Cross Media Live may already indicate significant change about cross media

Cross Media Live is a show in September but the LinkedIn group is interesting already. I am pushing at clarifying as much as possible.

They picked up a report from Brand Republic about the Guardian finances and speculation that they may move away from print and do more online. I have added a comment that as Brand Republic is part of Haymarket it is also relevant to ask what is happening with Haymarket print titles including Printweek.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/24/rupert-heseltine-haymarket-media-group

This is from Jan last year. Things move a bit slowly so an event like Cross Media Live is an occasion to assess trends.

You should find the discussion if you search LinkedIn for Cross Media Live then look through the first few topics.

I am still looking at #mtw3 as a stream about learning and #mosocoop mostly about quality. The situation around Cross Media is a focus for both. There is also a question about the IPEX print show now that HP has decided not to attend. Cross Media may get more attention as the organisers face some of the same issues as other business to business media. 

Confusion re tech phases to continue through BETT #paranoid #California

Good Morning Silicon Valley has news about the glasses from a Google event, and also a bit of history.

http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2012/06/28/glass-orbs-a-tablet-whats-next-why-google-has-to-keep-moving/#respond

Apparently

 Pete Carey wrote for the Mercury News in August 1991 that Lee Felsenstein, one of the designers of the Osborne portable computer, showed him “a small device extending in front of the eyes from a set of headphones, and there seemed to be a fairly large, readable red-on-black computer screen inside it” 

There is a theory that only the paranoid survive, which seems to mean that companies have to keep innovating.

I doubt if many people in Devon will be investing thousands of pounds in new Google glasses just to keep up with the developers. But early next year at BETT there could be some interest in a demo.

Meanwhile the idea of a fairly cheap tablet is interesting. Only one camera but it may work with Google + for conversation. Can you record video and load to YouTube? I wait on some detail in reviews and my hard copy to arrive from Dennis Publishing.

Meanwhile I still think Adobe and PDF are out of sync. If there is no priority on development or buzz then the price levels for Acrobat should be dropping round about now. An app for a tablet at around £15, not the desktop prices of some time ago.

Why is it sacrilege? Is there something sacred about a normal gallery? #sacrilege2012 #twitterart

I am still thinking about Sacrilege, the inflated Stonehenge scale model that has now left Exeter heading towards the Lee Valley Park on the 12th August.

Why is it sacrilege? Is it because it is so easy to play with a reproduction? The place is not fixed either.

At Spacex there is a show about fear of landscape. No signs of fear in Belmont Park and there is no restriction on photography because of image rights concerns etc. I think look of the structure is well suited to digital photos etc. It must be some sort of photo process to start with.

I am trying to find out more about ExitReality3D in California. They recently bought Twinity but there is no news on what happens next. There was a scale model of city streets but this closed because of the cost of map data. Do the Ordnance Survey claim rights on the layout of Stonehenge? As of yesterday in Exeter the bouncy version of Stonehenge appeared to be real. But a virtual world of some kind could follow if there are enough photographs.

"Twitter art" could be better thought of if there were some better examples. Tag seems to be #sacrilege2012 ( #sacrilegetour not much used )

Notes on Teaching as a Design Science #Laurillard ‏@timbuckteeth

I have mentioned this book a few times since looking at Kolb and #mtw3 . I am still reading through the chapters on details of the model so this blog will just have some notes till it has all sunk in.

Searching finds several interesting bits.

http://bit.ly/MMXC9w

Found on Twitter through UX research. This diagram is a good indication of the book, adapted for instruction.

What strikes me is that "design science" is an approach that can be related to by people working in quality and other forms of applied learning. As memory serves earlier writing on technology enhanced learning seemed to be working on academic theory from which design would follow. There could still be some better theory to come, but the science is in the method to loop through practice.

Page 54 is about constructionism including experience - Dewey, Kolb : practice -Senge : doing - Schon : constructing - Papert : situated - combinations

So plenty to relate to Eastern Experiential Learning, see previous post. Someone else will have to go into detail here.....

‏@timbuckteeth claims that Kolb as used in design needs changing for a social media environment. The Conversational Framework is even more detail. Not sure how this works out.

