From f.nahrada at reflex.at Mon Feb 1 07:49:42 2010 From: f.nahrada at reflex.at (Franz Nahrada) Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:49:42 +0100 Subject: [VBbuilders] A Winters day In-Reply-To: <91B61ED273D46E4589DA358ABD11872DF523A66E36@HOLLYCLUSTER.windows.tees.ac.uk> References: <91B61ED273D46E4589DA358ABD11872DF523A66E36@HOLLYCLUSTER.windows.tees.ac.uk> Message-ID: Thank you Steve, we just enjoyed your song very much together Franz and Andrius, here in Hotel Karolinenhof again, returned after a weekend dedicated to a global villages building case in Pielach Valley. PS to all: I let the message of Phil through because it adds an element of entertainment. At least for some. PPS to all: that should not be the norm. lets stay focussed. From f.nahrada at reflex.at Mon Feb 1 11:25:52 2010 From: f.nahrada at reflex.at (Franz Nahrada) Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:25:52 +0100 Subject: [VBbuilders] Goodbye Moments as Video Postcard Message-ID: Dear all, this is a very sweet video capturing our moments of goodbye. Its also in the diary as there are some more new additions, but it also stands alone very nicely http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkMcQnUbxPk&feature=player_embedded Thanks to Ernst Gruber! Franz From f.nahrada at reflex.at Mon Feb 1 18:22:26 2010 From: f.nahrada at reflex.at (Franz Nahrada) Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:22:26 +0100 Subject: [VBbuilders] IBAN and BIC from your Bank needed !!! Message-ID: Dear all, I am very sorry that we could not do the Bank transfer today. We need the IBAN and BIC Code - of your Account and Bank - to be able to do that !!! NOT your national Bank number or account number. We CANNOT calculate your IBAN or BIC number (see bank advice in German below) ourselves from the national number and account number. please everybody who told us to send the money by Bank provide this data as soon as possible (please ask your Bank!) , so we can do the transfer hopefully by tomorrow. all the best Franz Mag. Franz Nahrada GIVE Forschungsgesellschaft - Labor f?r Globale D?rfer Jedleseer Strasse 75 1210 Wien Tel. 01-2787801 Mob. 0676 9133961 http://www.dorfwiki.org 1. IBAN (International Bank Account Number) Die Internationale Bankkontonummer ist die internationale Darstellung der Kontonummer und der Bank. Sie hat vor allem Bedeutung bei der EU-Standard?berweisung. Die IBAN besteht aus dem ISO-L?nderkennzeichnen (z.B. "AT" f?r ?sterreich), einer zweistelligen Pr?fziffer, sowie Bankinformationen und der Kontonummer. In ?sterreich ist sie 20 Stellen lang. Die IBAN wird nur im Zahlungsverkehr mit dem Ausland verwendet, nicht im Inland. Als besonderes Service bieten wir unseren Kunden die IBAN-Berechnung per Internet f?r eigene Kontonummern und Kreditkontonummern an (siehe unten: IBAN-Rechner). Errechnen Sie sich die IBAN Ihres Gesch?ftspartners auf keinen Fall selbst. Die Gefahr, dass Sie eine falsche IBAN produzieren ist hoch. ?berweisungen mit falscher IBAN f?hren zu aufwendigen R?ckleitungen. Eine fremde IBAN k?nnen Sie auf der Homepage der STUZZA GmbH. auf ihre Richtigkeit pr?fen (siehe unten: IBAN Pr?fung der STUZZA GmbH) . 2. BIC (Bank Identifier Code) auch S.W.I.F.T.-Adresse genannt, ist die internationale Identifikation der Bank. Der BIC stellt die Bankleitzahl f?r Auslands?berweisungen dar. From ravenwyn at gmail.com Mon Feb 1 18:30:36 2010 From: ravenwyn at gmail.com (Mark Petz) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 18:30:36 +0100 Subject: [VBbuilders] IBAN and BIC from your Bank needed !!! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: SWIFT Standards, a division of The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication(SWIFT), handles the registration of these codes. For this reason, Bank Identifier Codes (BICs) are often called SWIFT addresses or codes. AND All banks in Europe (except for the Commonwealth of Independent States) provide an IBAN identifier for their accounts as well as nationally recognised identifiers - this being mandatory within the European Economic Area . SO they should only actually need an IBAN for payments. Markus 2010/2/1 Franz Nahrada > Dear all, > > I am very sorry that we could not do the Bank transfer today. > > We need the IBAN and BIC Code - of your Account and Bank - to be able to > do that !!! > > NOT your national Bank number or account number. > > We CANNOT calculate your IBAN or BIC number (see bank advice in German > below) ourselves from the national number and account number. > > please everybody who told us to send the money by Bank provide this data > as soon as possible (please ask your Bank!) , so we can do the transfer > hopefully by tomorrow. > > all the best > > Franz > > > Mag. Franz Nahrada > GIVE Forschungsgesellschaft - Labor f?r Globale D?rfer > Jedleseer Strasse 75 > 1210 Wien > Tel. 01-2787801 > Mob. 0676 9133961 > http://www.dorfwiki.org > > > 1. > > IBAN (International Bank Account Number) > > Die Internationale Bankkontonummer ist die internationale Darstellung der > Kontonummer und der Bank. Sie hat vor allem Bedeutung bei der > EU-Standard?berweisung. > > Die IBAN besteht aus dem ISO-L?nderkennzeichnen (z.B. "AT" f?r > ?sterreich), einer zweistelligen Pr?fziffer, sowie Bankinformationen und > der Kontonummer. In ?sterreich ist sie 20 Stellen lang. Die IBAN wird nur > im Zahlungsverkehr mit dem Ausland verwendet, nicht im Inland. > > Als besonderes Service bieten wir unseren Kunden die IBAN-Berechnung per > Internet f?r eigene Kontonummern und Kreditkontonummern an (siehe unten: > IBAN-Rechner). > > Errechnen Sie sich die IBAN Ihres Gesch?ftspartners auf keinen Fall > selbst. Die Gefahr, dass Sie eine falsche IBAN produzieren ist hoch. > ?berweisungen mit falscher IBAN f?hren zu aufwendigen R?ckleitungen. Eine > fremde IBAN k?nnen Sie auf der Homepage der STUZZA GmbH. auf ihre > Richtigkeit pr?fen (siehe unten: IBAN Pr?fung der STUZZA GmbH) . > > > > 2. > > BIC (Bank Identifier Code) > > auch S.W.I.F.T.-Adresse genannt, ist die internationale Identifikation der > Bank. Der BIC stellt die Bankleitzahl f?r Auslands?berweisungen dar. > > _______________________________________________ > Videobridgebuilders mailing list > Videobridgebuilders at globalvillages.org > http://globalvillages.org/mailman/listinfo/videobridgebuilders > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marina-kollatou at hotmail.com Tue Feb 2 09:42:28 2010 From: marina-kollatou at hotmail.com (marina kollatou) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:42:28 +0200 Subject: [VBbuilders] a new week back in my work place Message-ID: Hi Pam, this is the link to the song Steve sent us. I don't know more. I am still finding my way around the ning, too. You are right, my message went to three ppeople while I thought I had sent it to all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsksVKBxUo0 I'm glad someone received it. Take care and let's be in touch. Yours Marina _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft?s powerful SPAM protection. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From S.D.Thompson at tees.ac.uk Tue Feb 2 13:48:33 2010 From: S.D.Thompson at tees.ac.uk (Thompson, Steve) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 12:48:33 +0000 Subject: [VBbuilders] IBAN and BIC from your Bank needed !!! In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: <91B61ED273D46E4589DA358ABD11872DF523A66E77@HOLLYCLUSTER.windows.tees.ac.uk> Franz I'm struggling with this. Firstly I can't read German. I don't know what it is like elsewhere but in England Banks have become quite virtual. My branch is in another city and calling them is difficult. You could simply send me a cheque if it makes things easier. So long as the cheque is made out to ST Media as it was my business account that funded the trip Steve Thompson Community Media Manager Institute of Digital Innovation Teesside University M - 07795 826953 E - s.d.thompson at tees.ac.uk W - www.steve-thompson.org.uk ________________________________ From: videobridgebuilders-bounces at globalvillages.org [videobridgebuilders-bounces at globalvillages.org] On Behalf Of Mark Petz [ravenwyn at gmail.com] Sent: 01 February 2010 17:30 To: Franz Nahrada Cc: videobridgebuilders at globalvillages.org; Thompson, Steve Subject: Re: [VBbuilders] IBAN and BIC from your Bank needed !!! SWIFT Standards, a division of The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), handles the registration of these codes. For this reason, Bank Identifier Codes (BICs) are often called SWIFT addresses or codes. AND All banks in Europe (except for the Commonwealth of Independent States) provide an IBAN identifier for their accounts as well as nationally recognised identifiers - this being mandatory within the European Economic Area. SO they should only actually need an IBAN for payments. Markus 2010/2/1 Franz Nahrada > Dear all, I am very sorry that we could not do the Bank transfer today. We need the IBAN and BIC Code - of your Account and Bank - to be able to do that !!! NOT your national Bank number or account number. We CANNOT calculate your IBAN or BIC number (see bank advice in German below) ourselves from the national number and account number. please everybody who told us to send the money by Bank provide this data as soon as possible (please ask your Bank!) , so we can do the transfer hopefully by tomorrow. all the best Franz Mag. Franz Nahrada GIVE Forschungsgesellschaft - Labor f?r Globale D?rfer Jedleseer Strasse 75 1210 Wien Tel. 01-2787801 Mob. 0676 9133961 http://www.dorfwiki.org 1. IBAN (International Bank Account Number) Die Internationale Bankkontonummer ist die internationale Darstellung der Kontonummer und der Bank. Sie hat vor allem Bedeutung bei der EU-Standard?berweisung. Die IBAN besteht aus dem ISO-L?nderkennzeichnen (z.B. "AT" f?r ?sterreich), einer zweistelligen Pr?fziffer, sowie Bankinformationen und der Kontonummer. In ?sterreich ist sie 20 Stellen lang. Die IBAN wird nur im Zahlungsverkehr mit dem Ausland verwendet, nicht im Inland. Als besonderes Service bieten wir unseren Kunden die IBAN-Berechnung per Internet f?r eigene Kontonummern und Kreditkontonummern an (siehe unten: IBAN-Rechner). Errechnen Sie sich die IBAN Ihres Gesch?ftspartners auf keinen Fall selbst. Die Gefahr, dass Sie eine falsche IBAN produzieren ist hoch. ?berweisungen mit falscher IBAN f?hren zu aufwendigen R?ckleitungen. Eine fremde IBAN k?nnen Sie auf der Homepage der STUZZA GmbH. auf ihre Richtigkeit pr?fen (siehe unten: IBAN Pr?fung der STUZZA GmbH) . 