This is an invitation to join in an online chat about mobile technology in conservation and development effort. If you are working in the field of environment, development, education and/or mobile technology, please add the time in your calendar and remember to join us. The online chat will take place on October 12th – 13:00-15:00 […]
Author: Teemu Leinonen
Professor of New Media Design and Learning. Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
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LeMill 2.0 released
We are proud to announce the release of LeMill 2.0. In this case 2.0 means the actual version number, though it is rather “web 2.0”, too. 🙂 Have a look of an earlier post to get and idea of the latest development with LeMill. You may also try it out yourself in the LeMill.net service […]
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Papanek’s Online Paper Computer beta
Victor Papanek (1927-1999) is my hero. We made an online tool for an idea generation method, which Papanek calls “paper computer”. Paper computers are described in Papanek’s famous book Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Originally published in1969). Shortly, the Papanek’s paper computer is an association (actually bi-association) method, a tool […]
On Sept 18 the SIRTEL workshop takes place, it stands for Social Information Retrieval (SIR) for Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). It’s gonna be “Serious Fun”! Let me just outline why: Recommender systems and social navigation, methods of SIR, have been around since the popularisation of WWW, that’s some 15-20 years now. The idea is to […]
I am going to Ars Electronica in Linz for a short weekend. I’ll be there sometime on Friday and leaving on Sunday to Budapest for Monday and Tuesday. If you happen to be in Ars E in Linz and interested in to have face to face chat on educational technology, or on free and open […]
I went this week to see two lectures by the philosopher Pekka Himanen. Himanen is giving a lecture series for our new students. He talks about creative community. Himanen is internationally one of the most well known Finnish academics – from big part because of his pretty clever book called The Hacker Ethics – On […]
We have a new version of LeMill. LeMill is a service (http://lemill.net) and a platform (http://lemill.org) for finding, authoring and sharing open and free learning resources. There are three major visible changes. Downloading collection. You can now download collections as either zips of web pages (static HTML) or as SCORM-packages. SCORM is a format recognized […]
This blog has end-up to be also one of my sketchbooks. I have many of them. Some are traditional paper-based notebooks. My mobile phone is one and almost any piece of paper in any place can serve the task. Two weeks a go we finally got a whiteboard in our office – still learning to […]
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MediaWiki “feature requests”
Next week I am going to the Wikimania – the conference of the Wikimedia community. To be honest, I am very excited about the conference. Some months ago I was invited – it was a big surprise to me – to the Advisory Board of the MediaWiki Foundation. This is the first time we will […]
Most of you already know about LeMill – I hope. Here is a reminder: LeMill is a web community for authoring and sharing open learning resources. Here is a one minute video presentation. It’s a bit like a Wikipedia for learning resources. It’s multilingual and multicultural. It’s free and open to anyone to join. It’s […]
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