Open eyes

Clumsy fingertips

2011-03-06T07:25:00.001+01:00

Oh what a beautiful morning - waking up and reaching out for the desirable gadget Android. Need to make some changes in pref settings. Oh oh language? The standard setup is of course the local patois, Danish (the language not the pastry, silly!) but what if we set it for Japanese? Said Curious Sus. And so she did: help help new challenge! Now everything is written in a language I cannot possibly

Open eyes in an open world

2011-03-06T01:20:00.002+01:00

Everything seem more open than ever before. We are able to connect and share across distances of time and cultures. The current revolutionary movements are making use of social media in new ways that were unthinkable science fiction when I was young. At the same time I must admit a certain reluctance against this total merge of privacy and open. One thing is that I can decide to share a blog post

Blogger Droid post from my android position

2011-03-06T00:56:00.003+01:00

The smartphone Blogger Droid app allows me to compose a new post to this blog and if I add a Picasa album this will also facilitate illustrated posting. The whole procedure - from discovering the Blogger app to refreshing this good old blog - took me less than 15 minutes.I decided to have a special Google account for the Smartie, so that all of my older actions are not necessarily included in

Android adventures

2011-03-06T00:34:00.002+01:00

Some days ago, I decided that I needed a smartphone. I was getting stressed because of an automated email answering system that is now distributing the free lance jobs, sent out to many takers, and the first repondent will get the deal. This kept me check mail on the computer each and every moment. This was a very good reason for getting a ubiquitous pocket device. I knew I wanted the Xperia x10

focus + procrastination + serendipity

2010-08-04T01:30:00.003+02:00

I found a very thought provoking blog post tonight, by Inge de Waard (who has an alter ego named Ignatia)http://ignatiawebs.blogspot.com/2010/08/open-academic-education-people-with.htmlShe writes: Luckily for me the combination of procrastination and serendipity resulted in a wonderful, unexpected answer to a question that has been on my mind lately. Currently I am dabbling with the idea of a PhD

Postsecret by proxy

2010-06-12T22:37:00.003+02:00

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2154691/postsecret_collage

Support orphanage in Cambodia and make my birthday wish come true

2010-05-22T11:24:00.003+02:00

Imagine a poor country with about 1.600.000 children who have no parents! In the Roteang village, Cambodia, an orphanage helps children to a good, healthy life with care, love and trust building. You can help me support their cause! I'm trying to raise $1,200 for Sharing Foundation: Helping to Care for Cambodia's Children. The cause's mission: Help meet the physical, emotional, educational and

My first patchwork blanket

2010-01-13T01:09:00.001+01:00

Corners in the makingOriginally uploaded by netopNyropI'm hibernating in my sewing workshop atelier, getting things done the creative way.

Pencils, pens, rubbers, glue and schotch tape

2010-01-09T02:37:00.001+01:00

Pencils, pens, rubbers, glue and schotch tapeOriginally uploaded by netopNyropMaking order and clearung up clutter can be very satisfying. This is what I'm currently taking care of. Half of this collection actually came from my father's house, and I have tested all of them, bravely throwing away things that were out of order. I just did not want to carry around with too much useless items. But I

Electronic Village Online 2010 - 6 weeks of mutual webheads training

2010-01-06T00:29:00.002+01:00

Back in 2002, I did my first session with the Electronic Village Online EVO - an open online workshop run by volunteers and webheads and attended by some 2000 teachers worldwide over a period of 6 weeks prior to the annual TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages ) convention. In 2003, I was part of the leadership team for the legendary session known as Becoming a Webhead, with

2010 - another new year (and happy about it)

2010-01-06T00:03:00.003+01:00

First five days of the year, getting things done one by one. I'm not going to share details about what these needs are, just marking with some satisfaction each time these chores are cleared away from the clutter, and some valuable time invested in my life bank. We do live one day at a time, and still - who knows, what tomorrow will bring? Decided to go back to blogging, because I realized that I

Silence

2009-10-29T00:38:00.001+01:00

I have to admit that for the time being, my attention is elsewhere. This does not neceessarily mean that this blog will never be continued - only that there is a break in between thoughts, snapshots and projects.

