• CCK - Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Online Course Week#3 Discussion
• Europe’s first ever science blogging conference held by Nature and the Royal Institution London (which was virtually attended and influenced by yours truly and the Bridge8 ladies)
• An interview with Radio Adelaide following my talk to the Wine2030 Conference in Adelaide

Roughly ten minutes of snippets from podcasts I have heard recently that might be relevant to Higher Education. My aim is to stimulate discussion around the impact of the read/write web on research and teaching & learning.

Links/Attribution:

Cormier, Dave et al, CCK Weekly Chat #3 | EdTechTalk. Available at: http://edtechtalk.com/node/3329 [Accessed October 6, 2008].

Stoddart, C., : Nature. Available at: http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/v455/n7209/nature-2008-09-04.html [Accessed October 6, 2008].

Seyfang, Mike, Radio Adelaide Interview following Wine2030 Conference. Available at: http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2008/09/27/wine2030-talk-newmedia-will-invert-your-business-model/ [Accessed October 6, 2008].

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UPDATE:

Radio Adelaide Interview (used with permission).

Powerpoint (mac) presentation available HERE.

Slideshare version HERE.

Related BookMarks http://del.icio.us/mseyfang/eo

More Links

• Hugh McLeod ‘word of blog‘ wine marketing experiment
• National Innovation System review
• audio podcast mashup (dave/lifekludger/cam/hugo) 1:46
• kids band fan videos

Books:

• starfish and spider
• cluetrain manifesto
• tipping point
• wisdom of crowds
• its alive

p.s. I’m hoping we can continue the conversation over at the wine2030 blog!

I have some interesting NEW IDEAS (thanks to Mr Squiggle) and want to help promote local innovations like the zork!

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Dave (LifeKludger) Wallace and I gave a presentation entitled ‘Life Tools’ which was a real story of a bloke, his mate and our shared connections. I would have to say this is probably the finest presentation I have ever been associated with - but don’t take my word for it, check it out here. (will update with link to recording from mixing desk when available, meanwhile both Dave and I recorded rough versions here and here.

During the lunch break we took some photos with a view to creating a photosynth or two. All four attempts turned out really badly:

- rondo 1 first try, second try
- the entrance hall
- exhibition space (the NovitaTech table is kinda ’synthy’)

I will head back in today and take some more photos and try to help out event artist in residence John Willanski (of InkRain fame) share some of his event doodlings with you all.

Look for more photos, art, posts and other goodies from the conference by searching for arata08.

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My experience with the service is a far cry from that of free public wifi (or the experience one has with internet connectivity from that same ISP at home). Here’s what happened.

I saw the press release on Monday morning and made a note to try the service out on my iPod Touch next time I went to the city. On Wednesday, my inbox filled with excited pointers to the press release from associates who knew I’d be interested. So, just before heading into the city on the tram I decided to look for the ‘once off setup’ instructions on the internode site (with fingers crossed that I would register the mac addresses for all of my 802.1x capable devices and everything would just work from then on). Sadly, I could find no faq or howto from the press release so I went to the support pages. Still no luck so I fired off a support e/mail asking for a link to the instructions. Then I called tech support who were very responsive and extremely helpful but unforunately set me on the downward spiral of dissapointment. Twittering as I went - it turns out that many other iPhone/InterNode fanbois out there were eager to help me.

UPDATE: Tweetscan screenshots from that time period.

The story is that after an initial connection to the Internode wifi hotspot, certain iPhone specific services (such as google maps, stock price, push e/mail for me.com subscribers) just work. The sad thing is that just as many (appstore, gmail via same e/mail client, twinkle) and many others dont. Great idea, crap experience.

Sorry guys - we gotta do better.

I will be in touch with some ideas.

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I’m just about to set off for an afternoon bike ride down the reisling trail armed with a bottle of red, an iPod touch, Nokia N80 pencil and paper. Tried to connect to the wifi in the motel where we stayed and was confronted with a login screen for ‘NomadNet’ - complete with instructions to simply re-wire my outgoing SMTP server to mail.bigpond.com if I want to send e/mail and to make sure I disable any popup blockers in my ‘computer browser’. You can guess the level of confidence this gives me for frutifull access on my iPod touch and nokia N80.

