Trying out embed code, video guide

This could be a new version of a loop, something like design thinking, a radio show , then learning then some sort of design again. ( Clicking on diag not working as a link, try here )




This one from ResearchGate, uploaded by Paivi Rasi but I will put in a screen shot to fit the space

From the video

More later, will discuss with"the producer" JD. Together we are the top YouTube search result on "Design Science DJ" , still much to talk about. What we really need is a format with enough prepared to fill in without the audience thinking it is the same show as last week.

When Radio 1 came to Devon for a Big Weekend they explained about "visual radio", more or less video. How to do this for any FM station? Either a budget or cheaper tech. to be continued.

Journal Content in YouTube Format

More browsing from the journal Post Digital Science and Education has found some video. I remembered a video link and now there is enough to fill in some gaps.

The Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy is also open access as in the content is free , this page for example with video. Or this one, interview with several video clips on the page.

Springer has stopped being the publisher from September. It will now be based at the Association for Visual Pedagogies . They have a page explaining plans for more video but no issues yet. However there is a link to a YouTube channel, seems to be similar content to previous journals.

So this could be very interesting if much of the content turns up on YouTube. Should get a much wider audience. Still a mystery for me what the policy is now from major academic publishers. Also of interest is what forms of video will be included.

More promo with The Rushes , study as example of content marketing

So far the Rushes have not objected to my mixing of stills from video with a sign or two. I am trying to work around forms of promotion. Most performances in Exeter still use print, posters and leaflets. The Rushes seem to be mostly on Facebook. No official tag but I am using #TheRushesBand as this fits with the FB name.

The @wenotno show is mostly on Twitter so I will work with that for video from YouTube. I have some from the previous EP launch, a Phonic benefit but missing some title info.

I will also try to check out analytics from Twitter and YouTube and relate to the sale of tickets for Dec 8th at the Phoenix. Probably lacking precision but worth a try. In theory this could be a process with control limits to check it was working as expected. So many free video clips, then so many tickets sold, then so many EPs on the night. Clues please if there are case studies already.

Back to the journal - Post-Digital Science and Education . See previous posts. I now realise it is free to download for the first two years. This is part of the launch. I suppose eventually it will be mostly in academic libraries. But meanwhile it is ok to link to content knowing it will be available for everyone.

I now notice from info for the review of the book - Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age - that it was published in 2009. Still relates to the new journal so well worth publishing, but the music scene has moved on a lot. Streaming revenue is a large part of the situation. What will be happening with academic journals in nine years time?

I will have a better look at the review and try to find updates on the book. Continues as part of "Management Theory at Work in Radio" , also need to study Post-Digital Organisations , not sure how radio transforms as social media .

Quality video / next few months BETT and Learning Technology

This post follows from yesterday on Exeter music situation and theory around learning. Quality relates as a system approach and because improvement implies some form of learning.

Also I know there is interest in video around an event next month at the CQI organised by the Deming SIG. Fully booked so no promo. But a report before the end of the year.

My video now are based on a Panasonic camera with reasonable distance zoom and edit in Widows desktop with Premiere Elements. I try out phone video on Sony Experia and check out video edit on phone but my eyesight is not that good on a small screen. Friends on Wild Show and @wenotno do have Apple phones so I have some idea what is possible.

Early next year BETT and Learning Technologies event, both now at ExCEL London, will show a wide range of tech for sound and video. Adobe Spark is cloud based and free if you accept some Adobe branding. For a short clip you just talk to the screen with camera attached ( mine standard Microsoft ). It finds some background music and will fix the sound balance. After 20 sec it tells you to hurry up. Maybe correct for attention spans but I may need several clips.

Padcaster may be there with Verse, kit intended to make a phone work better for video. There is a version for Apple tablet that works ok but there are many more phones available. Announced for last year, there may be some concerned tweeting if nothing turns up at BETT in 2019.

Camtasia from Techsmith may be there also , definitely at Learning Technologies. Adobe at Learning Technologies more into formal training. Video creation from Powerpoint or similar, links to cloud management system.

Adobe recently announce Rush, new approach to video. Works the same on phone, tablet and desktop as claimed. Not on Android yet. Very interesting but not sure what will be said at BETT to compare with Spark or Learning Technologies to compare with Captivate. There must be ways to mix this together.

Meanwhile Serif Affinity has offered a Beta of Publisher, a page makeup app to complete a range with Designer and Photo that competes with the original Adobe trio of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Adobe still has the industry support but some are reluctant to commit to a subscription. Maybe there will be more credible alternatives for phone and tablet that get a reasonable result with video.