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Laurillard seems to be writing for a fairly stable situation but there are some interesting remarks-

page 223 technology has been developed to replace physical libraries, meeting rooms, paper communications.....but not used to replace teachers in any way   ......as a result of collusion between the various interested parties    ( I have changed the order here)

page 83  there are wide-ranging systemic issues.......methods of assessment and quality assurance processes, which the focus of this book does not touch.

Search on Topsy find this

http://gtmooc.com/2012/04/20/week-31-diana-laurillard-digital-support-for-teaching-as-a-design-science/

from a Massive Open Online Course at Georgia Tech. There are other examples of massively scalable stuff. Certificates and exams etc can cost a little extra but a lot of content is free.

Disruption is possible, as well as design reviews.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Teaching-Design-Science-Pedagogical-Technology/dp/041580387X

Teaching as a Design Science: Building Pedagogical Patterns for Learning and Technology [Paperback]

Diana Laurillard (Author) 

Stonehenge in Exeter, social media case study #sacrilege2012

More stuff is turning up. I left Clive Chilvers at Belmont Park around half past one as I heard that the Mayor had cancelled because of the rain and also I was very wet. Now today I find he has an exclusive photo of the Mayor (ITV left earlier still to do an edit in time for 6)

http://bit.ly/Oo3Iz7

Also there is an interview with the Mayor towards the end of this report

By the way I don't see why there should be just one Stonehenge. If Exeter could afford one there need not be an auction at the end of the Olympic festivities. It may be cheap enough to produce several.

Meanwhile photos and video can be shared so it covers the UK and related spots. I think Brittany has some stones, not sure where else. 

#sacrilege2012 @sacrilege2012 Flickr set could help cut and paste to anywhere

I have started on an edit and upload of stills from #Sacrilege in Exeter.

There are some that could be used in a collage with somehwere else or include new people or avatars. Since I started this yesterday with a copy from Wales I have though a bit more about this project. The Stonehenge to bounce on is only sacrilege if the sacred is to be kept distant. We do know this is not the real one, safe in a basement somewhere with the rest of curated art.

But play could include online travel and meetings. The Flickr is all Creative Commons so please feel free to remix. Similar with YouTube. As the tour continues if you choose Creative Commons with YouTube the remix button should show up.

 

Comments on diagram link to Eastern Experiential Learning

I have copied and slightly edited the comments on a previous post as I think the paper on Eastern Experiential Learning is in a useful new direction. The link is-

http://learningfromexperience.com/media/2012/02/eastern-experiential-learning.pdf

Comment from John Burgoyne-

The diagramme above just seems to re-label Kolb and does not add any value.I would be intereted in hearing more on the Laurillard stuff

I have a paper: Trinh, M. P., and Kolb, D. (2012 forthcoming). "EASTERN EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING: EASTERN PRINCIPLES FOR LEARNING WHOLENESS." Journal of Career Planning and Adult Development(Special issue: Recovering Craft: Holistic Work and Empowerment. William Charland, Guest Editor). which links East and West. Arguably the roots or experiential learning are in Dewey, the American pragmatist philosophy and Confucious, who must have considerably predated him. Interesting. if you want the paper email me on j.burgoyne@lancaster.ac.uk Here is the abstract: 'Although Experiential Learning Theory originated in the work of Western scholars, many of their theoretical principles have a decidedly Eastern orientation. In this essay we draw out these Eastern principles of experiential learning and suggest an Eastern perspective on learning wholeness in one’s life and career based on an ontological approach to adult development that emphasizes existential ways of being in the here and now—centering, balance, harmony and flowing in the watercourse way.. Regards, John Burgoyne

My reply

John, this diagram is not just a re-label. It is in a different order or at least in different positions. So it is easier to compare with a Deming cycle shown as PDCA. I have had an email about this already which I will transfer to a blog post later.

Thank you for the link to the paper. I have found a previous version online.

Link again, (this is the main point, you should have a look)

http://learningfromexperience.com/media/2012/02/eastern-experiential-learning.pdf

The Journal of Career Planning and Adult Development will have an improved version in the special issue and much more besides.

I'm still reading Teaching as a Design Science. more on this later.

John again-

yes it is, generalisation = abstract conceptualisation, applying = active experimentation, experiencing = concrete experience and reflection = reflective observation.

it is even drawn the same way up as the Kolb cycle often is, not that that matters in relation to my point

agree is has much in common with the Demming cycle, where did he get it from?

there is a one nursed are trained in, and is common in the medical world: diagnose, plan, treat, evaluate

and the training cycle: training needs analysis, design, implement and evaluate

I am sure there are loads of others

how do you put diagrammes into this thing? I have a further point I want to make about the ontological cycle that fits with the Kolb one which is epistemologica.