Reblogging analysis of hashtag tweet promo for #moonfruit

2009-07-05T12:48:00.005+02:00

#moonfruit trending on Twitter? It’s the rebirth of a startup says Techcrunch blogger Mike Butcher. http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/07/04/why-is-moonfruit-trending-on-twitter-its-the-rebirth-of-a-startup/Moonfriut is a 10 year old company hosting homepages, some for free with basic features, and low cost payments for more services. This week, they let you enter a draw to win not less than 10

Teach to the test versus the unique personality

2009-04-16T10:06:00.001+02:00

Test for grading is a matter of standardization. Knowing where in the range list to place each individual. But for which purpose, and the benefit of whom? YThis video essay described the literacy as it developes in one person, from the very young child who insists on climbing the steep hitll, to the pain staking process of passing the rituals of examination. (draft stub - need to find out more

Celebrating women in computing: Karin Hoegh, Podcast expert, Denmark

2009-03-25T01:58:00.008+01:00

Ada Lovelace Day is March 24, and all around the world, bloggers are celebrating Lovelace's great pioneer work (writing the code for the Analytical Engine, for her teacher and friend, the mathematician scientist Charles Babbage). Ada was born in 1815, at a time in history where women and girls were not supposed to bother their little brains with heavy topics such as math and science. More about

Mozilla or Safari for mac os X - which choice?

2009-03-25T00:46:00.002+01:00

As I'm back on a mac computer, I need to decide which browser I prefer. On Windoze XP, my preferred choice is definitely Mozilla. And, after a little week with Safari, I decided to check out whether there is any difference from using Mozilla. I've had some very slow results sometimes with Safari (which is the pre installed browser for mac OS.) Well - I'm not going to make real benchmarking but I

Time zone differences, and all that jazz

2009-03-17T11:07:00.000+01:00

The fun challenge about meeting from many eventual time zones is the fact that daylight saving is implemented differently in different US states, where some have adapted this procedure and others have not), and in Europe (where summer time is only actual in our calendar from the last Sunday of March - each and every year. For the Southern Hemisphere (Australia etc) this makes even more confusion

Monkey taunts tigers

2009-02-12T16:39:00.001+01:00

See how intelligent an old monkey can move around in the trees above two tiger cubs, and deliberately tease them while they don't really get the trick; monkey is too fast for them to comprehend what's going on.

Happy New year Webheads Sunday Cooking lesson

2008-12-29T11:19:00.001+01:00

Yesterday, I went to the weekly, traditional Webheads meetup in Tapped In. I haven't been there for months, mostly because I need to limit my commitments and also because family matters are taking over on Sundays. I'm glad I came. First of all, it is wonderful to chat with the regulars, some of those people that I've known for ages, or at least since 2001 - Vance in Abu Dhabi, Michael in Adelaide

Scared of dentist? Play SL and forget about pain

2008-12-18T00:47:00.002+01:00

I stumbled upon this amazing news from the field of odontology, or dental science. Immersion in virtual worlds, in this case Second Life, can reduce pain to help patients with needle phobia, or for other reasons to avoid or limit traditional pain killer injections. Virtual worlds hold promise to reduce real world pain at the dentistCase Western Reserve University dental graduate student

Changed blog - I'm back here

2008-12-09T00:23:00.002+01:00

I have a confession to make: I changed blogs! Again.I started the MUVEnation course with the best intentions to take up using my blog at eduspaces. I wanted to refresh my particpation in this education oriented community this way. But as we are documenting our SL work using many Flickr photos, and from my Flickr page there is a smart direct link to my blogspot blog; I decided this would improve

All about my avatar: SusNy Foss

2008-12-08T23:21:00.003+01:00

My avatar SusNy has many similarities with the real life me, such as our names that are similar, and our faces that may have some common traits (although SusNy is much younger and smarter). I would not say, that I modeled her to be a true copy. Instead I would rather think that I have trained SusNy to know as much as possible about how to get around, understand how to use and examine tools and

Almost Famous: Little red ridinghood and the wolf

2008-12-01T20:06:00.001+01:00

Little red ridinghood and the wolfOriginally uploaded by netopNyropI have chosen this scenario as an example for the MUVEnation course, activity 6: Almost Famous. The idea is to dress your avatar as someone known. I went through my SL albums and found SusNy disguised as Little red ridinghood, one of my favourite fariy tales. The wolf was a scuplture that I met in a forest far away on an island

SL workshop hands on: Plastilina in conversation

2008-11-24T13:20:00.001+01:00

SL workshop hands on: Plastilina in conversationOriginally uploaded by netopNyropPicture was not added - using Flickr-to-blog tool.

