Phew,
flat made ready for sub-letters.
Arrangements for travelling almost complete.
Everything looks good! Going to blog very sporadically here until the end of may 04.
Blogging from New Zealand here.
See you around.

Finally! I've turned in my master thesis and am now oficially out of school...
Below the abstract from my thesis:

This thesis takes an analytic view on the potential use of weblogs as a tool in teaching writing, with an offset in weblogs as a platform for the collaboration of writing groups. Furtermore, this thesis surveys the general recommendations in writing pedagogy to find ways of combining weblog technology and writing pedagogy.
The first part of the thesis describes the weblog as a phenomenon in relation to general educational uses, and dissects the standardfuntions of the weblog to provide the reader with an introduction in and understanding of the technology upon which the weblog is based.
The second part very specifically analyses how the weblog as an Internet based tool of communication supports the writing group in relation to aspects such as feedback and revision of texts. Furtermore the thesis offers ideas on how to use weblogs as electronic portfolios and digital research papers as a tool to inspire the reflective student.
The thesis concludes that weblogs still cannot match the existing word-processing tools regarding revision and commenting on texts. Instead, the thesis offers some recommendations on and examples of the use of weblogs as a personal and collaborative learning tool.

Mens jeg i halvtrance sidder og skriver løs i alle ender af mit speciale, får jeg skrevet dette i min vurdering af en endnu ung weblog-teknologi:

Jeg har nævnt de små reklameprogrammer der udnytter webloggens åbne kommentarfelter – et forsigtigt bud vil være at den relativt ubeskyttede trackbackfunktion vil være næste mål for de individer der lukrerer på at sprede meddelelser om penisforlængelser og falske universitetsdiplomer til mennesker som i begge henseender har den ægte vare i forvejen.

Det kan jeg jo ikke skrive, for jeg har ikke afleveret skiderikken endnu...

Denne julemåned er for mig på mange måder atypisk - højt stressniveau, ingen julestemning *overhovedet* og en julekalender jeg bare synes er for sjov. Se den! Du kan ta' det! Hver dag på dr2, klokken 22.15.
- nå, arbejdet kalder...

Having slept 4 hours this night and pushing my thesis deadline, I stumbled upon these zen stories to tell your neighbors as I did some stress-relieving blog-hopping. My overheating brain fizzles as the soothing calm of buddist logic enters my head...

[via diveintomark.org]

It's not the Matrix yet, but there is definately an upcoming trend of merging leisure and electronics in a cyborgish way. This article brings the news of gameplaying experience being enhanced by electrical microcurrents to the inner ear.
Alledgedly the sensation of locomotive videogames such as car or flight simulators is affected.
Who knows - maybe one day my idea of the blinking diode-piercing will come through...

Update 11.12.03:
I apparently screwed up linking the relevant article (thanks for Noticing, Dalager). I also forgot to mention that I found it via Gizmodo. I guess I better allow my self more than 4 hours sleep a night...

Update 11.12.03 - some hours later:
The cyborg trend appears everywhere I look - lately on jill/txt with a link to a computer game controlled by moodswings picked up by some enhanced jewellery...

Mark Bernstein internet writer, storyteller and probably a lot more has some good pointers for writing to the web.
I guess the general message is to express all facets of the perosn you are when writing to the living web. I am trying to get that idea aligned/combined with writing in academia. Here your personality is made out of the assignments you turn in, and even if you turn very personal papers in all the time, the identity that most people convey through writing is limited to their professional or educational contexts. Yes, the increase in text communication generally may result in an increase of expressing yourself through writing, but that writing is not public in the same way as academic writing. So what I am pithcing at here and in my thesis is that teaching writing could benefit from using web logs as a way to get students to explore their writing identities to a fuller extent, merging the identities of different writing contexts.

Although I have the greatest belief in computers and their capacities, a thing that they just can't do is to provide a full text, easy editable, WYSIWYG overview over long texts.
And thus my basic outline tool came to the rescue once again...

