Das Cover vom Podcast Bildung im Dialog

Sie wollten Stimmen und Statements einfangen und begründen. Als Ergebnis ihre [...]]]> Zu Web 2.0 oder Elearning 2.0 oder Hochschule 2.0 – Äußerungen und Meinungen gibt es viele. Christian Czarnowske, Patrick Vetter und Detlev Hutsch haben sich im Rahmen eines ganz normalen Seminares auf eine Reise begeben.

Das Cover vom Podcast Bildung im Dialog

Sie wollten Stimmen und Statements einfangen und begründen. Als Ergebnis ihre Ausarbeitung in Form einer Podcast Doppel-Episode. Teil 1 hier – Teil 2 hier.

Was ist das Besondere: Ganz zu allererst das Ergebnis. Ich persönlich finde die Präsentation / Collage und den Stimmenfang gelungen, zumal er versucht viele Faccetten jenseits der Buzzwords auf den Punkt zu bringen. Stärker beeindruckt mich der Hintergrund. Das Seminar Cross Media in der EB/WB verdanken wir PD Dr. Harald Rau. Er vertat die Professur im Sommersemester und nahm sichtlich begeistert die Möglichkeit der kreativen Inhaltserarbeitung und des Assessment abseits von Kolloqium, Hausarbeit und Referat auf. Genau das steckt hinter unserem weit verbreiteten Vorhaben mit der AG-Podcasting eine PSA – (Podcast Service Agentur) zu verbinden. Alle drei stehen ihrem Beitrag so lange Pate, wie Rückmeldungen und Kommentare einfließen. Das ist Grundlage in der Konzeption. 

Die Zwischenberichte aus dem Arbeitsprogramm weckten in mir so viel Neugier, dass eine Making OF Episode in nähere Erwägung gezogen ist. Falls aus dem Reigen der eifrigen BlogleserInnen irgendwelche Anliegen ebenso an die Gestalter von Episode 51 A und B weitergegeben werden sollen, dann wäre in diesem Post hier der richtige Ort einen Impuls oder eine Frage loszuwerden, die in dem Making – Off dann berücksichtigt würden.

Noch bin ich mir nicht schlüssig, ob man solche Prozesse hinter einem Konzept wie „Lernen durch Lehren“ auch fassen könnte. Es hätte jedoch auch damit zu tun. Ich geniesse jedoch sichtlich wie engagiert Ideen angenommen und umgesetzt werden – und zwar auf allen Ebenen.  

Bis Denne

Andreas

We search Google and think we have acquired knowledge. [...]]]> had been posted by George Siemens here (TB). In his post „Does technology connect or disconnect us from others?“ are a lot of questions mentioned worth to think about for many of people engaged in preaching the use of technology. Three things kept me thinking.

We search Google and think we have acquired knowledge. We blog and think we have subjected our ideas to peer review. Or, we publish an article on our website and think that qualifies as a publication. I partially understand the negatives being expressed by these authors. Times of transition are unsettling.

Yes the times are unsetteling. And it reminds me on a lot of discussion I had with lecturers and colleques claiming the sadly changed quality of students work. (Just bringing up the C&P phenomena). But in fact there are many discussions going into one thread. And often enough there is only the simple soultion in mind. And those solutions sound like „We will have to ban Wikiedia“ – to noun one for all the other tools etc. Just staying in the observational position – why not thinking about helping the students to get in the real touch with this possibilities?  And this means f.I.  – use by reading, value for knowledge and finally decide your position. Using the information delivered AND the discussion about as one point you may start with and then go deeper aiming to aprove. Develop an own strategy to get more enriching informations by using search engines and libraries. In fact – they are doing a lot of steps scientist did also in past – but with a more of information. And this points to the value of information nowerdays. Are we ready to recognize that the truth of knowledge in the sense of verification is really speedy changing? It has been changing all the times before. But we have to consider that with the speed of information distribution opposite opinions or controverses gaining up also. What a change for the need to learn that knowledge is only in value from the moment told in the context told – and this is what matters also later on, when goig to understand all the traditional roots.

