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Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Plaque W/ QR Code
by gerrymck 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Colleagues/ Early Last Month I Had An Opportunity To Visit The Blue Mosque After My Presentation At Koç University To Deliver An Invited Seminar On "> AnyTime / AnyWhere > LEARNING > Education In The > iPhone Age >" [ http://tinyurl.com/36c23ex ] I Have Learned That The QR Code On The Plaque At The Entrnace Is Part of 'History Calls' Implementation >>> It Is A Most Imprressive Effort And IMHO > A Model for other museums / sites / organizations / libraries/ etc. Please Note Any/All Library / Other > Other Impementions On This Blog Entry [ http://tinyurl.com/33ew8sc ] !!! Thanks A Million !!! EnJoy /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 Follow Me On Twitter > http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs >>> "The Future Is Mobile" >>>

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3rd CopySouth Workshop, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2010
by Nanci Oddone 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

Sorry for cross-posting. *Third CopySouth Workshop* *International Conference on Copyright Issues* http://copysouth.org/portal/rio ● copysouth.rio2010(a)gmail.com The CopySouth Research Group (CSRG) invites you to attend and join in the debates at its three day international conference on copyright to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the end of June. It is an important moment to discuss these issues. Around the world, the antiquated assumptions of copyright law and ideology are again being questioned and new conflicts are breaking out. In Brazil, for example, more than 500 musicians, writers, academics and others signed an open letter in late May calling on their government to reform its copyright laws so that users can have more access to music and books. Meanwhile, the well-financed campaign against so-called copyright “piracy” has become even more vocal and threatens us all, except large corporations. Although three of the most important countries in the global South – China, India and Brazil – were not even invited to the talks, a new anti-piracy treaty called ACTA is about to be signed by rich nations in North America and Europe, as well as Japan and a few smaller countries. As we meet, a list of long-standing and complex questions is demanding new answers. Do most musicians benefit from the copyright system and the current way that the music industry is organised? How can we promote far more access to educational materials in the countries of South America, Africa and Asia than already exists? And, speaking of access and sharing, why do so many ideas and so many cultural products flow from the North to the South and so few flows the other way? Can we justify the current economic logic of the global copyright system? And what are viable alternatives to the current system? To address these questions and many more that you may want to raise, the CSRG has assembled a group of leading critical researchers, musicians and activists from around the world to come to Rio and to speak on seven panels. The speakers are from Brazil (7), Chile (1), Bolivia (1), Cuba (2), the United States (3), South Africa (2), Ghana (1), the Philippines (2), Switzerland (1), and the United Kingdom (2). We expect some strong opinions to be voiced and some good open debates to occur. So we extend an open invitation to all people interested in these issues, such as students, librarians, teachers, researchers, musicians and information activists, to attend. There will be simultaneous interpretation in Portuguese, Spanish and English. Hope to see you in Rio on 28 June. *The CopySouth Research Group, May 2010* *http://copysouth.org/portal/rio ● copysouth.rio2010(a)gmail.com*

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ChemSpider Mobile Goes Live
by gerrymck 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

ChemSpider is a free access service providing a structure centric community for chemists. Providing access to millions of chemical structures and integration to a multitude of other online services, ChemSpider is the richest single source of structure-based chemistry information. If you are an iPhone user ..., have an iPad hanging around to check email 20/7 ..., or use a phone with a browser, I suggest you point it to the new ChemSpider Mobile ... . There you’ll see a simple interface ... that allows you to search across our database of almost 25 million chemical entities based on chemical name (systematic, trivial or trade, registry number etc) and retrieve a list of intrinsic properties, a list of predicted properties, a list of associated identifiers, with links to Wikipedia if available, and a Google based search for the chemical based, for now, on the associated InChIKey. [snip] We are also working on providing access to ChemSpider SyntheticPages in the same way ... . Links To Source, Mobile site, And Screen Shots Available From [ http://tinyurl.com/38slkkx ] BTW: If You Are Aware Of Other Significant/Important Sci/Tech/Engineering/Med Mobile Sites/Apps, Please Note As A Comment On This Blog Entry. Thanks A Million ! BTW-2: Thanks To Antony Williams / Vice President of Strategic Development, ChemSpider at Royal Society of Chemistry ; President at ChemConnector Disclaimer: I Am A Mmember Of The ChemSpider Advisory Group. EnJOY ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 Follow Me On Twitter > http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs >>> "The Future Is Mobile" >>>

