Some links for Urban Retreat 2013 @buddhistcentre #urbanretreat

There was a day to start the Urban Retreat in Exeter yesterday. I think a tweet to @Kindseat will find details on the closing day next Sunday. There are many online aspects but also some debate about the consequences of social media for meditation. See screenshot of my recent tweet. 

This could relate to other topics on this blog, more later. Not sure what the comments will be. Bronwen Rees recently made a case for meditation in business. I am working next week on promoting the South West Music Awards, regarding this as a social occasion, not that concerned who wins what, and trying to be positive about Bristol. Moving the event out of Exeter would be a result. Will this help my meditation? 

Podcasts start on Monday

 https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-buddhist-centre-online/id498033013

Online Meditation (Skype of Google Hangout) Tuesday 4pm UK time

https://thebuddhistcentre.com/triratna/skype-meditators/online-meditation-urban-retreat-2013 

 Twitter Q&A Vessantara on Twitter @buddhistcentre #urbanretreat Wednesday

Facebook discussion Friday

https://www.facebook.com/groups/thebuddhistcentregroups/

Metta in the Face of World Problems 

Scatman on Phonic FM, SoundArt and BBC Radio Devon

Scatman was a guest yesterday on the Wild Show when he talked about forthcoming visits to Soundart in Totnes and then to Radio Devon tomorrow in Plymouth. Soundart live at the moment but he has gone to park his car. guess he will be back soon but please someone record this as I have to go out. Radio Devon is on the iPlayer I guess. 

Afternoon Massage, with Jared

http://www.soundartradio.org.uk/

102.5

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01jsdvs

John Govier

Phonic FM has not got any play it again but I have put an edit from yesterday on YouTube and Soundcloud. 

The main discovery was that Scat's scope includes a much wider range than I expected. Not sure if this is also so for Olive De Ville but I hope to find out in about a week. 

Listen to Scatman on Wild Show #13swma South West Music Awards by will789gb | Explore the largest community of artists, bands, podcasters and creators of music & audio.

#13swma play it again from yesterday on Phonic

The South West Music Awards are turning out to be a viable system for experiment with social media including video and sound. A lot of changes but still moving.  

The YouTube playlist worked ok on Phonic yesterday. I sat in for the Big Wednesday ( back to normal next week ) 10 -12 . Apart from one glitch with the news feed I managed to cope with the desk. Guests arrived a bit later, 10 is early for some on the music scene.

So now there is an archive, 45 min on Soundcloud and just under 15 on YouTube. 

(Still not in good status with YouTube following complaint from Prince, see previous posts so 15 min is the limit) 

Now confirmed that the venue has definitely changed to 

CHARLIES EXE

1 Cowick Street

Exeter

By St Thomas Station

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I think sound is showing the way for web media. Academic print publishing may be similar over time. More on this when #13swma is over in a couple of weeks. 

Very short bits of music for context. Guests Fred and Scatman.Talk round video and locations.

#13swma Video plug and play it again Wild Show

I have done a plug video for the #13swma tag. Still not widely understood I think. I am getting into repeating myself but it varies a bit. 

There will be some interest in the South West Music Awards by the end of next week so it may work out soon. I think there is more that can be done with #tags. During the Unexpected festival there was some progress but it is still a niche sort of thing I think. 

Some links through previous clip on Soundcloud, edit from Wild Show. The copyright issues are easier with music than with visual art. So far anyway. so I hope this can be mixed up a bit, even just for discussion. Prince and Joss Stone in very shortened edit, just to show how the radio fits together. Joss has said she is ok with video from performance, but not sure about Vevo. comment welcome, the listen again form of radio has got to be looked at. 

I am still assuming the sound around the South West Music Awards is for promotion so can be edited and used for social media. Time will tell. 

The reference to #swma13 is out of date unless you are looking for Support Working Moms Act

Edit of Drama Hour / Wild Show on Phonic FM about copyright, creative commons and the projects for This City's Centre now the map is available. Continues Thursday 10-12 in mornings on Phonic FM, 106.8 in Exeter and online.

commercial / academic views on learning #NLC2014 #edtech

The week of hotseat for Neil Selwyn seems to have come to an end. My take is that the gap between academic and commercial views on technology and learning is wide and may be getting wider. This post is to expand on a tweet. Twitter is one way to continue between the hotseat weeks. There is a Twitter feed on the Networked Learning Conference website.  

Going off topic a bit, back to the first Management Theory at Work conference in Lancaster. As memory serves this started as a connection between theory and practice and then sort of fell apart when Chris Grey suggested that a critique role was more stable for universities than claiming to contribute practical ideas. I may have misunderstood this. Any link suggestions welcome. 

There seems to be a continuing flow of critique that appears in journals. There are some conventions that assist publication. I still have not made the time to visit a library and track down an article about Critical Management Studies as a brand. but please come back for a future post.

At a conference on Experimentality I tried to present Deming ideas as a learning cycle. Rob Coley and Dean Lockwood spoke about the Cloud. The book is now available. It is wonderful stuff but not very surprising  if the managerialist world has not shown much interest.

"learning" is not a word reserved for academics. My guess is that the mobile holiday ( new devices as presents) and BETT / Learning Technologies in the UK, other events in other places, will shift the discussion before the actual Networked Learning in Edinburgh. There can be many objections to #edtech but something has changed already, whatever the academics think about it. Critique is still needed but maybe has to start again.