Making CommunitySense

On May 14, I gave a presentation at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, in Milton Keynes, UK. The topic of my presentation was "A Socio-Technical Approach for Topic Community Member Selection" (see my GrowingPains blog). I had some interesting meetings before and afterwards with Mark Gaved, Simon Buckingham Shum, Jianhan Zhu, and Trevor Collins of that institute.  read more »

I am currently visiting my colleague and good friend Mark Gaved, who works at the Knowledge Media Institute in Milton Keynes. He is involved in an absolutely fascinating Second Life project, Schome. Basically, it's an exploration of new learning systems for the 21st century. SchomeBase is a pilot of trying out some of the Schome ideas in Second Life.  read more »