Guardian losing plot re vlog, campus bias may face challenge

I think the Guardian may be reaching a challenging phase when the online aspect is putting on enough pressure that the print bit either changes or looks just a bit out of it. Somehow time scales are getting closer together. On citizen journalism there is a time lapse between the not very funny series that apparently amused proper journalists and then later the courses in how to do citizen journalism, only a few hundreds of pounds and based at Guardian HQ.

But now we get quite close together, the Guide suggesting that "Vloggers are brilliant" as one of those obviously wrong sort of statements.  "We Defend the Indefensible" then the courses to include how to pitch radio ideas. Only 39 quid this one, three hours of an evening.

Thing is, radio is going the same way as the novel or anything else. Will Self has written frankly about the university courses in creative writing, jobs and income for people who no longer expect to be paid for writing. Will new radio shows come from pitching and commissions? why not look at vlog or online sound ( video or podcast not much difference )

The Guardian has not had much reporting on the MOOC. Very strong on the campus idea. But this could be an area where the online offer of content and discussion is an alternative to the formal course.

I don't think the Guardian will change any time soon towards a model that respects the audience. But there can be something related that makes more sense online.

Leuphana Trust Games, as in going outside the site

I've been away for a few days, taking some texts on a stick. So I have been reading some extended sources, not just skipping video. Meanwhille, as I discover getting back to my desktop, the team I was trying to start up has been discontinued and I have been moved somewhere else to a team about nothing I can discover except the timetable requires us to complete several trust games in the next couple of days. I have very low expectations that this will happen. I do not think the deadlines are helping the MOOC. I would much rather the group I was trying to promote had been allowed to continue but I think I have been thrown out of it. The OLDS MOOC was a better design I think with the Dream Bazaar allowing us to explain and discover so that groups had some basis.

So I hope to complete enough txt to stay on the course, but actually for group discussion I will continue with people I work with on radio shows. The issue of Creative Commons and YouTube is relevant for us. I think it would interest others on the Leuphana course if there was some design of the site through which I could explain the project without it being sidelined.

more later

Draft plan for TEDx Exeter related talk on Wild Show

This post is a follow up to previous ones around the talk with Clive Chilvers on the Wild Show, Phonic FM, Thursday mornings. It is my own suggestion. I started in this time slot as a guest and although I have done a 2 hour show by myself the studio only works well with several people in it. To reveal a design constraint, I usually do the first half hour because Chris Norton finds the buses hard to predict. So I can just go into a rave but it is better to play some music and keep an audience, also to try to explain my ideas to JD. Usually there are some gaps in the show where some talk is suitable.

This week and next Chris is on holiday. He is the main source of current music that the audience likes. My own approach has been described as "hospital radio" ,  I tend to rely on CDs, some from long ago. So we still have an idea of the sort of show he would like and the audience expects.

Anyway, back on topic more or less, the last time he went on holiday we invited Clive Chilvers to talk about TEDx Exeter among other things. He brought a lot of music with him, or preselected on Spotify, but we ended up talking for about half the time, the longest section for around 20 minutes.

This edit is the section discussing talks on coding and the internet in schools. Could change be more sudden? What is happening with MOOCs? there may be more on this during future Wild Shows in Exeter.

So I don't think we can do this very often. It should be possible to get the space down to less than ten minutes a topic and maybe half an hour of talk in a two hour show.

The issue about coding compared to applied technology came up also when Tom Dixon visited from the Central Library Fab Lab. I think we should invite Clive back after September when the Fab Lab is fully open. Then maybe again before the next TEDx to ask about how TED ideas might relate to education in the Exeter area. If we can't find a time that suits then we can discuss things through Twitter and other media.

Meanwhile I think the MOOC is still doing well in the UK and other places. But it is only one aspect of how technology blends with the campus. On the Wild Show we will concentrate on radio, quite enough to illustrate disruption. 

Trying out boundaries to link #mtw3 and Organising Across Boundaries

It still seems promising to link online #mtw3 with the real event from AMED - Organising and Managing Across Borders. See the previous post for a 2001 schedule for the first Management Theory At Work conference. AMED is about "developing people, developing organisations" but maybe some academic ideas are not seen as immediate. I don't know but hope to explore more in this blog. I now think that the Management Theory at Work mix of participants was an exception. Most conferences are either for practice or academics. At the time I thought Chris Grey had diverted the conversation but maybe it just went back to normal, with a slightly different reason for academics not to engage.

I'm not sure what "across boundaries" is supposed to mean. I have tried out a couple of drawings. The "set" is some actual space to record sound or video, or just talk if there is need for privacy or rehearsal.

Google docs   one     two  

You should be able to download the jpegs or find the Google Docs . Any form of text also welcome. The idea of a "set" is a space to generate mp3 or YouTube etc.

Management Theory at Work the 2001 schedule, PDF now at Scribd

I have now found an original printed timetable from 2001. Scanned as PDF and loaded to Scribd.

Management Theory at Work 2001 schedule

I think this will work as a PDF you can add comments to when viewed in Adobe Reader. Or add comments to this blog. We can now get into more detail as to what the issues were in 2001 and what to consider over the next few months. 

What strikes me is that the opening keynote raised questions about a "virtual, knowledge-managing, Learning Organisation" but they were not actually resolved. Partly because the technology imagined was not available. Mostly I think because Chris Grey's take on relevance had more impact in the concluding phase. A lot of theory has since related to critique and academic conferences that practitioners attend have become scarce.

Another thing is that virtual worlds were included then even though they are still not much used in formal learning plans. I notice this will be part of the Learning Technologies Summer Forum. Maybe the first Management Theory at Work conference was dealing with technology that was not ready at the time but is now more obvious. The difficulty is to select the issues to concentrate on that still need to be explored.