2. BIC (Bank Identifier Code) auch S.W.I.F.T.-Adresse genannt, ist die internationale Identifikation der Bank. Der BIC stellt die Bankleitzahl f?r Auslands?berweisungen dar. _______________________________________________ Videobridgebuilders mailing list Videobridgebuilders at globalvillages.org http://globalvillages.org/mailman/listinfo/videobridgebuilders -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From S.D.Thompson at tees.ac.uk Tue Feb 2 14:38:20 2010 From: S.D.Thompson at tees.ac.uk (Thompson, Steve) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 13:38:20 +0000 Subject: [VBbuilders] Goodbye Moments as Video Postcard In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <91B61ED273D46E4589DA358ABD11872DF523A66E7F@HOLLYCLUSTER.windows.tees.ac.uk> franz your video guy shot Thomas appointing me to Ambassador. Any chance this might get uploaded soon ( I offered to pay him) I know my University (and my family) would love to see that. ST Steve Thompson Community Media Manager Institute of Digital Innovation Teesside University M - 07795 826953 E - s.d.thompson at tees.ac.uk W - www.steve-thompson.org.uk ________________________________________ From: videobridgebuilders-bounces at globalvillages.org [videobridgebuilders-bounces at globalvillages.org] On Behalf Of Franz Nahrada [f.nahrada at reflex.at] Sent: 01 February 2010 10:25 To: videobridgebuilders at globalvillages.org Subject: [VBbuilders] Goodbye Moments as Video Postcard Dear all, this is a very sweet video capturing our moments of goodbye. Its also in the diary as there are some more new additions, but it also stands alone very nicely http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkMcQnUbxPk&feature=player_embedded Thanks to Ernst Gruber! Franz _______________________________________________ Videobridgebuilders mailing list Videobridgebuilders at globalvillages.org http://globalvillages.org/mailman/listinfo/videobridgebuilders From f.nahrada at reflex.at Wed Feb 3 08:17:49 2010 From: f.nahrada at reflex.at (Franz Nahrada) Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:17:49 +0100 Subject: [VBbuilders] Copy of the NING group newsletter Message-ID: This is what you call a veritable crosspost, which means that most of you will already have received this message if you are on the NING. I just want to make sure that everyone who is in this mailinglist is also on the NING and vice versa. So I will do this only once; you will get the regular summary message monthly only if you are also subscribed on the NING - which is painless because you will not be flooded with information that you do not want. This mailinglist however is for your personal broadcasts, things that you consider urgent and want or need to tell the whole group. Nobody is oblidged or supposed to read the NING all the time, so even if you start something really important on the NING or in the wiki, you advertise it here in the mailinglist and draw the groups attention to it. use it responsibly so it does not feel like flooding. The NING is very very good in personal messaging! The NING broadcast message to all members should then be only a monthly newsletter summarizing everything. Franz [ http://videobridge.ning.com/ ]Video Bridge interactive group communication possibilites A message to all members of Video Bridge Dear all, Our videobridge builders community is nicely growing day by day, and it seems that the seed that was laid in the ground in Vienna is fertile. Its good to have a community of people that have personally met at the core of a virtual community, and from now on the NING will become our main venue to meet and share (as the Wiki will be our main venue for publishing to the wider world). If you have not done yet, please browse through the diary of our workshop and also through some of the participants pages to see the amount of work done and things learned: of course we are just in the beginning of editing. [ http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/GrundtvigWorkshop/Diary ]http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/GrundtvigWorkshop/Diary [ http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/GrundtvigWorkshop/Participants/MarinaKollatou ]http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/GrundtvigWorkshop/Participants/MarinaKollatou [ http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/GrundtvigWorkshop/Participants/JakubStaniewicz ]http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/GrundtvigWorkshop/Participants/JakubStaniewicz [ http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/GrundtvigWorkshop/Participants/MatzLindberg ]http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/GrundtvigWorkshop/Participants/MatzLindberg [ http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/GrundtvigWorkshop/Participants/AndriusKulikauskas ]http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/GrundtvigWorkshop/Participants/AndriusKulikauskas We will have more interviews and we hope to collect more material in the coming days. Make sure you also are subscribed to our mailing list: you can subscribe and browse through the archives here: [ http://globalvillages.org/mailman/listinfo/videobridgebuilders ]http://globalvillages.org/mailman/listinfo/videobridgebuilders Use the mailinglist only for broadcasting, not for bilateral dialogue; but dont be shy to broadcast a bilateral dialogue that has become interesting to the whole group. As discussed in Vienna, we need a maintainer for this NING, whose main agenda would be the spurring of dialogue, the summarizing of the important bits, the constant information of participants in newsletters like this. We need this condensation because we are already a big group. Markus had the intention to do it temporarily but find a more permanent person for the job. We must expand and focus our activities as well on the theoretical as on the practical side; I found both needs present in the Skype discussions I had last night.? We must think about founding groups in this NING that discuss and develop special topics, like the development and application of filmmaking skills in Videobridging, the recording and postproduction world, the possible contents that we are going to share meaningfully and of course the preparation of the summer meeting. And of course also I would like to see a PatternWatch group bringing our findings and discoverings to a theoretical level. [Patterns are nothing else than elements in our reality designed for fruitful and meaningful interplay, the details that bring life to the larger picture]. So if you want to start a group think twice if its small or big enough and well defined in our framework and then: just do it! I just added the "Group" feature at the most prominent place of the main page. Happy Videobridging! Franz From S.D.Thompson at tees.ac.uk Wed Feb 3 10:33:27 2010 From: S.D.Thompson at tees.ac.uk (Thompson, Steve) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 09:33:27 +0000 Subject: [VBbuilders] Event Next Week Message-ID: <91B61ED273D46E4589DA358ABD11872DF523A66EB7@HOLLYCLUSTER.windows.tees.ac.uk> Hello All, I'm currently editing a video for an event next week on scene of which features room 2002 of the Karolinehof. This marks possibly the first collaboration to come out of the VideoBridge workshops in Vienna and we thank Franz for bringing us together. We shall attempt something of a "VideoBridge" but it will be unlike the one from the Karolinehof Salon although there may be similarities. Markus will join us next week to make some preparations and on the afternoon and evening of Feb 11th we will hook up with Laura and some children in Latvia. The focal web address for the event will be www.saltburn.org.uk and we hope we can provide a simultaneous virtual event. It's experimental !! - Below is a message to my networks with more detail. Steve Thompson Community Media Manager Institute of Digital Innovation Teesside University M - 07795 826953 E - s.d.thompson at tees.ac.uk W - www.steve-thompson.org.uk With the assistance of Northern Film and Media and the UK Film Council there will be an event in Saltburn featuring community produced animations. This will take place at 7.30pm on February 11th at Saltburn Community Theatre, Albion Terrace, Saltburn, TS12 1JW. His Worshipfullness the Mayor of Redcar and Cleveland will preside (last years Mayor will do a presentation telling how after he launched last years event he ended up in a movie himself) Featured this year will be World Premi?re of ?The Force is With You? which has been produced in partnership with the Institute of Digital Innovation, the Skinningrove Community, Whitecliffe Primary School and Redcar & Cleveland Community Safety Partnership. The school