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Bit.ly – now with QR codes built-in
TweetThe possibly best URL shortener bit.ly not only has cool statistics for each shortened URL, now the also prepare a QR code for your URL. For example the bit.ly URL for the University of Paderborn...
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Looking for REAL technology-enhanced learning?
TweetTim O’Reilly just tweeted about an experiment that is so damn awesome, I’d like to share it with you (also see the post here). A father and son from Brooklyn, New York sent an iPhone and a HD...
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Educating Educators with Social Media
TweetTogether with my colleague Nina Heinze (KMRC in Tübingen, Germany) I described the goals and design of our exploratory seminar “Future Social Learning Networks” in a book edited by Charles Wankel....
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Experimenting with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
TweetCurrently we are running an interview series on awareness issues and visions to overcome them in the context of distributed research communities. During the EC-TEL conference some weeks ago,...
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CfP: 1st International Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Research...
TweetTogether with my colleagues Nina Heinze and Thomas Ullmann, I’m currently in the process of organizing a workshop on awareness and reflection in the context of (distributed) research communities....
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Facebook no longer cool
TweetIn a recent post by Graham Attwell I read a cool quote about the declining interest in Facebook that research by WPP Group’s Mindshare suggests. The global director for research said: When you...
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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for interview transcriptions
TweetIn two earlier posts I reported about my tests with Amazon’s MTurk for transcribing interviews I did in the context of my Ph.D. First of all, I’d like to mention that all-in-all I’m satisfied with...
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The Future of Social Analytics
TweetRecently, I stumbled upon a slide deck on SlideShare by Dion Hinchcliffe that deals with the topic of analyzing social media in the context of knowledhe work. I found some slides ver useful, so...
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Freaky wireless technology
TweetWhile all geeks are waiting for even more wireless technologies to arrive (where is the widespread availabilty of wireless power???) there are some folks that might find this a bit freaky… Thanks...
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Simplifying the Scientific Writing and Review Process with SciFlow
TweetOur article “Simplifying the Scientific Writing and Review Process with SciFlow” (PDF version) in the Journal Future Internet has been published today. The whole review and publishing process in...
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Are you using the Mac App Store
TweetSimple question: are you using Apple’s new cash cow? #bbpBox_25341819302707200 a { text-decoration:none; color:#C04127; }#bbpBox_25341819302707200 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }#poll Let's...
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Having fun with MTurk transcriptions
TweetYesterday Christian Mletzko pointed me to some interesting transcriptions we received for our awareness interviews from some MTurk workers. They are so funny I have to share them with you: What...
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EC-TEL 2011: Call for Paper is online
TweetIt’s time for the 2011 EC-TEL conference. The sixth edition of the European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning will take place in Palermo (Italy), 20-23 September 2011. Save the date and...
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GINKGO. Coming soon
TweetRight now we are building a cool new tool that will help you in organizing and taking part in scientific events. Another core focus is to support indiviudal and group awareness processes, so you...
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Analyzing interactions in Twitter. The case of an exploratory seminar
TweetIn this post I’ll explore the social interactions in Twitter that were made by participants and supervisors of an exploratory seminar as well as the external experts that joined the discussion....
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What’s the purpose of education?
TweetThere is this interesting question going around right now asking „What is the purpose of education?“ I already posted my point of view on Twitter but I’ll try to extend this here in less than 500...
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TwapperKeeper is shutting down their API
TweetToday TwapperKeeper announced that they will shut down their API as well as the export and download capabilities on March 20, 2011. We regret to inform our users that on March 20, 2011 we will be...
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Neues Institut der Universität Paderborn: e-lab
TweetIn der letzten Woche hatten wir an der Universität Paderborn ein freudiges Ereignis zu feiern: mit dem e-lab haben wir ein neues Institut konstituiert, dass sich mit der Entwicklung und Erprobung...
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Another PLE_BCN Twitter visualization
TweetWe are still exploring ways to best visualize topical relations between Tweets. This time we used Artefact-Actor-Networks and Gephi to build a zoomable graph of hashtag-connected tweets. We took...
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Why study Computer Science?
TweetI found a great presentation on why to study Computer Science. Thanks Erik for pointing me there. Why study Computer Science? View more presentations from Bart Van Loon
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