Loss of Focus, thinking about IPEX as far in the future

http://whattheythink.com/articles/61979-citing-their-diminished-relevance-kodak-will-bow-out-most-trade-shows/?utm_source=WhatTheyThink+Newsletters&utm_campaign=79821421cf-daily&utm_medium=email

Still not sure how to place the learning tech of the week. Education is still based in print, BETT still seems marginal.

Not sure how long we can think about IPEX as being in 2014 much as we remember it from 2010. If Kodak is not there  then given that Heidelberg, HP and Xerox think much the same then something is shifting. Maybe we have to take Microsoft at BETT as some sort of basis for comparison.

Adobe has gone, just like Apple.

I still think trade shows are some sort of guide, maybe you have to think a bit harder about the context.

Still no focus for this week of BETT and Learning Technology #oldsmooc

I am still getting ready for a trip to London. This is the week of BETT and Learning Technology. I will also get a look at EXCEL with a show in place ahead of IPEX next year. Thing is, still no idea what the news focus is and why this week is an event. I think of it as the end of the Winterlude but several things are still missing.

No news on Michael Gove. Last year I thought some of his ideas had potential. The web and mobile devices could relate to formal learning. Freeing up the content might help. But there is nothing much on what happened since and no information yet on whether he or anyone from UK government will be there. I may have missed it, please add a comment if you know. There may be a formal course in computer science but the blogs I can find don't suggest there will be much on digital literacy in video or music. Maybe wrong so will look out for links during the week.

http://vyagers.com/2013/01/13/why-computer-science-should-get-core-status-in-the-english-baccalaureate/

There will be something about games from Microsoft

http://www.innovatemyschool.com/blog/item/452-microsoft-promote-games-based-learning-at-bett-2013.html

so alternative tablets will be there by implication.

I have yet to see anything about BIS or MOOCS. I think a lot of the technology that universities describe as a MOOC has already been in use in the sort of context connected to Learning Technologies. Especially so for video and games. When Futurelearn was announced last year there was an encouraging quote from David Willetts

David Willetts, universities and science minister, said it was important for the UK to be at the forefront of developments in education technology.
"Moocs present an opportunity for us to widen access to, and meet the global demand for, higher education. This is growing rapidly in emerging economies like Brazil, India and China.
"Futurelearn has the potential to put the UK at the heart of the technology-for-learning agenda by revolutionising conventional models of formal education.
"New online delivery tools will also create incredible opportunities for UK entrepreneurs to reach world markets by harnessing technology and innovation in the field of education."

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=422137

 

So will there be any announcements during the week? My guess is that both BETT and Learning Technologies will continue as international events with much of UK education not paying much attention.

Meanwhile via LinkedIn

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130126183946-212158738-is-your-college-going-out-of-business

Is your college going out of business?     Mark Cuban

When I look at the university and college systems around the country I see the newspaper industry.

The newspaper industry was once deemed indestructable. Then this thing called the internet came along and took away their classified business. The problem wasn't really that their classifieds disappeared. It was more that they had accumulated a ton of debt and had over invested in physical plant and assets that could not adapt to the new digital world.

Why in the world are schools building new buildings? What is required in a business school classroom that is any different than the classroom for psychology or sociology or english or any other number of classes? A new library, seriously? What is worse is that schools are taking on debt to pay for this new construction.

You know what? He may have a point.

Cities still working in a week for BETT and Learning Technologies #oldsmooc #leuthanadigital

I have been a bit dismissive about cities on the start of the Leuphana Digital MOOC. I am trying to counter the idea of spectacular buildings. There could be more spent online for some blended situations.

However, next week in London there is both BETT and Learning Technologies. So far online I have discovered that Willesden Junction is only just on the London Transport timetable. I think there is a connection though.

I will try to keep up with the #oldsmooc but the main thing will be getting around in real space.

No news yet on what Gove will do to follow up on last year. The EU Education and Culture operation has a stand. What the official UK take is on web tech etc. is not that clear.

First draft of introducing my take on cities - Leuphana Digital

I have looked at three documents and have some ideas about cities and the web. There should be more investment online, there are enough buildings.

The documents take some study but a few thoughts so far.

Issues and Case Studies in the New Economy page 109 on Risk Management. Suggests that risk management is easier in big cities. Think about recent disasters. Possibly caused by group behaviour in a bubble. London is global and now more or less cut off from the rest of the UK.