children will get their own matinee screening at 1.30 on the same date. The movie features real-world voices and activity but the action takes place in Second Life. During a recent International Grundvig workshop in Vienna one of scenes in ?The Force is With You? was ?voiced? using the services of some of the workshop attendees in the Karolinenhof Hotel. The film clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd-cLOvVXH4 is a sneak preview of one of the scenes and a behind the scenes look at how it was put together. Trouper 1 is played by Markus Petz from Finland, Trouper 2 by Thomas Chepaitis the Minister of foreign affairs of Uzhupis Republic (Lithuania) Arthur Vador is played by me (Steve Thompson) and Barry Hunt the Mayor of Loftus is camera operator. In the background is Laura Pakalne, Senior Officer in the Public Relations Department in the Ministry of Justice, Latvia who is most interested in our working with the British police and the movie production team on more collaborative projects. Markus has delayed his return to Finland to travel to Saltburn to assist with a hook-up with Latvia during the event on the 11th. It?s quite possible that people all over the world will be able to participate in the event. More information on this will be released closer to the event. The primary site for any streaming or ?back channel? activity during the event is www.saltburn.org.uk - other sites related to the production are www.straad.org.uk and the production Wiki at www.straad2010.wikispaces.com During the matinee for schools the team will be aiming to hook up with children in Latvia. Steve Thompson Community Media Manager Institute of Digital Innovation Teesside University M - 07795 826953 E - s.d.thompson at tees.ac.uk W - www.steve-thompson.org.uk From S.D.Thompson at tees.ac.uk Wed Feb 3 22:31:54 2010 From: S.D.Thompson at tees.ac.uk (Thompson, Steve) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 21:31:54 +0000 Subject: [VBbuilders] Not supposed to mention the .............. Message-ID: <91B61ED273D46E4589DA358ABD11872DF523A66ED7@HOLLYCLUSTER.windows.tees.ac.uk> .......but ! we had to make a video about the making of the video this is it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82xXcgSjke4 Steve T From knut.berndorfer at utanet.at Sat Feb 6 14:29:57 2010 From: knut.berndorfer at utanet.at (Knut Berndorfer) Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 14:29:57 +0100 Subject: [VBbuilders] after the vienna workshop Message-ID: dear all, hope you are all well there could be said a lot more on the workshop but life goes on and there is a lot happening, most of it related to the global village issue but only partly to videobridge and I still struggle with the ning and therefore I will use this mailing list and will also use personal email at the moment I have a technical question to what extent I can use my home place for videobridging If I have just one fast ADSL internet access - so I could have participated with text chat could I use -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Also I think it is very interesting to have these reflections now going on: * are we seeking to do something which can become real? * are we seeking to do something that makes sense? I draw your attention to my humble attempt to summarize our 2nd Tuesday discussion on reflecting the Sample Event in the Wiki. see http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/GrundtvigWorkshop/Diary/26-1-2010 what I liked about this discussion is that it was a very creative process that gave us the idea of new upcoming patterns. VideoBridging is not something definite, finished Its just a door that we are beginning to open Its a world that we can co - invent. And if we are doing it right, it will be a Peer2Peer world where rural and remote locations are not only connected, but also respected. All the best Franz From ravenwyn at gmail.com Wed Feb 10 13:33:29 2010 From: ravenwyn at gmail.com (Mark Petz) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:33:29 +0100 Subject: [VBbuilders] At 1.17 here you can hear our interview for the event tomorrow! Message-ID: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0067r23/Lisa_McCormick_09_02_2010/ 1:16:00 and then it should play. You will hear me and steve and barry (you don't have to listen to it :) But I send FYI. markus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ms at ms.lt Wed Feb 10 15:44:40 2010 From: ms at ms.lt (Andrius Kulikauskas) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:44:40 +0100 Subject: [VBbuilders] Andrius asks for comments on My Math Story Message-ID: <4B72C658.3010409@ms.lt> Hi Franz and all, Some of us interested in video bridges might also have ideas for the Digital Media and Learning competition for digital innovations for teaching math and science. http://dmlcompetition.net They have extended the deadline for new proposals to February 15, 2010. I'm requesting comments for my proposal My Math Story. I will ask for 50,000 USD for me and 75,000 USD for a global team which I'll organize at Minciu Sodas. You can simply reply to this letter with a thought or two and I can post your comment myself. Or you can register at http://dmlcompetition.net/pligg/story.php?title=679 Thank you for your solidarity! and your ideas! and please let me know who else might be interested in my proposal! Andrius Kulikauskas, Minciu Sodas, http://www.ms.lt, ms at ms.lt -------------------------------------- My Math Story $125,000 Andrius Kulikauskas, Ph.D. We collect mathematical quantities (amounts and units) and classic math problems (and the deep ideas they illustrate). We thereby foster mathematical intuition that arises from working with real life problems as opposed to contrived ones. We link up to help real activists around the world. Mathematics is traditionally taught through repetition of contrived problems which lack any meaningful context and thus destroy mathematical intuition. Instead, we create formats to encourage the collection of real life applications. We collect many ourselves, starting with quantities that arise in the real world (including news stories, almanacs, technical specifications) and organize them by amount (increasing) and unit (such as meters, seconds, dollars, grams, liters, bits, decibels, watts, meters per second, etc.) We create navigation tools so students can grasp orders of magnitude using their own favorite examples. We also collect illustrative problems, for example: suppose a meal at your cafeteria costs X=$9, and at the restaurant it costs one-third more, but you have a coupon for "one-third off" at the restaurant, where is it cheaper? (At the restaurant it will be $12 minus one-third which is $8, which shows that the meaning of "one-third" changes, and so this classic problem illustrates the deep idea that algebra is thinking step-by-step.) We show that several dozen thoughtful problems can teach all of algebra. We create interfaces for students to generate variants of such problems and post along with comments. We link the problems to Wolfram Alpha, and also to real life stories of "witnesses" from news, educational, activist and social networking sites. We especially encourage real life connections with witnesses-activists from the developing world, including hundreds that we organize to help us collect real math applications and to staff a chat room for interactive learning. Our content will be Public Domain. We create formats so this activity can be done at wikis (including Wikipedia), YouTube, Flickr, and shared via RSS. We help a variety of websites host specialized collections and aggregate feeds so that our formats take root across the web. From p.turner at ruralnet.org.uk Wed Feb 10 19:31:33 2010 From: p.turner at ruralnet.org.uk (Phil Turner) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:31:33 GMT Subject: [VBbuilders] =?iso-8859-1?q?At_1=2E17_here_you_can_hear_our_inter?= =?iso-8859-1?q?view_for_the_event_=09tomorrow!?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Mark Listened and was enthralled. Very good clear interviews. (better than those I have been doing to camera today) Hope to tune in tomorrow to the event Best wishes Phil ======== Mark Petz writes: [ http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0067r23/Lisa_McCormick_09_02_2010/ ] >http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0067r23/Lisa_McCormick_09_02_2010/ > > > >1:16:00 and then it should play. You will hear me and steve and barry >(you don't have to listen to it :) But I send FYI. > >markus >_______________________________________________ >Videobridgebuilders mailing list >Videobridgebuilders at globalvillages.org >http://globalvillages.org/mailman/listinfo/videobridgebuilders > From laura.pakalne at gmail.com Wed Feb 10 15:51:27 2010 From: laura.pakalne at gmail.com (Laura Pakalne) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:51:27 +0200 Subject: [VBbuilders] information about event on 11th of February Message-ID: Hello! Here you can read information about event, which take place tomorrow: http://videobridge.ning.com/profiles/blogs/children-in-latvia-and-england-1 Best regards, Laura Pakalne -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From f.nahrada at reflex.at Thu Feb 11 09:40:00 2010 From: f.nahrada at reflex.at (Franz Nahrada) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:40:00 +0100 Subject: [VBbuilders] A short but delightful information from Cameroon Message-ID: Today I received a short surprising note from friends in Bamenda - Cameroon: >Greetings from Bamenda, Cameroon from all ACTWID members. >We all very happy today to have