I've been trying to hide my socalled receeding hairline with the sporty close-cut look to imply that my baldiness was voluntary. It is not so, and I've decided to try out a new strategy - commonly known as 'confuse the enemy'. I've therefore applied zebra-stripes to the top of my head, hoping that no one will pay notice to my lack of hair - as they say: 'Less is more'.

You say '?' - I say '!!'

The use of strike through when writing texts on the internet, can be seen as an application of the rhetorical figure paralipsis, which can be used foolishly ironically, stating and drawing attention to something in the very act of pretending to pass it over. This is mainly a figure used in spoken language, but here the demonstration of one's first thoughts adds to the message.
Examples: Monitoring Dalager and Justblog
See the long list of figures and tropes.

I've been wondering how they do that, but apparently it isn't that hard. Instructions here.

Respondig to the range of educational possibilites of ICTs, Unesco has released a publication on education in virtual settings.
The publication has three major chapters:

Well, yesterday I helped my girlfriend buy a .dk domain and a webhotel in order to set up a weblog for her (that is a good thing!).
Being very happy with the way MT works that was my first option. Unfortunately the webhotelproviders at Surftown don't want to enable cgi-scrips for security reasons. So, after som cursing, I began a search for php-based weblog applications. I first encountered nucleus and installed that, but it doesn't support trackback etc, so the search went on. This morning Jens pointed me in the direction of WordPress which looks very promising. Unfortunately I am quite in writing mode for now, so I'll have to restrain myself from burrying myself in the installation and modification for now...

Now here is a weblog on rhetoric and commuication that takes the verbose potential that I see i weblogs to the fullest extent I have seen this far. The blogger, a PhD researcher, has quite a theoretically solid interrest in teaching composition with commuication technology, it seems. The considerations here are combined with a sociological/socio-political view on teaching and education.
I found his site searching for thouhts on ownership of texts published digitally in a writing pedagogy framework.
This post has some good views and thoughts on that. But man, the verbosity...

Doug Brent, professor at Calgary University, has written quite a few essays on rhetoric and communication, he is also co-editor of EJournal, whose current issue bears the title Social Networking in the Online Classroom: Foundations of Effective Online Learning.

It just dawned to me that using the 'title' attribute when linking is an excellent tool for providing 'departure information', adressing some of Landow's concerns on the rhetoric of arrival and departure in hyperlinks. See his books on amazon.
It's quite simple really:
<a title="this is where the information goes" href="http://thesite of interrest">The link tekst</a> - which renders like this: The link tekst
It took me a little while to figure out to use & l t; (without spaces) instead of the left angle symbol: < to get the actual html-code showing...
I guess there is a simpler/cooler way of doing this, but at least this works.

Anyhow, the discussion of how to use link-information goes on. Jacob Nielsen has some thougths on that. For the moderate view go here.
(thanx to Jens and Kristian for participating in a discussion of the above)

Found this excelent summary from Peter Elbow and Pat Belanoff, Sharing and Responding. Again a lot of uses of feedback that easily transform to a theory of using weblogs in a writing pedagogical setting.

Trying to explain the advantages of using weblogs as a tool for learning I see two major aspects in this matter:

Well, just a quick little link to remind me of the fact that ownership of the content of student weblogs is another aspect of the fact that personal publishing systems could be An Easy Route to a Classroom Web Presence.

Ja, der er så sket en del siden jeg modtog edb-undervisning i folkeskolen... Faldt over denne publikation fra undervisningsministeriet da jeg ledte efter lidt info om folkeskolernes brug af computere i skriveundervisningsøjemed.
Jeg må erkende at det ud fra disse tal ikke ser helt så sløjt ud med computeradgangen i de danske folkeskoler som jeg af og til går og tror... - Dog tillader jeg mig en hvis forbeholden skepsis indtil jeg har syn for sagn eller førstehåndsberetninger fra hverdagen på en folkeskole.

