Henry Jenkins’ whitepaper Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture, pdf at http://www.digitallearning.macfound.org/etc… seems to be (I haven’t read it yet…) a very good outline of what new media literacy is.

Found it via Peter Morville http://www.findability.org/archives/000138.php, who sums it up as follows:

“Henry presents eleven new skills or literacies…

Play – the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem solving.

Performance – the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery.

Simulation – the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes.

Appropriation – the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content.

Multitasking – the ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details.

Distributed Cognition – the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities.

Collective Intelligence – the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal.

Judgment – the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources.

Transmedia Navigation – the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities.

Networking – the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information.

Negotiation – the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms.

…and three concerns:

The Participation Gap – the unequal access to the opportunities, experiences, skills, and knowledge that will prepare youth for full participation in the world of tomorrow.

The Transparency Problem – the challenges young people face in learning to see clearly the ways that media shape perceptions of the world.

The Ethics Challenge – the breakdown of traditional forms of professional training and socialization that might prepare young people for their increasingly public roles as media makers and community participants.”

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Note: these are “new” literacies. I’d say they add to competencies as knowing how to write –as in: constructing sentences that makes sense and can be understood by others… :-)

Klein rondje in de middag — dus ook nog ‘ns van de Jan van Eyck naar Kanne en terug erbijtellen voor de afstand –. Erg fijn weer, 12 graden, zon, westenwind. En zowaar voorbij Waltwilder stukjes waar ik niet eerder had gereden. Kanne – kanaal – Vroenhoven – Vlijtingen – Rosmeer – Waltwilder – Hoelbeek – kanaal – Gelik – Veldwezelt – Vroenhoven – Muizenberg – Kanne

The Guardian writes, in its editorial intro to the Web 2.0 special: “Everybody sitting at a computer screen, increasingly, wants everything to be all about them. This is our first glimpse of what people who grow up with the net will want from the net. One of the cleverest things about MySpace is the name.”

This has me wondering… On the one hand, all the ‘new’ tools are about sharing, collectiveness, communication. On the other hand, it always puts ourselves in the center.

Everybody sitting behind a computer screen is as egoistic as a writer?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1937496,00.html.

Richard Lanham in 1974: “Prose written without joy can only be read in the same spirit. Given the average quality of American prose, speedreading it out of existence is probably the best thing. So we come to hate the word, and use it still more ineffectively.” From Style, an Anti-Textbook

Ochtendritje, prachtige herfstzon, maar zo tussen 9.40 en 11.00 nog erg koud. Daarna werken. Heerlijk om zomaar op een doordeweekse dag naar les Hauts de Froidmont te kunnen rijden. Kanne – Eben – Halembaye – Froidmont – Houtain St. Simeon – Bassenge – Wonck – Eben – Kanne

With lots of videos online: http://www.freewaves.org/?page=artists#. Nice. Apparently also with some art-videos that were censored by YouTube (Eva Drangsholt, Mike Faulkner).

It’s so nice sometimes to just make something, however simple it is, using old-skool html and some pictures.

This time I made screenshots of the different stages — or maybe different screens (rather than actions) — of writing & publishing a blog post. Respectively Blogger Beta, WordPress, Twoday.net and blogging from Flock.

No Typepad since I immediately erased my account after activating it and checking it out.

Big html-page here (may need refresh to have all the pictures load…): http://www.xs4all.nl/~ariealt/jve/2006_to_blog_small/to_blog.html.

Well, it won’t earn the prize for best design, and probably I should’ve resized the screenshots differently, but still, I like these kind of mosaics.

Project of Ubiscribe co-researcher Tsila Hassine is a sort of image browser: “Tracer is a research tool that archives Google image searches for the purposes of tracking their url, appearance, disappearance and rank.”

http://www.geuzen.org/tracer

Prachtig rondje voor de zondag. Veel zon, nog altijd best warm — 14 graden. Fijn langs kanaal en Maas, voor het eerst de bocht bij Elslo gepasseerd, dan dwars door Maasmechelen het bos in en via Gelik en Veldwezelt terug.

Kanne – kanaal – Smeermaas – Uikhoven – Kotem – Maasmechelen – As – Wiemesmeer – Zutendaal – Gelik – Veldwezelt – Zusserdel – Kanne

Om 10 uur vertrok ik. Ochtendrondje. Warm, al om 10 uur, de dubbele laag was niet nodig. Het was zelfs al warm om middernacht, bij een harde zuidenwind. Weersverwachting: harde zuidenwind en warm, 18 tot zelfs mogelijk 22 graden. Bij Fleron dacht ik: laat ik nog een keer naar Chaudfontaine rijden, om de bossen te zien. In het dal dacht ik, kom, nog een stukje tot Louveigne, want het is heerlijk warm. Toen was ik zo ver dat het zonde zou zijn om niet nog een laatste keer de klim naar Creppe te doen en dan de bossen bij Spa te bekijken. Uiteindelijk besloot ik tot het dal van de Roanne af te dalen om een laatste keer mijn favoriete klim te rijden. Zo reed ik 139 kilometer. Ik was goed kapot na afloop. In Spa zei een thermometer 23 graden — en dat klopte zeker. In Theux zei een thermometer 26 graden. Het was warm als in de zomer. Korte broeken- en eigenlijk ook korte mouwenweer. De bossen op hun mooist, met alle mogelijke schakeringen groen, geel en bruin en zelfs rood. Om 6 uur terug (pauzes om van het landschap en de warmte te genieten).

Kanne – Eben – Halembaye – kanaal – Hermalle ss Argenteau – Sarolay – Cheratte – Saive – Tignee – (plus een niet eerder gereden klim over een smalle lokale weg) – Retinne – Fleron – Romsee – Chaudfontaine – Prayon – Louveigne – Desnie – Winamplanche – Creppe – Geronstere – Rosier – Andrimont – Moulin du Ruy – Andrimont – Rosier – Geronstere – Spa – Theux – Pepinster – Drolenval – Soiron – Xhendelesse – Jose – Herve – Bolland – Blegny – Ttrembleur – Feneur – Richelle – Vise – kanaal – Kanne