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Monthly Archives: October 2011
GA-MMA Virtual Ethnography
My ethnographic study was of the GA-MMA group… the Gerry Anderson Model Makers’ Alliance. The study is at: http://atate.org/mscel/ethno/ Please leave any comments here.
B(at), Be, … Z…
It’s Halloween from bat, from AT, and this time its not Ai but from Be… and what’s that about Z? See the Holyrood Park blog entry.
Moodle/SLoodle Experiments Issue 10 – Cron and the Zombies
Its Halloween, and the Zombies have attacked! There has been a bit of a struggle to get the “cron” job running on the Moodle setup. cron.php is an admin routine that is run every few minutes to do a number … Continue reading
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Reflections on Week 6.3 – Personal Learning Space
This topic resonates with me, and I think its important that students take on the curation of their own resources and assets long term, but that institutions should have a duty to help individuals in that process, so I will … Continue reading
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Lifestream Week 6
There was an excuse provided by the subject of study on IDEL11 in the last week to look at a “Personal Learning Environment (PLE)”, e-Portfolios like “PebblePad” and “Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs)” like WebCT/Blackboard and Moodle. This was actually quite … Continue reading
Moodle/SLoodle Experiments – Issue 9 – Mobile Apps
There is an iPhone/iPod/iPad app called “My Moodle” which provides mobile device access to Moodle 2.1+. See http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-moodle/id461289000 The experimental Moodle 2.1.2 site at AIAI now has mobile web services enabled as required to support this app – they are … Continue reading
Moodle/SLoodle Experiments – Issue 8
I have been testing elements of the SLoodle Second Life toolkit version 2.0.10 alpha alongside Moodle 2.1.2 and the SLoodle module 2.0.10 alpha with a few revisions being made by Edmund Elgar, a SLoodle developer and one of the owners … Continue reading
John McCarthy – Pioneer of AI
You may have heard that John McCarthy died this week. See http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/october/john-mccarthy-obit-102511.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/25/john-mccarthy John was an early pioneer of AI, inventor of Lisp, and indeed originator of the term “AI” in 1956. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist). It is good to see how … Continue reading
Reflections on Week 6.2 – The Excitement of New Challenges and Boring Texts
I know that tackling specific projects, especially if they involve collaboration with others, is my preferred style of work and gives me the most motivation. Since my school days projects in my subjects were always the things I enjoyed and … Continue reading
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Junior Hairdresser – Final Assessment
Here is my assessment as a trainee hairdresser on blow drying… from the first go to my final attempt on a live model today.
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Junior Hairdresser – Live Model
Emma very patiently let me do her hair today during my training session: I now have access to the Hairdressing Foundations e-Teaching course at http://eteachhairdressing.co.uk along with some exercises to complete there. I have also been given Hairdressing Trainee Model … Continue reading
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Junior Hairdresser – Passing on the Skill
For a full photo diary and report on my ULOE11 Learning Challenge see http://atate.org/mscel/hair/
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Ai, Ai, Ai …
The automated recloning worked just as planned… and after a server upgrade to OpenSim 0.7.2 Dev Master r/17006 the two autoreplacing clones I had set up on the Avatar Identity region reappeared …
A, B, C … Z
Ai, Be, Clones … Zap. I have been putting off upgrades to the Openvue region that hold the AI – Avatar Identity digital artifact… because I have gown quite fond of all those clones and the amusing and strange positions … Continue reading
Moodle/SLoodle Experiments – Issue 7
After a small change in a login method made by Edmund Edgar, one of the SLoodle developers, to one file at mod/set-1.0/shared_media/index.php the 2.0.10-alpha release of SLoodle works in the SLoodle classroom on the VCE region in Second Life connected … Continue reading
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Reflections on Week 5.2 – Choice and Work Style
In the last week I have been discussing my choices of module for semester 2, looking forward to the MSc dissertation and addressing choices of essay topic for ULOE11, amongst other assignment thoughts on IDEL11 and Digital Cultures. It has … Continue reading
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Moodle/SLoodle Experiments – Issue 6
I have been in contact with the SLoodle development and test community in the last few week, as they are preparing a release that can work with the latest Moodle 2.1+. The time now seems right to try the alpha … Continue reading
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Moodle/SLoodle Experiments – Issue 5
I have now used the admin account to set my self with a role of “course creator”. Logging back on as myself I had the extra site administration menu to create a course. The setup was pretty easy and I … Continue reading
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A Brief History of Virtual Collaboration
To add to some of the history of MUD/MOO/MUVEs given by Warburton (2009), I will add here an information panel from one of my papers in IEEE Intelligent Systems (Tate et al., 2010) as it shows the history is not … Continue reading
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ULOE11 Essay Topic Notes
I had been trying to define a ULOE11 essay topic related to my interests in mixed initiative interaction as a mode of learning. My initial foray into this area indicates a vast literature which would only allow a superficial pass … Continue reading
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Stanford AI Class – Largest Ever Distance Education Course
I am enrolled on the on-line Stanford AI Class… http://ai-class.com – along with 150,000 others – to watch how they present and deliver the “Introduction to AI” course, to see how the on-line assessment and quizzes work, and to see … Continue reading
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Proprietary or Open Products for Personal Learning Spaces?
I believe that in future students when they first join a good educational institution should be given access to an e-mail address or equivalent, individual blog and a resources space which they can use for life. It will support them … Continue reading
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Austin’s Personal Learning Space
I have begun to create my Personal Learning Space… for which I prefer a flexible web site in an area that can outlive specific technologies and institutional changes. If I invest time in creating things like this I want to … Continue reading
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Reflection on Week 6.1 – In the Long Run
This week I have begun to look at issues of sustainability… for the assets I am creating, for the pace of study for myself, and for the interaction between tutors and students in distance education. I am exploring personal learning … Continue reading
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MOSES Office Hours
MOSES: Military Open Simulator Enterprise Strategy ( http://openvce.net/moses ) – is an OpenSim grid used for research purposes by educators and a range of organisation exploring simulation technology for training. I am owner of a region on the grid for … Continue reading
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Personal Learning Environments and Mashup Spaces
I like to create a web page when I start a new project… to add in the useful web links, pointers to information, notes, etc. Then I gradually structure that as more content is created. Most recently I have been … Continue reading
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Exploring the PebblePad ePortfolio
The PebblePad ePortfolio system is used to support personal learning spaces in the University of Edinburgh http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/services/learning-technology/e-portfolios http://www.jisc.ac.uk/eportfolio If on EASE, you can log in via http://www.pebblepad.co.uk/edinburgh/pebblepad.aspx or launch from a button on MyEd with EASE login as student (MyEd … Continue reading
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Why Large Shared Spaces are Important for Collaboration
I am reading some papers by Don Norman, and one on “Distributed Cognition” (Norman, 1993) makes some very nice points about the value of large situation rooms and operations centres for providing a joint view of the current situation and … Continue reading
Lifestream Week 5
My lifestream shows continued commenting on Digital Artifact entries for classmates… and I produced a few more images of my own artifact. There were some very amusing visual effects when I entered the OpenSim region on which the artifact is … Continue reading
Ethnographic Studies on GA-MMA
After some discussion with the group and my tutor, Sian, I have chosen to do my ethnographic study on the Gerry Anderson Model Makers’ Alliance (GA-MMA). I did some preparatory work, got some facts and figures together, etc. I started … Continue reading