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Hvordan kan bloggen anvendes i forbindelse med videndeling?

May 28, 2008 – 1:46 pm

Referat af gruppebrainstorm ved den pædagogiske dag om bloggen

//: Gruppe: Gitte, Brennan, Niels, Frederikke, Martin, Jesper

Hvordan kan bloggen anvendes i forbindelse med videndeling?

:: Videndeling; Bare det er noget læseren ikke ved alt om

:: Ved at effektivisere videndeling hjælp af: Kategorier; hierarkier, strukturer, emner. Kan skabes ud fra tagclouden

:: Ved at lave en faglig ide bank. Lad ikke den gode ide gå i glemmebogen

:: Ved at lave et virtuelt ”Smokers Corner”. Få alt det at vide der blev sagt mellem linjerne.

:: Ved at lave en ”Half baked ideas” container.

:: Ved at lave en blog for de studerende – Bruge den blog vi har nu og lave en version 2 til de studerende.

By Martin Causse |
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Akademikere – inde i rammen eller ude af boxen?

May 26, 2008 – 11:07 am

Når vi efterlyser regler/retningslinjer/formål for vores indlæg på bloggen, er det så fordi vi er akademikere? – Det spørgsmål stiller en blogger fra reklamebranchen, Thomas Rosenstand, som har på fornemmelsen, at vores skoling lægger en dæmper på ”ud-af-boxen” tænkning – at vi er mere tilbøjelige til at gennemanalysere alting og dermed forudse forhindringer, der således bliver en hæmsko for innovation. Og er det sådan, at uskolede hoveder i højere grad besidder den fandenivoldskhed og mangel på forbehold, som får dem til at passere gennem forhindringer, uden overhovedet at opdage dem?

Bloggerens spørgsmål rejser en debat, som peger på uddannelseskulturens aversion mod fejltrin – et forhold, som ofte videreføres i virksomhedskulturen og som ikke virker befordrende for udvikling. Er det i virkeligheden sådan – især når det drejer sig om online-kommunikation – at det er bedre, at ”Do It Wrong Quickly” (titlen på en bog af Mike Moran med undertitlen How the Web Changes the Old Marketing Rules)? Eller med andre ord: Droppe lange akademiske beslutningsprocesser og bare gøre det. Og måle om det er gjort rigtigt. Og hvis ikke: Gøre det om….

Læs blogindlægget og den efterfølgende debat her:
http://www.blog.concept-i.dk/akademikere-blogger/

By Gitte Gronbek | Tagged , |
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Tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take… our freedom!

May 20, 2008 – 1:31 pm

Aye, right. Apologies from using a quote from what must be the worst and most inaccurate film about something to do with Scotland ever (apart from ‘Brigadoon’ of course), but I have spoken to two more Scotsmen than usual this week. Actually, the quote seemed somewhat appropriate for this blog’s theme, namely, freedom of speech in blogs.

Yesterday I read an article on ‘The Guardian’ website (by now, dear readers, you know my favourite websites) about freedom of speech on user generated sites owned by newspapers. The example that had caused the writer of the article (Sean Dodson “Platform for free speech…or hate?”, Monday 19th May 2008), to bring the issue to light is a site run by ‘The Telegraph’ newspaper in the UK called my.telegraph.co.uk. This site is now a year old, and while initially praised for being an excellent use of the phenomenon of blogging by a newspaper, is now coming under fire, and is raising questions about how to monitor and manage user- generated content. While most newspapers provide a platform for readers to carry on a debate, using bloggers that have an agreement with the newspaper to start the ball rolling, this site provides a platform for anyone to start discussions on any topic.

Naturally, the opinions expressed and ideas put forward are wide and diverse. This particular site, is, and I quote, “inhabited by some very unsavoury characters”, including active members of the BNP (British National Party, a far-right, some would say fascist, but legitimate, political party). The Telegraph site naturally offers a chance for users to report offensive blogs. However, unlike ‘The Sun’ newspaper (famous for its page 3 topless models and headlines such as ‘It was the Sun wot won it’), whose users put a stop to BNP members posting on its ‘blog-site’, The Telegraph received no complaints about blogs posted by active BNP members, and maintain that as a legal party, the BNP have the same rights as others to free speech.

