I just got Roger Säljö’s new book Lärande och kulturella redskap (Learning and cultural tools). I am looking forward to reading it. I have a very high opinion of Säljö’s work and he discusses important things such as mediation, symbols and artefacts in relation to learning (and a socio-cultural view of learning).
Yesterday E-Crit: Digital [...]

The crashed removable hard disk I recently blogged about turned out to be difficult to repair. Freezing and opening it up did not help and the tech guy seems rather pessimistic about the possibility of saving any data. This means that I have lost some data but as the data came from a latop I [...]

As readers of the blog may have noticed digital devices in my belonging lead a difficult life. Or possibly the reverse. I am a heavy computer user, I travel a great deal and I try new things out willingly. For instance, I need a latop durable enough to last in my backpack on my travels [...]

On Tuesday I will do a talk on “Intertwined channels: Communicative practices on Web 2.0″ at the FUMS conference (pdf program) at Uppsala University. Procrastinating and preparing I have spent some time installing a new version of FeedDemon and also a a new desktop search tool (Copernicus). I am a long-time user of X1 but [...]

This is a photo Willard Mccarty took when we went on an excursion to Vindeln this past Saturday.

It was great having Willard visiting. And spring is coming!

Having read about Inform 7 I am toying with the idrea of having a short course in HUMlab on interactive fiction. I think we should.