SL workshop hands on: Plastilina in conversation

2008-11-24T13:17:00.002+01:00

Location: IT university of Copenhagen, October 08. Event: AoIR9 pre-conference SL workshopJason Nolan, Toronto, had provided small packages of colourful plastilina for each table of conversation. Without any further instructions. Some people like getting their fingers into modeling, while others just left the substance untouched. At my table, we started to collect our little models on a sheet of

Working with my fear of tall things

2008-11-20T01:28:00.001+01:00

Building ground_005Originally uploaded by netopNyrop...and my camera controls :-)

MUVEnation - blogging at Eduspaces

2008-11-12T23:50:00.002+01:00

As I'm currently enrolled in the European MUVEnation project and made up my mind to take up blogging over at Eduspaces, there may be less activity right here, for the time being. Many webheads with a love for Second Life and other multi user virtual environments (MUVEs) are also engaged in MUVEnation, so from time to time, I plan to come back here for a short briefing. Feel free to follow my

Wake up call : the tipping point

2008-10-29T10:03:00.002+01:00

Point of no return, the tipping point, radical climate changes, and the end of civilization on our planet Earth as we know it? We need to take action - well - I already think I did make my decision of being a low energy consumer back in 1973. Eat only little meat, prefer local food, recycle what you can and travel slow (train, bike, walk). Online conferencing and communication is one part of this

Experiments in prime time

2008-10-13T22:25:00.005+02:00

As I am trying to build up my current online presence , this blog will also need a major refreshment. Last posting was an older draft some months old that I decided to post. School experiments seem to have a popular appeal, parents as well as school teachers are engaging in the ongoing debates raised by TV2 funding several education oriented experiments. Question is, whether these apparently

The storytelling of Webheads in Action

2008-09-30T12:48:00.002+02:00

Some weeks ago, my dear community of webheads celebrated our 10 year jubilee. The narrative has developed over time, and for each of us, there is a different story to tell. It has been told literally hundreds of times, and for every time there are new datails added, and some things that are more relevant than others. From my personal viewpoint, the webheareds narrative is about a very open ended

The ultimate connections CCK08

2008-09-30T12:34:00.002+02:00

For some years I have taken part in and followes the evolving discourse about knowledge building in community contexts, about connectedness and collective intelligence. This month, a huge massive experiment is unfolding around two key persons in this field, George Siemens and Stephen Downes. They are developing and sharing a highly actual and open ended course on Connectivism in education, with a

Controlled Chaos - a School caring for Learning Styles

2008-09-02T01:14:00.008+02:00

On DR2 tv (one of two public service channels in Denmark), there are ongoing reports from school experiment. One was presenting a rather traditional teacher from Norway taking over a grade six for one week, in Denmark, at a newly built, open plan school for grades 0-9. The plot was obviously to show how a very undisciplined and anti authoritarian class would cope with having a foreign language

Hurricane salvation volunteers web 2.0

2008-09-02T00:25:00.002+02:00

The Katrina hurricane three years ago had an informal army of web volunteers trying to coordinate rescue work, people finding and housing. This actual Gustavian period is showing many virtual footprints. There are bloggers and tweeters commeting on prominent problems regarding the eventual effects on the President campaign and how the Republican Convent has conventiently cut down on their more

Vegetables are good for the ears - the carrot clarinet

2008-08-29T01:09:00.002+02:00

Linsay Pollak drills out a thick carrot, fasten his clarinet mouth piece on top, and a kitchen funnel at the other end, then plays a fine and precise duet - with himself. Who this guy is? He is an Australian instrument maker. http://www.linseypollak.com/

My Flickr photo on Copenhagen map service for iPhone

2008-08-27T20:14:00.002+02:00

Schmap is a city map service illustrated with people's pictures. Last summer they got my permission to use one of my photos from Copenhagen from my Flickr album (makred as Common . I think it is a fine photo, showing a statue of a famous artist, Svend Wiig Hansen in the foreground, and on the other side of the canal, in the background the government building of Christiansborg castle church, with

Incredible cream egg installation

2008-08-27T16:48:00.001+02:00

I found this crazy home grown factory installattion for transport and final breaking of - chocolate cream eggs.This could have found inspiration by world renowned, at least in Denmark, H. Storm P. satirical philosopher and last but not least inventor. I'm in the nostalgic corner because this Monday we had a farewell get-together (not funeral)for my father who passed away a month ago. And, in the

My knowledge bank - how to combine fact with own insight

2008-08-20T00:24:00.007+02:00

After a long life's information gathering,some of this has become shelfware, stored in my brain repository for eventual later retrieval. Botany and the medical uses of plants has a special instant acceible shelf, that is even sorted alphabetically by name, by touch , by characteristics (such as roots,leaves, flowers and even perfumes that may trigger my memories). In last blog post, I shared a

