Podcasts and mobile computing

This is part two of a two-part podcast featuring an interview with Marc Smith at the CNI Spring 2007 Task Force Meeting. This 2nd half of our interview lasts approximately 30 minutes and focuses on the future of social networking, and mobile devices. Marc discusses his theory that we are "moving from an ephemeral society to an archival society".

Marc Smith is a senior research sociologist at Microsoft Research (MSR) specializing in the social organization of online communities and computer mediated interaction. He leads the Community Technologies Group at MSR, and he is the co-editor of Communities in Cyberspace (Routledge), a collection of essays exploring the ways identity, interaction and social order develop in online groups.This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2007 Spring Tas

This is part one of a two-part podcast featuring an interview with Marc Smith at the CNI Spring 2007 Task Force Meeting. This first part of the interview lasts approximately 22 minutes and looks at online communities and collective action. We also discuss some of the projects he and his colleagues are researching. Many of the software programs he mentions in the podcast can be downloaded at the Microsoft Research Website. Part two of our interview will focus on the future of collective action, social networking, and mobile devices.

Marc Smith is a senior research sociologist at Microsoft Research (MSR) specializing in the social organization of online communities and computer mediated interaction. He leads the Community Technologies Group at MSR, and he is the co-editor of Communities in Cyberspace (Routledge), a collection of essays exploring the ways identity, interaction and social order develop in online groups.

Smith's research focuses on computer-mediated collective action: the ways group dynamics change when they take place in and through social cyberspaces. Many “groups” in cyberspace produce public goods and organize themselves in the form of a commons. Smith's goal is to visualize these social cyberspaces, mapping and measuring their structure, dynamics and life cycles.

In this 50-minute recording from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, we'll hear from Bryan Alexander in a session entitled First Generation Ubiquitous Computing: Social, Mobile, and Gamelike. Alexander explores how gaming, social software, and mobility have synthesized the first generation of global, ubiquitous computing.

This 22 minute recording provides coverage of an interview with Wake Forest University's CIO, Jay Dominick.  Listen in has he shares some thoughts on mobile computing, the Spellings Report, net neutrality, and much more. 

In this 19 minute recording, I sit down with University of Tennessee's Barbara Dewey and Julie Little.  We'll learn about their information commons and touch briefly on the concept of a virtual commons, and highlight some potential challenges associated with designing systems so that they're usable on a variety of mobile devices.

An earlier interview with Julie at last year's EDUCAUSE Annual Conference is also available, as is a recent one hosted by Jarrett Cummings.  Julie has also published a podcast introducing their information commons. 


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Spring Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

This is another podcast related to ELI’s upcoming Spring Focus Session on mobility and mobile learning. Hosted in conjunction with the University of Maryland–College Park, the event will take place on March 29-30, 2006, at the Inn and Conference Center–University of Maryland University College.

The interviews we are podcasting in relation to the session are intended to shed more light on some of the issues that will be discussed during the event. In this conversation, I am joined by Julie Little and Matt Gray in discussing the development of mobile learning at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. We also talk about how the integration of mobile technologies into Matt’s course provides a specific example of the university’s success in this area.

In addition to interviews like this one, ELI also plans to capture and post presentation audio from the focus session. Both the interviews and session audio will be posted under the following tags:

ELI 06 Spring Focus Session

ELI 2006 Spring Focus Session: Mobility and Mobile Learning

This interview continues the series of discussions the ELI is podcasting in relation to its 2006 Spring Focus Session, Mobility and Mobile Learning: The Next Phase of Anytime, Anywhere Learning, scheduled for March 29-30 at the Inn and Conference Center–University of Maryland University College.

In this conversation, Marilyn Lombardi discusses the Duke University Digital Initiative, which was originally known as the Duke iPod Project. Over the course of the interview, Marilyn provides an overview of the program, its successes and challenges, and the lessons learned that led to its transition from the iPod Project to the Digital Initiative. She also addresses issues institutions should consider in pursuing mobile learning projects.

Marilyn Lombardi is a senior research scholar in Duke’s Information Science and Information Studies (ISIS) program as well as a senior strategist in the university’s Office of Information Technology. She also serves as a Scholar-in-Residence with the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative.

In addition to interviews like this one, ELI also plans to capture and post presentation audio from the focus session. Both the interviews and session audio will be posted under the following tags:

ELI 06 Spring Focus Session

ELI 2006 Spring Focus Session: Mobility and Mobile Learning

On March 29-30, ELI will host its 2006 Spring Focus Session, Mobility and Mobile Learning: The Next Phase of Anytime, Anywhere Learning, at the Inn and Conference Center - University of Maryland University College in Adelphi, MD (adjacent to College Park). In conjunction with the event, we are conducting a series of podcast interviews to get a better understanding of mobility and mobile learning issues.

In this interview, Gardner Campbell joins me to discuss the rapid growth of mobility in American society and the related expansion in higher education's interest in mobile learning. Gardner is the Assistant Vice President for Teaching and Learning Technologies at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA.

In addition to interviews like this one, ELI also plans to capture and post presentation audio from the session. Both the interviews and session audio will be posted under the following tags:

In this 22 minute recording, I sit down with the Tara McPherson, Chair and Associate Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California and editor of Vectors.  We'll talk about her involement in HASTAC, what she's learned from Vectors and emerging forms of scholarship more generally. 

You can review the abstract for her session at CNI at the link below:
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2005b.fall/abstracts/PB-reimagining-mcpherson.html

Other podcasts of interest might include Open Talk About Dinosaurs and John Seely Brown's presentation at the University of Colorado System's Teaching with Technology Conference.


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

In this 17 minute recording, Lanny Arvan joins me for a discussion about mobile computing, rich media publishing, blogging, vendor consolidation, intellectual property and more.  Lanny's blog is available at:
http://guava.cites.uiuc.edu/l-arvan/blog/lannyexport.html