Archive for April, 2004

new Katherine Hayles book?

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This book looks interesting (not listed in many places – I found it at Amazon UK):
Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience
N. Katherine Hayles (Editor)
It is new – maybe not even available. I can’t find on the publisher’s website. Here is a description (UCLA, NANO).

finding the right term

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For a rather long time I have been trying to find literature on physical-intellectual spaces. There does not seem to be a lot out there. I did find some work on the philosophy of space. Today, however, I found a term that helped: “personal space” – through this article (example). It is used in [...]

mobile gaming

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Jill reports about a big EU program on mobile and pervasive gaming (about

elarning source

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Lesley told me about the proceedings from the Networked Learning conference in April. Quite a number of articles, presentations and papers. Among others I found “Rethinking Virtual Space as a Place for Sociability: Theory and Design Implications” (Ponti and Ryberg) promising.

dead or alive?

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cycles

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I guess that one sign of age is that you start to see structures and large-scale patterns to your life. It took quite a few years until I realized that I go to the US twice a year (professionally). Something that originally was something new and a somewhat on-the-spur thing has become a habit. Likewise [...]

computer-assissted language learning

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I have just had a look at Ken Beatty’s Computer-assisted Language Learning.
This book covers a lot – emergence of CALL, hypertext, games, models of instruction, call research and many other things. I do not mind that – after all my blog is called Patrik’s Sprawl. But I do think that many things are covered [...]

managing the flow

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Doing a bit of writing in one of the university caf

spring elsewhere

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Lesley – my friend in Milton Keynes – just sent me this photo of clematis in her garden.

Somehow it seems as if we are lagging behind. Not too much snow but a rather chilly day today.
Soon time for dinner with Jordan Zlatev. He commented on my Ph.D. thesis ages ago and is now doing [...]

interrupt culture

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For some time now Bruce Damer, I and some other people have been planning an interrupt culture project. It is about time to make that happen. Interrupt Culture is one of the HUMlab Themes and we hope to bring together people from different disciplines. The focus will be on understanding-analyzing as well as creating-changing.