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Random thoughts about injustices
Related to the actual incident all over Austrian News about the Tramway Driver on Line 1 who ended a speech with the Hitler salute: One Tramwaydriver makes a bad & stupid joke and looses his job and maybe also gets … Continue reading
Blogging,Twittering and Studying
Blogging is something I feel I should do more often. In the last months I started reading more and more really good blogs and somehow I think I would like to share thoughts/ideas via this blog (or on my new … Continue reading
Update
I wrote some while ago Updates about the progress of my “Studienberechtigungsprüfung”. So here is another one for everyone interested: It’s finished, since last Tuesday I’m officially studying “Software & Information Engineering”. After my last math exam around end of … Continue reading
Conclusions
So this is the last entry in the projectlog for my Seminary “Grundlagen Methodischen Arbeitens”. I will try to wrap it up with some conclusions about the topic of E-Learning & Virtual Communities, partly related to the Seminary, partly non-related … Continue reading
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Invent a Feature for Slidecasting
The last task of the Seminary was to read the Paper about Slidecasting (Exploring the “Massive Multiplayer E-Learning” Concept) and then invent and present a new Feature for Slidecasting. Our Idea was a Feature where you could send comments for … Continue reading
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Invent a Motivation Strategy for an E-Learning System
The next task was to think about all the Motivation Strategies presented in the Seminary and invent an implementation of one of these or a new Motivation Strategy for use in an E-Learning System, that motivates the Students and think … Continue reading
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Motivation Strategies in Virtual Communities
Task Number 4 was to read an assigned paper and introduce the main concepts of this paper to the rest of the Seminary. We had to read the Paper User Motivation in Peer-to-peer Systems. It is about Comtella, a P2P … Continue reading
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Why do people participate in Web 2.0/Virtual Communities?
The third task (even though it’s already a while ago, but I have to finish this projectlog soon) was to find out why people do participate in Web 2.0 and Virtual Communities. To find answers to this questions, we did … Continue reading
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What could Students do with their Laptops while Lectures?
The second task was to find out what Students could do with Laptops in their Lectures? To find answers to this question, we used methods from the IDEO Method Cards. The method I used for this task was “Predict Next … Continue reading
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What are Students doing with their Laptop in a Lecture?
As I mentioned in the introduction, this seminary is partly about “How to make use of Laptops in big (around 500 – 1000 people) Lectures?”. As more and more Students have Laptops, more of them are bringing them with them … Continue reading
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WordPress Themes
So as you may have noticed, this blog now has a different theme. Many thanks to Sonja for looking out for nice Themes and choosing it. It’s really great, I even like the picture so much that I will keep … Continue reading
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Projectlog Introduction
So this is the first entry in the Projectlog for the Seminar “Grundlagen Methodischen Arbeitens” which I’m attending at the Technical University Vienna. The topic of the seminar is E-Learning and how to improve it. How to make use of … Continue reading
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time for an update …
I just saw that I’ve not written into this blog for 8 1/2 months, well bloggin regulary is not so easy as it seems. So here is a short update about my life University is going on smoothly and my … Continue reading
Wow!
Hey, I just realized that there are actually sometimes people who read this blog. Hurray! Another Update: Had my english exam last friday, still no information if I passed it or not, but it looked easy. Btw, can someone tell … Continue reading
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Short Update about my “Studienberechtigungsprüfung”
Just a very short update. I did write in my last post that I did not have the written confirmation for the allowance to the “Studienberechtigungsprüfung”. And now finally, I got it on Wednesday. So next step (till the beginning … Continue reading
Life 2.0
Another 4 Months without any Update to this blog … much things happened in the mean time and I hope that I will blog more in the future. After returning from Prague and thinking about what to do in the … Continue reading
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Short Update on Travel Plans
Hi People, I did not travel for a long time (except some smaller visits to Bratislava), so I thought it’s time to go again on some trips. Travel Plan: 07.01.2007 - 10.01.2007 Prague After Prague I will either return home … Continue reading
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Herding sheeps in New Zealand
I would like to, but the title is not what I’m currently doing. But it’s related to something that gave me think again about “the Trip”, about being on the road longer than the 3 weeks I’ve done this summer. … Continue reading
Short Update
Hi People, that is one thing someone should not do. Make a blog, write something in it for some days and then no longer write anything. I’m sorry for not updating my blog soo long, but I definitly want to … Continue reading
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Travel Plan Update
Hello, due to the fact that I wanted to stay one day longer in Gdansk, I’ve changed my travel plan a little bit. Here is the new plan: 14.08. Wroclaw 15.08. – 18.08. Krakow 20.08. – 23.08. Ceske Budejovice 23.08. … Continue reading
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First 5 days in Poland
I’m currently on day 5 of my trip doing a stopover in Sopot, a very nice city very close to Gdansk. One of my reasons to visit Gdansk was to see the baltic sea. Sopot has a very nice & … Continue reading
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Warsaw
I’m now in Warsaw for around 2 days and leaving tomorrow. So what to say about Warsaw? Warsaw is a nice and relaxing city. It was a good choice as the start for my 4 Week long trip. Warsaw has … Continue reading
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The Trip
Hi People, I arrived in Warsaw yesterday and will write something about this nice city later. But now to an interesting question: Ever thought about doing “THE Trip”? So what do I mean with THE Trip. I mean a Trip … Continue reading
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Travel Plan for August 2006
As already written, I will go to a trip through Poland & Czech Republic in August. Here is my Travel Plan, maybe someone will be in the same city at the same time as me.
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First Post
Hi people, this is my first post on this blog. It’s also the first ever, that I’m blogging. So why did I start with blogging? I’m going to do a 4 week trip through Poland & Czech Republic this sumnmer. … Continue reading
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