There is a logo competition going on for the 2010 EC-TEL conference in Barcelona. Here is my creation:
I took the some (Flickr-CC) pictures of the beautiful city and combined it with the sustainability theme of the conference. The recurring style element is an abstract wing that visualizes the TEL way from innovation to practice.
It is my pleasure to announce the call for paper for the first workshop on Using Microblogging to enhance communication within Communities of Practice (MicroECoP) which will take place at the WCC 2010 conference in Brisbane, Australia. I organize this workshop together with my colleagues SteveWheeler, GrahamAttwell and Johannes Magenheim. You’ll find all the necessary information at the workshop website.
Microblogging has become a very popular social networking activity in the recent years. The limitation of 140 characters constrains the user to send concise messages. Twitter and other popular microblogging tools have acted as catalysts for a flurry of new and fast exchange of thoughts and artefacts, and from these activities a new area of research has emerged. There are case studies for the application of microblogging in scientific conferences, educational courses, distributed software engineering teams and corporate project groups.
A number of questions are emerging from the early use of micro-blogs as social networking tools that connect communities of practice and interest. These include: How can microblogs support the development of professional communities of practice? How can microblogs be effectively incorporated into formalised professional learning? How can we measure the optimum levels of engagement necessary for microblogs to be successful social networking tools within professional communities of practice? How are communities of practice enhanced or enriched as a result of the application of microblogs? What about issues of security, privacy and intellectual property – how can these be protected? Do the filtering features on microblogs constitute semantic tools?
The workshop focuses on current research trends in the application of microblogging in various domains. The workshop seeks to attract quality research papers that propose solutions to the issues identified above. The workshop also seeks papers that comment how the application of micro-blogging can impact on real life experiences in diverse communities. It aims to bring together scientists and engineers who work on designing and/or developing the above mentioned solutions, as well as practitioners who use and evaluate them in diverse authentic environments.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
Design and development of microblogging tools
Application of micro-blogging in teaching scenarios
Application of micro-blogging in software engineering scenarios
Communication and interaction issues using microblogging
Understanding the dynamics of microblogging communities
Harnessing the semantic filtering capabilities of microblogging
Visualization issues of microblogging
Evaluation issues and case studies
Smart devices for microblogging in education
Using microblogging for enhancing creativity in education
Digital identities and microblogging
Ethical and safety issue
Harshtagging and tweckling
Developing pedagogies around the use of microblogging
Live microblogging and micro-narratives
Language Learning with microblogging
Engagement analysis and microblogging
Papers up to 12 but no less than 8 pages are solicited. All submissions should be original and not published or under consideration elsewhere. Papers must correspond to the WCC 2010 conference format requirements, as they are described at the conference web site (http://www.wcc2010.com/call-for-papers/submission-instructions). All accepted papers must be presented at the conference by at least one of the authors. One of the authors of accepted paper needs to register for the workshop.
The first day of the JTEL WinterSchool is almost over (we’re in the socialising event with iPod disco right now) and the event is already worth the travel. Innsbruck is not covered in snow, so we will focus on the actual work
Today we had 3 (more or less interactive) talks by Dai Griffiths, JonDron, and MarieJoubert that had the overall topic of Orchestrating Learning and Services Used. Gai did an good overview to SOA, WS-* and the applications in industry and learning (have a look at the eFramework) and Jon asked us to think about the possible education use cases of a wooden stick. That was really great fun. The last lecture by Marie covered the tasks of the STELLARnetwork of excellence and what orchestration of learning really means. She asked four questions that you always should keep in mind during your Ph.D. research:
What are you researching?
How are you researching?
For what reason are you researching? and
What is going to provide evidence for your research?
The attendees are very active in the social semantic web and thus the Twitter channel for the #jtelws2010 hashtag is very active.
I created a Twitter list for the attendees of the WinterSchool at http://twitter.com/wollepb/jtelws2010 which will be extended as soon as I spot new Tweeple here.
Here are some early statistics: 160 tweets tagged with #jtelws2010 from 27 different users. Here is a wordle of the first (Twitter) day:
If you ever searched for a comprehensive list of e-learning conferences to attend or to submit papers to? Well, Clayton R Wright did such a list for the rest of 2009 and 2010. The list is available at Tony Karrer’s blog…
This week I had the opportunity to present the idea of Artefact-Actor-Networks at the CollaborateCom 2009 conference in Washington D.C. – a conference mainly focussing on collaborative computing and its applications in networking and at the workplace. Abstract:
Social networks reflect communication, cooperation and loose acquaintances in networked communities. Numerous metrics allow to expose connections, important persons or clusters within these communities. Furthermore, networks can be spanned to connect documents, blog entries or wiki articles. We call such a network an artefact network. In this paper we introduce the approach of Artefact-Actor-Networks that tries to connect social networks and artefact networks in order to make claims on the semantical connections between persons and manifold artefacts. We present practical use cases for Artefact- Actor-Networks and discuss generic and specific semantical requirements and added values through the existence of Artefact-Actor-Networks.
