:48:49 GMT

yes, i'm an idiot - 1200 is the 13th century, not the 11th!

Virtually where? Are 3-D virtual worlds such as Second Life having an impact on learning?

Milton.Broome — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:21:06 GMT

Superb presentation. I feel that you've hit the nail on the head. It's my view that HE institutions invest, publicise and then largely forget about virtual worlds. Often it's down to a few very dedicated innovators, using lots of their own time, to push a SL development forward. The question has always hung over me though, is it ultimately worth the effort? I think that this hasn't been answered by UK HEs yet. The gold probably is with distance education so it's interesting to see the Open University involved in SL Teen and main grid. It'll be a few years, I feel, before people come around to realising its potential fully.

Web 2.0 and repositories - have we got our repository architecture right?

sleslie — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:07:18 GMT

This is so spot on. It is kind of embarrassing to admit as someone who has been in the 'repository' business far too long, but it wasn't until last year that I stopped thinking of "search engine optimization" as the dirty words they are so often understood as.

The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction?

sleslie — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:02:10 GMT

"preservation is important...but it doesn't have to be solved in the repository" I try to tell folks that we need to stop recreating the error of "Repository 1.0" of forcing our users to own *institutional* requirements. This was the worst mistake we ever made. Rather than "not solved in the repository" I might add "not solved by the end users" - we've had spidering technology for a long time, and it's high time archivists got better at using it.

Web 2.0 and repositories - have we got our repository architecture right?

eduservfoundation — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:10:27 GMT

Images used in this slide show: http://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/729822/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/estherase/128983854/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bwr/327994546/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/pbo31/96243148/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/303503677/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/good_day/212468675/

Web 2.0 and repositories - have we got our repository architecture right?

lisld — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:49:33 GMT

are the 'l' and the 'o' deliberately transposed ;-) ?

Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services are Dead, Long Live IT Services 2.0!

eduservfoundation — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:13:24 GMT

A joint talk by Brian Kelly and Andy Powell. Note that Brian Kelly's part of this presentation was delivered as a video.

Safer Children in a Digital World: a summary for children and young people

radix2u — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:56:27 GMT

Good sharing ^_^. like to share with my students in SKA

Safer Children in a Digital World: a summary for children and young people

eduservfoundation — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:55:54 GMT

Note that the full report is available from http://www.dfes.gov.uk/byronreview/ and that the PDF version of the summary for children and young people is available from http://www.dfes.gov.uk/byronreview/yoursay.html.

Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services are Dead, Long Live IT Services 2.0!

eduservfoundation — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:10:29 GMT

For the video of Brian's presentation that goes with this slide see http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/ucisa-2008/.

Eduserv Foundation SL projects

eduservfoundation — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:20:46 GMT

Online Learning in Virtual Environments with Sloodle Daniel Livingstone & Jeremy Kemp Email: daniel.livingstone@paisley.ac.uk Web: http://www.sloodle.com/ Wiki: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/sl/index.php/Sloodle SL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/SJSU%20SLIS/21/227

Eduserv Foundation SL projects

eduservfoundation — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:20:11 GMT

http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation http://efoundations.typepad.com/ http://artfossett.blogspot.com/ http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduserv%20Island/97/41/30

Eduserv Foundation SL projects

eduservfoundation — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:17:42 GMT

Theatron 3 Richard Beacham and Hugh Denard (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London), the King's Visualisation Lab, the Higher Education Subject Centres for English and Dance, Drama and Music, David Kaskel (LanguageLab), Mark Childs and the King's Digital Consultancy Service SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Theatron/176/124/23

Eduserv Foundation SL projects

eduservfoundation — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:16:43 GMT

Learning from Online Worlds; Teaching in Second Life Diane Carr, Martin Oliver and Andrew Burn Blog: http://learningfromsocialworlds.wordpress.com/

Eduserv Foundation SL projects

eduservfoundation — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:15:40 GMT

Modelling4All Ken Khan, Howard Noble and Liz Masterman Blog: http://modelling4all.wordpress.com/

When worlds collide - learning activity management for avatars

eduservfoundation — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:15:02 GMT

Note that it appears as though I am being streamed upside down (during the Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2007). In fact, this turns out to be a bug in the SL client, which occasionally gets the feed the wrong way up - normally, loggin out and back in again fixes things.