received Annette Leeb who came to visit >us and spent one night in my house .She told us that she attended your >workshop in January in Vienna and we were happy with her. I am really glad we can maintain such relations. Wendi is now on Skype with Annettes help and we start small conversations. see the history of our former "failed" "Computer for Cameroon" project in this little movie - unfortunately in German, but with VERY NICELY talking pictures http://www.vum.at/video/ccc3sat.ram all the best Franz From ravenwyn at gmail.com Fri Feb 12 09:31:37 2010 From: ravenwyn at gmail.com (Mark Petz) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:31:37 +0100 Subject: [VBbuilders] ***SPAM*** Universal "i" - Story Development and Video Advocacy Workshop for Civil Society Actors in greece New training offer in European Training Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: SALTO-YOUTH.net Date: Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:54 AM Subject: New training offer in European Training To: Interested users A new training offer has been published in SALTO's European Training Calendar. Date: 2010-02-12 Title: Universal "i" - Story Development and Video Advocacy Workshop for Civil Society Actors >From 2010-03-12 to 2010-03-14 in Greece Activity type: Training course Target groups: Project managers, Young people, Youth leaders, Youth workers For participants from: ALL YOUTH IN ACTION PROGRAMME COUNTRIES, NEIGHBOURING PARTNER COUNTRIES For detailed information, please have a look at http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-training/1723.html Please make active use of all our other online resources and services available via MySALTO (http://www.salto-youth.net/mySALTO/). Thank you very much for your interest, your SALTO-YOUTH Resource Centres -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: logo.gif Type: image/gif Size: 5644 bytes Desc: not available URL: From S.D.Thompson at tees.ac.uk Fri Feb 12 10:17:40 2010 From: S.D.Thompson at tees.ac.uk (Thompson, Steve) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:17:40 +0000 Subject: [VBbuilders] Yesterdays Event in Saltburn Message-ID: <91B61ED273D46E4589DA358ABD11872DF523A66FBF@HOLLYCLUSTER.windows.tees.ac.uk> Hello Folks, Yesterdays event was a tremendous successs with a full house for the matinee (in which we hooked up with children and police in Latvia) and around 80 people for the evening event. We even made it onto Latvian National TV ! You can relive the event on the blog at www.saltburn.org.uk or if you really want to re-run the event in the order it happened use this link................ http://saltburn.org.uk/category/animex2010/?order=ASC ( it builds slow but quickly gets media rich) - just read each page, scrolling down and then click "older entries" at the bottom. Many thanks to Markus Petz who organised the Latvian hookup and ran the event's "live blog" Steve Thompson Community Media Manager Institute of Digital Innovation Teesside University M - 07795 826953 E - s.d.thompson at tees.ac.uk W - www.steve-thompson.org.uk From S.D.Thompson at tees.ac.uk Sat Feb 13 11:15:15 2010 From: S.D.Thompson at tees.ac.uk (Thompson, Steve) Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:15:15 +0000 Subject: [VBbuilders] Get Online Day Message-ID: <91B61ED273D46E4589DA358ABD11872DF523A66FEC@HOLLYCLUSTER.windows.tees.ac.uk> Hello All, 4th March is Get Online Day. http://www.telecentre-europe.org/index.php The centre I work out of in Saltburn is a UK Online centre associated with this. http://www.destinations.uk.com/ I want to do something on that day connecting across Europe. This could be a range of things not just video bridging but perhaps cultural exchanges, pictures, stories, recipes, music, video etc. I'm still mulling over the mechanisms but it could also be an online quiz or two. I have a group who would like to challenge Julijas group but I'll contact Julija direct about that. I'd like to get a link between Uzupis and Carlin How where we plan to establish the Embassy but perhaps also Stockton Cultural Quarter where I've also initiated a Digital Village. And perhaps by then we may have another film for you "The Making of the Force is With You" but no promises. Just some scattershot ideas - ill formed at present. I think I have an idea how we could also arrange a virtual visit to the reall Jetty, again no promises but an idea. ST Steve Thompson Community Media Manager Institute of Digital Innovation Teesside University M - 07795 826953 E - s.d.thompson at tees.ac.uk W - www.steve-thompson.org.uk From ms at ms.lt Mon Feb 15 12:42:54 2010 From: ms at ms.lt (Andrius Kulikauskas) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:42:54 +0100 Subject: [VBbuilders] My Video Story proposal to collect stories, activities, patterns Message-ID: <4B79333E.80708@ms.lt> Hi Franz and all, I share my proposal which I will send to potential sponsors for this study of video bridging. I appreciate our thoughts! Andrius Kulikauskas, ms at ms.lt ------------------------------------------------------------------ I am looking for collaborators and funders to explore new usages of video communications such as video bridges. Franz Nahrada has championed such technology as key for the success of global villages and the education of the future. Our study of these new patterns is useful for market research and for promotion of new uses. In January, thanks to Franz Nahrada's Video Communications Workshop, my laboratory Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.lt took the first steps in this research. Sasha Mrkailo of Serbia collected for us 80 examples from the Internet of how people are using video communications. We call this "My Video Story": http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/MyVideoStory I then grouped examples and noted four types of dynamics for video bridges: * "Strangers" Two or more groups may be curious about each other and use video bridges to get to know each other. * "Friends" Two or more groups may have a common interest and share experiences. * "Experts" One or more experts may share their expertise with one or more groups. * "Family" One or more groups spend time as if they were all in one place, perhaps having a meal, dancing, praying, celebrating. And there may be other dynamics. Next, I am looking for "recurring activities" in these events. What kinds of actions are taken over and over again? As Christopher Alexander noted, such repeating actions evoke "patterns", which is to say, solutions that optimize practically a theoretical structure. I am looking for such "recurring activities" and related solutions. For example: * School children have a discussion with an author or guest. * A musician teaches music lessons to students, how to play the harp or other instrument. * A priest performs a ritual through a video link. * A group plays Dungeon and Dragons. * An artists paints her subjects. These are not one-time activities. They happen over and over again as part of people's lives. I wish to interview such people by text, audio and/or video to document what they have discovered about organizing video communications in their particular cases. What principles, what "rules of thumb" can they suggest to others who want to do what they are doing? My thought is to document each such "pattern" in English and German. I will share our text, audio and video interviews. I will show how different "recurring activities" interact. I will show how their solutions, their patterns are related and form a skill set or "pattern language" for organizing video bridges. This skill set is useful for video bridge facilitators. I can work more on this if I can find funders, especially businesses that might benefit. I could focus for them on stories and patterns related to their strategic interests. For example, where is Video Skype not enough to do what people really want to do? For which activities is fast broadband especially desirable? I have led a global team for similar projects, most notably, My Food Story http://www.myfoodstory.info for Greg Wolff of Unamesa Association to collect 2,000 food stories around the world to illustrate the world's food supply chain. Our original content is in the Public Domain so that all may use it for other projects according to their own best judgement. We also make "fair use" of short excerpts from websites. We are working on My Video Story at DorfWiki. http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/MyVideoStory I work at a rate of 1,500 EUR per month full time. My team collects stories at a rate of 1 EUR per story. We can translate our work from English into German at a rate of 250 to 500 EUR per month. We include and support people who care about video bridging. As we work, we attract and energize this community. Also, I can write reports and consult as part of my work. I look forward to your thoughts how with your help we might do this work! I am staying with Franz Nahrada in Vienna, Austria until the end of February. Thank you, Andrius Andrius Kulikauskas Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.lt ms at ms.lt +43 681 204 26971 in Vienna, Austria From globalpalestine at googlemail.com Mon Feb 15 12:56:24 2010 From: globalpalestine at googlemail.com (Wael Al Saad) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:56:24 +0200 Subject: [VBbuilders] My Video Story proposal to collect stories, activities, patterns In-Reply-To: <4B79333E.80708@ms.lt> References: <4B79333E.80708@ms.lt> Message-ID: Hey Andrius, I would add an important dynamic for video-bridging which is, the reconstruction of separated and fragmented communities and