Tarmo’s blog on education, technology, psychology, and life
Posted in English, Technology on Feb 26th, 2010
Here’s a slidecast of my recent lecture at Aalto university’s Media Lab, which discussed copyright, creative commons and remixing. The audio track is some 50 minutes long, but the actual lecture is only about 30 minutes – there’s 20 minutes of follow-up discussions at the end.
What’s happening to copyright
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Posted in English, Learning, Technology on Dec 9th, 2009
If you’re wondering about publishing some creative works online, be they text, photos, presentations, videos, podcasts, or whatever, this quick overview of open licenses may help you in choosing what to do. You can basically not publish at all, publish under the normal copyright rules, or select an of several open licenses that will allow [...]
Posted in English, Psychology on Oct 22nd, 2009
After listening to Göte Nyman at TEDxHelsinki about Null hypothesis (H0), I just had to write down some thoughts that arose from it. First a recap:
Göte presented examples from popular news media, such as “coke and pepsi activate different areas of the brain”. Well duh, if they are experienced differently, someone might assume that the [...]
Posted in English, Technology on Sep 29th, 2009
Since the Android platform did not have Diigo support built-in, I wrote DiigoDroid, a small free application to do that some days ago. Diigo is a social bookmarking service. If you don’t use Diigo, you don’t need DiigoDroid. But if Delicious isn’t providing you with enough features, Diigo may be a good replacement (it can [...]
Posted in English, Learning, Psychology, Technology on Sep 16th, 2009
I just gave a short keynote presentation at the 6th European Conference on e-Guidance. Here are the presentation slides and my speech bundled into a slidecast.
Social Media Affordances
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Posted in English, Learning, Technology on Sep 11th, 2009
Our research group has been working with knowledge building for years now. Some may be familiar with the Fle3 learning environment, built back in 2001. We’ve tried to get someone to create a Moodle plugin for knowledge building, even with the help of a dozen polytechnic students, but without much success.
Hans Põldoja came visiting two [...]
Posted in English, Technology on Sep 3rd, 2009
I’m a happy user of Gravatars (globally recognized avatars) that allow my face to show up next to comments I write to practically any blog site. However, I’ve recently realized that Gravatars (at least their current implementation) have a major flaw that will really inconvenience its users in the long run.
The basic problem is that [...]
Posted in English, Technology on Aug 12th, 2009
Assembly Summer 2009 is over. 4 days of partying and great competitions. Check out both the realtime and sound+vision competition categories and final results. You can find many of the winning entries from YouTube, but I’d suggest loading the videos from Assembly TV’s video archive.
While the demo scene has traditionally been about taking slow computer [...]
Posted in English, Technology on Aug 12th, 2009
Oh the woes of academia…
Since the journal I was submitting an article to wanted the manuscript in Word format instead of LaTeX, I was stuck with finishing my work using OpenOffice Writer. Which means that there was no automatic tool to format citations or to generate the list of references. And manually checking 20+ pages [...]
Posted in English, Psychology on Oct 15th, 2008
As most people should know, physical exercise is essential in keeping the brain in good working condition. So I’ve tried to stay active, with badminton, cycling, nordic walking, and from May of this year, with Wii Fit. The latest exercise idea started as a Facebook group called “Punnertajat”, which got several people at my [...]