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PBS Frontline: 'Growing Up Online'
by Richard Forno 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

FYI...... -rick COMING TUESDAY: GROWING UP ONLINE Airs June 8th, 9PM ET (check local listings) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/ "If 21st-century parenthood isn't scary enough," wrote The New York Times about this week's FRONTLINE rebroadcast, "Growing Up Online uses real-life stories to ask an increasingly important question: What does it mean to be part of the first generation coming of age steeped in a virtual world seemingly outside parental control" In Growing Up Online, producer Rachel Dretzintakes viewers inside the very public private worlds that kids are creating online, raising important questions about how the Internet is transforming childhood, family, and school. "We almost have to be entertainers," a New Jersey social studies teacher tells FRONTLINE. "They consume so much media. We have to cut through that cloud of information around them, cut through that media, and capture their attention." In this hour report Dretzin also offers a corrective to widespread fears about online predators, finding strong evidence to question its prevalence. And she examines the dangerous new threat of "cyberbullying," which helped precipitate the suicide of a young boy in upstate New York. "You've got a generation faced with a society with fundamentally different properties, thanks to the Internet," says Danah Boyd, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. "It's a question of how we teach ourselves and our children to live in a society where these properties are fundamentally a way of life. This is public life today." We hope you'll join us Tuesday night, and visit the web sites of Growing Up Online and Digital Nation-- this year's follow-up report from Dretzin and correspondent Douglas Rushkoff -- for more on how the Internet has transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture. Ken Dornstein Senior Editor

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3rd ICTs-and-Society Network Meeting, June 30 - July 2, Barcelona
by alexander banfield-mumb 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

========================================================== 3rd International Meeting of the ICTs-and-Society Network ========================================================== Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain 29 June – 2 July 2010 Website conference: http://www.icts-and-society.net/meeting/ We are delighted to announce that the programme for the Third International Meeting of the ICTs-and-Society Network 2010 is now available. See full programme enclosed. SUMMARY: In 2008 the University of Salzburg, Austria, invited to a network launch meeting in the field of “ICTs and Society” which comprises different approaches of different disciplines with different tasks that originate from Information Society Studies, Internet Research, Social Informatics, New Media Studies, Human Computer Interaction, to name but a few. In 2009 a follow-up meeting was held at the University of Trento, Italy. The third annual meeting of the ICTs-and-Society Network 2010 is hosted by the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) in Barcelona, Spain and supported by the University of Salzburg, Austria. This meeting is as open to everyone engaged in ICTs-and-Society research, Internet research, Information Society research and related fields – whether you are a senior researcher or a PhD candidate – as the network is open itself. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: William Dutton (Oxford Internet Institute) Juliet Webster (Work and Equality Research, London, UK) ACADEMIC PROGRAMME: The time schedule and full academic programme can be found at: http://www.icts-and-society.net/meeting/schedule/ PhD CONSORTIUM: The first day of the ICTs-and-Society Network meeting – June 30, 2010 – will be shaped by PhD candidates’ presentations only. Altogether 15 papers have been accepted and each of them will receive 10 minutes of presentation time, focused feedback on their particular project from senior lecturers and appointed students see details: http://www.icts-and-society.net/meeting/phd-consortium/ REGISTRATION: No registration fee, but please register online at: http://www.icts-and-society.net/meeting/registration/ If you have any inquires about the network meeting, please contact Alexander Banfield-Mumb at Alexander.Banfield-Mumb(a)uti.at. Please have a look at the website at http://www.icts-and-society.net/meeting/ which will be updated on a regular basis. See you in Barcelona, the preparation team of the ICTs-and-Society Network meeting

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Teaching in Second Life? Writing teachers in SL?
by M. Deanya Lattimore 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

