Rip, mix, burn: WIRED veröffentlicht CD unter creative commons: Sample the Future!

The Wired CD, copyrighted for the 21st century - ein genialer Schachzug, eine Vorwegnahme kreativer Copyright Massnahmen des 21. Jahrhunderts und eine aufsehenerregende Compilation: Die neue WIRED CD. Die Künstler ermöglichen es, frei mit den Songs und dem Soundmaterial der 16 Titel umzugehen (fair exchange). Künstler und Hörer dürfen die einzelnen Titel kopieren, filesharen, brennen (rip, mix, share) und sampletechnisch zu neuen Songs weiterverarbeiten! Alles erlaubt, ausser: Die Musik in Werbespots zu nutzen. Aus WIRED online:

In the interest of more fair exchange, we present The Wired CD. It is, in a sense, a concept album. But unlike Ziggy Stardust or OK Computer, the concept isn’t in the music, though the songs are pretty great. It’s in the fine print. All the songs come with a license that gives you permission to do more than just listen to them. You can swap them. You can sample them. You can use them to fuel your own creative impulses, without worrying that the copyright cops will beat down your door.

The licenses come from Creative Commons, the innovative nonprofit founded by Wired columnist and Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig. The songs on this CD use one of two Creative Commons licenses.The Noncommercial Sampling Plus license permits noncommercial file-sharing and noncommercial sampling. That means, first, that you can swap the songs on a peer-to-peer network (just don’t sell them). And second, that you can sample from them, mash them up, use them to make something fresh - and then share that work, too (though again, you can’t sell it). The Beastie Boys, Chuck D, and My Morning Jacket opted for the Noncommercial Sampling Plus license.”

“This report presents the main findings, conclusions and recommendations from a study of informal and unstructured learning in small firms. The research found a wide range of formal and informal learning of different types taking place in the firms participating in the study. Many interviewees talked about the value of prior experience equipping them to do their jobs and the phrases ‘trial and error’ and ’learning by mistakes’ were mentioned frequently. There was also a preference for individual coaching and mentoring, rather than for more structured learning leading to national qualifications.” LSDA (Learning & Skills Development Agency), October 2004.
Learning without lessons: supporting learning in small businesses

Summary als PDF; Embedding e-learning in large companies

“This study surveyed the opinions and facts relating to 503 large cmpanies who are using or planning to use e-learning. More companies (30%) perceive the changing of attitudes as the greatest achievement of e-learning, although doing more learning at less cost is perceived as an additional success by 26% of respondents. All companies who are current users estimate that the proportion of internal training delivered by e-learning will grow (on average, from 15% to 29% of all training delivered).” A report on research commissioned by learndirect and undertaken by HI Europe & Howard Hills Associates.

Relation US Wahl zu Bundesstaaten IQ

Diese cerebrale Relation muss einfach in die Rubrik Brain/Mind, und das aus mehreren Gründen! Politisch-psychologische zuletzt, die webtechnischen zuerst: “Wow, what can I say, in the first 24 hours over 540,000+ people viewed this page! I originally posted this to a few friends on a forum, using information from a list just like this created after the 2000 election. The list was carried by the St. Petersburg Times and the Economist, amongst others.

The IQ data was originally attributed to the book “IQ and the Wealth of Nations”, though I checked and couldn’t find them in the current edition, I had posted saying such at the bottom of the table. The tests and data were said to have been administered via the Raven’s APT, and The Test Agency, one of the UK’s leading publishers and distributors of psychometric test…”>

MMV: MultiMedia Player für Audio & Video

Der MultiMedia Videoplayer
musste irgendwann kommen. Dieser hier “versteht sich auf die Darstellung von JPEG-Dateien mit bis zu 16 Millionen Pixeln, spielt Videodateien in den Formaten AVI, MOV, DAT und MPG ab, gibt MP3-Dateien wieder und unterstützt das AUDIO-CD-Format, verfügt über einen integrierten Cardreader (CF, MD, SD, MMC, MS, MS Pro, SmartMedia und xD). Verbaut wurde eine 20 Gigabyte 1,8″ Festplatte. Anschluss findet der MMV II per USB 2.0-Verbindung an einen Windows-PC, Linux Rechner (ab Kernel 2.4) oder an einen Mac OS 8.6- bis Mac OS X 10.x-Rechner. Die Batterie versorgt das kleine Wunder bei der Wiedergabe von Audio mit sechs Stunden, beim Abspielen von Videos reicht es für maximal drei Stunden am Stück …” (aus: Apfelgerüchte)

London, 12.-15. 01. 2005: Take Hold of the Future

BETT 2005 12th -15th January. Olympia, London, The future of education will be unveiled at BETT 2005 – make sure you’re there to see it!

▪ Over 550 leading educational ICT suppliers covering all curriculum areas and all levels of education ▪ Over 100 seminars and workshops from industry experts focusing on current issues in ICT ▪ Be there to see Teachers’ TV – the first television channel for people who work in schools, launching early 2005 ▪ Visit NESTA Futurelab Innovations at BETT, sponsored by Intel, for a glimpse of what the future of educational ICT may hold. Live demonstrations throughout the day! ▪ Dedicated areas for Special Needs, Software, Publishing, Library Resources, Film Production and Engineering ▪ Find out how to embed ICT into YOUR subject area!