Given that the parent newspaper of The Telegraph site is known for its right-wing political stance, and that ‘The Guardian’ is known for its left-wing political stance, I thought I should check it out for myself. One thing that caught my attention, were the icons people were using to represent themselves. Apart from the usual flowers etc, there seemed to be a few too many Union Jacks, and, yes, St George’s crosses (the English flag) and even one St Andrew’s cross (the Scottish flag). To us Guardian readers in particular, all this nationalism is a bit scary….never mind the content….

But to get to the point, where do we draw the line? Is it right to stop a legitimate political party airing its views on a blog, however abhorrent we may find the politics? Of course, most blog sites owned by newspapers and other media organisations usually employ a group of moderators to check the user-generated content. Some post-moderate in reaction to complaints, other pre-moderate and only allow comments that have been checked first to be published. While it is all too easy to think only of the bad elements, and say that opening up the ‘web waves’ to comments from anyone and everyone is bound to encourage extremists and bigots of all persuasions, it also opens up the opportunity for us all to have our say and debate issues with others. But if it is offensive…but then what I find offensive, you might not….

Of course this is not a new debate and it is one that will continue to run, but when our blog gets opened up to the world, how will we decide what is appropriate and not appropriate? How should we monitor it?

(Footnote: I believe the lines in the film were inspired by the Declaration of Arbroath of 1320 (15 years after William Wallace’s death) which states “for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”)

By Barbara Lofgren |
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’Brand me’ produkter kickstarter samtaler – Trendspotting 2

May 16, 2008 – 1:46 pm

Marketing trends profiterer på brugernes oplevelser og deres behov for selviscenesættelse. I en oplevelsesøkonomi, hvor det personlige i stigende grad medieres og grænserne mellem det private og det offentlige udviskes, bliver kravet om personlig branding mere og mere påtrængende.

Det er Profil-generationen som er på spil, skriver Gitte Gronbek om webcams, der fanger og distribuerer det mest intime i unges soveværelser. At strippe foran sit webcam er sikkert en glimrende ’conversation starter’ og måske en del af det ’status stories’ paradigme som trendwatching.com kørte i april.

Fra ’status symbols’ til ’status stories’: brandet hjælper brugeren med at fortælle personlige historier til andre. En hør-på-mig-trend, hvor produktet leverer historie-ingredienser. Hubwear sælger t-shirts med påtrykte flyruter og dermed brugeren lejlighed til at fortælle rejsehistorier.


Every t-shirt has a story. What’s your route?

Status historierne understøttes af ’life caching’ (trendwatching juli 2004): digital sampling, lagring, manipulation og distribution af ens liv. En slags livsproteser, der – med Anthony Giddens – kan forstås som refleksive optegnelser af en selviscenesættelse.

Blogging, YouTube, Flickr, Facebook… – samtidig med at udvalget af ‘life caching/casting platforms’ vokser, ser vi web services – udviklet omkring et produkt – der understøtter personlig branding af brugerne.

Således er Relate’s tyske site til grammofonpickup producenten Ortofon et community, hvor DJ’s brander sig selv gennem oploads, batteles, blogs og debat (omtalt på berlingske.dk).

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What sounds like a fly, looks like a four legged spider and with a name like something you’d eat at the nearest pølsebod?

May 13, 2008 – 2:00 pm

Robotics have come a long way since the phrase was coined by Isaac Asimov in his novel “I, Robot” from 1942. Not that they are anywhere near the skill and complexity of Asimov’s visions, but now they are real. They come in all shapes and for many different purposes. Remember ASIMO – The android created by Honda? Very human-like now. Wasn’t in the beginning though. Back in ‘86 it was just a pair of legs.

http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/history/

There’s lots of video clips available on YouTube.

