Magnani (2008), and Magnani and Bardone (2008) use the term cognitive niche to mark the distributed space that people create by interrelating individual cognition and the environment through the continuous interplay through abductive processes in which they alter and modify the environment. Recent month i have been trying to write together with Mauri Kaipainen about the “Narrative ecology” course results. In principle, we come up with some theoretical baseline how writing narratives happens in new hybrid ecosystems, and how it may be represented ontologically and used for detecting

Some group systems are owned and centrally controlled by one member who made an account Distributed course landscape case 3 course moodle ...Tags: I have been busy writing the descriptions of three iCamp cases and looking back of what was actually important, what we can bring at the more general level. Previously i have not been thinking enough of the phenomenon what i would name ‘blind space’.

storytelling: It is a distributed art form that can range beyond the immediate control of a creator. Many (that i refer below) have already assumed that learning through developing and discussing narratives in social web spaces has become a new innovative form of learning. We have developed and tested the course Hybrid ecosystem of narratives in Tallinn University as one approach to understand how narratives appear in hybrid (real + virtual + social) Web 2.0

We will use the combination of Elgg advancements in teacher portal Koolielu ( the draft version ) and LeMill collaborative learning object creation repository as the basic distributed software platform where the competence-management and learning-path creator will be added. The 7th Framework project Intelligent Learning Extended Organization ( IntelLEO ) was launched in february 2009. Since then we have been working with the first deliverables.

swarm has been defined as a set of (mobile) agents which are liable to communicate directly or indirectly (by acting on their local environment) with each other, and which collectively carry out a distributed problem solving. At all levels these swarms are engaged in distributed problem solving based on an infinitely complicated web of semetic interaction patterns . I have been reading some articles of Jesper Hoffmeyer about the swarms, semiotics, semiosphere and ecologies and doing some thought connections with niches, affordances in new learning ecologies. I

As promised – more thinking from our project looking at the challenges in distributed Agile teams . In a distributed team communication shrinks to the basics (egg yellow :). Tags: Changing workplace Digital traces Agile distributed teams informal communicatio One of the first things we have observed was a heavy focus on goal-oriented communication between people in different locations: they would talk (this includes ‘type’ :) about solving particular problems around work, but hardly anything else. I

Distributed Community Manifestoes Technology Web 2. Following last month's release of the iPhone 3G , along with the launch of the App Store , and what Brian Fling called the " first true Mobile 2.0 ," everyone around here is talking about the emergence of the mobile device as a critical facet of web strategy. My colleague Anders Rosenquist, who is seriously deep on mobile, presented a first take on the company point of view on mobile strategy at a recent meeting; another colleague, Justin Marshall , is knee-deep in an iPhone app; and in general things are just all abuzz about mobile.

Distributed Community Manifestoes Web 2. As you can probably tell, I'm being a little tongue-in-cheek with the title of this post, just for the sake of provocation. But I actually do have a theory about how to design great mobile apps. I've been floating the idea with colleagues lately, and it's been producing great results: Strongly opinionated responses, for and against!

Tags: Analytics & ROI Distributed Community Identity Manifestoes Metadat As an information architect, I work with metadata a lot. I help define interfaces based on information about the content. For example, an object on a home page might be the "newest" object in a system, or it might be a rotating series of "newest"

With the holidays I somewhat took a break from blogging on our work on the distributed Agile case , but there are still quite a few things there that I wanted to share to hear what do you think. Now to the distributed Agile teams . This picture is not that far from what you can learn by reading about the challenges of distributed Agile and solutions to address them, but hopefully This one is a bit scary since I picked up some ideas from linguistics without having a proper reading of the work behind it, but at times this is the price to pay* for sitting between research and practice. So, the picture on the right is a simplified version of the work of Herbert H.