Jeg ved ikke meget om kaospiloterne, deres meget omtalte uddannelse eller hvorfor DF (hov) Dansk Folkeparty og andre absolut vil have at de skal nedlægges. Jeg ved dog at jeg har en tendens til at holde med dem DF ikke kan lide og det ville derfor gøre mig meget glad hvis de stakkels piloter overlevede - jeg er ikke 1gang sikker på at jeg har lyst til at se flere kaospiloter end dem der arbejder i Finnair lande...
Nå, men skulle nogen udi billedmanipulation begavede mennesker falde over denne opfordring til at lave et mere tjekket banner og sporte det på deres weblog, t-shirt eller andet medie, er opfordringen hermed givet videre.

Dette kunne endda vinde hævd som Politisk Stencil-tryk... Foregangsmænd i denne disciplin er (si min verden) pollas.dk og dalager.com

Well, I know I may be a little premature on this one, but when I get a job and recieve real money that I can spend thoughtlessly, I'm going to get either a flycatcher or a mechanical humping dog...
You say '?' - I say '!!'

Reflecting on the effects of the asynchronity that often characterizes the dialogue taking place in the comments of a weblog post, it seems that distributed teaching may cause the participants to use the teacher in a dispersed manner – which forces the teacher to either attend student needs as they appear or to attend them in allocated time slots, much like ordinary consultations. It is therefore quite important to establish an agreement of teaching and responding modus between students and teacher. Misconceptions of work format and mode of feedback can lead students to feel neglected, because the students expect immediate feedback to their questions.
Agreement on matters of activity from both students and teachers is therefore an important issue to clarify, when implementing a weblog in teaching.

Once again I stumbled across an article on using weblogs in education, this time actually focusing on the weblog as a writing tool. Article here.

This frequent blogging of articles and resources of interrest makes it clear that I soonish should do a sum-up (also known as regurgitation) of the recent posts. That would also give some url to that sites-of-interrest list...

Research blogs is the writer's own words "an annotated list of weblogs that are used by researchers and academics as a part of their research practice".
This list demonstrates that a research weblogs are widely used. I found the research blog list via this site - which also lists different approaches to using weblogs in research and teaching. That site was found via this post on weblogg-ed (I need to do something about that 'sites of interrest'-list soon).
To conclude my tale of this morning's surfing I also came across this article on the barriers for using e-learning in education, found via the elearnspace blog.

This seems to be a recurring subject for me, but nonetheless I am still contemplating the differences, pros and cons to these two platforms.
This blog is maintained through MT and that works nicely - I am beginning to get the draft of how Tags etc are used, but am at the same time made aware of the features that MT (and weblogs in general) lack in order to be a good teaching platform - which is my ultimate goal.
On drupal.org there's a discussion of Drupal vs MT where some of the differences between the two and the most common feature requests (according to the writer) are listed.
In my world, what I need for MT to work better as a teaching platform is this:

...well that Matrix quote sounds reasonable and thus I embarked on a tour of 'which [concept] are you' that the internet holds such an abundance of. Each concept carries a description and the result is that

The result is that if I were an OS I'd be Windows XP: "Under my bright and cheerful exterior is a strong and stable personality. I have a tendency to do more than what is asked or even desired". My evilmeter points at 'neutral', alledgedly because "I am able to control my inner deamons and often find myself in the peacemaking role." Oddly my villain test renders me as a super villain "I have an incredible amount of power over people, although I am short tempered with a tendency to blow things up." My nearest match is Lex Luthor.
If taking part in 'The Matrix' I'd be Tank: "Loyal till the end, sparing no expense in ensuring the well-being of others". My Star Wars alignment test tells me that my moral standings are those of a true jedi "a keeper of peace -and when that fails lightsabering my foe's asses from here to Tatooine (I dont' know if there's a geourl for that...). My pre-85 videogame-character-alter-ego(that's a long word!) is the Jet-Pacman - "I love the outdoors; the sense of freedom, of adventure. I love the sensation of free-fall, and would parachute and bungee jump on a moment's notice." (Now, that is precise!)
It seems that I taste like either peanut butter "...one of the most blendable flavours; I go with sweet, I go with sour, I go with bland, I go with anything..."
or
menthol - "refreshingly different, but something of an acquired taste; some people don't appreciate that." Maybe there is a market niche for menthol-peanut butter...
Adding to that - i am a striped ,friendly 2.