Post Modern Geographies Soja
Foucault mentions time as well as space
"Fourth principle. Heterotopias are most often linked to slices in time - which is to say thatthey open onto what might be termed, for the sake of symmetry, heterochronies."
so I think time is still significant

New York Times
Not sure how many creatives are somewhere else in New York state. I live in Exeter, described as a city but functions as a county town. Lots of people visit ( monthly, less often ) from the rest of Devon, maybe other counties ) Some are artists, consultants, technology support.

Lots of strange things in Exeter. The university spent £24m on a forum which involved demolishing the bookshop, not to be replaced. There is a Blackwells "pop-up" for 7 weeks of the year. Seems to be a design thing, books not part of modern retail. Why do they need a library? Is there a point to the campus? Why not move back to the centre of the city and scale down the buildings?

I don't deny that the globalised network of superstar buildings is working well. 

http://bristolculture.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/talking-lamp-posts-coming-to-bristol/

that is thirty thousand pounds gone from south west England towards London. What else might happen?

paste of Flickr url not working

Leuphana MOOC starts today, cities more later on Wild Show

The MOOC about cities starts today but you can still join up to the second task on Feb 3rd

http://digital.leuphana.de

I have found a similar page for one of the readings.

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/06/27/110627crat_atlarge_lemann

My opinion at the moment is that we have enough buildings. More investment in online could get a blended situation.

More later, getting ready for the Wild Show on Phonic, 10 to 12. I think Chris Norton is recovering so the talk on this will be in the first half hour.

The Wall confirms something shifted during the Winterlude, still not over

http://wallblog.co.uk/2012/11/13/google-advertising-revenue-surpasses-us-print-industry-print-is-dead/

I found this link after a Tweet conversation with theWall.

1. Media Week @MediaWeek

   FT cuts jobs and relegates print to “second” as editor warns of social media “disruption” http://wallblog.co.uk/2013/01/22/ft-relegates-print-to-second-tier-role-as-it-puts-digital-first-and-cuts-35-jobs/ … /@TheWallUK

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   @MediaWeek @TheWallUK Do you think we will get reporting on digital at Guardian, Haymarket etc.? Will Guardian print continue Mon - Fri?

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   @will789gb Our guess is that Guardian will cut print on certain days at some point.

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   @TheWallUK Could Printweek go online like What They Think? Other Haymarket titles? Think carefully, tweets are public.

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3hThe Wall @TheWallUK

@will789gb Way above our pay grade! But one would GUESS that at some point many magazines will thrive online only.

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The Winterlude will not end till after BETT and Learning Technologies. But it is clear enough that many people in media have gone digital in their mindset. The print media are still not reporting the full situation. The Guardian on Tuesday reported that some UK universities could go bust, but there was nothing about online competition or how the UK adjusts to this. 

Nexus tst was for #oldsmooc hangout on Google + , ok once you get started.

OLDS MOOC getting better now.

Nexus tst

Trying out camera

Guardian print cash cow, to be continued

Through Online Media Daily I find there was an online report in the Guardian that I missed thoough I did read the print version of the Media pages on a Monday.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jan/21/lionel-barber-email-financial-times

FT says Digital First. Now you know.

I have paid another £1.40 for the Guardian today. The teaser about HMV is not followed by any analysis of HMV in the story about universities.

Actually HMV may continue and the record companies do have a digital strategy of sorts. 

Nothing in the universities story about online offers.

Nothing in print today about the FT.

So £2.80 to find out just how strange things can be. If I missed it please add a comment with page numbers.

HMV good news, thanks for link from Exeter City Centre Manager @ExeterCCM

The news via the BBC is that policy has changed at HMV. Thanks John Harvey for the tweet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21118711

Apparently there is a rescue under discussion and the record companies are supportive.

However I still think it is a bit vague as to how involved the record companies were in the previous HMV. Which ones had shares? Where did the directors come from? Will the record companies influence policy on gift vouchers in future?

And the implications for books are very disturbing. I don't see book tokens as a reasonable risk.

Unless there is legislation or something that restores confidence in consumer rights. 

Draft procedure for social video production #oldsmooc #phonicfm

Below is part of a procedure for an imagined production sequence for social video.

Week two of #oldsmooc is about context. I am interested in casual learning or whatever you want to call learning as most people find it. Or put another way how learning and non-learning occurs in organisations. we have been invited to work on scenarios, personas, foce field diagrams. Some fiction involved. So I have suggested looking at quality systems and have added this short bit of procedure.

( much of #oldsmooc is public, try YouTube or Cloudworks

 http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/7039 )

Procedure

 

There is a recording design meeting before the event. Agenda to include the range of cameras to be used, access to the sound desk, copyright arrangements agreed with the performers.

 

After the event there is an edit design meeting. Agenda to include assessment of existing recording, copyright discussion with performers, and budget for distribution. Distribution decisions will influence the form and resource for editing.

