A regularly updated list of papers presented at conferences since 2003.

This paper describes a way of working with teaching in a field like new media; a method of teaching in a fast evolving field, where people more and more must teach themselves in order to keep up with the development in the techniques and trends. The paper outlines a course held in the autumn of 2003 in Arcada a Swedish speaking polytechnic in Finland.

The idea of representing ideas or thoughts diagrammatically is not a recent one. However the current usages of the terms “mind mapping” and “concept mapping” are relatively recent.

Here are the titles of the modules for the digital multimedia course at Arcada (a university of applied science).

Harold Jarche posted a short but interesting piece yesterday entitled The Future of Learning is DIY.

Marinetta is the capital city of Rosario, a fictitious island situated in the Mediterranean Sea. It is also the title of an ongoing educational multimedia project that began in June 2002 and is intended to last for a minimum of five years.

A few guides and links for anybody puzzled by using ftp (or by what it is!).

Two themes emerged at the LoW conference last week. Neither had been planned in advance, although some people who attended suspected otherwise. The first theme was Second Life as an educational tool. The second was identity.

Two Dutch students, Sebastiaan Schelfaut and Matthias Buyle, who are studying architecture at the University of Ghent, Belgium, wrote to Arcada last week to ask if we would take part in a survey about our use of…

This is the thesis, published directly from Scribd. It is an example of the kind of distributed publishing that I have written about in and around the thesis.

This is the thesis, published directly from Zoho. It is an example of the kind of distributed publishing that I have written about in and around the thesis.

My thesis – Memi: a tool for cultural democracy – was “finished” last month, which is to say that it arrived at a point where I felt I could show it to people without leaving the room. It was accepted, and last Friday I walked on stage at LUME and received my MA certificate. You can read the thesis here, courtesy of Scribd or Zoho. You can also download a copy from Box.net.

The Microlearning Page on Wikipedia is a good starting point for understanding what this emergent concept is actually being used for. Here are some other links too.

Some passing thoughts about the choices we have made to use social software as the basis of our own administration.

The photographs listed here are available for download. They are used in the one-day Photoshop Foundations workshop, and they are also available for you to use for any other exercises.

Sources of information about PuTTY and WinSCP, and a brief clue as to what they are…

Sometime after the sauna last night I found myself thinking about the navigation system that I had cheerfully announced yesterday as finished. And suddenly it seemed obvious that it was very, very wrong. Working out why it was wrong, though, was not easy.

I found an interesting online paper called Unconventional Reading by Jason Craft, which looks at what comics can teach us about reading hypertexts.

This paper outlines the second stage in the development of a long-term project at Arcada Polytechnic. Marinetta is an online multi-user 3D depicting the capital of the island Rosario at the south of the Mediterranean Sea. Marinetta is intended to provide a virtual community with a real sense of location, and to offer distance education in the college on the island. Marinetta has provided a platform for practical student projects in the areas of production, design, and programming as well as for thesis projects involving experiment, research and analysis, and facilitating cooperation between departments.

Interacting with Immersive Worlds will be held on June 5-6, 2007 at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Later that same year, E-Learn 2007 will be held on October 15-19, at the Quebec City Convention Centre in Quebec City, Canada.

This is a short piece that I wrote for the first session of the epedagogy course called Epedagogy, Learning and Second Life. It contains a set of useful links.

In a comment on a blog that commented on Zoho’s recent successes I found a link to Wrike, which offers free or paid-for online project management software. I looked through their site, although I have not tried the software yet.