Quand j'étais à tecfa, les étudiants devaient faire des blogs pour commenter leur travaux, notamment pour le cours dont jetais l'assistant. Est-ce que l'on peut généraliser cela ? C'est un outil intéressant pour forcer les étudiants à la réflexion méta, pour augmenter l'awareness dans le groupe (sa...
Gosh ! My ventilator killed himself
In a very sad attempt to liberate himself from ??? (my table ? electrictiy ?), my ventilator managed to killed himself, and fell on the floor... ...
Collaborative mechanisms
I should choose among this list of processes involvbed in collaborationm the one that I have to study for my phd : Negotiation/grounding/mutual modelling/abstraction/group memory/mutual regualtion/division of labour/shared cognitive load/explanation/internalisation/appropriation The idea is to stud...
Meeting with my phd advsisor
Attention à faire la part des choses entre des objectifs de recherche et ce qui est branché (la technologie quoi) ! le cheminement de ce compte-rendu reflète la réflexion que l'on aeu au cours de la discussion avec pierre, on en arrive à une ébauche de question de recherche vague... tout du moins d...
Virtual cities are always empty
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Last week, at the Information & Communication Day at EPFL (annual presentation of I&C project), daniel thalmann gave a nice talk about Virtual Cities. His stance was that almost all virtual cities are empty since it's hard to model people doing nothing. This is interesti...
Nerd existensialism
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE . does a switch has knowledge ? . does anyone who is not listed on google really exist ? ...
St Etienne stuff
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Industrial trip in St Etienne (France) : ...
What is Collaboration ?
After having read a definition of collaboration on mediaTIC, I would like to give a more general view : Collaboration is a situation that involves two or more persons carrying out a joint activity. Three major features characterise a collaborative situation : - The peers who collaborate have almost...
Stuff about space
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Via anne, I fell on this Urban Tapestries project. This is "a framework for understanding the social, cultural, economic and political implications of pervasive location-based mobile and wireless systems.". They built "an experimental location-based wireless platform to...
All Families are Psychotic
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I've just finished (this morning yes) "All Families are Psychotic", a crazy novel by Douglas Coupland. Very nice book, crazy history ! I do really appreciate the way he depicts life as well as his characters, nice quotes !!! ...