Nature's wisdom - how salvia officinalis saved our holiday

2008-08-19T22:27:00.009+02:00

Do you know the herb called salvia, or sage? 25 years ago, when my kids were 10 and 11, we were invited by friends to hike mearby their summer habitat in Franche-Comté, the Jura mountains. This was our first and only holiday abroad, and their first flight ever. Starting from Copenhagen, landing in Genève and by train far, far out in the countryside where we were picked us in a jeep. The shepherd

Connectivism lived - Lee Baber in memoriam

2008-08-05T03:05:00.002+02:00

sad news which I only heard today, first from Stephen Downes' stream, then later found out that Lee Ann Baber passed away some days ago. She was a legend,my friend and mentor and trouble shooter every once in a while when my mac was making trouble, or when I tried (even hard) to get to grips with the Webcast Academy experiments on live streaming audio. Lee was a multitalent, she was a teacher and

When the network dispersed in all directions

2008-05-30T13:26:00.001+02:00

On CPsquare's intranet I've followed a debate around how to wind down, reactualize or hand over a networking community, thought provoking and highly relevant in many cases I think,I'd like to share my story here, about a two year long project with substantial funding, that I was deeply involved in some years ago. What we were trying hard to promote, develop and support, was only partly achieved.

So many Social networking sites - overwhealmed?

2008-05-20T16:23:00.004+02:00

This satirical cartoon video by Super Josh shows the dilemma of having too many choices for profiles on Social networking sites. The morale: get a LIFE! Me? Hmmm - ok, I never made mySpace profile, and not really making any particular use of LinkedIn any longer, and even neglecting my friends on Second Life a little lately. But this weekend, I was playing with Facebook - with my son, at his

Success comes to those who can weather the storm

2008-05-09T14:55:00.005+02:00

"Just as the tumultuous chaos of a thunderstorm brings a nurturing rain that allows life to flourish, so too in human affairs times of advancement are preceded by times of disorder. Success comes to those who can weather the storm.” I Ching - the Book of Changes (the hexagram does not corresond exactly with the above quote). I read this from the ancient Chinese book of wisdom, IChing that

Google translation for a Multilingual world

2008-05-09T10:38:00.003+02:00

Today, Google Search was surprisingly offering an automated Translation link for a Danish versioned text from an English page. I checked the feature and it appears to be a beta tool.Luckily I was able to take a screendump of this: two minutes later, this service link had suddenly vanished from my next, refined Google search. And then, I discovered that there was a specific new Danish translation

Collaborative stewardship - to make it happen

2008-05-08T16:08:00.003+02:00

Community stewardship - making the connectedness happen social net working can indeed have many faces and places, names and tasks. I'm elaborating here on a posting I've just written on our Connected Futures Workshop in a thread with reflections on technology stewardship. A particpant, Steve Gance, shares his blogpost with thoughts and examples on what to consider when you start writing a

Field trip - just a short snapshot

2008-05-08T00:25:00.001+02:00

In the Connected Futures workshop, we organized three field trips to virtual communities of practice this week, gving our participants the opportunity to explore matters around practice, domain and community. This triangulation is helpful as an analysis tool; where can we find evidence of the ongoing practices, which domain is the focus and which signs would indicate the sense of community spirit

worldofwebheads

2008-05-04T10:09:00.001+02:00

Writingmatrix2008march From: vances, 1 month ago | View | Upload your own At the TESOL Arabia 2008 Conference to be held at Dubai Men's College, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on March 13-15, 2008 I present on: Writingmatrix: Engaging collaborative writing through social networking - Abstract: This presentation explains aggregation, tagging, and RSS with respect to filtering

Connected Futures - tech stewardship workshop

2008-05-04T00:59:00.007+02:00

For months, I've been involved in the pre-workshop preparations backstage, as part of the leadership group of ten; Bronwyn Stuckey, John Smith, Etienne Wenger, Nancy White, Nick Noakes, Beth Kanter, Beverly Trayner, Shirley Williams, Shawn Callahan and me.This is a follow up on the Foundation of Communities of Practice workshop, which has become a tradition three times a year,developed and

Librarians matter! Kathryn Greenhill, Murdoch university Library

2008-03-14T01:07:00.001+01:00

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This post was written as a mirror blogging - from inside Facebook