So good reasons to wait till March before buying any new kit. Meanwhile looking at scripts and the city as studio. In Exeter I find the Phonic FM studio is ok for sound but lighting is terrible. Phones now seem able to compensate in real time. Street ok for lighting, after March could be better. Green screen rooms are available but could be cheaper to buy a screen with a street view printed on.

So meanwhile winter a good time to work on a script.

Management Theory continued / Networked Learning

Through Twitter I have found out a bit more around Networked Learning. Keep reading for links to Management Theory at Work ( in radio, later maybe at the Work Foundation ) .

Recent tweet promoted a video I missed when uploaded originally. Promotes a video that turns out to be aware about branding and promotion, even a discussion about video production values ( keep watching till the questions)

I have only watched this once but think the take on the MOOC format may be based on earlier information. Hard to be precise about dates. Recorded in 2014, uploaded in 2016. Promo tweet just the other day. Futurelearn claims that they do more than other platforms to use social media as well as the formal content. Seems about right to me. Also I do not think a MOOC is actually used as designed. Students can talk to each other or drop in and out. There may be update blogs from those contributing.

I do agree that forms of MOOC can work for vocational / technical training. Not sure any less improvisation is required though. Class Central has reported recent growth in online degrees, many in business and/or technology. Coursera is working closely with companies needing to recruit people with specialised knowledge. Coursera gets advice on content but I guess the students need to assess changes as they work through it.

See previous post on Black Tabs, radio shows I work on hope to understand Austin Texas. Guess based on MOOC Report, Class Central will talk there again next year, this time about badges, short course validation. Maybe not as relates to universities but ok for work, economy.

Following up links around this it turns out there is more available now as PDF for downlaod than I expected. From official journal sources. Thomas Ryberg tweeted about "A Postdigital Perspective on Organisations" and this turns out to be the full article. I have just copied out enough to link to "Management Theory at Work" see later on below.

The validity of organisational learning has been widely debated in the literature (Argote 2011; Easterby-Smith 1997; Easterby-Smith et al. 2000), and subject to criticism regarding concerns of anthropomorphism (Caldwell 2012). Despite differing views regarding whether organisational learning should be understood as a change in cognition or a change in behaviour, there is general acknowledgement that learning at the organisational level can be evidenced as either a change in beliefs/cognitions or in actions/behaviour (Easterby-Smith et al. 2000), and ‘most researchers would agree with defining organisational learning as a change in the organisation’s knowledge that occurs as a function of experience’ (Argote 2011: 440)

Argote, L. (2011). Organizational learning research: past, present and future. Management Learning, 42(4), 439–446.

Having established the value of organisational learning to a postdigital conception of organisations, it is now possible to consider how the work of the customer experience (CX) function can inform such a perspective.

A ‘systems thinking’ approach is recognised as an appropriate response to increasing complexity in organisations (Crichton-Sumners et al. 2013) due to the concept of emergence that is a core property of such systems.

Also I found that the Argote reference is also freely available in PDF from Management Learning. ( might be unofficial, not sure, maybe use another link if you have an ID )

Includes this

New knowledge management systems enabled by Web 2.0 technologies have the potential to affect organizational learning and knowledge management more positively than previous generations of systems. While previous systems operated more as knowledge repositories and directories of declared expertise, new systems provide communication capabilities as well as the capability to identify experts based on who provides answers to queries. The communication capabilities provide rich media for transferring knowledge; expertise identified through the system may be more accurate and useful than self-declared expertise. Research is needed on how these new and emerging technologies affect organizational learning.

So this links well to the questions asked by John Burgoyne at the first conference - Management Theory at Work. There may be another one next year. Meanwhile I am working on occasional versions of Managment Theory at Work in Radio, a sort of sound version. see previous post for how FM Radio may be coming to an end though something around social media continues. ( Phonic FM probably will survive till FM turned off in UK, just needs to learn about alternatives )

The Learning Company ideas have been updated for the web but there is much more to discuss. This idea of "postdigital" moving beyond "solutionist" could be a way to connect with academics. i wwill have more of a look at the texts over the next few weeks.

In a recent issue of PostDigital Science and Education Petar Jandric  reviews a book about popular music. See previous post on how new tracks are promoted.

 Magaudda captures the complexity of postdigital reality captured in a recent editorial for Postdigital Science and Education: “The postdigital is hard to define; messy; unpredictable; digital and analog; technological and non-technological; biological and informational” (Jandrić et al. 2018: 895). Within this complexity and mess, shows Magaudda, there are indeed no simple problems and/or magical solutions.

In sociomaterialist and postdigital approaches, this type of asymmetry between human beings and artificial intelligences has already been replaced by more nuanced approaches which ask: ‘How could we do our jobs better with artificial intelligences?’ (in Jandrić 2017: 207; see also Jones 2018) However, fear of technological displacement of human labour is a legitimate human emotion, which should not be taken lightly.