Although I find myself blogging quite frequently - I only scored 48/100 on the Blogaholic-test...
I can live with that. To score 100/100 I should probably take the last zillion quizzes out there and include them in this little survey.

But that could be remedied if you told me what results and quizzes you have taken lately.

Ja, altså denne her studietur ville jeg da meget gerne have deltaget i - desværre løb den af stablen i 1997...
Her er dog i mine øjne en guldgrube af formidlende tekst/referater af møder med koryfæerne inden for moderne skrivepædagogik: Hillocks, Flowers, Hayes, Hawisher og mange flere.
- og manglen på opmærksomhed omkring weblogs som skriveundervisningsredskab er jeg jo ved at afhjælpe...

It also seems that O'Reilly has taken som interrest in MovableType. Here an introduction to making your own Movable Type Plug-ins. Found this looking for further news on blogging via Word (in this post).

Writing on the use of weblogs contra conventional wordprocessors it struck me that a word-plugin, enabling posting to a weblog would be very handy in many situations. For plugin wishlist see also this post.
Update 30 minutes later...:
It seems innovation and implementation moves faster than me today - introducing wordblogger. Tadaa. Haven't tried it out yet, but it looks promising. Discussion of installing and use here.

This is veeery cool. As weird as Virtual Juggling may sound it is quite realistic - you can actually drop balls!!! Being a juggling deity myself it is quite relieving to see that balls can actually be dropped... (warning: irony usage)

...says The exponent online. Well hopefully that's only the beginning of a new trend.
(via kairosnews.org)

Well, KO agains provides good thinking and linking. This post puts words to quite a few of the aspects one has to consider when spreading the weblog gospel.
When I get around to making a blogroll...

Dette er en test af trackback mellem MT og b2 applikationerne. Og kan desuden også passende danne ramme om en lille hurtigskriver om trackbackfunktionen. Jeg har linket til Jens' indlæg Søgemaskiner og retorik istedet for at kommentere det på hans side. Ved at trackbacke opnår jeg både at få større frihed, mere plads og mulighed for at redigere min kommentar til ovennævnte indlæg. Ovenikøbet hiver jeg på den måde også besøgende til denne side, hvilket i mange web-henseender er en god ting...

Ser man på forskelle og ligheder mellem kommetarer og trackbacks, er begge diskurs-specifikke, men mens kommentar-funktionen ofte er direkte møntet på indlægget (lokalt kommenterende) kan trackbacken bruges meta-diskursivt. Trackbacklinket på Jens' side fortæller at jeg har gjort mig tanker om dette indlæg, men kan sagtens være mere relateret til genren end indlægget specifikt.

Sættes dette ind i en undervisningsmæssig sammenhæng, kan man for eksempel bruge kommentarfunktionen som det sker på /skriv, hvor kommentarerne er skrivegruppens svar på selve indlægget. I forhold til dette kan studerende pinge et oplæg fra en underviser med relevante indlæg.

Set i forhold til brugen af porteføljeg fungerer den studerendes egen weblog som en samlet portefølje, hvor man så kan vælge at pinge andre eller sende links for at få feedback på specifikke tekster.

Update:
se virtualvenus' beskrivelse af brugen af trackback og de muligheder det åbner.

This white paper from perseus documents the growth in the blogosphere. Quoting:

Based on the rapid growth rate demonstrated by the leading services, we expect the number of hosted blogs created to exceed five million by the end of 2003 and to exceed ten million by the end of 2004.

Hmm. The figures sound impressive - altough the withepaper concludes that approximately 66% of the blogs are abandoned shortly after being created. Also, the statistics does not account for bloggers with multiple blogs. Still 1.6 mio blogs updated at a regular basis is quite a few.

The below offense must be memorized and used on later occasion:

I'm sorry, I'm afraid I subscribe to the theory of intellectual osmosis. As such, I must now cease our conversation before my intelligence begins to drop. Good day

Found here.