Another company has gone a different way and created a series of animal-like robots. The company is called Boston Dynamics (founded in 1992), and they have the answer for my headline question:

http://www.bostondynamics.com/content/sec.php?section=BigDog

Yes, it’s called BigDog.

Check it out. Quite amazing. And while you’re there, check out the other little fellows as well. Reminds me of mid-old sci-fi movies, only this time it’s for real. I guess we’re gonna get used to stuff like this in out midst within the next decade or so.

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Spam, spam, spam (and beans)

May 8, 2008 – 10:25 am

Probably quite a few of you read that spam email had its 30th birthday on 3rd May.  The first email marketing message was sent out in 1978 to 400 people on Arpanet on behalf of DEC.  It was used as an advertising tool promoting a new computer, and consisted of an invitation to go to presentations showing off the new system.

Well, we all know what has happened since.  Apparently, more than 80-85% of all email is spam or junk mail.  100 billion spam mails are sent each day (BBC News 02.05.08 “Spam reaches 30-year anniversary). It also appears that 200 spammers are responsible for 80% of all spam.

Of course spam is a nuisance and causes problems, but it can, at times, be amusing. Some of the phrasing regarding ‘increasing your manhood’ is hilarious. The tricks to get through your spam filter are becoming more ingenious. There are even those who are ‘proud’ of their spam, who archive it and display it for all to see (eg http://www.xtdnet.nl/paul/spam/).

The term ‘spam’ for this type of mail was coined around 15 years ago, and although you may know it comes from a Monty Python sketch, you may not have ever eaten this delightful meat product (which was not featured at the Going for an English evening…). If you want to know more about it, check www.spam-uk.com.

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Gruppe et

May 6, 2008 – 12:05 pm

Gruppedrøftelse over emnet: Den enkeltes personlige udtryk versus Corporate Voice.

Vedrørende spørgsmålet om bloggens anvendelse. Bloggen er kun et af flere medier. Andre medier som FRONTER og KEAWEBSITE dækker intern og ekstern information. Især www.mmd-cpr.dk er vores Corporate Voice. Bloggen er altså “kun” et supplement, som skal dække et fagligt engagement, og netop derfor er bloggen tematiseret til at handle om multimedier i et bredere perspektiv.

For at fremme engagementet er enhver fri til at deltage med sin egen stemme. Det skal ske på et lødigt, fagligt grundlag. Enhver fugl synger med sit næb.

Vores Kultur på Multimediedesigneruddelsen er mangfoldig både faglig og personlig. Derfor skal indlæggene se i dette perspektiv. Det kan dreje sig om:

  • farverige indlæg
  • interessante iagttagelser
  • anmeldelser
  • henvisninger

Det kan ikke dreje sig om

  • mobning
  • negative udsagn om personer eller institutioner
  • sarkastisk eller ironiske skrift

Blogger skal altså være eksemplarisk bl. a.  overfor de studerende og det er bedre at sge ” ja og” end “nej men”.

By Michael Holstrom |
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Fun and Games – but only for the young

May 5, 2008 – 10:57 am

OK – so the last computer game I played was that tennis game in 1977.  Well, not strictly true, there was a fantastic Glaswegian snowball throwing game I got hooked on, but I am one of that generation that did not grow up with computer games and does not find staring at a screen shooting Germans/aliens/small creatures interesting.  Oh – and I have never played Tetris either (shock!  horror! but then as we all know, neither can I ride a bicycle).

While I have little interest in gaming itself, I do see many articles in the press about computer games, and how they are either a force for good (education, motor skills etc) or evil (turning users into crazed killers, car thieves etc).  I am no expert, and have no view either way on this, but we do know that sitting in front of a screen for too long is not good and that there is such a thing as RSI….but most sane people can distinguish between fighting orcs and the real world.

I read today fromthat according to the UK Statistics Authority, the average age of the UK population is now 39.  This means that there are lots of people who were born in 1969 or later.  The BBC microcomputer (which some of you might remember…) was launched in 1981.  It became widespread in schools, and thus generated an interest in computers (and associated games) in a whole generation.