Hence, I set out to find a library and see if they had free public wifi. Sooooo close, no cigar! After finding the library and pushing thru several unfriendly looking doors, I found a reception desk and was greeted with a friendly smile. When asking about internet access I was told - sure grab one of those compters and go for it. If there is nobody around in 1 hour keep going, otherwise let others use the computer. (there are at least 4 in view). Asking further about wireless internet for my iPod, the officer pointed to the ceiling and said there ya go. Excitedly I connected to the ‘Public-Library-RF’ ssid which was gloriously free of ye-olde padlock. But alas, nothing worked so I asked if there was a process. 10 minutes (and no cash) later, I was armed with a ‘LINK’ card bearing the url www.lowernorthlibrarylink.sa.gov.au and my username ‘c17.x0187928337′ to which I added my password (the slack 4 letter one + 01). Fired up safari on my iPod touch and sure enough I was presented with a government looking web-page with a TON OF SEVERE WARNINGS - scary!! Un-peturbed, I tapped in my username (are they upper or lower case letters? - and O or 0 ??) and password and viola! I was in. - Allegedly I can repeat this process for any library in SA. Jumped on to twitter, updated e/mail from my 3 accounts and sucked down a cache full of NewsGator RSS feeds.

Then I got adventurous and tried to login in my Nokia N80 - impossibly small font but pressed on and - success. Back to the iPod to update twitter ‘Captive portal session expired (or you logged in from another window). Please load a new web page to log in. There you have it kiddies - what would seem to be a reasonable error check to a programmer turns out to be a pain in the arse to a travelling wilberry with two portable wifi devices. And this is my point - if it ain’t free it aint free.

http://qik.com/video/313201

http://tweetscan.com/index.php?s=internode&u=

Report on the Review of the National Innovation System

The report is quite insightful in the way it deals with the social media or Web2.0 uprising. In particular, the suggestions in regard to Intellectual Property (IP) and the need to free up the flow of government information through open licensing schemes such as Creative Commons are spot on. Recommendation 10.2 practically jumped off the page at me:

As a web 2.0 practitioner I hereby propose that my fellow practitioners self-organise around the TAG v10dot2. To start the ball rolling I have created this friendfeed room and nominate myself and David (LifeKludger) Wallace as the first two South Australian committee members. I would like to nominate Laurel Papworth, Mark Pesce and Nick Hodge for the New South Wales branch.

Furthermore, I look to Laurel for community guidance and wisdom on the most effective mechanisms to nurture and grow the ‘v10dot2′ community. Perhaps these good folk who have already commented on the NIS review might like to get involved as well!

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p.s. Funny/Sad that the .pdf has been locked to prevent copy/paste of its text
http://www.innovation.gov.au/innovationreview/Documents/NIS-review-web.pdf

UPDATE: As Laurel points out, the .pdf is now unlocked!!

• New podcasts related to my work at The University of Adelaide
• Adelaide Thinkers in Residence
• My involvement with two recent conferences in Brisbane for Creative Commons and ARC’s Centre of excellence for Creative industries and Innovation (CCI)

Roughly ten minutes of snippets from podcasts I have heard recently that might be relevant to Higher Education. My aim is to stimulate discussion around the impact of the read/write web on research and teaching & learning.

Links/Attribution:

Brook, B., podcast « BraveNewClimate.com. Available at: http://bravenewclimate.com/category/podcast/ [Accessed September 9, 2008].

Minge, C., A blog about science at Adelaide. Available at: http://adelaidescience.wordpress.com/ [Accessed September 9, 2008].

Alford, K., Bailey, L. & Seyfang, M., Speaking of science…. Available at: http://sciencegeekspeak.com/ [Accessed September 9, 2008].

Cullen, P., Adelaide Thinkers in Residence - Peter Cullen: Events. Available at: http://www.thinkers.sa.gov.au/pcullen_events.html [Accessed September 9, 2008].

Adams, M., Adelaide Thinkers in Residence - Blast Theory: Events. Available at: http://www.thinkers.sa.gov.au/btheory_events.html [Accessed September 9, 2008].

Cobcroft, R., Mike Seyfang - CC Wiki. Available at: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Mike_Seyfang [Accessed September 9, 2008].

Jenkins, H. & Greenfield, Susan, Creating value: between commerce and commons: conference presentations | CCI. Available at: http://www.cci.edu.au/presentations/creating-value-conference-presentations [Accessed September 8, 2008].

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I just finished listening to the last talk while riding my bike along the foreshore and rushed straight home to download the slide images and to share this here little blog post with you. Martin eloquently and skillfully delves into the latest Neuroscience research to address really important questions about education and personal development. He presents evidence that align strongly with my own (refreshingly fact-free) feelings about changes that are occurring in my brain as I move out of my area of expertise into new territory.

If any of these statements interest you, make sure you download, listen and learn!