Okay, så jeg søger på trådløs fjernsyn fordi jeg har en plan om at se tv på min computerskærm. En google giver blandt andet et resultat fra Kelkoo.com:



Jeg lader teksten tale for sig selv, men jeg er altså ikke sikker på at jeg leder efter trådløse fjernsynsløsninger med de ekstrafunktioner...

The Computer Writing and Research Lab at University of Texas has lauched a whitepaper series where 'current thoughts on technology-enhanced research, [and] teaching' among other things are being explored.
Of particular interest to me and my course of study is this paper on using weblogs to create classroom community.
Albeit short and superficial, the paper has some good perspectives on the use of weblogs in education.

Update 01.11.03
There are a lot of good papers out on the use of weblogs in education. This .edu specific google on weblog+education renders some 10000 results. One of which is this short text on the basics of teaching with weblogs.

Here a short and enlightening discussion of different way to deny directory browsing?. The feature seems handy when you have an archive that looks messy but contains folders necessary for the archive structure.

Jeg har længe villet gøre opmærksom på T3 - et magasin der tager dimsofile folk som mig alvorligt. Her kan man finde anmeldelser af det seneste elektronik og vejledninger i at udnytte den elektronik der er. Når jeg vinder i lotte vil denne side blive startside i min browser...

...is a method for integrating writing pedagogy and more subject specific teaching. WAC has the benefit that the writing produced actually has a purpose; products of WAD can be used both as a learning method in terms of writing as well as legal papers in specific subject areas.
WAC began in the 1980 and have since been the subject of many articles. Here is an overview of the general articles regarding writing across the curriculum.

Der er herre-sokker på tilbud i magasin! :-) 10 par for 200 kroner!
Det er billigt for kvalitetssokker med uldforstærket hål og tå... De fås i sort, lys grå, beige og koksgrå. Der er størst udvalg i str. 40-43, men der er også mange sokker at hente i str. 44-47.

UNI-C har en e-learning-afdeling (surprise...) og har samlet en del links til artikler og ressourcer. Det undrer mig lidt at jeg ikke har set denne side endnu; UNI-C har en vis autoritet/autencitet og udgør derfor en glimrende kilde til henvisninger etc. Mange af de artikler jeg har fundet frem indtil videre har den svaghed at de ikke har en akademisk 'sponsor' - UNI-C linker til mange af de kilder jeg har i forvejen.
Desuden kan man også finde en præcis og letforståelig definition af elearning.

Today I became aware that my fancy for MT as courseware might have been the result of my ignorance. Some of the features I ask for in MT are found in other CMS/weblog applications:
drupal has a discussion board and a 'collaborative writing' feature. Interresting.
pmachine also looks promising, although it is not open-source. There is a limited freeware edition, but all the good stuff comes with the pro edition...

Other CMS systems are Xoops, Xaraya and postNuke.
See an overview here (read escoles' comment).
Still not running yet textpattern sounds quite interresting too (thanx to KO for that link)

Contemplating the function of the writing group it ocurred to me that students in writing groups might reach higher levels of selv-efficacy by peer observation in writing groups than by being taught writing theory by their teacher/instructor. The term self-efficacy (I think it was coined by A. Bandura) sprung to me from the back of my mind. Trying to find some text on it, I stumbled across this ">article, using Bandura's theory (among others) to improve the self-efficacy of writing instructors and teachers.
As my goal is to improve the writers' self-efficacy this might cast off some interresting references.

Via ASUonline Weblog (and a broken link) I found this article: University of Washington Creates Online Portfolios for Students. The described features of the portfolio software seems to echo those on a weblog... There is of course some considerations on students' privacy and publicity level of the portfolios.