2008-03-12T20:16:00.002+01:00

Mirror blog is a widget for facebook that allows me to combine my blogspot blog and Facebook. The editor is really primitive HTML which means I would rather blog the other way round. But at least the fact this can be done, is one more shortcut to help integrating my multiple online footprints. I'm already having another mirror blog widget used for my eduspaces blog. So - this makes two of a kind,

Web 2.0 librarians in Norway

2008-03-06T11:37:00.003+01:00

at Bibliotekssentralen in Oslo, Niels Damgaard runs an intensive web 2.0 workshop for librarians all over Norway. They can choose to pay for one or more sessions, up to ten in one year. For the last of these sessions, I was invited this Monday to speak about The social and collegial learning environment in the electronic village online, in a synchronous online session. As these courses are made

Scrapblog - a free collage tool with great potential

2008-03-04T14:28:00.002+01:00

This is my Scrapblog portfolio workspace - not yet finished but really engaging and fun. <

5 webheads won scholarships for the CALL 08 conference in Japan

2008-03-03T23:39:00.004+01:00

Out of more than one hundred applicants (from low income parts of the world), about a dozen active CALL practitioners were awarded a grant to travel to a world conference on CALL in Japan. And, seven of these are good Webheads! Congratulations to Hala Fawzi in Sudan, to Erika in Brazil, Nelba Quintana and Jennifer Verschoor in Argentina, Evelyn Izquierdo, Venezuela, Nina Lyulkun from Ukraine and

Graduation party for BAW 08 was a blast

2008-03-03T23:20:00.005+01:00

Every year, the Electronic Village Online runs for six weeks, giving language educators and knowledge workers the opportunity to meet and collaborate online with various themes in the Web 2.0 learing field. Facilitators work as volunteers, and many of those who started as participants would continue year after year with more responsibilities. Becoming a Webhead is the name of one of these

Cultural analfabetism?

2008-02-27T01:09:00.004+01:00

How can people in the street somewhere in the United States of America be so totally blank on trivial jeopardy questions about world geography, history , religion, warfare, past and highly actual events. OK - these may be the worst examples, and you could probably find ignorants everywhere. Or, is this an example of complete cultural blindness, US centric unawareness of the Outer World? Mention a

Embedding blog-in-facebook

2008-02-27T01:06:00.002+01:00

Does this blog post now show up on my Facebook?I've used an app called Mirrorblog. It does not connect to Xanga, nor to the Eduspaces blog. But Blogspot blogs.Let's see if this experiments is succesfull

Sus Nyrop's own blog n' roll

2008-02-26T23:25:00.007+01:00

In this multitude of blogging opportunities and community courses, I have to admit that I've spread myself out thinly, so I would like to add links to my other blogs.in 2002 I started blogging at www.xanga.com/susnyropA co-blog with friends from Second Life, mostly in Danish language (SL as an informal learning environment)secondlifedk.blogspot.comThe eduspaces education community blog that used

The Piano - Amazing Short story of a life

2008-02-26T23:17:00.002+01:00

While playing the piano, the old man is day dreaming about past life experiences. In the final scene, he is playing with a young boy, perhaps his grandson, or perhaps the piano player himself as a child. Sentimental and sweet glimpse down memory lane.Mmm - who made it? Will have to check it out; just stumbled upon while browsing youTube the miscellanous way. The logo says Aniboom - which seem to

Webheads in Action session from TI festival 05

2008-02-22T20:37:00.002+01:00

Tapped In has a festival every year, and I was involved in the process of preparing this several times. In 2005, we were hosting a chat session where Webheads in Action members could meet with others from the TI community. This was quite improvised as the invited speaker was not present. so what was told came right from our hearts. Rita Zeinstejer from Argentina, Bee Dieu from Brazil, Hala Fawzi

Flickr

2007-11-11T14:08:00.001+01:00

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Virtual Field trip to Webheads in the English Village Online

2007-02-28T11:14:00.000+01:00

Moira Hunter, web 2.0 expert language teacher, was a co-moderator in the Becoming a Webhead introductory course in the Electronic Village Online 2007. Moira has generously accepted our invitation to join our teleconference tonight for a group of interested participants from two online workshops, about Foundations of Communities of Practice, and Online Facilitation in Education. As a senior mentor

Quest Atlantis workshop

2007-01-23T21:33:00.000+01:00

I just had this interesting message (read below) with an open invitation from Bronwyn Stuckey, and her request to forward the invitation to Webheads. Which I did of course at once, including the Electronic Village Online Gaming in ESL/EFL workshop. Will I have the resistance power to refuse this offer myself? I msut be aware that I do need time for getting things done immediately and without

Second generation library

2007-01-20T23:18:00.000+01:00

Today there was an opening session today on Library 2.0 in SL, announced at http://infoisland.orgWhile people were sitting neatly in world at the auditorium, almost not chatting in public, there was an audio interview streamed (outside of SL, at the Worldbridges channel). I may have missed a tour of the surroundings, but I took some nice snapshots of those sitting people apparently listening. And

2007 - and then what?