Are any of you using Second Life to teach? My dissertation advisor would like me to find writing teachers particularly in SL, but I'm curious about exactly who from this list is there. If you're thinking about it, I'd love to hear from you. If you suspect that one of your colleagues is, I'd appreciate a push towards that person as well. I am Deanya Zenfold in-world; I'll be glad to take any questions or comments. Lots of contact info is in the sig line. Thank you all! Deanya Lattimore -- Deanya Lattimore ABD PhD. Syracuse University Adjunct, Gardner-Webb University 704/466/3689 home; 704/406/3209 office http://www.deanya.com Diigo: http://www.diigo.com/profile/deanya Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/deanya.lattimore Google Chat: deanyalattimore(a)gmail.com Second Life: Deanya Zenfold Skype: deanya.lattimore Twitter: http://twitter.com/deanya

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Re: [Air-L] copenhagen meetup
by Jeremy hunsinger 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

if you want to come to the copenhagen meetup, If it is sunny/warm we will meet at cafe europa on stroget, if it is chilly/raining we'll be at charlies bar which is just down the street from that. around 5pm on sunday. please distribute to interested parties:) -j

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Re: [Air-L] 1. Teaching in Second Life? Writing teachers in SL?
by Sue Malta 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

Just passing on this information which might be helpful. Although not his field directly, he may well have some good contacts for you. *************************************************************************** Michael Thomas is a professor at Nagoya University of Commerce & Business in Japan. His research interests are in language learning and technology and technology and society. Among his publications are Handbook of Research on Web 2.0 and Second Language Learning (2009) and Interactive Whiteboards for Education: Theory, Research and Practice (in press). and he is the convenor of the: InternationalAssociation of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language / LearningTechnologiesSIGEvent, A SimultaneousReal Time and Second LifeSymposium InAssociation with the JALT CALL SIG see http://wirelessready.nucba.ac.jp/ and Contact: michael.thomas(a)gmx.co.uk Good luck. Kind regards Sue PhD Candidate Department of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (HASS) Faculty of Life & Social Sciences Swinburne University ............................................... Sue Malta Managing Editor International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society (iJETS) Swinburne University of Technology John Street, Hawthorn, VIC 3122 Email: ijets(a)swin.edu.au Or: smalta(a)groupwise.swin.edu.au www.swin.edu.au/ijets >>> Gibrán Rivera 05/06/10 8:09 AM >>> Dear Deanya, As far as I am concerned, Sheila Webber, (University of Sheffield, UK) is involved in some educational issues using Second Life. Have a look at this: http://www.shef.ac.uk/is/staff/webber.html You may want to contact her directly --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gibrán Rivera González Room 224, Second Floor, Regent Court Department of Information Studies The University of Sheffield 211 Portobello Street S1 4DP Sheffield UK gibran.rivera(a)sheffield.ac.uk _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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Re: [Air-L] 1. Teaching in Second Life? Writing teachers in SL?
by Gibrán Rivera 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

Dear Deanya, As far as I am concerned, Sheila Webber, (University of Sheffield, UK) is involved in some educational issues using Second Life. Have a look at this: http://www.shef.ac.uk/is/staff/webber.html You may want to contact her directly --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gibrán Rivera González Room 224, Second Floor, Regent Court Department of Information Studies The University of Sheffield 211 Portobello Street S1 4DP Sheffield UK gibran.rivera(a)sheffield.ac.uk _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 71, Issue 4
by Jasmine Pues 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

As for the teaching writing in Second Life, I know of at least one teacher (not through my institution) who is affiliated with the Caledon estates in Second Life. I myself am a Communications student who specialized in online communications, and who is now planning her doctoral studies to take place and use Second Life as an example of a virtual world (studying reputation/social investment in virtual worlds). Cheers, Jasmine Pues On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 6:00 PM, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Teaching in Second Life? Writing teachers in SL? > (M. Deanya Lattimore) > 2. New Dates: mLife Conferences 2010 (Prof. I Kushchu) > 3. Re: Teaching in Second Life? Writing teachers in SL? (Max Spotti) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 10:45:17 -0400 > From: "M. Deanya Lattimore" <mdlattim(a)syr.edu> > To: air-l(a)aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Teaching in Second Life? Writing teachers in SL? > Message-ID: > <AANLkTilDsYQ2eowGiWyO7Ae0G_KuTPwAMQhb_fCrB87i(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Are any of you using Second Life to teach? My dissertation advisor > would like me to find writing teachers particularly in SL, but I'm > curious about exactly who from this list is there. > > If you're thinking about it, I'd love to hear from you. If you > suspect that one of your colleagues is, I'd appreciate a push towards > that person as well. > > I am Deanya Zenfold in-world; I'll be glad to take any questions or > comments. Lots of contact info is in the sig line. > > Thank you all! > Deanya Lattimore > > -- > Deanya Lattimore > ABD PhD. Syracuse University > Adjunct, Gardner-Webb University > 704/466/3689 home; 704/406/3209 office > http://www.deanya.com > Diigo: http://www.diigo.com/profile/deanya > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/deanya.lattimore > Google Chat: deanyalattimore(a)gmail.com > Second Life: Deanya Zenfold > Skype: deanya.lattimore > Twitter: http://twitter.com/deanya > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 18:25:27 +0100 > From: "Prof. I Kushchu" <ik(a)mgovernment.org> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] New Dates: mLife Conferences 2010 > Message-ID: <7DFAF5A6-FC94-4B60-BDFC-2B9D8706FEEE(a)mgovernment.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > Dear Colleagues > > Due to conflicting date assigment by the venue, we are requested to > postpone the dates of the Mobile Life 2010 conference. All is now re- > arranged and the new dates for the conference is 27-28-29 October 2010 > at the same venue: The Grand Hotel, Brighton UK. > > Please also note that all submissions - research, practice, tutorial > and demos - to the conference are open. For submissions please visit http://www.m4life.org/conferences/ > > We are making all efforts to have a successful conference with a high > quality content. All our highly reputable plenary speakers have > confirmed the new dates and are able to attend the conference. Soon we > will post the draft program outline to the conference web site. > > Further information about the conferences can be found at http://www.m4life.org/conferences/ > and all enquiries regarding the conferences should be directed to conf(a)m4life.org > > On behalf of the organising committee, > > Kushchu > > ------- > IBRAHIM KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD > Associate Professor and Founding Director, > Mobile Government Consortium International, UK > http://www.mgovernment.org > ik(a)mgovernment.org > +44 1273 327876 > visit mLife Conferences www.m4life.org > mDevlet Konferansi www.mdevlet.org (Turkish) > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:42:36 +0200 > From: "Max Spotti" <M.Spotti(a)uvt.nl> > To: mdlattim(a)syr.edu > Cc: air-l(a)aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Teaching in Second Life? Writing teachers in SL? > Message-ID: <1275673356.4212c1cMspotti(a)lyramail.uvt.nl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > I don't know of anyone using second life to teach but that would be a blast, we at Jyvaskyla University are putting together a project proposal on formal and informal learning looking, among other things, at what the formal brings into the informal and viceversa, as well as to the construction of routine through ritual actions. Let's keep this discussion going. > > Best, > Max > > -----Original Message----- > From: "M. Deanya Lattimore" <mdlattim(a)syr.edu> > To: air-l(a)aoir.org > Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 10:45:17 -0400 > Subject: [Air-L] Teaching in Second Life? Writing teachers in SL? > > Are any of you using Second Life to teach? My dissertation advisor > would like me to find writing teachers particularly in SL, but I'm > curious about exactly who from this list is there. > > If you're thinking about it, I'd love to hear from you. If you > suspect that one of your colleagues is, I'd appreciate a push towards > that person as well. > > I am Deanya Zenfold in-world; I'll be glad to take any questions or > comments. Lots of contact info is in the sig line. > > Thank you all! > Deanya Lattimore > > -- > Deanya Lattimore > ABD PhD. Syracuse University > Adjunct, Gardner-Webb University > 704/466/3689 home; 704/406/3209 office > http://www.deanya.com > Diigo: http://www.diigo.com/profile/deanya > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/deanya.lattimore > Google Chat: deanyalattimore(a)gmail.com > Second Life: Deanya Zenfold > Skype: deanya.lattimore > Twitter: http://twitter.com/deanya > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > > Dr. Massimiliano Spotti > Babylon/ Dept. of Language and Culture Studies > Building D, Room 219 > Faculty of Humanities > Tilburg University > 5000LE - Tilburg > The Netherlands > Phone: *31-13-4662258 > Fax: *31-13-4662892 > http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/babylon > ------------------------------------ > Researcher > Finland Distinguished Professor Scheme > Department of Languages, University of Jyv?skyl? > Tel.: +358 14 260 1372 > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > End of Air-L Digest, Vol 71, Issue 4 > ************************************ >

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