Doug's Meme Mix

Howard Rheingold’s notes on building a personal social learning network.

1. Explore — it’s not just about knowing how to find experts, co-learners, but about exploration as invitation to serendipitous encounter.

2. Search – Use Diigo, delicious, listorious, to find pools of expertise in the fields that interest you.

3. Follow candidates through RSS, Twitter. Ask yourself over days, weeks, whether each candidate merits continued attention

4. Always keep tuning your network, dropping people who don’t gain sufficiently high interest; adding new candidates #pln

5. Feed the people you follow if you come across information that you suspect would interest them.

6. Engage the people you follow. Be polite, mindful of making demands on their attention. Put work into dialogue if they welcome it.

7. Inquire of the people you follow, of the people who follow you. But be careful. Ask engaging questions – answers shd be useful to others

8. Respond to inquiries made to you. Contribute to both diffuse reciprocity and quid pro quo

Hacking the Academy is a book that was crowd sourced in one week. The questions the book responds to are:

Can an algorithm edit a journal?

Can a library exist without books?

Can students build and manage their own learning management platforms?

Can a conference be held without a program?

Can Twitter replace a scholarly society?

I am associated with two submissions to the project.

John Fenn and I submitted “Art and (Sustainable Society: Re-Mix: An Exercise in building a course using transmedia pedagogy.” This entry appears under “Educational Technology.”

Kristin Congdon, John Fenn, Tomas Valladares, and I submitted “Interrogating Interpretation.” This entry appears under “Scholarship and Scholarly Communication.”

“Language is forever changing – and forms such as tweets and text messages are no less valid than any textbook version, says the linguist David Crystal, whose latest book encourages children to engage with the possibilities of their lingua franca.” Article by Joy Lo Cico in The Independent.

Art Work is a newspaper that consists of writings and images from artists, activists, writers, critics, and others on the topic of working within depressed economies and how that impacts artistic process, compensation and artistic property.

The newspaper is distributed for free at sites and from people throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. It is also available by mail order from Half Letter Press for the cost of postage.

Eugene based ukulele virtuoso and A&AA Digital Arts major Craig Chee along with my friend Tim Miller (on bass) are featured on the blog Ukulele Hunt’s Saturday Uke Tube for one of their 2009 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyYGAxeaabU[/youtube]Uketoberfest performance.Tim is also Director of Information Tech Service for UO Finance and Administration.

CultureWork is a periodic broadside published by the University of Oregon Center for Community Arts and Cultural Policy. Its mission is to provide timely workplace-oriented information on culture, the arts, education, policy, and community. As an “open access” journal there is no cost to access the material and it can be freely used. CultureWork is currently edited by Julie Voelker-Morris and Robert Voelker-Morris. Both are alums of the Arts and Administration Program. Both also are adjunct faculty associated with the program.

CultureWork is among an impressive number of open access journals at the University of Oregon. A full list can be found on the Knight Library website.

For the past six months, without success,  I have been trying to locate examples of zines produced in China. On Sunday I had the opportunity to experience the China Design Now exhibit at the Portland Art Museum. Included in the exhibit were examples of independent music zines from the mid to late 90s. The zines on display were created in Shenzhen and distributed for free in “music bars.” Titles on display included Q-zine, Hollywood Disco Bar Communication, and New Masses.

Excellent websites associated with this exhibit have been launched by the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Portland Museum of Art .