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Digital Media Learning 2010: Inclusive, International & Participatory!

February 19, 2010 – 1:10 am

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Inclusive, international and participatory is the promise of the first ever digital media learning conference, here in San Diego over the next three days. The 2010 Digital Media Learning Conference (San Diego, USA).

Today finds me at the start of the conference hosted University of California Humanities Research Institute at the UC Irvine campus in San Diego. The next 3 days over 500 digital media delegates form around the world are coming together to deliver, attend and discuss at over 60 panel session about digital media learning and literacy in society, education, and policy. As noted in the conference press release as to why this is so important: read more »

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Ignite Cardiff Talk: If I drive a car does that make me a mechanic?

October 17, 2009 – 4:24 pm

Wales Millennium CentreOn Thursday 15th October I gave a talk to an audience at Ignite Cardiff in the Wales Millennium Centre entitled: “If I drive a car does that make me a mechanic?”. It was 5 minute presentation in which I was trying to communicate a core message about how we consider, evaluate and measure knowledge in the age of fast pacing technology. read more »

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CASE Insights Speaks at Ignite Cardiff 2009

October 15, 2009 – 5:03 pm

ignite-cardiff Well tonight in Cardiff is the 3rd Ignite Cardiff event! So what is Ignite?

Imagine that you’re on stage in front of an audience of hundreds of people, doing a five-minute presentation using slides that automatically rotate every 15 seconds, whether you’re ready or not. What would you do? What would you say? The entry on Wikipedia provides a more detailed overview of Ignite events around the world.

Well having thought about this scary prospect and being an academic who makes a living out of lecturing and talking, I thought I might just be up for the challenge. Can an academic really only talk for 5 minutes?

So tonight at Wales Millennium Centre, I’ll be joining a list of 15 other speakers to talk for 5 minutes on a topic of my choice. My presentation is entitled: “If I can drive does that make me a mechanic!” and stems from two earlier posts on this blog about “the mechanics of social web expertise” and “measuring social web expertise.” Most importantly though this presentation is about my dad!

This Ignite Cardiff event is being hosted in partnership with Cardiff Design Festival and organised by Cardiff Web Scene and sponsored by Box UK.

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Measuring Social Web Expertise: Moving Beyond Usage Experience!

June 15, 2009 – 6:18 am

If I’ve been driving a car for 20 years does that make me a mechanic? If I’ve been baking cakes for 10 years, does that make me a pastry chef? If I’ve been on Twitter for 2 years does that mean I am a social web expert?

Often in the discussion of expertise about technologies, many fall into the trap of associating the length of usage as an indicator of expertise. In the blog entries mentioned in the previous post, many discussed ‘usage’ of social web technologies – how many years used, in what ways, which tools – as an indicator of expertise.

Technology usage as an indicator of expertise is not new or unique to the social web context, but is most certainly fatally flawed. read more »

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The Mechanics of Social Web Expertise: What Really is an Expert?

June 15, 2009 – 4:52 am

If I drive a car does that make me a mechanic? If I read a cookbook and bake a cake does that make me a chef? If I take my temperature does that make me a doctor? So what would make me a social web expert?

As the avid researcher I am, I did a little research to see what others had to say on the topic of social web expertise. By searching the phrase ‘social media expert’ on Google it returned  around 306,000 search results (I read the first two pages), on delicious 1027 bookmarks (of which I read 10) and I sat and painfully watched 6 of the 164 videos about it on YouTube. read more »

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