Professor of New Media Design and Learning. Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
A friend, Mikko Mäkelä, came up with an idea of new Olympic sport. It would be called “Peace Walk”. In it five representatives from each nation would walk 20 kilometers and have a chat about what ever they want to talk about: politics, religion, everyday life issues, etc. It could be a great counter weight […]
I have tried to keep this blog free from “funny blog posts”. This is an exception. I got the link to the video from my boss. I guess he sent it to me because I just returned from a seven-month visit to California. If you didn’t know it yet we are involved in this “education […]
It must have been in 2005 in Pretoria when I first time met Erik Möller, a Wikimedian, who is nowadays working full time for the Wikimedia Foundation. We were both invited to a conference in South Africa to talk about open source tools for teaching and learning. I don’t even remember what did I talk […]
I got a link to this pretty neat web site explaining how educating girls pays off. It made me thing how value is created. Open source and value creation was also one of the topics we we chating about with Jon “maddog” Hall last week in Bogotá. Related to open source, open content and free […]
Last weekend I took part in at the Campus Party Colombia in Bogota. Campus Party is a combination of LAN-party, technology conference and a fair sponsored by Telefonica, the Spanish telecom. Picture by mario_nel2002 I gave a talk about how to use New Media tools (blogs, wikis, micro-blogs, mobile phones) in learning and capacity building […]
Friends at the UNCIEF NYHQ, who have been developing also the MobilED audio wiki, just announced a prototype of solar powered communication hub than can be used to provide communications, education, connectivity and emergency support in places lacking electricity, Internet, telephone, radio and other connections. I think this is a great idea. The communication hub […]
The title is silly, but well… this is a blog anyway. Comparing schools in Finland and in US is bit like comparing carrot to all the fruits. Carrots are good, but there are many great fruits, too. We also know that some fruits are just non-eatable, even poisonous. Anyway, in the following I will make […]
Tagging, social bookmarking, Digging, Twittering and the seemingly never-ending list of social network sites offer a great resource of inspiration to dream about for people who work with education and technologies. We offer a workshop where you can do just that! SIRTEL’08 stands for Social Information Retrieval for Technology Enhanced Learning. This workshop will take […]
In March, April and May, I have bee facilitating with Hans Põldoja an experimental study project and course on a Wikiversity. The Composing free and open online educational resources course is now finished. It is time to celebrate! With Hans, we just checked our database of our notes and provided for the participants some “pass”, […]
The SLATE Magazine reports the study, The Effect of Computer Use on Child Outcomes (study report, PDF), looking at the program of the Government of Romania where low-income families were given vouchers to purchase PCs. From some part, I agree with the interpretations presented in the study. My final conclusions would anyway be somehow different. […]
Teemu Leinonen