2007-01-06T23:57:00.000+01:00

This year will bring more new Webheads activities and I hope to take part in some of these. However, time flies and I really need to focus on my Danish work projects at the moment. I've been working on a blog showing all of my virtual footprints, sort of a portfolio blog thing, in Danish. I made it at edublogs as we had a blogging project with about 300 Danish student teachers and their teachers

London Zoo in SL

2006-12-03T14:30:00.000+01:00

SLondon-Zoo_001 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Sloodle legitimate peripheral learning

2006-12-01T12:58:00.000+01:00

Sloodle legitimate peripheral learning Originally uploaded by netopNyrop. I'm in SL and on this occastion some weeks ago, I had so many beginner problems. One thing I really did not udnerstand by then, was how to navigate around and find my own feet, while also folloing a group event. I wanted to see people and the location from allpossible views, which, in turn, made it very hard for me

More from Second LIfe

2006-10-15T14:36:00.000+02:00

My second visit to Second life was more succesful!I made a flight over the landscape which gave a fairly good perspective, but no real orientation. After all I was looking for one specific location without knowing the direction, the Education Island. Yesterday's text search for this did give me zero result; today I had bingo and moved over to open the gate (created by gavin, first sign of actual

Testing Slideshare

2006-10-15T13:45:00.000+02:00

Can I just copy and paste the embed file object code directly from Slideshare?If you wish an invitation to test this new smart online presentation tool, ask me!

Message from Second LIfe - unidentified object lost and found

2006-10-15T11:15:00.000+02:00

I was there for a while last night, and my poor avatar had a hard time. We could look around in the area,even turning the universe upside down, and a few other stiffs were standing around, not reacting to my tentative chat messages. But apart from some silly gestures, I did see my avatar from the back only - and could not make it move out of the spot, not really going anywhere else than the Oasis

Webcastathon this weekend - Webheads go Second Life!

2006-10-15T11:04:00.000+02:00

Worldbridges are busy people and this week, from Thursday onwards there is running a so-called Webcastathon, a marathon event with many sessions primarily show casing students' work from Webcast Academy class 1.2. I'm enrolled in the Webcast academy class 1.3 starting next week - the Nordic section - so I know I must participate somehow, with a tight deadline for my next dissertation meeting

Act Alive (from Global learn Day last weekend)

2006-10-15T10:51:00.000+02:00

Janet Feldman., Nigeria from Act Alive is now leading the conversation. She is the director ofActALIVE, an arts coalition the international wing of a Kenyan HIV/AIDS NGO. The coalition is composed of groups and individuals who use or advocate the use of arts to address HIV/AIDS and related issues like poverty, human-rights, and sustainable development. The

Door sign, Learning Lab Denmark, DPU

2006-10-12T22:43:00.001+02:00

86 % pure nerd, according to test ;-)

2006-09-07T01:24:00.000+02:00

I don't really know why I had to take this silly test, but I'm not very surprised about the outcome: I've scored highest in the nerd category. The test provided me with this message (I've cut away some useless details to slim my posting here) Pure Nerd 86 % Nerd, 30% Geek, 43% Dork For The Record:A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.A

Fast feed for hungry ears, and slow listening for non natives

2006-09-04T16:54:00.000+02:00

Phil Windley's Technometria | Speeding Up Podcasts An interesting apporach: If you're too busy to really listen to those long boring podcast shows, why not make it run faster to save time? Phil Windley from IT conversations and Technometria blog llke to listen at 1.5x - unless he really want to listen and learn!Phil W. has got some nice info on how to do this trick - and more pops up in the

Exercise: aggregated blog feed - fresh from CPSQ

2006-08-22T21:54:00.000+02:00

After some very profound considerations, there is now an 'official' feed for CPSquare members, carefully prepared by John Smith, LearningAlliances. I'm posting this message to see whether this blog of mine is there; as I've got more experimental blogs developed more or less, over time, this is not hte one & only - but the most often updated lately. I know that I will need to settle down and focus

Bubbleshare letter from Germany

2006-08-20T16:12:00.000+02:00

Dennis,another webhead in Osnabrück is currently a mystery guest visiting Carla's class in Argentina. he prepared this slideshow with voice comments from his home town in North GermanyThis album is powered byBubbleShare - Add to my blog

Poddy training - a matter of flow

2006-08-13T14:15:00.000+02:00

In May, I met with the Danish journalist and podcast expert Karin Hoegh www.podblog.dk for the first time at the Danish Reboot8 conference - just before Ben Hammersley's marvellous show on the 21st century renaissance people. Karin asked where people put their clumsily entangled wires and ear phones, and we were joking a bit about this. I had the utmost pelasure to join a kitchen table chat with

EFL bridges world conversation club - fashion and gadgets

2006-08-13T14:05:00.000+02:00

In todays skype cast, we had a conversation about fashion; I came in pretty late. During some speculations about young people being much aware of current fashion trends in clothing, and a world wide alikeness of clothes with some recent shopping experiences from different cities, I saw a parallel chat started in the text chat room, about some issues on the new playstation commercial (being

Burning my own feed for this very blog

2006-08-13T01:09:00.000+02:00

Did you ever hear about "burning your RSS feed" for a blog or podcast, to keep up with new updated posts and casts? One tool for this purpose is called Feedburner. It works quite automated, just register as a member and the basic features are free. Pro users pay $5 or more, depending on the number of feeds they wish to burn. Don't ask me why this code system procedure is called burning; this

Meeting for the first time like two good old friends

2006-07-19T08:21:00.000+02:00

DSC00538 Originally uploaded by netopNyrop. Rita the Webhead from Rosario in Argentina is visiting Denmark with her husband Hector on their North European odyssey. Rita and I have spent some fun time together preparing our online wikispace for this occasion and finally yesterday morning we were able to hug each other for the first time. We took an easy going walk around n the local

Nicole Simon and her international audience strategy

2006-07-16T17:03:00.000+02:00

Why should US podcasters be aware of an international audience?Nicole Simon lives in Germany, and she just mentions all of those aspects that I've often found makes it difficult to keep my attentionj when listening to podcasts that are NUS centric. Shje laso has many other good and relevant points. I'll continue this post later. We're still in the session at the Women's international podcast

Gate keeeper helped me feel at home

2006-07-16T00:55:00.000+02:00

Women's international podcast expo 06 Originally uploaded by netopNyrop. Just look at this expo hall - a really welcoming interface. Yhe Women's international podcasting expo.Still, when you get inside, it is like a maze. I was so glad that I had karin by my side in Skype, to guide me around and also to let me know a bit about whose sessions would be relevant. Karin participated in this

Podcasting 101 - and advanced editing

2006-07-16T00:51:00.000+02:00

I've attended two sessions tonight with Penny Haynes from the Women's International Podcast Expo - the most amazing was her walkthrough of a tool for editing called Wavepad, much simpler than Audacity. I'm looking forward to test this tool soon. And I am so grateful for Karin Hoegh who invited me and encouraged me to join this conference!www.podblog.dk

Women's podcasting expo this weekend

2006-07-14T14:49:00.000+02:00

The first international Woman's Podcasting Expo is all online, and my first impression is that the organization is VERY professional and well managed. It is possible to regsier for free and attend 3 trial sessions, but I chose to get a full pack and pay the 25$ us for a three day long event with many sessions and exhibitions. My first choice is of course to check out what's happening in the field

Graph generated from Social blogging EVO workshop

2006-06-25T15:21:00.000+02:00

Graph generated from Social blogging EVO workshop Originally uploaded by netopNyrop. The Collaborative or social blogging in language education workshop in the Electronic Online Village 06, run through as social clustering machine called websitegraph and suggested by Bee Dieu. . I am not sure what this graph is showing exactly - but it was quite fun to see it grow and unfold in a very

Speed of Creativity - an education podcaster

2006-06-25T00:58:00.000+02:00

Weekly podcaster Wesley Fryer was a guest in Worldbridges Edtechtalk skypecast on June 13. of course he also blogged his experience. on this occasion, Wesley was connecting from a well working wifi at a motel far out somewhere in Texas. I do like his fresh narrative - almost like being present myself :-)Moving at the Speed of Creativity” weekly podcasts - I'm going to subscribe and listen: I do

La vida Barranquilla -blog from Columbia

2006-06-18T02:24:00.000+02:00

La vida BarranquillaCheck out Erin's blog from Barranquilla, Atlantico, Columbia. She's teaching English language at the University of Cincinnnati - and took part in our Electronic Village Online workshop about social blogging this winter. Her photos are very inspiring, and so are her texts.

My Bubbleshare portfolio

2006-06-18T02:02:00.000+02:00

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Casting the Net Podcast

2006-06-05T13:02:00.000+02:00

Casting the Net Podcast Sean FitzGerald & Stephan Ridgway from the national Australian EDNA network. This podcast appears to be their annual, as they made one last year and then with a long,long break due to many tasks. Sean & Steph are promoting audio Odeo notes, and on their Blogger blog , they've included a direct button for delicious tagging. I've not yet listened to all of this podcast, but

Podcast: Absolutely Intercultural with a Nordic Voice approach

2006-06-02T12:31:00.000+02:00

The bi-weekly Absolutely Intercultural Podcast hosted by Anne Fox has a Nordic voice approach with an opening song in Finnish, called Jakkalakkar, which loosely translates as “business Cockroaches”, available for free download at www.icelandtouristboard.com/freemusic.htmlTodays’ guest interview with Icelandic Gunnhildur Oskardottir who spent three years in Scotland, may reveal more abut her

Dance lesson: break dancers from Korea

2006-05-30T23:05:00.000+02:00

KOREAN BREAKDANCERS on TIMES SQUARE on VimeoI found this video at Vimeo, a vlogger occasionally bumping into a street performance dance group, video taping with cell phone and posting instantly to his Vimeo blog. need to checkfor details. Have a look - they're really good!

Dance lesson: Irish line dance

2006-05-30T22:47:00.000+02:00

Irish Dancing Girls on VimeoThis is a small video chunk showing five young Irish ladies doing the line step dance. I found it at Vimeo where people can share their video material. Hope this works well , apparently the Vimeo people do have some temporary problem just today.

Global Voices podcast

2006-05-28T00:36:00.000+02:00

The first ever global Voices Podcast is such an amazing commented podcast remix with interviews from all over the world. I'm really looking forward to listen again soon. So many podcasts and stuff - and so little time:-)

Finnish dance instruction video: yx kax kolme!

2006-05-17T14:39:00.000+02:00

This mature Finnish couple are teaching the first steps in disco dancing. So they're not only dancing the tango up north!I wish I could understand their language - but all I know is counting to three; yx kax kolme.

Click TV - Immigrant life story from Shanghai to Vancouver

2006-04-18T22:25:00.000+02:00

blog.click.tv/index.php/site/my_first_personal_documentaryI found yet another new video sharing site called click.tv where video can be commented and shared in a blog. The very interesting clip that I've been viewing shows an immigrant history of daughter (born in 1973) and her parents coming from a catholic part of Shanghai to North America where they now live in Vancouver. It's well worth

The dance class takes form - Aniceta's vimeo page

2006-04-15T09:35:00.000+02:00

Dancing_class_10 on Vimeo

Will rapping - me blogging straight from my video page

2006-04-14T22:34:00.000+02:00

Dailymotion blogged videoWill rappingVideo sent by netopnyropThis young Danish boy raps very fluently in his own home made language. Apparently he has been listening to rapping with a musical ear!

Joy of Life - spontaneous street dance

2006-04-14T11:18:00.000+02:00

Dailymotion blogged videoJoy of LifeVideo sent by labelashI like this manifestation of joy! A traditional jazz band playing in the street, on a public square, and then theis couple just jump into it! This reminds me so much of the yearly open air jazz festival in Copenhagen that we usually

Kulturmøde: Danskere i Grønland

2006-04-02T12:18:00.000+02:00

Anders og AC i Ilulissat2AC er i praktik på en grønlandsk institution og blogger hjem til sine studiekammerater. Hun har sin partner Anders med deroppe, og de tager video som dokumentation, foreløbig er det blevet til to små klip.

Comnpare: Vimeo and youTube

2006-03-29T00:15:00.000+02:00

Comparing those two video formats , Vimeo and youTube, for my own dance lesson recordings I much prefer the Vimeo version. The file window is tiny, but so was the recording made with my cell phone. I find it looks sharper and better than the youTube version - although I have also made that window smaller myself, by editing the Flash code a bit (just find the size numbers and divide by two)

Another example of a dance recording

2006-03-28T10:28:00.000+02:00

I've found by tag search for Dance in Vimeo this little boy's fantastic exercises to music. He's such an enthusiast young dancer - even though he still cannot walk! This is true workout body expression. Vimeo allows me to copy and paste the Flash code - which means that it will still be hosted over there, but hopefully displayed right here in my blog.View this clip on Vimeo