Posts tagged learnspace
Dimensions
Sep 1st
Instead of “brick and mortar” for LearnSpace we plan to open, I’d like to have something like Luminarium! What learning won’t happen in a cool space like this? One can dream, right?!
15 million people in Britain are “innumerate” – hence too many could not play the lottery that required them to compare numbers like negative eight and negative six. I wonder if the humanity will grow out of lottery any time soon, by the way.
Neil Stephenson announced his “post-book” project just a couple of days after Seth Godin announced he’s not going to make traditional books anymore. Hmmm!
I really like how WIRIS graphs. I want to teach it to talk to Makerbots.
Actually, it would be nice if more of my things, real and virtual, talked to one another. Even announcing webinars to all the places isn’t automatic at all, because of format differences. I hesitate to give mundane tasks of this sort to interns, too.
Speaking of support
Aug 27th
Ironically, some of the more developed, well-supported and widely used community meta-currencies happen in massively multiplayer online games. Also, the name for these currencies has the word “dragon” in it, of which I highly approve. Everything is better with dragons!
I hope we can learn from Carrboro Creative Coworking. They helped a lot of lovable local projects.
I would dearly love for my webinar software to do what my laptop+projector does so well: stream whatever is on my screen and sync it with the sound. As it is, you can tell people to view a video in their browser, but you can’t view in-sync and thus point out a frame to everybody. Nibipedia-like software may provide a solution, if this “bookmarking of a moment in the video” can be done in real time. Right now any “live” media does not do well at all with “live” event software I know! Yet people like Steve Hargadon can do amazing things with tools we do have, and help others.
Off I go to the Cary Homeschoolers party. The local family educator networks have been incredibly kind and supportive toward our family.
Learnspace
Aug 25th
Career Exploration homeschool coop met yesterday. So many opportunities, and a great commons support for teens. Yay us! We may go to Rare Earth Farms (grass-fed, organic beef) soon. Modern organic farmers are Renaissance people.
“Learnspace” planning is going ahead. We are looking at models like coworking and hackerspaces. I hope to learn from places like Kid’s Museum on what to do about “the nasties” like insurance. On the brighter note, there are nine group leaders now who said they will contribute ideas and time to making this happen.
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