families originally from (war) crises areas. There are millions around the world carrying home inside and can not share it the physical world because of lack of human security. New social-business can emerge of such video bridge application. Palestinian are for sure not the only target group. I cam imagine how VideoBridging "rethink the concept of diaspora" in two-dimensional world, and can revive broken nation/people harts by applying third-dimensional communication layer. Good Luck, All the best in all life Wael On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Andrius Kulikauskas wrote: > Hi Franz and all, I share my proposal which I will send to potential > sponsors for this study of video bridging. I appreciate our thoughts! > Andrius Kulikauskas, ms at ms.lt > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > I am looking for collaborators and funders to explore new usages of video > communications such as video bridges. Franz Nahrada has championed such > technology as key for the success of global villages and the education of > the future. Our study of these new patterns is useful for market research > and for promotion of new uses. > > In January, thanks to Franz Nahrada's Video Communications Workshop, my > laboratory Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.lt took the first steps in this > research. Sasha Mrkailo of Serbia collected for us 80 examples from the > Internet of how people are using video communications. We call this "My > Video Story": > http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/MyVideoStory > > I then grouped examples and noted four types of dynamics for video bridges: > * "Strangers" Two or more groups may be curious about each other and use > video bridges to get to know each other. > * "Friends" Two or more groups may have a common interest and share > experiences. > * "Experts" One or more experts may share their expertise with one or more > groups. > * "Family" One or more groups spend time as if they were all in one place, > perhaps having a meal, dancing, praying, celebrating. > And there may be other dynamics. > > Next, I am looking for "recurring activities" in these events. What kinds > of actions are taken over and over again? As Christopher Alexander noted, > such repeating actions evoke "patterns", which is to say, solutions that > optimize practically a theoretical structure. I am looking for such > "recurring activities" and related solutions. For example: > * School children have a discussion with an author or guest. > * A musician teaches music lessons to students, how to play the harp or > other instrument. > * A priest performs a ritual through a video link. > * A group plays Dungeon and Dragons. > * An artists paints her subjects. > These are not one-time activities. They happen over and over again as > part of people's lives. I wish to interview such people by text, audio > and/or video to document what they have discovered about organizing video > communications in their particular cases. What principles, what "rules of > thumb" can they suggest to others who want to do what they are doing? > My thought is to document each such "pattern" in English and German. I > will share our text, audio and video interviews. I will show how different > "recurring activities" interact. I will show how their solutions, their > patterns are related and form a skill set or "pattern language" for > organizing video bridges. This skill set is useful for video bridge > facilitators. > > I can work more on this if I can find funders, especially businesses that > might benefit. I could focus for them on stories and patterns related to > their strategic interests. For example, where is Video Skype not enough to > do what people really want to do? For which activities is fast broadband > especially desirable? > > I have led a global team for similar projects, most notably, My Food Story > http://www.myfoodstory.info for Greg Wolff of Unamesa Association to > collect 2,000 food stories around the world to illustrate the world's food > supply chain. Our original content is in the Public Domain so that all may > use it for other projects according to their own best judgement. We also > make "fair use" of short excerpts from websites. We are working on My Video > Story at DorfWiki. > http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/MyVideoStory > > I work at a rate of 1,500 EUR per month full time. My team collects > stories at a rate of 1 EUR per story. We can translate our work from > English into German at a rate of 250 to 500 EUR per month. We include and > support people who care about video bridging. As we work, we attract and > energize this community. Also, I can write reports and consult as part of > my work. > > I look forward to your thoughts how with your help we might do this work! > I am staying with Franz Nahrada in Vienna, Austria until the end of > February. > > Thank you, > > Andrius > > Andrius Kulikauskas > Minciu Sodas > http://www.ms.lt > ms at ms.lt > +43 681 204 26971 > in Vienna, Austria > > _______________________________________________ > Videobridgebuilders mailing list > Videobridgebuilders at globalvillages.org > http://globalvillages.org/mailman/listinfo/videobridgebuilders > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ravenwyn at gmail.com Fri Feb 19 09:45:15 2010 From: ravenwyn at gmail.com (Mark Petz) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:45:15 +0200 Subject: [VBbuilders] WE can submit content here it woudl be good! Fwd: Two weeks more, three bags full. Message-ID: Open Fields is a call from a new gallery in Australia. They want any kind of content, rather than limiting and finding no-one submits anything, they hope by givbing a free hand creative people WILL BE creative. I think this suits us for video-bridging and we can mention this new technique. As well as second life etc. So do we have any content? Lets ask them if we can put some of europe get online day stuff there? As they are in Australia they will not have taken part of sure. I also think some singing from say Bulgaria or Lithuania or Latvia would be very good. I know that (Pete Kublins told me) there is a mighty Latvian-Australian community, and so links there are very possible and also interest in the country in Sydney where this gallery is based in such works. So please do let me know if you have anything. M ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Open Fields Date: Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:48 AM Subject: Two weeks more, three bags full. To: Open Fields Open Fields 28 - 30 April, 2010 UTS and Serial Space Gallery, Chippendale Just letting you know that applications for Open Fields 2010 are closing in two weeks (or so), at the end of this month. This will be a great opportunity for creative researchers and practitioners to offer their work, work-in-progress, research finds, or the work of others for engagement in a wide-range of presentation formats, without conventional constraints of expectation, format, or theme. We welcome research finds, workshop material, poetry readings, film screening, slideshows, cooking events, travel reflections, film/video/installation and exhibition art, and all other manner of work to be presented in the pursuit of profound goals. Find our application form here , or for more information, check out http://openfieldssydney.wordpress.com/ or contact us at openfields2010 at gmail.com. Thanks! O.F. (Adam Lippmann, Emma Fraser, Jessie Lymn, Tom Lee, Tom Smith) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From f.nahrada at reflex.at Sun Feb 21 20:29:58 2010 From: f.nahrada at reflex.at (Franz Nahrada) Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:29:58 +0100 Subject: [VBbuilders] Videobridge Workshop Outcomes Message-ID: Dear all, Greetings from Vienna! Hope all of you who shared this wonderful time in Vienna have not only returned home safely but been able to cope with the pile of work that definitely have accmulated during your absence from workplace and home. Everyone should have received their travel refund by now and hopefully brought home some inspiration from Vienna. It was a great time that we had together - and after some exhaustion, rest and overload maybe its time to resume communication now. I must admit that still things are not quite back to normal here, and I greatly appreciate help with managing our communication. Nevertheless here are some news: 1. First thing is an attempt to summarize the outcomes of the Grundtvig Workshop - also as a base of reporting to national agencies and other public reporting: **************************************************************************************** http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/GrundtvigWorkshop/Outcomes **************************************************************************************** feel free to write your comments! (per mail, or on the wiki) (We are still far away from writing the final report, so inputs would be appreciated) Also it is important to show how we all spread the word. Please look at the page http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/GrundtvigWorkshop/Coverage and add what you know of who talked and wrote about our workshop in public! Thanks Markus and Yora for being such a good role model. 2. I was also trying to start filling parts of the diary that were somehow missing and hope that you might all provide additional points, views and perspectives. Try to remember as soon as the memory is fresh and you have the papers at hand and pitch in! in particular it would be important to look at the reflection that we had on tuesday the 26th: http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/GrundtvigWorkshop/Diary/26-1-2010 I tried to show that we are really at the beginning of figuring out the meaning of VideoBridging! 