My reply so far-

I don't think you can add a comment with a diagram. But if you send me an email with attachment I will copy it in as a new post.

Deming got it from Shewart but the original Shewart is a straight line, not a loop. Started as a way out of inspection. I don't know how the Japanese interpreted it but they call it the Deming cycle.

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So later we need to tidy this up a bit. And also I need to write something about Diana Laurillard's book - Teaching As A Design Science. 

Maybe I can add John as a blogger so images are directly available. We have a #mtw3 group on both LinkedIn and Facebook but stuff is hard to trace sometimes. There will continue to be some sort of record here.

Cut and paste ahead of tomorrow #Sacrilege2012 #BelmontParkExeter

This is a bit more explanation and has the full #Sacrilege2012 tag.

http://twitpic.com/a0d8xu

I am interested in how Creative Commons can be used with public art events. A couple of years ago the animation on the cathedral as part of Animated Exeter was clearly Creative Commons, including the soundtrack available on YouTube.

I guess that Sacrilege 2012 is ok to video. Depending on who is in the shot and what they think. I hope a lot of people in exeter will take a look and share photos etc. With collage there can be connections with other sites. In the old days we had to move towards Stonehenge in the summer for a specific date. Now not only will the focus objects move around the country. We can also mix digital media at any location. It seems that London comes into this as we get into August.

Thank you Jared Schiller for allowing me to copy your photo. I think most of what is on Twitter is intended as Creative Commons but it is good to check this sometimes.

I have put a couple of comments on to an opinion at the Guardian from Victor Keegan

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/19/evolutionary-music-death-of-the-creator

I may be going off topic or it may be that Twitter Art fits in with some discussion. It may just be bad art, but there is certainly a lot of graphics to be found. As the site extends over the UK. the chances of art increase. 

I 

New Exeter photo sets on Flickr as a base for avatars etc #EX1to4

I have put some new photos on Flickr. There was one sunny day last week.

They include a walk to the Student Guild, the Forum, a walk from the Innovavtion Centre back through the business school to the Student Guild and a walk back to Central Exeter. More explanation later.

next post for more on a collage with Stonehenge for Belmont Park.

Shewart diagram and link to paper for Experimentality #mosocoop #mtw3

This diagram is from a talk by Edwards Deming in Japan around 1950. Not sure of date but can check later.

I thought it was on Scribd but now can't find it, only a version of an earlier paper without the pictures. So now loaded another one

Plan Do Check Study Act  with Diagrams

Scientific Method , Deming cycle, recycling Kolb collage

My cut and paste on a Kolb diagram has been getting some response, even if it fails to add anything. In an email exchange with Alan Clark he has shown me some links with scientific method and the Deming Cycle. I have copied and pasted and editied a little.

I see what you mean about aligning Kolb to PDSA. PDSA, the Shewhart/Deming Cycle, aligns more closely with Scientific Method, which I believe is intentional and important. In a paper I wrote for a module I took at the University of Birmingham, I looked many learning cycles, including I think Kolb/Honey & Mumford. I looked back at the Socrates (I think) and saw some roots for Scientific Method.
 
I got the diagram on Scientific Method from the Internet - :
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_scientific_method.shtml
You can almost line up PDSA with this as follows:
 
Formulate a question (Study)
Hypothesise (Act)
Prediction (Plan)
Test (Do)
Analysis (Study)

I think this could relate to Scientific Leadership and Leadership Science, as discussed at #mtw3  - the online conference.

Meanwhile my colleague Linda Shelton has a link to a recent paper on Eastern Experiential Learning.

http://mtw3.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/kolb-recycled-and-in-draft.html

 

Cross Media Live, learning quality and communication - #mtw3 #mosocoop

The show and conference in September is significant as it is based in the print industry. The organisers also work on IPEX, definitely part of global print. There will be time before September to study all the claims from drupa and the innovation parc.

http://www.crossmedialive.com/

http://www.drupa.com/cipp/md_drupa/custom/pub/content,oid,18862/lang,2/ticket,g_u_e_s_t/~/drupa_innovation_park.html

The changes  in communication will influence education and quality assurance just as they can contribute to the changes in organisations working with communication.