 

Note- Creative Commons may be applied to recordings during the event but not always to the final product. There could be payment for content used. This will be part of both design meetings. 

I will try out some of this around the next Phonic FM  benefit. My assumption is that it is ok with the performers to video and load to YouTube. Also to play sound on Phonic. Usually works ok except when I forget to tell them or send the right link.

Links to this blog from Facebook and LinkedIn, as mentioned in other posts. Please comment if you can't find it.

YouTube approach for an academic conference could be much the same as for music. Just in case you thought this was off topic.

After HMV could the Guardian go bust? What value subscriptions?

I am still surprised how little reporting there is on customer concerns about HMV gift vouchers.

I think most companies linked to print are suspect. Music is just a few years ahead in web terms.

The cost of the print Guardian keeps going up and the value / number of pages for the Media section for example is going down.

Nothing today on HMV as such or whether record company brands were or were not involved in HMV or might be again or whatever.

Just a tease that suggests a story tomorrow on universities facing a similar situation.

"We own the Weekend" may be code for stopping print versions Monday to Friday.

I don't think they intend to explain in print what they really plan for the web. The print audience is just a cash cow till it falls apart.

I probably will risk £1.40 tomorrow for some gossip on universities.

But like book tokens, a newspaper subscription is now a risk too far.

ZPD graphic not showing, try this one #oldsmooc

I have posted on Blogger as the graphics seems to be working

http://ipex2002.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/zpd-graphic-not-showing-on-posterous.html

Blogger is still ok but I found I had too many blogs, Posterous has kept things together.

Hope I get the graphics to work again.

Zone of Proximal Adjustment - King's Cross to ExCel / BETT to IPEX #oldsmooc

I previously thought that the Zone of Proximal Development in terms of time would be next year between the second Cross Media event and the preparation for IPEX. But things may be moving more quickly. Some sort of adjustment from print media to the web is happening though the shape is not that clear. Now both Xerox and HP have decided not to attend IPEX there is a weaker offer on digital print. I personally think the HMV decision not to pay out on record gift vouchers raises a question about book tokens and book selling in the high street. So thinking about ideas around IPEX could start now.

/will789gb/trying-out-cross-media-as-an-event-in-slow-mo

At the end of the month there is the Learning Technology Show and BETT, now expanded to include HE and adult learning. ( There may be an overland rail route between them ) BETT is on a similar scale to IPEX and at the same location. Probably not with the proportion of tablets suggested by the Xmas wish list. But a reasonable clue on future expectations for communication supply.

The location for the zone is between King's Cross and Excel. The map is lost from the previous post. I have found the route towards the Olympic site but I don't know how this has changed recently to head south.

Meanwhile I am still thinking about Week Two of the OLDS MOOC. I have made a start on a scenario and a force field. Also added my own suggestions on Soft Systems Methodology, Action Learning and Deming. I also want to look at an Ecology of Resources so have found a section on scaffolding and adjustment

http://eorframework.pbworks.com/w/page/25031695/Phase%203

My first issue is with a previous step

1.6 Identify Potential More Able Partners (MAPs)

This shows a problem in thinking about learning in practice as if it was the same as learning on a course. There are no "More Able Partners". Nobody knows, as they say on Qi . Maybe the people who attended the first Cross Media event have a better idea than most.

I will come back to this later in Feb. 

Sparkle plug, probably 20th Feb on Exeter Campus

I have done a video promoting Sparkle. I think there will be a screening at the Exeter Campus Cinema on Feb 20th . I also plan to play more tracks on the Wild Show, Phonic FM 10 -12 on a Thursday.

Probably YouTube will find other connections in other places. So Rougemont Global Broadcasting may reach some people outside Exeter.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/movies/sparkle-remade-with-jordin-sparks-and-whitney-houston.html

Nelson George on the music. ( I don't think the plot is not worth seeing, just that the music is the main area for attention at the moment)

HMV vouchers, notes for Wild Show next week

This Thursday on the Wild Show, Phonic FM I spoke with JD about the apparent closure of HMV and the decision not to respect gift vouchers. Our guests were Carl Munson and Roxy from Seale Hayne who unexpectedly also raised the HMV gift vouchers topic when I mentioned that Run Devil Run by Paul McCartney was probably in stock. I have put the two clips on YouTube-

So the concern on this issue is widely shared.

As reported in the Guardian-

A senior Tory backbench MP has accused HMV bosses of committing theft by continuing to sell vouchers when they must have been aware "there was little prospect of those vouchers or gift cards ever being redeemed".
Sir Tony Baldry, a practising barrister specialising in commercial law, said "directors and management must have known that the company was at very real risk of failure" whilst they continued selling vouchers "all through Christmas and up until the day they went into administration".

