For summer term 2009 I’ll offer a seminar targeting ePedagogy-students who already have attended seminars dealing with learning theories, pedagogical media theory, and game based learning (see this post for a short list of authors and topics).
Seminar (presence) will be held on Thursdays from 10:00-12:00 (german time), starting with April 9th to July 16th 2009
Concept and structure
This term - winter 2008 - my seminar focussed on basics of media theory and their application to the understanding, use and creation of games in an educational frame. While my last seminar dealt mainly with learning theories and motivation, the view turned to media in general, in culture, communication and creation.
Taking a closer look at ‘New Media’ - networked digital media - isn’t simply learning about new channels for educative content. It may be a change from a receptive, interpretative, centralised form of communication to a configurative, collaborative, decentralised one. Both its’ (at this time) predominant traits, digitality supporting its role as recursive media-simulating metamedium, and networking supporting its role as global social medium, may influence the way we perceive information, knowledge and learning.
This seminar had a focus on ludic simulations, known as games and toys. These share some traits with digital media, but also may shed light on two inherent antagonistic sides: Rule-bound compliance and stability, as well as an appropriatable and configurable space of possibilities.
Hi all!
Do you know where I can find information about what courses are going to be available for this term? (it would be also interesting to know when they start). I’ld be spetially interested in the ones offered in Hamburg…
Thanks in advance!
Der ePedagogy-Folks,
long time no see. I met Grant several times in my seminar and Ina. But especially from the ones who are a bit more far away I don’t hear anything. But hey, thats not right. There is one whom I’m following through his daily life. It’s Owen, even though he’s far away. Why? It’s because he’s using Twitter.
Whats that? The following Video could give you an answer.
And hey, there are more of us ePedagogys on Twitter. Now I’ll try to make a list:
Ina @truemmerfrau
Torsten @herrmeyer
Christina @fernschwalbe
Wey @weytan
Alex @alextee
Ralf @ralfa
Owen @owenkelly
And, guess what, there are a lot of other interesting people on Twitter. User the twitter search to find topics and people you are interested in.
If you’ve got a twitter account as well, please write a comment and check if it might be interesting to follow one of the other ePeds…
Greetings from Hamburg,
Ralf
PS: Happy Birthday to this Blog. It is three years old this month!
My bank just told me that the old data for filling out an international money order for paying the student fees isn’t a valid one. So, if you’re still using
Recipient: Sampo Bank
IBAN: FI 838 000 127 066 774 5
BIC/SWIFT-Code: PSPBFIHH
your money won’t reach a valid account because of an invalid SWIFT-Code and recipient.
Naoko Nakagawa, the current International Student Counsellor at the UIAH, (email naoko dot nakagawa at taik dot fi), mailed me the correct data for making your money order work:
“When you pay the student union fee by bank transfer from a bank account outside of Finland, please remember that your bank will charge handling fee. The handling fee depends on the bank, and it can be very
expensive in some countries. So please make sure that you pay enough when you pay by bank transfer. Please also note that TOKYO’s bank also takes about 10 Euro as handling fee when receiving the student union fee if the money is sent from countries where euro is not used. So please make sure
that you pay enough when you pay by bank transfer. Please keep your receipt.
Fee: 48 € (as for spring term 2009) + your bank’s handling fee
Message-field on the money order form: Student’s first name and family name + date ofbirth
Recipient: Taideteollisen korkeakoulun ylioppilaskunta
Bank account: 800012-70667745 Sampo Bank
IBAN-number: FI 838 000 127 066 774 5 (the first two are alphabetical letters ‘fi’)
Bic/Swift code: DABAFIHH
Twine is an online service that is currently in private beta. It is something like a cross between del.icio.us and a community-based version of study.log.
Anyone can start a Twine about anything, and invite members. Members can post things there: essays, but also urls, media, and anything that can be stored on the web. Each post can be tagged, shared and commented on. Even better there is a Firefox bookmarklet that you can use to post any web page you are reading to the Twine of your choice, tagging it and adding a comment as you go.
This means that groups like ours can create shared libraries of interesting online material, and then link it through posting essays of our own that draw threads between various posted links and media.
Obviously I managed to get an invitation, and I have just invited everyone whose email address I had to hand. If you have not been invited (Wey hasn’t for one because I didn’t have his email address in Airset for some reason) then email me and I will invite you. This also applies to all the new students. Mail me at owen@owenkelly.net with the subject Twine ePed and I will invite you straight away.
It seems much neater in lots of ways than other attempts to create such an online shared library, and I think that we should try it to see what use we can make of it.
Web 2.0 and onwards!
This is a short review on the seminar “Games, Play and Education” I held as a combined event for both online students in ePedagogy Design and offline students of educational science from Hamburg University during summer term 2008 in Hamburg. Read the rest of this entry »
Hey Guys, unfortunately no one of the international ePedagogy students participated in my seminar this semester. Thats was a little bad sad for the other participants, but because the students expected an seminar in english language and there are other international students in we are having the seminar in english, yeah!
You can follow most parts of the seminar on the web as I mentioned already. I just wrote a little blogpost about the seminar in my own blog which might be interesting for you, it is in english too.
It is about Reasons to work with a Blog and Wiki in Seminars, the Request for Feedback to what the students did and an outlook what will happen in the next weeks with the seminar. It would be great if you find some intersting stuff for you or give feedback to the students blogs! (They admitted that the international collaberation would had been very intersting for them!)
Thanks!
I just want to coment you about a center of art production, information and research focused in digital culture (http://medialab-prado.es). It is placed in Madrid and it’s quite “young”. I tell you this because it can be interesting for you to know what’s going on in Spain. If you have any project or presentation, I also think it’s a good place to apply ( they organize seminars and workshops quite often). I copy the info they give about themselves and stop this litle “propaganda”.
Take care,
eva
Medialab-Prado is aimed at the production, research, and dissemination of digital culture and of the area where art, science, technology, and society intersect.
Our primary objective is to create a structure where both research and production are processes permeable to user participation. To that end, Medialab Prado offers:
· A permanent information, reception, and meeting space attended by cultural mediators.
· Open calls for the presentation of proposals and participation in the collaborative development of projects.
We have several on-going programmes, which are as follows:
Interactivos?: creative uses of electronics and programming
Inclusiva.net: research and reflections on the network culture
Visualizar: data visualization tools and strategies
Laboratorio del Procomún: trans-disciplinary discussion on the Commons
AVLAB: audio-visual and sound creation
John Connell has written an interesting piece about the relationship between pedagogy and technology.
He argues that it “is an absolute truth that the technological basis of the society we inhabit will have a profound effect on the nature and form of education that can take place in that society. Indeed, new technologies can change what we mean by education because they change what it means to be educated.”
I found the piece via the RSS feed from George Siemen’s elearnspace site.
This is not the official website of the MA Program in ePedagogy Design