#mtw3 is concerned with the media used to report a conference. Universities and other educational sites consider learning design and also face external changes.

#mosocoop is currently based on a website but is exploring ways to publish books or book equivalents. 

more on links recycling Kolb http://post.ly/7utCR #mtw3 #cqimoso #mosocoop

Previous post had a diagram and some tags I forgot to explain.

#mtw3 is an online phase of a third conference on Management Theory at Work. The first two were around a decade ago in Lancaster.

#cqimoso and #mosocoop are both about the MoSO, a model of sustainable development based on ideas from Edwards Deming. There is a take based on the Deming Special Interest Group of the Chartered Quality Institute and another based on a small co-operative group that is easier to explain in social media.

Next post about the Cross Media event in September. Both #mtw3 and #mosocoop do relate to actuaql face to face events but are often in background. The Cross Media Live event will happen on definite days. 

Recycling Kolb continued, new diagram could link to PDSA #Deming #mosocoop #cqimoso

This diagram is cut and paste from one linked to in the blog post from Steve Wheeler. See previous blog and tweet. I looked at some of the links and found the original diagram

http://www.infed.org/foundations/f-explrn.htm

http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/recycling-kolb.html

The diagram is Creative Commons as is mine so please feel free to do another version.

I have rearranged it in this format to relate more easily to Plan Do Check / Study Act as familiar in quality circles. I think there could be more connections.

Steve Wheeler thinks that social media have changed the context for learning. How will this relate to learning in organisations? There has been theory about learning organisations but this is mostly from around ten years ago.

I am also reading Teaching As A Design Science by Diana Laurillard. This has some very detailed loops in a Conversational Framework. It is assumed that there is some knowledge in a discipline that is stable. So a quality system in an organisation is different. I will aim to come back to the book later. But the cut and paste diagram is a start on interpreting the blog post.

Recycling Kolb and Deming, earlier tweet expanded ‏@timbuckteeth

Earlier I sort of commented on tweet re blog about recycling Kolb. This is a bit of explanation but still too short. At least it may link with some previous stuff.

I would like to see more connections between learning theory and quality theory. They seem like different areas most of the time.

Deming has written about a cycle of Plan -Do - Study - Act as a quality approach ( he credits Shewart as source ) and this has been developed in Japan. Now it is included in ISO management standards.

But there is not much evidence of management actually using it well. In the UK there is quite a lot of complaint as if this is not the sort of thing on which managers expect to be audited. 

Steve Wheeler's blog may explain why this is. If different phases are happening at the same time for some people, or at different times on a social network, it is not as neat a model as supposed. Certainly not following a procedure that can be easily minuted with objective evidence.

This sort of discussion continues with the MoSO model see

http://www.thecqi.org/moso

Also a conference found through #mtw3 that starts with learning.

More later, sorry have to cook at this time..

Cameras on Surface, need two four month plans for Rougemont Global Broadcasting

There is a bit nore info on the Microsoft tablet, but not much. I found a story - 

All about the Microsoft Surface's Camera

but it has no more detail than yesterday.

http://mobigyaan.com/all-about-the-microsoft-surface-s-camera

Except how it can be used. Closely linked into Skype with two cameras, one for video conferencing and one for a wider view that can be left with the device propped up as if it was on a tripod.

So this would work ok for the level of video I put on YouTube. Could even be better if higher res ok over wifi. But Surface is a long time away and Windows may not work first time out. Windows Three was very good and I still use XP but every time there is a major improvement there may be a delay until a version is ready to forget about and just assume it is working ok in the background.

So the previous three month plan is now amended to two four month plans, one fairly vague until detail on Surface and Windows is known around the time of September. Another till BETT, the UK tech show for schools when the news about what young people bought over Xmas is digested as if adults know enough to plan something.

Obviously other mobile devices are available. But Microsoft remains a significant influence. The idea of Surface is a useful comparison for other kit. Just as Skype can be compared with phones.  

Wild Show tomorrow, I need training Phonic FM 10-12

Chris Norton has now suggested I do the first half hour of the Wild Show. I started as a guest on the New Exeter Radio Show and the time slot is the same.