The article states that half the UK population has grown up playing computer games and that “They aren’t addicted, they aren’t psychopathic killers” and that they resent people “who imply that they are addicted and are psychopathic killers”.   The implication is that soon my generation will be a minority and only us ‘old fogies’ will think computer games are evil.  Never thought of myself like that I must say.  Yes, I don’t play computer games, but I don’t play any sport either.  It doesn’t mean I disapprove, just that it is not what I want to do at this point in my life.  Nor does it mean I don’t want to use technology and think computers a necessary evil in society today.

The stereotyping of people over 40 as being incapable of understanding technology goes on……

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Spørgeundersøgelse

May 5, 2008 – 9:27 am

Spørgeundersøgelse om blogging/vores blog

1. Hvor meget ved du om blogging – på en skala fra 1 til 10, hvor 1 er den mindste viden og 10 den højeste?

Højt: 11
Mellem: 7
Lavt: 7

2. Hvad synes du om ideen om at underviserne har en fælles blog til vidensdeling internt og eksternt?

Positiv: 18
Ved ikke: 2
Forbeholden: 4
Tror ikke den vil blive brugt: 5

3. Hvad skal der til for at du selv vil skrive til bloggen?

At det er arbejde/paragraftimer: 5
At det kan bruges i mit arbejde: 3
At den er aktiv: 3
At jeg har noget på hjerte: 3
At den er interessant/relevant: 4
At nogen efterspørger det: 3
At jeg har noget på hjerte: 3
At jeg får viden: 2
Tid: 3

4. Hvad vil evt. kunne forhindre dig i det?

Manglende tid: 10
Uinteressant/irrelevant: 8
Inaktiv/manglende fælles opbakning: 2
Manglende idéer: 3
Hvis det ikke er arbejde: 2
Hvis det ikke bidrager til mit arbejde: 1
Mobbende kommentarer: 1
Censur oppefra: 1

5. Hvilke emner synes du kunne være interessante for bloggen?

- trends, tendenser, teknologi, innovation, samfund, markedsføring, kunst, noget, der peger udad – links til andre
- propaganda
- viden på tværs, spændende oplægsholdere/events
- uv.-planlægning, bemanding, bachelor, erhvervsakademi
- emner med en kunstnerisk/æstetisk vinkel, noget som handler om det visuelle
- problemstillinger vil være gode at bringe frem her, temadage, vejledning, noget socialt, fx om kulturmødet ml. de internationale stud.
- noget a la skriftestol, tværfagligt, filosofi, personlig refleksion
- noget meget konkret/tæt på 4. sem.undervisningen
- internt: Pædagogik, fagligt. Eksternt: forholdet til og samarbejdet med erhvervsliv/organisationer/kulturelle institutioner
- Multimediedesigns fremtid -IT-bachelor, digital kommunikation. Diskussion om hvad der sker i den virtuelle verden, i alle fire fagområder og hvordan vi kan integrere nye tendenser i vores undervisning
- Faglig vidensdeling med input fra og om konferencer, kurser, bøger og links. Pædagogisk vidensdeling med samme slags input. Evt. som logbog for semesterteamet.
- Design
- kunst, arkitektur, robotter, computerspil, dramaturgi, sociologi – i en moderne, teknologisk kontekst, sociale repræsentationer i det virtuelle rum, personifikation og identifikation i den hhv, virtuelle og virkelige verden, kunstig intelligens, film – og gerne fremtidsfilm, lyd i interaktive medier, interaktive medier generelt; HMI (eller MMI på dansk)
- faglige, nye tiltag; klassiske problemstillinger, som mange oplever
- teknologisk udvikling, som har betydning for brugen af WEB 2.0

6. Tror du at bloggen vil kunne støtte din egen læring/selvudvikling?

Ja: 8
Ja, måske, på visse betingelser: 9
Nej: 7

7. Hvad tror du der er bloggen største force?

- tilgængelighed: 4
- dialog: 9
- demokratisk: 5
- højner viden: 4
- dokumentation: 3
- underholdningsværdi: 2
- nå andre målgrupper: 2
- bekræftelse:1
- kontinuitet: 1
- den personlige tilgang: 1
- uformel: 3
- skriftlighed: 1

