Archive for May, 2005

new Swedish blog

For a rather long time now I have found myself missing an academic-personal website that I used to revisit in the past – not often but now and then. Among other things it contained articles that this person had written – both scholarly articles and other material, most notably newspaper articles/columns. After a conflict with [...]

Jane

We have Jane McGonigal visiting us at present and we went for a trip today. It has been a marvellous day – very sunny in Ume

audio, bluetooth and stuff

Ravi inspired me to think about audio and consider how I work with audio digitally. At the symposium I told the crowd there that I would attempt to listen to audio books and lectures at 150-200% speed on my cell phone while skating (thus imitating Ravi:). Joking apart I really feel that there is a [...]

post symposium

The big language education and information technology symposium ended an hour or so ago. It has been a very intense and very rewarding couple of days. Peope seemed very happy about the event and there was lots of good energy, people making connections, practical examples, interesting technology and most important – a mixed and most [...]

featured on the UCIT web

http://www.ucit.umu.se/main.php?view=n/9 (in Swedish)

good answer

Today was a rather hectic day in the lab with lots of things going on at the same time. We had a most interesting coffee break in the morning with some music band people (some of them Polish), Stephanie’s Polish apple pie, Stephanie doing recordings for a podcast, Ravi who told us about playing books [...]

forthcoming books

Katherine Hayles’ new book is scheduled to be published in October 2005.
Discourse in Action: Introducing Mediated Discourse Analysis will be published in November 2005.

SVG presentation

After listening to Wendell Piez’s talk at a conference last summer I got interested in using zoom-based presentation interfaces rather than the traditional and rather sequential PowerPoint-type presentation interface.
This past week I did a course on information and communication tools for academics and class on computer enhanced presentations. I tried creating an experimental SVG (Scalable [...]

CALL history

Stephen Bax’s new article can be found here (pdf).