As a radio presenter on @wenotno we rely on automated streams. YouTube and Twitter suggest content based on some human input but also more automation. Playlists are now less likely to appear as choices than a selection based on current track playing. Robots are useful but we struggle to work with them.

Probably in March 2019 there will be a walk on the Lancaster campus to explore the Spine and create linking video for selected clips. See previous posts, update soon. Will fit with Management Theory at Work in Radio and other formats.

The Rushes / HX records / radio and social media

Much happening around radio shows. The Wild Show recently had guests who played new music in the studio. The Rushes have a new EP to be launched on Dec 8th. No room for drums in the studio so it worked as daytime, fairly relaxed. I have also done video on busking in Exeter High Street. Will work as dance also.

So far there is not much use of #tags. Well not much on Twitter or YouTube. The Rushes seem to depend on Facebook but it is doing well. I recorded an event when they made up a pro EU song when interrupted by pro Brexit sounds from stall in High Street. Their short edit on FB has many more views than mine on YouTube but I think the playlist adds context. Anyway I have asked for an official #tag such as #TheRushesBand .

Earlier there was a Street Arts Festival in Exeter and they did put the #tag on the first poster -#exestreetarts - but it vanished on later ones. Maybe the approach is not well enough known. But I think it should be possible soon to promote an event mostly by social media. The TEDx Exeter event seems confident of selling out tickets on a few online promotions. Why not much the same for music? Meanwhile no posters or any form of print for the Rushes on Dec 8th at Phoenix. Needs a mix of media. More later.

Then next week on the We Don't Know show ( @wenotno on Twitter ) we will welcome Fred Previous as a guest. He has started a Facebook page so we are spreading outside tweets. Last year he told us about the Black Tabs, based in Austin Texas. The tour was cancelled but they may arrive in UK during 2019. The playlist "Black Tabs in Devon" is still on YouTube but they have yet to be here in person. HX records will issue a sampler in December and we will gave a phone conversation with Gregory Harrison.

So far vinyl is the main topic to feature. We thought a band from Austin would show us tech trends. Fred tells us that vinyl is the future and getting a CD is difficult. He may bring one next week as we cannot play vinyl in the Phonic FM studio at this time. ( More on tech in a later post )

We may learn more about how radio changes to fit with social media. Long ago radio was allowed to play a new track assuming the listeners would buy vinyl later. Now there are free streaming services assuming some paid streaming will follow, maybe vinyl also. We do a radio show but how to repurpose for short clips or podcasts? The Rushes tell us they do not mind what happens to the songs recorded for the Wild Show. Will a record company have the same approach? Anyway, we try to promote local performance and people who visit. FM radio continues as well as something else, not too clear as yet.

Futurelearn funding smaller scale compared to Coursera

Couple of posts in MoocReport on Class Central. Quotes news in Financial Times, Futurelearn is trying to raise £40m with the OU contributing £10m. Meanwhile Coursera is reported in Forbes to expect 2018 revenues of $140m . This qualifies as a Unicorn, billion dollar valuation claimed since 2015 according to some estimates.

So previous blog posts on Futurelearn in global top 5 need revision. There is clearly a USA scene about to be clearly viable, and one UK possibility somewhere on the edge. (Lots of others also, I am keeping this simple for UK audience.

Still hard to find updates from Twitter on what the OU intends as support for Futurelearn. Getting rid of Peter Horrocks seems to have settled things such that there is not much more to say.

According to Class Central the last investment from OU in FutureLearn was £15m in 2015.

My rave mode is not ignoring the problems for the OU but it may soon become more obvious where the developments are happening.

Expect some discussion early next year around BETT and Learning Technologies.

Plan for the week

Not sure how much of this can be on radio, will find out on Thursday. Rave mode on blog may not suit day time OFCOM guidelines. Not sure. Also may borrow bits of BBC podcast. Just uploaded two

I think I can use these two on Thursday. The drama hour can ramble into Brexit as the Storyteller is away in France. I am sitting in so can explain some of what he thinks. Or my guess anyway.

Meanwhile local MP Ben Bradshaw is concerned about possible blocking by Theresa May of investigation into #Banks  Reported in Daily Mail and Guardian. There is a clip from Channel 4 on Twitter, so far only this on YouTube. May reach #BBC by Thursday.  Thing is, so far mostly on Twitter.

The @wenotno show is now every other Wednesday, not this one, so will meet for coffee instead and also plan Thursday. 

Guests will be the Rushes. Not sure how much they will tell us about new music. So may need to repeat some clips over next few weeks.

Sometime this week a Facebook concert from Anna Marie Waite. Will promote / borrow a clip depending on when.

More later, blog around radio.