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Edupunk Manifesto?
Noticed, just yesterday, that a number of unusual suspects of some online educational circles were using Edupunk as a way to identify a major movement toward openness in educational material. This video doesn't "say it all" but it can help.
Changing Expectations
Like Lindsea, I wish more diverse voices were heard. Bakhtin FTW!
Unlike Lindsea, I don't see it as mainly a generational thing or a "teacher vs. student" issue. In fact, I'm hoping that the social movements labelled by the term "edupunk" will move beyond those issues into a broader phenomenon.
The age/generation component is still interesting, to a Post-Buster like me. Baby Boomers are still the primary target of Punk. Lindsea even talks about Boomer classics:
Don't you teachers remember when you were young? Hippies? Protesters? Implementers of change? Controllers of the cool, anti-establishment, nonconformist underground culture?
Baby Busters (the earlier part of the so-called "GenX") have long been anti-Boomers. Not that everyone born during those years readily identify themselves with that "Generation." But in terms of identity negotiation, the "Us/Them" often follows a concept of generational divide.
But I sincerely hope we can go way beyond age and generation. After all, there are learners of all ages, some of them older than their "teachers" (formally named or not).
Call me a teacher, if you really must. But, please, could we listen to diverse voices without labelling their sources?
Author enkerliPosted on June 5, 2008 June 5, 2008 Categories collaborative learning, Education, eLearning, Empowerment, LearningTags anarchy, Baby Boomers, Baby Busters, Creative Commons, DIY, edtech, edu, edubloggers, edupunk, embed, establishment, generations, GenX, informal learning, mashups, Post-Busters, punks, remix, RSS, social change, Tony Hirst, videos, widgetsLeave a comment on Edupunk Manifesto?
Faceblogging
[Updated 06/02/08 10:41:11 AM, added link to app.]A WordPress.com application in Facebook? My predictions weren't that far off!
Tomorrow's blogging platforms are likely to get increasingly like, say, Facebook.
Almost 30k (December 20, 2006)
Author enkerliPosted on July 21, 2007 February 6, 2008 Categories Blogging, Facebook, predictions, WordPress.comTags mashups2 Comments on Faceblogging
Apple Video Conference Phone???
I'm probably reading way too much into this. So I'm just speculating on rumours. But the implications could be huge. Apple's main site currently has a teaser "The First 30 Years Were Just the Beginning," in preparation for MacWorld San Francisco. What if the big announcement on Tuesday was more than a mere iPod-based phone. What if this were about a true camera phone, one which could be used for video-enabled chat?Two ideas from PiperJaffray's Gene Munster, republished by Apple rumour site AppleInsider:AppleInsider | Apple seen launching new iPod, iTV and iPhone at Macworld
6. iSight camera, 4GB or 8GB storage on the iPhone (7 out of 10). Recent rumors point to an initial release of two iPhone models: a 4GB version for $249 and an 8GB model for $449. Both models are rumored to feature two separate batteries in the handset, one for the phone and one for the music player. Also, Apple has successfully branded the iSight cameras on the MacBook and MacBook Pro portables and it is likely that they will eventually extend the brand to the iPhone line. With music, photos, and video from iTunes, the iPhone will be a media-rich device and an iSight camera would add to the eco-system of media/communications on the device.
10. iPhone to feature 'iChat Mobile' video and instant messaging (2 out of 10). Again, we believe that the iPhone will be a media-centric communications device and messaging features would work nicely with such an ecosystem. While it is unlikely that the first iPhone will feature video conferencing, this is certainly a feature the company could add to future models, including a possible smartphone model.
The second part is, according to Munster, very unlikely. But how cool would it be?Quite cool indeed. Revolutionary, almost. Just think about the impact picture phones, coupled with Flickr and YouTube, has had on the world in the recent past. The move toward citizen journalism, user-created content, the YouYear…And the technology is largely there. Apart from ubiquitous WiFi to make it practical, of course, but that's almost a detail for the world in which Apple visionaries tend to live. As for battery life and other technical issues, it shouldn't be so much of a matter if the rumoured specs for the phone (with two batteries) are to be believed.What is more likely to prevent Apple from coming out with such a device is the fact that Apple has strong ties with "content companies," especially in movies and music. Surely, these people would have a hard time getting past the idea that these are mostly meant to be bootlegging tools (as if bootlegging was the main intention of most people, at this point). So, even if Apple does come out with a mobile iChat AV on Tuesday, it surely will be somehow crippled so that people can't use it during shows by commercially established artists (independent artists and "up and coming" artists already know the value of fan recordings and would find ways to promote them). In the end, even artists might benefit as people would use the devices to do cool video mashups (using Apple's iMovie and other iLife apps, of course) but, in the meantime, Apple will still play it cozy for "content companies" and media conglomerates.Ah, well…
Author enkerliPosted on January 5, 2007 February 19, 2008 Categories amateurs, Apple, IM, iPhone, WiFiTags 2007 predictions, artists, citizen journalism, content companies, Dick Tracy, fan recordings, iChat AV, Internet 7.0, MacWorld San Francisco, mashups, media companies, mobile iChat AV, PiperJaffray, rumors, rumour mills, rumours, ubiquitous WiFi, user-gen, video conference, video IM, YouYear4 Comments on Apple Video Conference Phone???
Music, Food, Industries, Piracy
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Noticed it in Steal This Film. A very appropriate message. Process over product. Music is not a commodity. Food does not grow on profits.
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Author enkerliPosted on August 30, 2006 December 5, 2008 Categories activism, advocacy, alimentation, amateurs, cluetrain, Cluetrain Manifesto, Communities, community-building, consumption, craft, creation, Creative Commons, creativity, cultural capital, digital lifestyle, Empowerment, food and society, friendship, geek crowd, globalization, groupthink, hegemony, humanism, information, innovation, intellectual property, knowledge, metaphors, mindshare, moral enterpreneurs, movies, music distribution, music industry, music scenes, musicking, online privacy, online publishing, open-source, openness, optimism, participatory culture, popular culture, product and process, recording industry, social dynamics, social networks, social publishing, specialists, stereotypes, tasting, technology, trusting people, YouTubeTags alarmism, amateur, anti-competitive, appropriation, art as process, bastardization, collage, consumers, content distribution, courts métrages, democracy, DIY, Film, films, freshness, ideas, information wants to be free, international development, leapfrog effect, libraries, mashups, monopolies, music as commodity, music publishers, non-specialists, Old Media, open content, open publishing, ownership, Philanthropy, professional musician, protectionism, reappropriation, social struggle, sue-happy, unfair business practicesLeave a comment on Music, Food, Industries, Piracy