Reference: W. Reinhardt, M. Moi, and T. Varlemann: Artefact-Actor-Networks as tie between social networks and artefact networks. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom’09), November 2009.
I am very glad to announce the 3rd International Workshop on Social Software Engineering (SSE2010) that is co-located with the Software Engineering 2010 conference in Paderborn, Germany (February, 22-26 2010). The workshop will take place on February, 24 2010.
In this workshop we would like to bring together researchers and practitioners working on different aspects of collaboration and knowledge sharing in software engineering as well as the engineering of social software to discuss new results and future research challenges. Major topics addressed at the workshop include (but not limited to):
The topics of the workshop include, but are not restricted to:
Social and human aspects of software engineering
Collaboration and knowledge sharing in development teams and (Open Source) communities
Impact of Social Software on development processes
Empirical studies on collaboration and information behaviour in social software engineering
Engineering social software
Engineering of lightweight and unobtrusive tools, Web 2.0 and Social Semantic Web applications
Approaches and tools for context-aware and personalized assistance
Particularities in the development of Social Software
Social Software Engineering
Concerns of individuals in collaboration settings, such as learning, usability and incentives
Usage of Social Software to teach software engineering, teaching social aspects of software engineering
Research methods and approaches for analyzing and designing successful collaboration support
Scientific analysis of the relation between methods/processes, tools and collaborative development practice
The guys at Freshnetworks share their experiences with Google Wave as back-channel at conferences. I like the idea of that approach as the emerging document is a very good summary and social annotation of a given talk. As the usability of Google Wave is rather … not that good at the moment I’d stay with Twitter at the moment, but give it a read:
Therese and me wrote a paper for this year’s ICIQ conference in Potsdam, Germany on the study we conducted during her masters thesis. Within her thesis Therese was developing a wiki set of criteria for assessing information quality especially designed for the need and specials of corporate settings.
Update: Our paper won the Stuart Elliot Madnick Best Paper Award. Thanks to the committee.
The final draft of the paper is available online at Scribd.
Reference: T. Friberg and W. Reinhardt: An Empirical Study on Criteria for Assessing Information Quality in Corporate Wikis. In: 14th International Conference on Information Quality 2009.
During the last week I was attending the EC-TEL 2009 in Nice. I really met great people there (some for the first time, some finally again) and the location was
marvelous. It was a conference for the TEL researches, had a good Wifi performance and I was prepared for the luck of plugs.
I was attending two pre-conference workshops on tuesday (Science 2.0, TEL-CoPs) and could listen to cool keynotes and interesting sessions. During the Science 2.0 (other post) workshop we discussed how we can use technology in beforehand of a conference, at the conference and afterwards. Graham Attwell, who was not attending the conference also added some notes and Erik Duval and Martin Weller wrote dome some notes or uploaded videos.
We all agree that currently conferences heavily differ in their application of technology and attendee-support. At EC-TEL I first saw a conference planning tool that basically is a social bookmarking tool and simple recommender system (see Hendrik’s slides). All talks with their respective authors and keywords are placed in the system and you can assemble your own conference schedule by selecting the most interesting abstracts, tag them and propose these talks to groups of users. The conference planner is a great starting point for making conferences more interactive and transparent to the (online | offline) attending researchers. But for me it is still pretty much Web 1.0 -ish… I’m thinking of some cool conference website that not only presents the CfP and Venue information but shows the main themes from accepted papers, emerging clusters and top referenced papers. If there was some tag cloudy visualization of a conference’s content (coming from Blogs, Flickr, Twitter, Slideshare, and accepted papers of course) that can be individually browsed we come to a point where we not only support the offline attendees but also interested people from the community that aren’t able to come to the conference. I totally agree with Graham that we can motivate students and young researchers to focus on a conference even if they can’t go there.
During the week I was able to tell a bit about the concept of Artefact-Actor-Networks and the possibilities it offers to store and analyse dynamic communications. Maybe there will be an option to use the concept for a tool for upcoming conferences like the conference planner was tested this time. What I learned from the keynote of Mike Sharples is that good design-based research must include early user involvement and user studies that may turn all your implementation around. From the TEL-CoP workshop we learned that visualizations that are created by us computer scientists very often are worth null because we don’t note cognitive theories or aren’t sure about our visualization goals.
It also was a great pleasure to see all the STELLAR guys wearing their t-shirts. They really did great dissemination work and I kind of like their approach to establish TEL as an standalone research discipline that must bring closer together computer science, didactics and pedagogics.
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