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jan/16/hmv-accused-of-theft-over-gift-vouchers

However as far as I know the Express and Echo has not so far included the vouchers issue in their reporting.

http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/Jobs-risk-HMV-enters-administration/story-17872591-detail/story.html

I think the situation should be a concern for all those interested in the future of Exeter retail. The Express and Echo quotes the City Centre Manager-

Exeter's city centre manager John Harvey said he hoped HMV could be saved.
"Administration doesn't necessarily mean closure and there's a great deal of difference between the HMV scenario and some recent casualties, notably Jessops," he said.
"I understand the Exeter store performs reasonably well, it's in a good location in a very successful centre, so I'm reasonably optimistic.
"But it's another sign of just why we can't be complacent and that the challenges we are facing remain very real. Any store closure is disappointing."

On the Today Program this morning Evan Davis supplied some BBC balance and asked the question why retail customers should have any more rights than other creditors. The suggestion seemed to be that consumers have a duty to assess the commercial risk in retail supply.

Currently there is little information on whether the record companies have been paid or will be. According to the Guardian there was a deal at the beginning of 2012 to keep HMV trading in return for shares. The companies named in the article include Universal, Sony Music and Warner Brothers though it is stated that details were unclear. If these companies had shares were they able to influence directors? Were they aware of the financial situation? Did they know the policy on gift vouchers?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jan/20/hmv-strikes-deal-with-suppliers 

According to Cue Entertainment there are possible ways in which HMV shops could continue to trade.

Warner Home Video UK SVP and MD John Stanley said, “Everyone at Warner Bros. is working closely with HMV – and Blockbuster – to help them through this tough period and wish them success in finding support to keep their important brands trading. GAME is the ideal blueprint for a reshaped entertainment business that is evolving to fit today’s requirements in both physical and digital. We, therefore, hope to see Blockbuster and HMV in a similar position soon.”

http://www.cueentertainment.com/hopes-rise-as-buyers-circle-hmv/

So would Warner Home Video be at all concerned about the reputation of Warner Brothers Music?

If consumers are supposed to assess the credit risk in retail some disturbing conclusions follow. Print could go the same way as music. Should you buy a book token from Waterstones? Once HMV and Waterstones were part od the same company. The way in which finance is restructured could be a clue. Should you subscribe to a print publication? Is it possible that the Times or Guardian could cease publication in print? Should this decision stand there is an alarming scenario which will not be helpful to Exeter or any other retail centre.

I have had an email from Public Relations at Deloitte which answers some questions and raises others.

“Following our appointment, we are working closely with management and staff to stabilise the business in order to continue trading whilst actively seeking a purchaser for the business and assets. We appreciate the cooperation and support from the staff, customers, suppliers and landlords at what is clearly a difficult time.”

So nothing about gift vouchers here but if they really want to continue trading then goodwill could be an asset. Rapidly vanishing I would guess.

Certain HMV Group plc subsidiaries including HMV Guernsey Ltd, HMV Hong Kong Ltd, HMV Ireland Ltd, HMV Singapore Ltd and 7Digital Group remain outside of an insolvency process.
In this press release references to Deloitte are references to Deloitte LLP, which is among the country's leading professional services firms.
Deloitte LLP is the United Kingdom member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (“DTTL”), a UK private company limited by guarantee, whose member firms are legally separate and independent entities. Please see www.deloitte.co.uk/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of DTTL and its member firms.

We may need Evan Davis to explain what this means. Consumers have a new duty to work this out.

Probably more next week on the Wild Show, Thursday 10 -12. Any comment welcome. Facebook group search for Wild Show.

 

Introducing Deming, Soft Systems, Action Learning as MOOC storytelling context #oldsmooc

Week two on the OLDS MOOC is about story telling or something. Context? Learning happens in a social situation. Eventually we will get to disruption in education organisation.

Anyway, this weekend there is an option to suggest other methods. Copied from Google Group which I think is only for people on the course-

I am looking at Scenarios and Personas and a sort of Force Field, without arrows or plus or minus at the moment. I will also have a look at the other suggested approach. But this seems like the place to write about Deming, Soft Systems Methodology, and also Action Learning again. Not at length obviously but I will put some links in. Also try to involve some other groups from LinkedIn.

My dream is about social video production. Change depends on some shared vision and culture, but also hard skills possibly enhanced by instructional design and also different management attitudes enhanced by structure and process. So I may be using the word "learning" in a more casual sense than in education theory. Somethning happens, maybe we don't know what it is.