Det er ikke til at sige, men statistik fra nyhederne på DR igår viste at lavere priser på tobak resulterer i en stigning i forbrug på ca 10% blandt de yngste, men med en faldende tendens med stigende alder. Jeg kan ikke finde DRs dokumentation, men cancerstyrelsen har lidt statistik der blandt andet viser at der findes flest rygere bland ufaglærte - med en faldende tendens med højere uddannelse/stillingsbetegnelse.
Det lyder rimeligt nok. Men hvad nu hvis det statistikken viser er, at forbruget stiger fordi man har råd til mere tobak? Så er stigningen i forbrug afhængig af levestandard/rådighedsbeløb, forstået på den måde at jo færre penge man har, jo mere ville man ryge hvis man kunne, fordi det er prisen der regulerer forbruget. Derimod vil mennesker med en højere levestandard/rådighedsbeløb ikke være lige så tilbøjelige til at ryge, idet deres tobaksforbug ikke i lige så høj grad afhænger af pris.
På lang sigt kan resultatet være at folk med lavere indkomster som følge af en prisnedsættelse vil opleve en større stigning i dødelighed på grund af tobksrygningsfølgesygdomme end folk med højere indtægter.
Hmmm - der er grundlag for noget konspirationsteori her...

This article (also from kairos) discusses the use of electronic portfolios, echoing some of my own consideration of web-portfolios.
Mullen, Bauer and Newbold link to Newbold's “Autobiography” Model For Developmental Reflection which leaves no doubt in my mind that Newbold would really have liked weblogs at the time this was written (he may have seen the light as of now).

A quote from KAIROS 6.2 - Hanson and Rice: 6.2 Metaweb gives an enligthening viewpoint on the effect of dispersed collaboration:
...The field of computers and writing is changing our concept of "literacy," but it is also changing our understanding of "school" and "learning." We are developing strategies to sequence the right tool with the right content in the right amount at the right time. In a word, we are creating Kairos...

In my understanding, collaboration also has a kairos where the rigth people with the right knowledge come together at the right time.

Would it be possible to make a google-using language-checker? Given the vast amount of text strings on the internet, word order and other elements could be verified via the internet.
The feature could include options such as 'if more than 10 hits are found on the phrase I use, don't bother correcting it. Or alternate phrases could be suggested. There may be some copyright issues here.

I fredags var jeg til karrieredag på retorik. Udover det at se kendte ansigter var dagens vigtigste pointer:
1: bliv færdig
2: op i røveren med karaktererne - der er ingen der bekymrer sig om dem senere
3: vær dig selv - gå efter det du synes er spændende.
4: vær fræk

Google search + Gadgetopia's posting conviced me to start zempting.
Gadgetopia looks quite interresting, by the way...
I'll be back.

Update:
After some trouble adding a new account and trying out w:bloggar I realized that my login problems were caused by the 'å' in my name - now I've succesfully installed both clients; testing has begun. So far its a tie, although I'm more to the simplycity of zempts interface.

Update 2:
W:bloggar is taking the lead due to unproblematic handling af accented characters in posts. Zempt cannot deserialitize (or whatever) post with the danish characters æ, ø, å and probably not ö, ä, or ü either.

...it when you show up too early to be just in good time? Luckily I didn't bring anything but my pda to kill time [warning here be irony].
The leisure of having a full hour...

This is a pda-test...

Update: it works...! I am now able to post my sagacity from my pda.

Acronym Search - Your source for acronyms and abbreviations

Via KO's thougts on weblogs as courseware the discussion goes on in Mama Write: Blogs vs Portfolios. Where weblogs apparently is used as courseware for some 30-35 students in english litterature. I'm not yet sure whether the students are organized in writing groups or if they (text-wize) write collaboratively or individually.

MIT har lagt en masse af deres kurser ud på nettet. Der er en masse viden at hente her - faldt over lidt forskelligt, men titlen Surface Waves and their Interaction With Floating Bodies mindede mig om et vedvarende energi-projekt der via en flyder forbundet til en dynamo på bunden udnytter bølgeenergien. Fed ide! Hvis jeg var ingeniør eller bare mere skør.

Realizing that although I claim my ignorance to be an advantage, I am also drawn toward that which I don't understand - in this case the question what can PHP do?
Someday this might be useful knowledge...

Update:
It appears that php can do 'anything' - in this case I take it that the risc of my free-flowing mind being reined by minute knowledge of how thing work is not imminent.