Update – because this didn’t let me go last night: Here in Germany the last weeks – a magazine titeled: „Computer -making you stupid!“ Thinking about what angers me in this sentence marked with an explanation mark? Because it is irrational. Without reading the paper itself – this cannot be true. Why? Really because, if i have a ordinator – and i don’t use – would it make me stupid by his still presence? Finally to get the point. It isn’t the technoogy itself which should be in the view of the critical minds. It is the use of technology. And If an argue goes in direction of misuse – there could also be a real and valuable use. And going to this level there is a potenital to bring students to their benefit to use. And maybe by enriching them in alternate actions in their use. Valued use can be learned and offered. And maybe in the discourse of the critical voices and sciences – this little difference could decover a lot of serious questions.

Additional if you stay at the „use-tech“ point: There are two actors who can be able to learn by this way. Content producers – can also learn to guide the potential reader about  how the information should be used or not. Many Bloggers claim their blog as a think-tank or mind in progress. This maybe useful for readers too. 

Before I close my 2 cents just a remark to the citated report: I just wonder, why there is not recognized the difference in quality between the connections using different tools? How could they been seen in the networking metaphor? I think this could also enrich this discussion. 

Bis denne Andreas

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… but maybe it can avoid your problems later. Just to forward a lesson learned using this way. The time we started our podcast „Bildung im Dialog“  we hoped but not knew really this project survives more than 5 Episodes. Nobody knows starting such a small – student driven – no [...]]]>  

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… but maybe it can avoid your problems later. Just to forward a lesson learned using this way. The time we started our podcast „Bildung im Dialog“  we hoped but not knew really this project survives more than 5 Episodes. Nobody knows starting such a small – student driven – no budged project which ways it will take. OK. Our first Episode has been published at the 01. 06.2006! Now we entered the Episode number 41. In the main our episodes are about 20 Mb. We took out those special Episodes like the POEDES Series and the videos of Theater plays here. Just for avoiding misunderstandings – here the local ict department allows the best possible service you can imagine and i am sure that we will find a local solution for the upcoming problem I want to point out now:

Yesterday we reached the disc limit. Boom. I personally expected the last 8 or nine episodes to get the mainly loved root@ mail. 

So just as our lesson learned: Plan to have as much as possible storage where you can put your files on it – independent if you are planning in small steps and sizes or not. 

Ok. Where is the Problem – you may think?! One Strategy could be just deleting the old files and archive them anywhere else. This may be a solution. Recognize your win and loose. First the wins: For the first attempt the problem seems to be solved. But there is one point not well discussed but definitively observed: Our oldest episodes seem to be those with the most access. How to explain this phenomena? It’s the well discussed theory of the „long tail“.  Exactly the sum of the peak episodes is over the two years in factor 5 to those we could call usual listeners. Maybe this are recipients who reach this podcast driven by interest, tags in search engines, recommendations or just following a link somebody pointed out before. As soon as we started our podcast challange – we also started a wiki documenting the episodes, their topics and the interviewees as good as the small time budged allowed. We did so because we had in mind, that there were a lot of people going from topic to podcast and then perhaps they are in the choice to stay and catch up the feed o just to download this. Are there other strategies? Another thought was to shift to an external or own server. In fact everybody in the scene may know: This is digital suicide. We had this in the change from the web server. Even with a soft link and your listener would not recognize: What you loose is more than 10 handful listeners. You loose a whole bunch of reputation. Take some tools, like technorati or Clustr Maps.   

Now an open question to all tekkies out in the blogosphere: Am I right, changing just all files to an external server will double all posts as renewed in the feed? So that all recipients will get all messages as unread and all aggregators will offer those as downladable? The switch from „www“ to „userpages“ did this effect. Any idea how to handle this without provocationg 500 MB *  300 Users Data traffic plus the anger of the recipients and the loose of image? Every suggestion or hint of solution is welcome.

Update: The solution of our ict department was to give us more 100 mb. This stopped the count down. Thats the good news. IMH The consequences are (in german language announced at the BiDBlog) to keep all participating students involved. Currently working hard on also sustainable solutions. Thank you all, who lent me an ear or brought up a bunch of ideas about this problem.  

Bis denne

Andreas Auwaerter