When worlds collide - learning activity management for avatars

eduservfoundation — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:13:16 GMT

Note that when I gave this presentation to the 2007 LAMS European Conference I added 'Role play' to the list of bullets. I think role play is an important aspect of what SL may be good for - and it came up in the previous speaker's talk, in reference to the use of game theory in the design of medicine-related learning activities.

Second Life in 3600 seconds

adrianstevenson — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:05:47 GMT

There's an audio recording available of this talk from when Andy came and presented it to our University of Manchester eLearning Technologies Group back in April 2007. You can get this from http://www.itservices.manchester.ac.uk/learningtechnologies/etg.html or directly from our podcast at http://www.itservices.manchester.ac.uk/learningtechnologies/podcasts/etg.xml Cheers, Adrian Stevenson

The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction?

lisbk — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:49:55 GMT

Yes, yes, yes, ... but especially yes to the final bullet point. Thanks for this, Andy.

The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction?

lisbk — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:45:53 GMT

Agreed - and this is norhing new. We're just adding another level of redirection -something computer scientists always do. And have we thought of talking to the Web 2.0 services about OAI support?

The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction?

lisbk — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:36:39 GMT

The social aspect of Slideshare has been very useful for me - people finding my stuff, which helps me find theirs and the other resources they use. Interestingly this approach to resource discovery doesn't need metadata.

The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction?

lisbk — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:35:15 GMT

Very much agree with your final bullet point. The accessibility issue is very interesting. It shouldn't just be about WCAG 1.0 (currently being replaced) more more holistic. For example see "Accessibility 2.0: People, Policies and Processes" at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/papers/w4a-2007/. The paper is available on Scribd - which provides multiple formats, including MP3.

The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction?

lisbk — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:28:47 GMT

Yes, the Web is missing from this vision. Several computing science communities (hypertext, knowledge representation, etc.) tried to ignore the Web for several years, until they realised that it wouldn't go away, and they needed to enage with the Web. I think the Digital Library community needs to do this too.

The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction?

lisbk — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:27:22 GMT

"Develop aggregation services ..." What if the aggregation services are already available? Why reinvent the wheel?

The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction?

lisbk — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:25:55 GMT

What if the complexity means the service is too complex for users (information providers and end users) to use? Then need for simplicity is something we need to learn from successful

The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction?

lisbk — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:22:55 GMT

Note that this font is difficult to read :-)

The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction?

lisbk — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:21:35 GMT

I (and millions of others) now have seamless access to a variety of applications and data from disparate services, through Facebook. Why aren't we opening up our repositories (and other services) through popular environments such as Facebook?

The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction?

lisbk — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:19:32 GMT

Mandate standards and enforce them? Who will be the police? What if the standards don't take off? What if our standards-based services aren't as popular as commercial services such as Flickr? What if we repeat the Coloured Book fiasco?

The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction?

lisbk — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:17:10 GMT

Have we succeeded in engaging academics in the debate? Or are all the postings on this topic created by the harnard-bot :-)

The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction?

lisbk — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:16:48 GMT

This is very much a top-down approach. The EC will mandate OA, and the funders will force academics to do it via funding strings. It's interesting that its the 4th bullet point which talks about demonstrating benefits. What if the benefits don't live to to our expectations?

The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction?

lisbk — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:13:39 GMT

An institutional repository sounds pretty much like an institutional Content Management System to me. And haven't CMSs failed to live up to the expectations we had in the late 1990s? Won't institutions be wary of the claims (made later in this presentation) about institutional repositories?