3. Next: we will get a virtual conference room for regular meetings that we can stream and record - please stay tuned. I forwarded some technical issues about the scopia desktop client to Werner Strasser and we hope to get an answer soon. Its interesting to have real life experience like John Rogers gave in the NING 4. What currently is needed most: * declaring yourself as contact point for people who might be interested in VideoBridging in your country - and editing your country pages in the Wiki with all that is going on : 2 are already edited http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/Greece - Thank you Marina! http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/Lithuania - Thank you Julija! The rest you will reach from here: http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/CountryPages lets get going and become European! 5. What would be nice to have is: * A person that really, really keeps the NING working and reports back and forth. For example John Rogers posted a question in the NING, but nobody even knew of it. * Groups of common practise and special interest established in the NING 6. Helge is collecting Film and Foto Material shot by Tara, Ernst Gruber and others; and we are seeking to find a way to collectively tag the raw material to hopefully produce a DVD / workshop video. I did some soul searching with Helge on this in the last days how we would define and use such a DVD / video, and we came up with the idea of a double helix of on one side report about the Vienna event and on the other side make some central visual statements about videobridging. It would be good to have all the selected raw material in small format for online viewing and tagging. I wonder how Matz is doing with his plans to put stuff online. Maybe we should make a list of who has which footage. (Wikipage to be created) 7. So here we go. Concluding I would say the top priority is now to start your own national projects, to share them whenever possible and to report on them first in the country pages and secondly in the NING. I hope we hear from each other soon. Franz From S.D.Thompson at tees.ac.uk Sun Feb 21 20:49:46 2010 From: S.D.Thompson at tees.ac.uk (Thompson, Steve) Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:49:46 +0000 Subject: [VBbuilders] Videobridge Workshop Outcomes In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <91B61ED273D46E4589DA358ABD11872DF523A670DB@HOLLYCLUSTER.windows.tees.ac.uk> Hello Franz et All Yes exhaustion has almost left me. I came home exhausted and then ran an event that exhausted me again I have added a little to the outcomes page I would add to the United Kingdom (Countries) page but I'm not sure if it exists to edited does it need to be created? Steve Thompson Community Media Manager Institute of Digital Innovation Teesside University M - 07795 826953 E - s.d.thompson at tees.ac.uk W - www.steve-thompson.org.uk ________________________________________ From: videobridgebuilders-bounces at globalvillages.org [videobridgebuilders-bounces at globalvillages.org] On Behalf Of Franz Nahrada [f.nahrada at reflex.at] Sent: 21 February 2010 19:29 To: videobridgebuilders at globalvillages.org Subject: [VBbuilders] Videobridge Workshop Outcomes Dear all, Greetings from Vienna! Hope all of you who shared this wonderful time in Vienna have not only returned home safely but been able to cope with the pile of work that definitely have accmulated during your absence from workplace and home. Everyone should have received their travel refund by now and hopefully brought home some inspiration from Vienna. It was a great time that we had together - and after some exhaustion, rest and overload maybe its time to resume communication now. I must admit that still things are not quite back to normal here, and I greatly appreciate help with managing our communication. Nevertheless here are some news: 1. First thing is an attempt to summarize the outcomes of the Grundtvig Workshop - also as a base of reporting to national agencies and other public reporting: **************************************************************************************** http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/GrundtvigWorkshop/Outcomes **************************************************************************************** feel free to write your comments! (per mail, or on the wiki) (We are still far away from writing the final report, so inputs would be appreciated) Also it is important to show how we all spread the word. Please look at the page http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/GrundtvigWorkshop/Coverage and add what you know of who talked and wrote about our workshop in public! Thanks Markus and Yora for being such a good role model. 2. I was also trying to start filling parts of the diary that were somehow missing and hope that you might all provide additional points, views and perspectives. Try to remember as soon as the memory is fresh and you have the papers at hand and pitch in! in particular it would be important to look at the reflection that we had on tuesday the 26th: http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/GrundtvigWorkshop/Diary/26-1-2010 I tried to show that we are really at the beginning of figuring out the meaning of VideoBridging! 3. Next: we will get a virtual conference room for regular meetings that we can stream and record - please stay tuned. I forwarded some technical issues about the scopia desktop client to Werner Strasser and we hope to get an answer soon. Its interesting to have real life experience like John Rogers gave in the NING 4. What currently is needed most: * declaring yourself as contact point for people who might be interested in VideoBridging in your country - and editing your country pages in the Wiki with all that is going on : 2 are already edited http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/Greece - Thank you Marina! http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/Lithuania - Thank you Julija! The rest you will reach from here: http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/CountryPages lets get going and become European! 5. What would be nice to have is: * A person that really, really keeps the NING working and reports back and forth. For example John Rogers posted a question in the NING, but nobody even knew of it. * Groups of common practise and special interest established in the NING 6. Helge is collecting Film and Foto Material shot by Tara, Ernst Gruber and others; and we are seeking to find a way to collectively tag the raw material to hopefully produce a DVD / workshop video. I did some soul searching with Helge on this in the last days how we would define and use such a DVD / video, and we came up with the idea of a double helix of on one side report about the Vienna event and on the other side make some central visual statements about videobridging. It would be good to have all the selected raw material in small format for online viewing and tagging. I wonder how Matz is doing with his plans to put stuff online. Maybe we should make a list of who has which footage. (Wikipage to be created) 7. So here we go. Concluding I would say the top priority is now to start your own national projects, to share them whenever possible and to report on them first in the country pages and secondly in the NING. I hope we hear from each other soon. Franz _______________________________________________ Videobridgebuilders mailing list Videobridgebuilders at globalvillages.org http://globalvillages.org/mailman/listinfo/videobridgebuilders From ravenwyn at gmail.com Sun Feb 21 21:19:34 2010 From: ravenwyn at gmail.com (Mark Petz) Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:19:34 +0200 Subject: [VBbuilders] Videobridge Workshop Outcomes In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I see this: " declaring yourself as contact point for people who might be interested in VideoBridging in your country " I don't know this is useful. Much better i think is that such people join the NING and get involved. You will soon connect with those in similar areas of interest and in the same country. Also I see that the GET ONLINE DAY folks want to register telecentres, so its useful if that can happen: http://www.telecentre-europe.org/index.php shows its free and also without any obligations. Its good if we can do this for out Video-bridge locations. markus On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Franz Nahrada wrote: > Dear all, > > Greetings from Vienna! > > Hope all of you who shared this wonderful time in Vienna have not only > returned home safely but been able to cope with the pile of work that > definitely have accmulated during your absence from workplace and home. > Everyone should have received their travel refund by now and hopefully > brought home some inspiration from Vienna. > > It was a great time that we had together - and after some exhaustion, rest > and overload maybe its time to resume communication now. I must admit that > still things are not quite back to normal here, and I greatly appreciate > help with managing our communication. > > Nevertheless here are some news: > > 1. > > First thing is an attempt to summarize the outcomes of the Grundtvig > Workshop - also as a base of reporting to national agencies and other > public reporting: > > > **************************************************************************************** > http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/GrundtvigWorkshop/Outcomes > > **************************************************************************************** > > feel free to write your comments! (per mail, or on the wiki) > > (We are still far away from writing the final report, so inputs would be > appreciated) > > Also it is important to show how we all spread the word. Please look at > the page > > http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/GrundtvigWorkshop/Coverage > > and add what you know of who talked and wrote about our workshop in public! > > Thanks Markus and Yora for being such a good role model. > > 2. > > I was also trying to start filling parts of the diary that were somehow > missing and hope that you might all provide additional points, views and > perspectives. Try to remember as soon as the memory is fresh and you have > the papers at hand and pitch in! > > in particular it would be important to look at the reflection that we had > on tuesday the 26th: > > > http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/GrundtvigWorkshop/Diary/26-1-2010 > > I tried to show that we are really at the beginning of figuring out the > meaning of VideoBridging! > > 3. > > Next: we will get a virtual conference room for regular meetings that we > can stream and record - please stay tuned. I forwarded some technical > issues about the scopia desktop client to Werner Strasser and we hope to > get an answer soon. > > Its interesting to have real life experience like John Rogers gave in the > NING > > 4. > > What currently is needed most: > > * declaring yourself as contact point for people who might be interested > in VideoBridging in your country - and editing your country pages in the > Wiki with all that is going on : > > 2 are already edited > > http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/Greece - Thank you Marina! > http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/Lithuania - Thank you Julija! > > The rest you will reach from here: > > http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/CountryPages > > lets get going and become European! > > 5. > > What would be nice to have is: > > * A person that really, really keeps the NING working and reports back and > forth. For example John Rogers posted a question in the NING, but nobody > even knew of it. > > * Groups of common practise and special interest established in the NING > > 6. > > Helge is collecting Film and Foto Material shot by Tara, Ernst Gruber and > others; and we are seeking to find a way to collectively tag the raw > material to hopefully produce a DVD / workshop video. I did some soul > searching with Helge on this in the last days how we would define and use > such a DVD / video, and we came up with the idea of a double helix of on > one side report about the Vienna event and on the other side make some > central visual statements about videobridging. > > It would be good to have all the selected raw material in small format for > online viewing and tagging. I wonder how Matz is doing with his plans to > put stuff online. > > Maybe we should make a list of who has which footage. > > (Wikipage to be created) > > 7. > > So here we go. Concluding I would say the top priority is now to start > your own national projects, to share them whenever possible and to report > on them first in the country pages and secondly in the NING. > > I hope we hear from each other soon. > > Franz > > _______________________________________________ > Videobridgebuilders mailing list > Videobridgebuilders at globalvillages.org > http://globalvillages.org/mailman/listinfo/videobridgebuilders > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ms at ms.lt Mon Feb 22 12:50:12 2010 From: ms at ms.lt (Andrius Kulikauskas) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:50:12 +0100 Subject: [VBbuilders] 12 Questions for our credibility Message-ID: <4B826F74.7050803@ms.lt> Hi, I'm still in Vienna! As you know, I've been grappling with my future ever since I've been here. I share my conclusions and I am curious to know if you might like this or not. I'm sharing my thoughts about future steps for Minciu Sodas as a lab, network and business. I wonder how this might fit with your own visions and dreams. I've been thinking about my life goals and my business direction. I want to organize a culture of independent thinkers, of many small leaps that we can verify rather than one big leap of faith. I'm realizing this has a lot to do with establishing our own credibility to ourselves and others. Instead of "Trust me!" it's the spirit of "Don't trust me. Verify me!" In my art work I'm portraying 12 questions by which I've engaged independent thinkers over the years to get to know them. http://www.flickr.com/photos/50525222 at N00/4345880583/sizes/l/ The questions are relevant roughly in this order: 1. What do you care about? 2. Do you care about thinking? 3. What do you value? 4. What do you seek to know? 5. What do you wish to achieve? 6. Would you think out loud? 7. Where do you think best? 8. What is your dream in life? 9. How can we help each other? 10. What do you truly know about? 11. What lessons can you share? 12. What do you know of God? Unanswered questions point to weaknesses in our credibility. How can others find my "help" of much use if I'm a lost soul, if I'm not self-directed, if I don't know my own dream-in-life, I don't know what I want to achieve myself, I don't know what I value? What's the point of them debating with me if I don't care about thinking or if I won't think out loud? What is the credibility of my knowledge and authority if I don't seek to know anything and don't know where or how I think best? I believe the scale can work effectively as a guide to where a person's credibility breaks down. I think there are people who might value that as a foundation for a culture of self-directed people working together. I'm in Vienna, Austria visiting Franz Nahrada. He's very supportive of this approach and suggested I develop a website and brand "12 Questions". I've just acquired the domain http://www.12questions.org I'm also happy that these 12 questions are very much like the questions in the Structured Visual Thinking (TM) Discovery Framework, as John Caswell has confirmed. http://www.grouppartnerswiki.net/index.php?title=The_Business_Equation Last spring in London our Minciu Sodas team visited John at his Group Partners offices. Their consulting approach is the most profound that I've ever encountered and they work intensely with executives at the top levels of the largest companies. We tentatively agreed that Minciu Sodas might phrase a related approach in the Public Domain, especially for individuals and noncorporate groups. I'm happy that these 12 questions might be the core of such an approach. They also use a lot of visual thinking and that encourages an artistic approach. I'm setting up http://www.12questions.org as a place for people to post their answers to the questions as text but also to express themselves with all the creative arts. All of the site will be in the Public Domain. We will help each other create such works that express us and can be freely shared, too. The business opportunity that I see is that person A pays person B to help person C express themselves. I think this fits with my maxim that "Money brings people together, but you can't pay people to care." If we need help to express ourselves, then we ask others to help, but we don't pay them directly ourselves, because that would interfere with them caring about us, and then they might just do whatever we signal them to do. The result will be a Second Life type of world but with the simplest technology and for "real world" people. And we'll interact in simple ways, but especially pointing to posts such as "kind words" at other online venues that support our credibility with each other. Online venues can participate if they have clear leaders, if they are in the Public Domain except as noted, and if they take up the 12 questions as part of their activity. Typically we might discuss one question per week, twelve weeks in all, every year at such a venue. Does this make sense for your venue? This is how I imagine the Minciu Sodas network being reborn as a 12 Questions network. How best might this work in practice? I'm thinking of starting such a series on March 1 at interested venues. I am doing related month long art shows in April in Vienna, Austria and in May in Vilnius, Lithuania and we can portray and show our dreams-in-life and other answers there. The 12 questions will help me and others know who to invest ourselves in when we organize global teams for paid work. They will also help in collecting stories and patterns about real life, which is question 11, "What lessons can we share?" I am encouraged by this direction. What do we think? Who might like to participate? Andrius Andrius Kulikauskas Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.lt ms at ms.lt +370 699 30003 From ravenwyn at gmail.com Mon Feb 22 12:58:04 2010 From: ravenwyn at gmail.com (Mark Petz) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:58:04 +0200 Subject: [VBbuilders] 12 Questions for our credibility In-Reply-To: <4B826F74.7050803@ms.lt> References: <4B826F74.7050803@ms.lt> Message-ID: I posted it here http://hirvikatu10.net/foorumi/viewtopic.php?p=4076#4076 maybe some people feedback. Now I am too busy with other projects to do more. By the way did you ever do Jungian personality types? What did you find? I just discovered I am one called ENTJ apparently the same