• Dyslexia, creativity, artistic entrepreneur or jailbird?
• How school/work robs us of creativity
• Neuroscientific myth-busters spoiling the fun of learning styles and left-right brain bias
• Strategies for dealing with amiguity
• Cool experiments with counter-intuitive results (how to trick your own brain)

Attribution: lorelei-ranveig
Credit: Dr Jonathan Clarke. Wellcome Images
images@wellcome.ac.uk

Well done Martin, Well done education.au !
And thanks for sharing.

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Sciencegeekspeak.com might just grow into a global platform for a continuous conversation about science - more on that later. Check out THIS POST for one summary of the various facets of tonights online conference. I managed to publish a podcast of audio from the opening remarks before the lunch break. (And learnt a lot about the history of the RI and one way streets in London.)

Twitter was the place to be at the start of the event, lots of tweets and a bunch of interesting new people to follow. Then Cameron Neylon streamed video live to the web from mogulus. The audio was a bit distant for the first session, but was brilliant for Matt’s breakout session (tho the video didnt really add any value, just chewed bandwidth). At the end of that breakout, Cameron left the camera running while he chatted with participants and made notes on his laptop - it was just like being there! (I think I spied Jean Claude Bradley in the background).

After the lunch break the video stopped (batteries??) and twitter went silent. It seemed like everybody compared notes at lunch and decided to move all their attention to comments on various ‘threads’ in the friendfeed room for the event.

Interesting.
Good Night.

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Thanks to the generosity, fine organisational skills and fabulous mailing list of the team from CLPD at the University of Adelaide I had an excellent and diverse gathering at my little rant about NewMedia today. I will update the audio recording with the official ‘MyMedia’ recording when it comes thru. Scroll down for quicktime movie of slides + audio.

After a quick poll and some definitions we looked at some interesting examples of NewMedia and:

Research

1. Open Access Publishing
2. Open Science
3. Open Notebook Chemistry

Teaching & Learning

1. iTunes and other lecture podcasts
2. The tricky mix of social networking and formal coursework
3. An experimental Open Course

Quicktime movie of Slides + Audio from fang.blip.tv:

The mac version of my slides (complete with black rectangles thanks to evil powerpoint incompatability) is up on slideshare.

Thanks to all who came for the great feedback, I hope to see some of you hanging out at the Science Blogging Conference online tomorrow night.

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mlh - wudinna variety bash

Originally uploaded by MikeBlogs

Yesterday’s leg of Geezers World Tour took us to Wudinna on day four of the Variety Club Bash. Local band ‘Mother’s Little Helper’ opened for us with a ripping set belted out at full tilt by front man ‘Rick’.

I grabbed a few quick shots and video snippets for your perusal.

Find out more about the band HERE.

Thanks chasps for your support, especially Rick with logistics and hanging around till 3.00am to make sure our gear could spend the night under a roof!!

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We captured over 150 images created by punters who ventured into the Bragg lecture theatre and had a go. Our plan was to let people create their own masterpiece on the big screen, capture the image and offer to send interesting ones to flickr and/or the artist’s mobile phone via bluetooth. Here is a quick grab of some of my favourites:

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

We learnt a lot from our little experingment here is a list for next time:

• NEVER let anyone touch the demo machines after the final test run
• Tagging was a real hit with the younger siblings - maybe we could do more to make the day fun for the younger folk
• The digital image -> bluetooth -> phone/flickr workflow worked surprisingly well, any display that includes digital images could do this
• Scribbling with lasers is FUN!
• It takes quite a quite a lot of effort/coordination to get people inside a darkened lecture theatre, down the stairs and to grab the laser pointer

I have a bunch of other images / video from my phone stuck in the outbox and no time till next week to get em out. In the meantime here is an image that jumped out of a search for open day goodies online.

Attribution: PoweriPics

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Here is a slide-deck closely related to the one Elliott used today.
creative commons through the looking glass

Thanks to Dush from Higher Ground for access to the sound - desk!

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Come along, have a go and bring your phone with bluetooth enabled - that way you can can share your laser creation with your friends, or better still the interwebs. If you do upload to the interwebs, TAG your creation with ‘uofaoday‘.

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This year I thought I would get organised and load my diary up with cool things to see before science week begins. I just found this handy state based list of events for my home state of South Austraila - to my horror I discovered that I have already missed one of the coolest events - ‘science alive‘ which happened over the weekend. Darn it all I would have gone (in fact I drove right past yesterday and cursed the traffic!!).

Checking ahead, I see that the University of Adelaide ‘Sciences Bizzare‘ that runs on open day (Sunday August 17th) is listed and would suggest well worth a look.

So make sure you check out the timetable for your area and get along to whatever takes your fancy.

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