In this blog I have mentioned radio as a possible focus for change programs or whatever is claimed as learning or quality. You may hear occasional remarks about the equipment in the studio. For example if the CD jumps so much we have to take it off then it has to be explained as an equipment failure. But last week I did blame the CD player when actually there was a button I should have pressed to enable the fader. Usually JD arrives within the first quarter of an hour and Chris probably in time for 10.30 so if I get confused the silence should not last too long.

We have a new cable that can plug into any device. So I will take in my trusty XT laptop. The management are an inspiration. How a community radio station is organised may be a bit of a mystery but there is clearly change. If it works I may have to think about some new kit. Chris has tried out his iPhone but we are not sure what happens if somebody phones him when the cable is live.

Anyway, I will try to concentrate on what JD is telling me. I do get confused and forget the track titles and so forth. There could be improvements in the equipment and structure at Phonic FM. But I will start with the idea that more training may resolve most of the issues.

The content will mostly be a mix of folk and soul. New CD from Bobby Womack and YouTube live promo for Soul Sessions 2 from Joss Stone. Current mystery is why Bobby Womack seems not to be in Europe. Is he ill? Seems ok signing records in LA. But will he perform in Paris or Dublin? Seems to have missed Victoria Park. 

Previously

http://gossiponthis.com/2012/03/27/bobby-womack-released-from-hospital-following-colon-cancer-diagnosis/

So hope he is well.  

Microsoft Surface is a major move, movies priority in a book format

I have watched the full presentation on YouTube and this looks really interesting. Microsoft still thinks there is a role for desktop PCs but this is a massive endorsement for tablets however it turns out.

I notice that Netflix is one of the apps that is shown. Video is a strong element in this. There is an HDMI output as well as 1080 resolution. The screen on the latest iPad was thought to be too high a spec but this seems to be what they now expect in all future tablets. There is mention that the device feels like a book and text is still part of what is on offer. The keyboard is attractive, I still don't feel ok about an image on the screen.

Apparently Skype will be well set up and the cameras look ok. No detailed spec as yet. But this could be a device to compare with the Kodak Zi8 for video to YouTube. If not at once then after an edit. 

The dates are still vague but probably by Christmas something will be clear. For the UK BETT will be a good time to have a look at this and alternatives.

Guardian could go weekly before spilling beans on Talk

This is just a guess but I sometimes update my take on the Guardian.

I went to the dentist today and found a copy of the Daily Telegraph. There was a report on the Guardian finances.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/9339631/Guardian-Media-Group-sees-losses-widen-on-US-expansion.html

Losses continue but there is no plan to go tabloid, but apparently every other possibility has been discussed. This may include going weekly as considered by Jeff Jarvis.

http://buzzmachine.com/2012/05/26/daily-news/

The Telegraph story includes a quote from Adam Freeman,  who apparently said the company was "on a mission" to stand alone as a digital-only publication and that it was moving towards an "open vision for journalism" where laypeople, who may not have any formal expertise, would be key to the media group's future.

So this looks like citizen journalism again. Maybe they will have another look at OhmyNews. But i think some honesty about Guardian Unlimited Talk would have to happen first. In case tou have just started on this blog, Talk was a board that lasted for years until being shut down without much publicity, probably the most successful cover up of recent times.

I think the move to a weekly is more likely to happen first.

Guardian could go weekly before spilling beans on Talk

This is just a guess but I sometimes update my take on the Guardian.

I went to the dentist today and found a copy of the Daily Telegraph. There was a report on the Guardian finances.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/9339631/Guardian-Media-Group-sees-losses-widen-on-US-expansion.html

Losses continue but there is no plan to go tabloid, but apparently every other possibility has been discussed. This may include going weekly as considered by Jeff Jarvis.

http://buzzmachine.com/2012/05/26/daily-news/

The Telegraph story includes a quote from Adam Freeman,  who apparently said the company was "on a mission" to stand alone as a digital-only publication and that it was moving towards an "open vision for journalism" where laypeople, who may not have any formal expertise, would be key to the media group's future.

So this looks like citizen journalism again. Maybe they will have another look at OhmyNews. But i think some honesty about Guardian Unlimited Talk would have to happen first. In case tou have just started on this blog, Talk was a board that lasted for years until being shut down without much publicity, probably the most successful cover up of recent times.

I think the move to a weekly is more likely to happen first.