Jeg har tilmeldt mig foreningen af neologister, sat i søen af Pavens Rumskibsfabrik ApS
Kom frisk og vær med.

Contemplating the organizational resemblance between the industrial production line and 'tombstone'-teaching I discovered that there has been put some thougt into that subject. The article Leadership without the hero architechture [.pdf] takes an architechtural perspective on leadership and organization.

Update:
Fletcher points out that in architechture and engineering, a shift from file to data centered workprocesses is on its way and considers the way ICTs may change our collaborate work processes. Quoting:
"This change is not comparable with the move from manual to electronic drafting, because the migration did not require a change in process, merely the learning of a new technique."
- so at some point in the not so distant future, collaboration on a project may be fully virtual and centralized. All information is in one location and is shaped locally by many participators.
Some issues on simultaneus work processes occur, but as of now I don't posess the technical insigt to deliberate on that.

Via a thread in the MT support forum, I came in contact with the author of KO :: Weblogs in education as courseware
- who has a lot of good thinking and linking. Seems like weblogs used in education is up and coming.

I haven't tried it out yet, but plugins by nonplus might be the solution to my quest for a dispersed weblog. I started this thread in the MT support forum, to get some inputs from all the MT-experts out there.

...what I know now - I would have read this tutorial before doing anything else.
But, it´s never to late to stop being ignorant...

I Cathy's Corner kan man finde en pænt stor samling af tutorials til Photoshop. Jeg kom via Craftaholic og det kan vist ikke rigtig forklares eller retfærdiggøres hvorfor jeg på dette tidspunkt kom forbi den side...

...så ville det være denne stump af Anders Bording jeg fandt, da jeg rodede gennem gamle retorik-mapper:
Huo kand huo vil Sig Sette ned
Sig Selff ihiel at gremme
Ney, Nej ieg baade troer och veed
Mig løchen ey schall glemme
Er hun mig end i dag Jmoed
Och Siunis Som Forborgen
Hun kand igien dog komme goed
Och Finde mig i morgen
... (se hele molevitten i fuldtekst).
Nudansk:
Den kan som vil sig sætte ned
sig selv ihjel at græmme
Nej, nej jeg både tror og ved
mig lykken ej skal glemme
- er hun mig idag imod
og synes som forborgen
Hun kan igen dog blive god
og finde mig imorgen...

(eller, det er næsten nudansk - jeg burde lave en verisionering/opdatering af sprog og ordstilling, men...)

For den nye blogger, eller for den eksperimenterende, giver
Blog Control en god oversigt og anmeldelser af de mest populære blog-værktøjer.

Her er jeg igang med at vise anders hvordan en blog fungerer.
Anders har et website med sit arbejde på freestylephanatix

Mine formiddagstanker er gået i retning af at knowledge managament må kunne bruges i undervisnings/læringssammenhænge - processerne i skabelse af ny viden og læring må ligge ganske tæt. Her er googles #3 på "knowledge management" learning -->
Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management

Pavens Rumskibsfabrik ApS er rigtigt, rigtigt sjov!

Siden 1999 har jeg været meget glad for at spille fallout 1+2 på PC. Der er også kommet en slgas 3er - Brotherhood of Steel - som jeg har spillet 2 gge og allerede nu indser at jeg må lægge i Mettes varetægt, hvis min specialeskriving skal være vellykket. Jeg er bare en spil-junkie...

Kan findes
her.

Kairos er det øjeblik/densituation kommunikationen ideelt set skal foregå i. Her er et par journaler, med kairos i titlen: K A I R O S: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy og Kairosnews | A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy

Professional Composition Epistemology giver en kort historisk oversigt over professionel skrivning og de skrivedidaktiske overvejelser gennem tiderne.

I artiklen Storytelling for Leaders får man en lille mundsmag af indholdet i gardners bog Leading Minds: An Anatomy Of Leadership

Det var for vildt. Myggene plejer at være større end blåbærrene, men i år var det anderledes. Mette, Linus og jeg havde sat familien stævne i sommerhuset i Finland; dejlige dage!