There is already a cloud on Plan - Do - Check / Study - Act , which Deming called the Shewart Cycle. It can relate to Dewey and American pragmatism.
http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/2455

The Force Field diagram reminds me of a systems model. Checkland is more upfront about learning with each book, see linked reference.
http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Learning_for_action.html?id=4pUoAQAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y

I did not come across much in week one about
Reposted to blog - will789gb on Posterous and LinkedIn groups for #mosocoop (Deming group at CQI) and #mtw3 (online conference continues Management Theory at Work) and International Foundation for Action Learning.

On Friday, 18 January 2013 08:39:49 UTC, Joshua Underwood wrote:

A thread for discussing and sharing attempts to apply other approaches to context & learning design.

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The project / dream is for social video production, Cloudworks is open but you have to register
http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/7039

JPEG for Cloudworks, video force field draft one #oldsmooc

Not at all sure this is a force field.

I am finding week two quite hard to get into. It may be about story telling. It might be about context. Maybe these are the same.

Hope the link will work to get embedded content into Cloudworks.

I

word groups , Prezi and mindmap to follow

As mentioned previously the OLDS MOOC is taking up time. I don't find a Prezi very easy to follow, impressive though. On a mind map I am just lost. But I may get the hang of it later.

So here are some words for the next week or so to make connections with other posts and groups-

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#mosocoop                #mtw3

OLDS MOOC            city

Communication          radio

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#mosocoop        face to face meeting in March ? cloud on Cloudworks can be worked with for design science

                          http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/6588

                       main focus - sustainability

#mtw3                design science could be a theme

                         first conferences started with learning organisation and technology

                          critique can be a block to implementation ; the will to form has many shapes

                           work foundation conclusion can include knowledge unlatched, universities also disrupted

                               links back to learning organisation

OLDS MOOC          my project open video production

                               also virtual worlds / digital literacy

Cities                         “ThinkTank – Ideal City of the 21st Century” http://digital.leuphana.de/

                                  My interest is blended cities, more resource for online versions

                                   playable Bristol         Exeter / Phonic FM      Twinity Berlin etc.

Communication           IPEX  /  Cross Media  /  London College of Communications Futures Conference

                                     OhmyNews International ( archive from about 4 years ago, UK bandwidth catching up)

Radio                              Wild Show Thursday mornings 10 - 12 Phonic FM is a bit of real time and space away from my screen

                                        ( assumes CD players working, else mp3)

                                         topics to include scifi weekend , animation, Sundown

                                          open resources / copyright , can we use sound, images on YouTube

 

                         

OLDS MOOC - learning log week one

Copied from Cloudworks. My portfolio is at

http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2639

I think this has been a classic week. Not sure why. Partly just emerging from holiday drift but mostly I think there has been a shift in the positioning of web resources. Surveys show that most kids wanted a tablet as a present. Whether they got one I don't know. There were reassuring announcements on book sales. But now HMV is in trouble.
Cloudworks is falling over due to massiveness, but the OU must be confident to want to try out the limits.
I do find the different platforms hard to follow. Different clouds for different purposes. Twitter and YouTube easier to use. A lot to get used to - Bibsonomy still not absorbed.
I don't think my questions on theory have got through yet. Maybe later. I would welcome a lot more on what design science is. I come across the same words in management but I'm not sure the theory is the same. (My colleague Linda Shelton is updating the cloud on Design Science though she is not on the course)
Also the set and project approach is very like Action Learning. Though I don't find this in the theory references. There is a LinkedIn group for the International Foundation for Action Learning, current question "What is absolutely essential for an effective set?"
It was good to hear in the video that forming groups for projects is expected to take a while. I am continuing the video production even with a very small group. I may get some interest from Facebook. It seems ok to involve a local support or whatever. Since so many bits and pieces of social media are in use this seems likely to happen anyway.
I am also going to explore Google+ . I use gmail and some other bits but so far have not replied. I suspect Google has just raided my email list but I could be wrong, there may be more to this. The video of the hangout works very well.
I am going to follow the digital literacy and virtual worlds projects but not sure how much I can contribute.
This MOOC is not what I expected. In new jargon I now think I had heard about an x-MOOC, transmission of existing knowledge. I had no idea a project or p-MOOC could be designed as massive. Still not sure how it will work out.

Posts on this Posterous blog may be a bit erratic over the next few weeks. The OLDS MOOC is truly massive and there is a lot to check out. They are using social media a lot so you don't have to sign on for the course. YouTube for example has most of the intros , some future weeks already there.

Next post a few words in groups.