eBlog by Tore Hoel

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Bloggstafett for personvern – mot datalagringsdirektivet.
Personvern er en grunnleggende verdi i et demokrati. Personvernet innebærer en rett til å være i fred fra andre, men også en rett til å ha kontroll over opplysninger om seg selv, særlig opplysninger som oppleves som personlige. Etter EMK artikkel 8 er personvern ansett [...]

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As you can see I have revamped my blog. It started with an update that went wrong, so I had to install the latest version of Wordpress and import my old posts. Then I had the opportunity to install category feeds - so if you just want to follow my Mind the Gap project [...]

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Do some travelling and you learn to know people from your own town. That was the feeling I got when Dino Karaberg called to say hallo after my last blog entry on the need for a semantic infrastructure for learning. Dino is working at the University of Oslo and has developed a new model for [...]

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Why is the uptake of semantic techologies so slow in learning, education and training. In a position paper to the upcoming JISC CETIS conference in Birmingham I am offering some explanations.
The LET community does not have a full understanding of what is needed in the different domains of learning, education and training. Using ontologies to [...]

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Voicethread gir en interessant mulighet til å dele bilder og lyd- og tekstkommentarer til bildene. Hva mer er, du har også mulighet til å legge igjen lydkommentarer, slik at man kan utvikle en dialog rundt bilder. Eksmpelet nedenfor viser hvordan dette kan brukes i undervisning rundt kunst. Se flere eksempler på voicethread.com
Dette Dette var mitt første forsøk med å lydannotere et feriebilde fra Japan.

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Doing reviews is great fun, even if it brings up the old dilemmas of not being to judgmental, being supportive giving everybody a chance, and so on. I would recommend the Journal of Educational Technology and Society, where I have just appeared on the long list of executive peer-reviewers.
Educational Technology & Society is a quarterly [...]

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The National Secretariat for the standardisation of learning technologies, shortened to NSSL, has just been kicked off this week. We were invited to come forward with our expectations to the new body. The representative for the Ministry of Education and Research (in Norwegian “the Ministry of Knowledge” - a name that sounds the orwellian bells of [...]

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The inadequacy of dissemination activities from European projects does never stop to surprise me. I simply refuse to take the blame myself, not being active enough to search and find relevant information. These projects seems to be set up with targets that make it easy for the researchers to tick boxes: Yes, we have produced [...]

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EU’s DG for Education and Culture is launching a new online publication on e-learning. It is sweet of the Commission to put BETA in their masthead, and even more appealing to publish the the articles under a Creative Commons license. The abstracts are nicely wrapped in a PDF you can download with info on the [...]

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From today I will write my personal blog (and may be my workblog) in English. For some time I have waited for the right moment to make the switch. Today I feel I do not have much choice but to stop writing in Norwegian.
For a person who has lived my whole working life by the [...]

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