Professor of New Media Design and Learning. Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
Are you interested in free/open source software and open content? Are you interested in to practice your Spanish? I am. Essential Libre is a Colombian magazine about open technologies and open content. The issue #5 is now available. Essential Libre is made by volunteers and distributed for free both as PDF and on print. I […]
I have this one small open source project that has been “frozen” already for two years. To finalize it I would need some help from an Ajax/javaScrip/XML/PHP programmer. If you know these technologies (or are interested in to study them) please contact me. The project is called “Bisociation Tool”. It’s a simple web based tool […]
If my daughter would go to school next autumn I would purchase her some pencils, pens, eraser, ruler, pencil box and a Wlan internet tablet with touch screen. Schools, public transportation (busses, metros, local trains), our home and offices at work are all covered with Wlan network. With Wlan we could be in touch with […]
Have you seen the Ozmozr? It’s a bit difficult to explain what Ozmozr is, but we may call it social-knowledge-management or social-informal-learning site. It’s a meta social networking, meta aggregator and meta link sharing site. It is still alpha version and the user interface is very uneasy and noisy. But the idea is very good. […]
It’s been another month in Colombia. I think I have again learned some important new things in here. Many of these are related to Free/libre and open source software and technology in learning. Like every vacation in here, this time as well, we spent several days in countryside and in small village called Tobia. In […]
I again spent some time to update myself with the One Laptop per Child project. I have been – and I am still – critical about the design process and the idea of dumping the laptops for the governments of developing countries without a clear vision how they will be used in local educational settings. […]
The concept of “Personal Learning Environment” (PLE) is getting quite a lot of hits in the edu.tech. blogs. It is often presented as some kind of new paradigm of e-learning. Still there is no proper definition of PLE, and for example Teemu Arina said somewhere that his company is his PLE. I actually like that […]
Yesterday in the EU Information and Society Technologies conference’s Digital Libraries and Technology-enhanced Learning session Birte Christensen-Dalsgraad talked about library 2.0. In the same session Demetrios Sampson presented the latest memes in the field of educational technology. Jack M. Maness’ paper Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and Its Implications for Libraries give a good overview […]
I must write about this, just because the Flosse Posse is so well represented in the Konfabulaari 2006 – an event taking place this week ath the University of Helsinki. Konfabulaari is an unconference about the new web in Universities. Under this theme people have proposed session to the event’s wiki-site. At the moment there […]
Like all learning, also learning in a networked world can be designed. Design is activity of planning and patterning of actions toward desired and foreseeable end. Design requires problem setting, investigation and problem solving with understanding context and systems where the designed solutions will be taking in use. When we design we may use some […]
Teemu Leinonen