Foto: Gunilla

Leadership Communication: Using storytelling to share knowledge, build corporate culture.

Quoting:
Harvard Professor Howard Gardner says, Leadership involves the creation of powerful narratives...that are much more than mission statements or messages. They are actual stories where there are goals and obstacles, where good and bad things can happen along the way, and where the people involved feel part of an enterprise that's trying to end up in a better place. Find out how top businesses are using stories to share knowledge and build effective corporate cultures.

En phd-afhandling om poetik, tragedie og teater som ledelses- og organisatorisk værktøj indeholder en del overvejelser og referencer til brug af narratio/drama i virksomheders eksterne kommunikation.

...skal jeg have mig en ordentlig stak Matrix solbriller

ohh.yeah!

Jens estrup søger samarbejdspartnere/boksebolde til sit Forskningsprojektom lederuddannelser.

Ideer, litteratur og baggrund ligger meget tæt op ad min egen ide.

Forleden observerede Mette og jeg en mand i S-toget få en bøde. En følelse af græsrods-robinhood gennemstrømmede os da vi derefter tog fat i fyren og gavm ham vores billet, så han efterfølgende kunne dokumentere for DSB at han havde fundet sin billet. 500 kroner er mange penge for enhver der er nødt til at tage S-toget.
Det ser dog ud til at de bebudede prisstigninger på billetter inden længe vil betyde at man kan tjene bøden ind ved at køre på røven 3 gange...

Heer findes en vejledning for Stanford-lærere:Teaching with technology
Flere overvejelser og links; meget lidt kritiks...

BisLibNjuuz nr. 34: Storytelling - analyse af et modebegreb

Jeg fandt denne ruc-afhandling, der giver en del perspektiver på barrierer i forhold til undervisning via nettet.

intern kommunikation i virksomheder

What is knowledge management?

In practice, knowledge management often encompasses identifying and mapping intellectual assets within the organization, generating new knowledge for competitive advantage within the organization, making vast amounts of corporate information accessible, sharing of best practices, and technology that enables all of the above -including groupware and intranets.

Exploring foundations for computer-supported collaborative learning har en god og velunderbygget tilgang til den historiske udvikling af CSCL. Indeholder desuden overvejelser omkring kollaboration, teknologi og sociale virkninger af brugen af CSCL.

The dna of e-learning

Writing and Technology: A Bibliography er en kort opremsning af relevant litteratur på emnet.

Kairosnews | A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy
Jeg har ikke kigget så meget i den, men som udgangspunkt ser det meget lovende ud...

IU Bloomington Campus Writing Program

CSCL Theories
Her ligger en masse tekst om CSCL og teorietisk underbygning.

Ville egentlig have blogget på blogger, men google har skruet blogger op...

Ledelsesakademiet har også et par vinkler på storytelling

RIA - Reflection in Action har nogle vinkler og synspunkter på storytelling.

Now, having breached the empty page I ventured out to find a fitting stylesheet for this blog. A quick <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=da&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=movable+type+styles">google</a> search led me to <a href="http://www.bookofstyles.org/">bookofstyles</a> via <a href="http://ufies.org/archives/000552.html">ufies.org/</a> (note to readers:I'm testing the concept of link-lix; does the number of links per word in a web-text affect reader experience?). Anyhow, it seems that there are quite a fex picks to choose from altough my search for a <a href="http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/">Matrix</a> inspired stylesheet was unsuccessfull...

This is my first blog in english. I have started up several blogs in danish, but I feel compelled to follow the lead of my peers and maintain a blog in english. Here I will try to express my weblog experiences and explore this medium on a practical as well as a more academic level.
Fundamentally my interest in weblogs has sprung out of an interrest in knowledge management - and my prime interrest in weblogs thus is in their value as tool for knowledge sharing. For me, the more technical domains of weblogging such as rss and various other acronyms are still uncharted lands, but someday...

For now, all I can say is that it seems to me that we've only just seen the tip of the weblog iceberg; due to the versality of blogs my guess is that they in time will be one of the dominant forms of web-publishing applications.