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First talks took place and first ideas and collaboration occasions arise.
Here some first results:
A talk with Prof. Peter Serracino Inglott of the University of Malta lead to the idea to check
if we could establish a collaboration in the context of the Learners´Garden project. Now
we plan meetings with repreantatives of different departments of the University on Tuesday.
World Tune in that context could be an example for using technolgy to realize self-organized
forms of learning.
to be continued ...
Foto: John Haslam, Retrieved 8th of october 2009, http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxypar...95163/sizes/l/
Collaboration Options
World Tune Meeting: Malta 2009, October 28th to November 4th
World Tune (http://www.worldtune.com)
World Tune is a sound sculpture connecting different regions of our planet by environmental sounds. Its online interface still exists online. I used it as an example to demonstrate how internet-technology could support product-oriented concepts of learning. Groups of learners (vocational and prevocational training) in different regions of Europe realized local sculptures and collected sounds of their regions by recording them during so called soundwalks. These sounds were collected in open access online libraries. Internet user who visit www.worldtune.com trigger randomly a new sound of these libraries. The local speaker sculptures broadcast these sounds. In Rome (Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea), Hannover (Expo2000) and Reutlingen (Stadtbibliothek) we realized different kind of local performances using the sound of the worldtune sculpture.
Future Options:
I have no specific idea ... It could be helpful for my current work at Freie Universität Berlin or in the context of Learners´Garden as a lively model of using technology in education. Not the screen is in the focus of learning processes but the indiviual learner and its activity in the real space, just using technology to enhance learning. Jeffrey Price, artist in New York (fine arts), Norbert Hermann, artist in Johannesburg (poetic arts), Stefan Cordes media expert in Berlin and Kevin Wolter, Programmer and Designer would join any innovative idea that we might find during that week in Malta. Massimo de Majo and Biancamaria Stanzani Ghedini would also be interested in proposing World Tune performances to local institutions in Malta...
Learners´Garden (http://www.learnersgarden.de)
A project we just initiated (Kevin Wolter and me) which seems to get interesting partners in the context of Higher Education at Universities in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The aim of the project is to support learners by offering them easy to use and easy to install online tools which may help them to edit their learning products, to get in touch with people who try to solve similar problems and to discuss methods of using those tools. Fostering product-oriented concepts of learning (Dewey).
Future Options:
At the moment we push the rollout of this project. All partner universities are located in german speaking countries. We are about to establish a community by organizing lectures at all of our partner universities as well as by establishing a virtual editorial staff which meets regularly online.
As soon as this project is running we would like to establish a parallel, international, english speaking community of Learners´ Garden with the domain www.learnersgarden.com . If we could identify actors, funds and partners we could start this international rollout together. Massimo has just started teaching at the University of Malta and he feels that most probably they will also interested in joining in. We need an English translation as soon as possible, though.
Yeelab Educational Environments http://www.yeelab.de
This is a small consultancy company to provide educational institutions with IT-support and innovative educational concepts.
Free University Berlin
J.A.P. Studio New York
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Online Meeting via Adobe Connect with
Norbert Hermann, Johannesburg
Jeffrey Allan Price, New York
Stefan Cordes, Berlin
Kevin Wolter, Berlin
Massimo de Majo, Malta
Wolfgang Neuhaus, Berlin (Malta, during conference)
