Being There In The Unevenly Distributed Future

Flexible Learning Framework Tour October 2007

Being Therein the unevenly distributed future

Alan LevineThe New Media

Consortium

Australian Flexible Learning Framework Tour October 2007

Who is Chance?

“Being There”

(1979)


Standing on the Shoulders…

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disclaimer

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Send a Signal

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Start With The #*@% Demo!

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Facing the Future…

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Or Facing the Future?

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Expert-iness


Trust and Truth


Standup and Shout

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I Don’t Have to be a technology expert!


How does it feel?

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We are the network

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Expertise is in our networks


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Connectivism


what if?


Let’s Start with a Dumb Statement

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the internet is really big

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Google Stopped Counting

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Technorati: Blog Growth

Technorati State of the Live Web, April 2007

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Measure By Daffodils

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Seeing Networks

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18,000,000 facebook

users!44,000,000

90% of US college students have Facebook accounts, and half of them login every day.11.4 million, or 33% of the Canadian population, has joined Facebook as of June 2007Facebook’s Australian population grew by 80% in June 2007


“Being” in the network

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All of This for Everyone?

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A Riff on Cover Bands

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What I Learned from Johnny Cash

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Advice Has A Shelf Life


The Dumbest Thing I’ve Heard of…


The Twitter Life Cycle

CogDogBlog Apr 26, 2007


Twittery Demo

Tweet via the web, IM, phone, app

Twittervision

RSS to Twitter

Twittercamp


Library RSS FeedRemote CollaborationJohn Edwards’ Friends

Productivity?Can Twitter Save Lives?

Church TwitteringServer Monitoring

ZombieAttack, TwitterLitBookTwo

BBC, NPR, CNN, more

Then It Gets Interesting


Really Interesting


Twitter and other constant-contact media create social proprioception. They give a group of people a sense of itself, making possible weird, fascinating feats of coordination. -- Clive Thomson, Wired June 2007

How Twitter Creates a Social Sixth Sense

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Lessons Learned


Looking in From the Outside

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Blaming Technology for Content

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What you see…

• Inane babbling

What it affords

• web+mobile

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Attributes 2.0 Implications

Does ‘One’ Thing

Multiple Inputs

One Click Connect

RSS

Open API

Customizable

Focused (?)

Plays Well with Others

Friends / Contacts

Republish / Connect

New Free Tools

Personalize


Silly Cats


Did You Ever Think There is a Community For…

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“I Like To Watch”


Being Anywhere


Unknown Flowers

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Commenting

Comment Blogging

François Lachance (Comment Blogger)

Flickr Comment on 3 Year Old Photo

A Week in Feb 2007

Flickr Contacts

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And now for something completely different…

but not so different


“Being” in Second Life

NMC Campus Observer July 4 2006 Space Shuttle Lift Off


Theater Workshop

NMC Campus Observer Second Life Theater Workshop


Gathering in SL

NMC Campus


Too Much?


SNF


On “Keeping Ahead”

Gardner Campbell, University of Mary Washington

Vidya Ananthanarayanan, Trinity University

Philip Long, MIT

George Siemens, University of Manitoba


“Being” Tips

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Sense of Play

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Everyone’sFavoriteSubject

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May NotKnow / See/ LikeAudience

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Mistakes OK

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“If it drops, pick it up”


Document, Leave Tracks

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Just Bring PeopleTogether

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Alfredo & QuestionsWhere do we draw boundary

between personal and academic?

What happens if we ignore what’s outside the walls?

Who drives decision making?How do we engage / inspire without needing “control”?


Facing the Future…

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Or Facing the Future?

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Long Tail

From photo of my friend Harry


I am an optimist.

It does not seem too much use being anything else

-- Winston Churchill

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Launch Rotten Tomatoes

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