Who are we?

EdMedia, Honolulu, Hawaii, 23 June 2009


             Erik Duval
 K.U.Leuven & ARIADNE & IEEE LTSC
   http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd
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Who Where are we?

  EdMedia, Honolulu, Hawaii, 23 June 2009


               Erik Duval
   K.U.Leuven & ARIADNE & IEEE LTSC
     http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd
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http://www.slideshare.net/erik.duval




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Abundance,
the Snowflake Effect
    and Science

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if you fold a piece of paper 50
times, then how thick does it get?




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if you fold a piece of paper 50
times, then how thick does it get?


 about the distance to the sun...


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if you fold a piece of paper 50
times, then how thick does it get?


 about the distance to the sun...

          http://www.worldpopulationbalance.org/pop/stats.php
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not that new...
Paul Otlet (1868-1944)
• “There is too much to read”...
• Universal Decimal Classification
• Mundaneum
Vannevar Bush (1890-1975)
• Memex
Jim Gray (missing...)
• Unlocking peer-reviewed literature
• PubMed for other sciences
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not that new...
Paul Otlet (1868-1944)
• “There is too much to read”...
• Universal Decimal Classification
• Mundaneum
Vannevar Bush (1890-1975)
• Memex
Jim Gray (missing...)
• Unlocking peer-reviewed literature
• PubMed for other sciences
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not that new...
Paul Otlet (1868-1944)
• “There is too much to read”...
• Universal Decimal Classification
• Mundaneum
Vannevar Bush (1890-1975)
• Memex
Jim Gray (missing...)
• Unlocking peer-reviewed literature
• PubMed for other sciences
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See also...




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We know how to solve this:

     Snowflake effect
 to deal with abundance...


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We know how to solve this:

     Snowflake effect
 to deal with abundance...


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loads              of good examples in music



iTunes Genius, last.fm, pandora.com, tunify.com, blip.fm,
 deezer.com, grooveshark.com, mufin.com, yamelo.com,
   jango.com, imeem.com, musicmesh.net, jiwa.fm, ...
           and many many many many more


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Shazam for conferences?




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How can we develop more powerful
    snowflaking tools for science
(on Technology Enhanced Learning)?


 Over to my Great Friend Xavier!




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STELLAR research
       on
   Technology
Enhanced Learning
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http://tugtc.tugraz.at/wbtmaster/courses/mlearn_startd.htm
A research
workbench of the
     future?

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http://portal.mace-project.eu/
you   can help!
SCIENCE2.0 FOR TEL

             1st Workshop on
 Web2.0 approaches, tools and technologies
          to support research on
 Technology Enhanced Learning (TELSci2.0)

     at the 4th European Conference on
 Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL09),
Nice, France, September 29 - October 2, 2009

      http://stellarnet.eu/science2ectel/
http://stellarproject.wufoo.com/forms/web-feeds-for-tel/
We want your feeds!
If we get better at TEL research,
we get better at getting better with TEL!




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Questions?
 http://erikduval.wordpress.com/
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd




    Thanks!
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http://aspect-project.org/ http://www.icoper.org/
http://www.role-project.eu/ http://www.stellarnet.eu/
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Who are we?