as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Teddy Roosevelt - so really I should be in a similar role. m On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Andrius Kulikauskas wrote: > Hi, I'm still in Vienna! As you know, I've been grappling with my future > ever since I've been here. I share my conclusions and I am curious to know > if you might like this or not. > > I'm sharing my thoughts about future steps for Minciu Sodas as a lab, > network and business. I wonder how this might fit with your own visions and > dreams. > > I've been thinking about my life goals and my business direction. I want > to organize a culture of independent thinkers, of many small leaps that we > can verify rather than one big leap of faith. I'm realizing this has a lot > to do with establishing our own credibility to ourselves and others. > Instead of "Trust me!" it's the spirit of "Don't trust me. Verify me!" > > In my art work I'm portraying 12 questions by which I've engaged > independent thinkers over the years to get to know them. > http://www.flickr.com/photos/50525222 at N00/4345880583/sizes/l/ > The questions are relevant roughly in this order: > 1. What do you care about? > 2. Do you care about thinking? > 3. What do you value? > 4. What do you seek to know? > 5. What do you wish to achieve? > 6. Would you think out loud? > 7. Where do you think best? > 8. What is your dream in life? > 9. How can we help each other? > 10. What do you truly know about? > 11. What lessons can you share? > 12. What do you know of God? > > Unanswered questions point to weaknesses in our credibility. How can > others find my "help" of much use if I'm a lost soul, if I'm not > self-directed, if I don't know my own dream-in-life, I don't know what I > want to achieve myself, I don't know what I value? What's the point of them > debating with me if I don't care about thinking or if I won't think out > loud? What is the credibility of my knowledge and authority if I don't seek > to know anything and don't know where or how I think best? > > I believe the scale can work effectively as a guide to where a person's > credibility breaks down. I think there are people who might value that as > a foundation for a culture of self-directed people working together. > > I'm in Vienna, Austria visiting Franz Nahrada. He's very supportive of > this approach and suggested I develop a website and brand "12 Questions". > I've just acquired the domain http://www.12questions.org > > I'm also happy that these 12 questions are very much like the questions in > the Structured Visual Thinking (TM) Discovery Framework, as John Caswell has > confirmed. > http://www.grouppartnerswiki.net/index.php?title=The_Business_Equation > Last spring in London our Minciu Sodas team visited John at his Group > Partners offices. Their consulting approach is the most profound that I've > ever encountered and they work intensely with executives at the top levels > of the largest companies. We tentatively agreed that Minciu Sodas might > phrase a related approach in the Public Domain, especially for individuals > and noncorporate groups. I'm happy that these 12 questions might be the > core of such an approach. They also use a lot of visual thinking and that > encourages an artistic approach. > > I'm setting up http://www.12questions.org as a place for people to post > their answers to the questions as text but also to express themselves with > all the creative arts. All of the site will be in the Public Domain. We > will help each other create such works that express us and can be freely > shared, too. The business opportunity that I see is that person A pays > person B to help person C express themselves. I think this fits with my > maxim that "Money brings people together, but you can't pay people to care." > If we need help to express ourselves, then we ask others to help, but we > don't pay them directly ourselves, because that would interfere with them > caring about us, and then they might just do whatever we signal them to do. > > The result will be a Second Life type of world but with the simplest > technology and for "real world" people. And we'll interact in simple ways, > but especially pointing to posts such as "kind words" at other online venues > that support our credibility with each other. > > Online venues can participate if they have clear leaders, if they are in > the Public Domain except as noted, and if they take up the 12 questions as > part of their activity. Typically we might discuss one question per week, > twelve weeks in all, every year at such a venue. Does this make sense for > your venue? This is how I imagine the Minciu Sodas network being reborn as > a 12 Questions network. How best might this work in practice? > > I'm thinking of starting such a series on March 1 at interested venues. I > am doing related month long art shows in April in Vienna, Austria and in May > in Vilnius, Lithuania and we can portray and show our dreams-in-life and > other answers there. > > The 12 questions will help me and others know who to invest ourselves in > when we organize global teams for paid work. They will also help in > collecting stories and patterns about real life, which is question 11, "What > lessons can we share?" > > I am encouraged by this direction. What do we think? Who might like to > participate? > > Andrius > > Andrius Kulikauskas > Minciu Sodas > http://www.ms.lt > ms at ms.lt > +370 699 30003 > _______________________________________________ > Videobridgebuilders mailing list > Videobridgebuilders at globalvillages.org > http://globalvillages.org/mailman/listinfo/videobridgebuilders > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The site is here: www.destinations.uk.com/gold Does anyone want to contribute anything to this? Steve Thompson Community Media Manager Institute of Digital Innovation Teesside University M - 07795 826953 E - s.d.thompson at tees.ac.uk W - www.steve-thompson.org.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marina-kollatou at hotmail.com Tue Feb 23 22:02:39 2010 From: marina-kollatou at hotmail.com (marina kollatou) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:02:39 +0200 Subject: [VBbuilders] Get Online Day In-Reply-To: <91B61ED273D46E4589DA358ABD11872DF523A67129@HOLLYCLUSTER.windows.tees.ac.uk> References: <91B61ED273D46E4589DA358ABD11872DF523A67129@HOLLYCLUSTER.windows.tees.ac.uk> Message-ID: Hi Steve I liked the idea but I read that telecentres can register. Is that right? Can individuals register? for one thing. By the way, today I had my first "videobridge" locally. I had teachers in Karditsa watching me teaching 3rd grade students in Trikala. Thay were absolutely excited I'll write sth on the diary, once I have some time. looking forward to hearing from you or anyne of you all. warm regards Marina From: S.D.Thompson at tees.ac.uk To: ravenwyn at gmail.com; f.nahrada at reflex.at Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:52:48 +0000 CC: videobridgebuilders at globalvillages.org Subject: [VBbuilders] Get Online Day For European Get On Line Day March 4th I'm organising a Day of Cultural Broadcasting from Saltburn. I plan to use the "live blogging" approach employed for the Saltburn Animex event so that media is released throughout the day to a schedule. The site is here: www.destinations.uk.com/gold Does anyone want to contribute anything to this? Steve Thompson Community Media Manager Institute of Digital Innovation Teesside University M - 07795 826953 E - s.d.thompson at tees.ac.uk W - www.steve-thompson.org.uk _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From S.D.Thompson at tees.ac.uk Tue Feb 23 22:06:07 2010 From: S.D.Thompson at tees.ac.uk (Thompson, Steve) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:06:07 +0000 Subject: [VBbuilders] Get Online Day In-Reply-To: References: <91B61ED273D46E4589DA358ABD11872DF523A67129@HOLLYCLUSTER.windows.tees.ac.uk>, Message-ID: <91B61ED273D46E4589DA358ABD11872DF523A6712B@HOLLYCLUSTER.windows.tees.ac.uk> ANYONE can get Involved in the Broadcast from DESTINATIONS regardless of affilliation to a Telecentre or not. You just need to get a piece of media to us. If you (or anyone else) wants to contribute anything I'll make arrangements to have it happen. Steve T Sent: 23 February 2010 21:02 To: Thompson, Steve Cc: videobridge members Subject: RE: [VBbuilders] Get Online Day Hi Steve I liked the idea but I read that telecentres can register. Is that right? Can individuals register? for one thing. By the way, today I had my first "videobridge" locally. I had teachers in Karditsa watching me teaching 3rd grade students in Trikala. Thay were absolutely excited I'll write sth on the diary, once I have some time. looking forward to hearing from you or anyne of you all. warm regards Marina ________________________________ From: S.D.Thompson at tees.ac.uk To: ravenwyn at gmail.com; f.nahrada at reflex.at Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:52:48 +0000 CC: videobridgebuilders at globalvillages.org Subject: [VBbuilders] Get Online Day For European Get On Line Day March 4th I'm organising a Day of Cultural Broadcasting from Saltburn. I plan to use the "live blogging" approach employed for the Saltburn Animex event so that media is released throughout the day to a schedule. The site is here: www.destinations.uk.com/gold Does anyone want to contribute anything to this? Steve Thompson Community Media Manager Institute of Digital Innovation Teesside University M - 07795 826953 E - s.d.thompson at tees.ac.uk W - www.steve-thompson.org.uk ________________________________ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: