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November 21, 2008
Kids' informal learning
November 21, 2008
The new US report at contains some interesting discussion topics IMO for projects like ours that work with young people (or child labour as Paul Bailey would call it ...
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November 07, 2008
Mechanical Turk
November 07, 2008
UKAN-SKILLS is using Amazon Mechanical Turk as a way of crowdsourcing a specialised software task. We would be interested to hear from any other project or Emerge person that has used Mechanical Turk or other 'human intelligence task' services.Paul M ( paul.mayes@tees.ac.uk ...
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November 06, 2008
Blatant promotion for some of our helpers
November 06, 2008
This is a picture of a pizza-supported team meeting for some of the excellent young entrepreneurs who have helped with our various projects. They are available (through smartvalley@tees.ac.uk ) at a reasonable rate if you ever quickly need someone to garner user-input for people aged 14-20 (they have access to previously unsurveyed people from all youth 'tribes', genders, educational ...
From: Paul Mayes - Read more
October 15, 2008
HEA / JISC project announcement
October 15, 2008
This news of future funding looks to be interesting to a lot of us. It also seems a very good idea in itself ...
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October 14, 2008
Crowdsourced help needed
October 14, 2008
We would like to make it easier for students and staff to mark up different styles of writing with colour highlighting in Word 2007. Users find it slow to select, pull down etc each time to get to and choose from the highlight colour palette. We can offer a £200 crowdsourcing prize to anyone who can keep the colour ...
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UKAN-SKILLS - good progress
October 14, 2008
Our Project web site describes the many user-driven strands that have emerged for UKAN-SKILLS. Dave Cormier's demonstration repository (at ) now has its first batch of permission-cleared learning material. These objects will be linked to the online curriculum maps being developed by Janet A. Hale of curriculummapping101.com. Janet has written for us a very useful background paper for us ...
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October 01, 2008
Open Habitat Phase 2 Philosophy Plans
October 01, 2008
We learnt a few things in the first phase of the Open Habitat project which have informed the set-up of our next pilots. I’m currently planning the pilot that will run with philosophy students in Second Life. The main challenge with the first pilot was the sheer speed of debate in SL. The experienced philosophy students are used to ...
From: David White - Read more
September 05, 2008
SemTech Study: Workshop dates
September 05, 2008
I have just sent an email out to the emerge-projects mailing list asking for the project managers (leaders, directors, dogsbodies,...) of each project to pick dates on which I can hold a workshop at their location to look at the potential use and impact of semantic technologies on that project: this is part of the Emerging Issues Semantic Technologies ...
September 02, 2008
What has the Open Habitat project been doing?
September 02, 2008
As phase 1 of the Open Habitat project draws to a close it is time to take stock. We have run our ‘Multi-User Virtual Environments’ pilots with Art & Design and Philosophy students, gathered our data and are a long way through the process of making sense of it. Concepts are starting to cluster and hypothesis to be tested ...
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August 14, 2008
Blueprint for the skills machine
August 14, 2008
User generated content - everyone wants it. Getting users to generate content is an age old problem, and one we are encountering in the skillclouds project. From user studies we have been told by students they would like to know what transferable (and sometimes subject specific) skills they learn during a degree course. This necessitates that the users designing the ...
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