8. Hvad synes du overordnet om blogging som fænomen?

Generel positiv indstilling: 5
Det er bare ét blandt andre tilbud: 3
Det er overvurderet: 4
Godt til vidensdeling: 2

Problematiserende kommentarer:
Flere efterlyser målgruppe(r)/formål/”højere mening” med bloggen
”Vi har ikke defineret behovet og analyseret dets løsning og hvilket medie, der evt. kan dække det. Derfor vil det kun blive båret af ildsjæle.”

En spørger om ikke den ”kan integreres i noget allerede eksisterende” og en synes
”ikke vi behøver at eje den. Synes vi skal bruge FaceBook i stedet.”

Om blog og vidensdeling siges der bl.a.
” Ser et behov for videndeling i form af et community, men tror ikke løsningen er en blog, det er for begrænset” og ” fælles frokostbord, som vi har, har endnu større værdi.”

En synes at blogs er ”et overskudsfænomen for eliten, for skrivende holdningsmennesker.”
En er ”utryg ved overvågningen og den flydende afgrænsning mellem privat og offentlig.”
Et par stykker tror at det ”kan blive en opvisning i hvem-ved-mest, det kræver mod at vise sin usikkerhed og stille spørgsmål.”

Flere fremhæver betydning af at der ”ikke er anonymitet, som kan give grobund for personlige/perfide kommentarer” og at ”bloggerne lægger et niveau, der kan give den et godt ry”:
” Jeg læser ind imellem blogs på nyhedssites. De indlæg, der er skrevet af bloggeren selv, er generelt interessante og velformulerede, men havde gjort sig lige så godt i et andet medie. Til gengæld er de øvrige deltagere en bande tågehorn og landsbytosser, og 95% af dem er mænd, nok på grund af den aggressive og konfrontatoriske tone. Der er langt mellem de interessante og velskrevne indlæg. Alle så at sige taler i munden på hinanden. Det er meget svært at følge en tråd gennem bloggen.”

En talerstol/støj
Overfladisk
Unødvendigt
Tiden er løbet fra den
Det er en dille

Positive kommentarer:

Blogs kan ”gemme viden.”
Blogging giver mulighed for at ”lave en redigeret ”udskæring” af virkeligheden.”
Godt pga ”den personlige tilgang.”
Flere foreslår at ”bloggen deles op i flere og struktureres i emner.”
Blogs kommunikerer ofte med ”undergrunden.”
Blogs er ”et godt medie til at kommunikere om problemer.”

GG/28.04.2008

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This is not a corporate blog…

May 5, 2008 – 6:31 am

For some time I have refrained from writing on this blog though I have taken part in the blog project group, the meetings and planning ahead of the internal launch of the blog for the lecturers of MMD. Why is that? I have given myself several reasons – one of the more dominating being scarcity of time. Another reason was that I’d probably not had anything on my mind of interest. A third reason was the casual personal style and content matter of the blog medium, a writing modus which lies light years from the writing habits I have acquired for better and – especially – for worse, through year-long academical studies.

The real reason, however, I have come to think, was that the feeling of committing a sort of trespassing. When you once have crossed the line from employee to employer you have first and foremost waved goodbye to creativity and profundity by selling your soul to the bottom line figures. More over you gradually takes on a representative persona, that cannot display personal style and opinions just like that. The written statements and opinions of the management have to – and will always be suspected to – be strategic and political. A challenge indeed for a blog-writer in spe.

Corporate blogs where the strategic and political considerations outweigh more spontaneous and personal reflections might be a useful marketing tool. And that’s about it. If we are interested in boosting interaction and fun we better forget about the corporate thing. According to complex theories it will show anyhow…

And there is no strategic or political reason for me writing in English. I just happen to like the language. I think it’s a very nice aspect of our blog that it is bilingual ;-)

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