I guess I should have guessed that I'd stumble upon some University using the mobile phone in an ochetra after posting about the Leaf Trombone yesterday. The video below shows a Stanford's experimental MoPho group.
April 2009 Archives
This morning I came across the video below demonstrating a new iPhone application, the Trombone Leaf from Smule. I love videos that use only one or two people doing different parts of a song and then mash it all together. At any rate, I love the video but what I am wondering after meeting the faculty from our Guitar Hero/Music 112 project is if we could convince some students to make some of these with the help of Digital Commons? Might be really fun and cool to pull off.
Today is the day we've been working towards for the last 12 months or so -- the 2009 TLT Symposium. Nothing earth shattering in this post, just taking a moment to thank everyone who put o much work into planning and delivering an amazing program. Last night I was lucky enough to have dinner with both danah boyd and David Wiley and I can tell you it was fun and extremely interesting. We are going to be in for quite the event.
All day yesterday I was able to hang out with David and I can say he is a smart and engaging guy -- our afternoon session with a group of PSU faculty was just first rate. We spent an hour and a half having one of the best conversations I've heard at Penn State. I really can't wait to hear him give his talk this morning and I am betting that danah lights up the room at the lunch hour! More later.
Here is a crazy idea, but I wonder what it would look like if we allowed others to add new tags to our entries? If you use Flickr, you might have seen this in action. I think it only works if you are mutual friends with someone, but if I am browsing a contacts page I can simply add new tags to those photos to help with the overall discoverability of them.
Could we do that with our own Blogs at PSU? It would be a bit of a game changer for the PSU Voices concept. Imagine that I come across a post that really should be contributed into a Voices page for psuets... instead of me reporting it and using that tag, I could just add that tag to the original post. Interesting? Make any sense?
In lots of ways, by blogging in the open we are already asking people to learn from our work and reuse that knowledge elsewhere.