The seminar programme is now live. Book your place now!

The Real New York Underground

Sie kennen New York? So oder so, lernen Sie einmal den echten New Yorker Underground kennen. Unwirkliche Photographien aus einer bizarren Welt regen die Phantasie an. David Pescovitz über die Fotografin “Julia Solis is an urban archaeologist who explores the subterranean mysteries and ruins of New York City and other locales. For years, she’s chronicled her adventures through photographic evidence and essays posted on her Dark Passage Web site. Now, Routledge has published New York Underground, a stunning monograph of Solis’s journey into the underworld …” Dark Passage Web site: The Anatomy of a City

Adam Curry: Podcasting the universe

3rd BloggerConference, November 6, 2004 at Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, CA, USA. Einer der Referenten war Adam Curry, ehemaliger MTV Moderator und einer der profiliertesten Podcaster (Adam Curry´s Weblog). Die Ankündigung seiner Session auf der BloggerCon ist eine engagierte Beschreibung der Entwicklung und der Möglichkeiten des Podcasting. Warum es hier steht?

Betrachten Sie Podcasting aus der Perspektive des Trainers oder Personalers: Ein zeitversetzt produziertes und auf den Tag, die Stunde versendbares Medium zur Vor- und Nachbereitung einer Lerneinheit! Landet automatisch auf jedem PC, ist per USB Stick auf andere Laptops, MP3 Player oder PC´s übertragbar und überall abzuspielen. Auch via Handy! Das alles mit handelsüblicher Technik, plattformübergreifenden Formate, persönlicher Ansprache, hoher Aktualität und garantierter Aufmerksamkeit, crossmedial vernetzbar und das bei äusserst elastischen Kosten. Podcasting eben … daher und hier im O-Ton:
“Session: Podcasting the universe

About a month ago I tripped over a bootstrap I’d been trying to tie for 5 years.

The promise of a global ‘broadcast network’ has inspired an entire industry of streaming media which has so far failed to effectively compete with the quality and most importantly, the mobility of radio and television.

Radio makes its money during ‘drive time’. This is the period when the audience is in their vehicles commuting to and from work. It’s big business and believe me when I say the NAB is a hundred times more powerful than the RIAA.

Radio is beautifully simple, you send an audio signal into a transmitter, and everyone within range with a cheap and ubiquitous receiver can tune in to the sounds as they are reproduced through the speakers of ther mobile boom-box.

Now shrink that down to pocket size, and you’ve got the iPod. Apple’s very sexy and extremely popular mp3 player

Problem is that Apple, as well as Microsoft and Real Networks are all concentrating on selling you music at 99 cents a pop to fill your iPod with. The rest is up to the felon in you, to rip and download as much as you can in an attempt to make best use of your player’s massive storage.

But radio isn’t just about music.

Next time you’re in the car, give the dial a spin. Check AM too. There’s a lot of talk going on, and it’s not just news and opinionated loudmouths. It’s also the guy who does the local restraunt review, even the DJ who talks over the records half the time, but still informs you about the weekend’s ‘club calendar’ is talk that many listeners appreciate.

Sure, not all talk is interesting, not all topics will be ones you want to hear. Just like music. In that case you switch the station, ’cause you can’t skip ahead in the program. Or can you?

iPod filling station

Once the iPodder project removed the process of clicking, waiting, downloading and transferring an mp3 to a mobile player, the user controlled ‘radio’ was born.

By subscribing to ‘Podcasts’, these audio programs are automatically refreshed and availble to the listener on their terms. It’s the TiVo of radio.

It’s a Weblog!

A weblog gives you complete freedom of expression within the confines of HTML

Podcasting offers complete freedom of expression and freedom of speech.

Speech you create yourself on your pc can be distributed as easily as weblogs using rss and an aggregator. In fact, all of this runs on existing weblog protocols and formats!

Ask not what your podcast can do for you…

So what are we going to do with our shiny new transmitters?

How do we make them work better and reach larger audiences

Can we use them to change the world?

Do we take requests?”

Aus: BloggerCon

Die Session mit Adam Curry live

Tools für Erstellung von Quiz, Spielen und Tests

Tests, Spiele und Quizfragen lockern nicht nur Onlinetrainings auf, sie sind auch äusserst beliebt. Wer also Interesse hat, sich autorentechnisch mit diesem interaktiven Element zu beschäftigen: Im e-learning Centre gibt es eine ganze Seite mit Testing, Quizzing, Gaming and Gameshow Tools

Kostenmatrix Präsenz- versus Onlinetraining

Das frei zugängliche PDF “presents a cost matrix tool by which the costs of online education and training can be tabulated and/or compared with the costs of the traditional education and training medium.” Mehr unter Evaluating the cost effectiveness of online and face-to-face instruction