Stephan Mosel

Falls sich jemand wundert wo Flash Gamez hin ist

2008-09-25T17:28:00.007+02:00

Diese Seite hier ist ja leider verwaist, aber falls sich jemand wundert was mit Flash Gamez los ist:

Dieses wurde eben von unserem Hoster all-inkl.com abgeschaltet. Aus der Begründung:

Hallo Herr Mosel,

soeben mussten wir eine Nicht-Erreichbarkeit des Servers, auf dem sich Ihr Account befindet, in unserem Monitoring feststellen. Eine Prüfung dessen ergab, dass Ihr Account die Überlastung verursachte. Den Großteil der Performance die insgesamt 50 Kunden zu Teil sein sollte, benötigen allein Sie. Momentan ist so die Erreichbarkeit des gesamten Servers und aller sich darauf befindenden Accounts nicht nur gefährdet sondern schlicht nicht mehr gegeben.

Wir mussten daher kurzfristig reagieren und haben Ihren Account flash.plasticthinking.org per CHMOD 700 abgeschalten. Die SUB-Domain ist nicht mehr dadurch erreichbar.

Sehen Sie eine Möglichkeit die Webseite zu optimieren, so dass die Last heruntergeht? Wir selbst sehen, dass Sie sehr viele Besucher bei der Domain haben und damit auch Dateianfragen (Hits), die diesen Monat bei schon 7.948.124 liegen. Im August waren es sogar 8,8 Millionen Hits, welches für einen normalen WebShared Tarif zu viel ist. Ein solches Aufkommen an Besuchern und Hits kann nur ein Leistungsstarker ManagedServer bewältigen.

Dazu kann ich erstmal nur sagen dass ich den Tarif ALL-INKL-PRIVAT PLUS (unlimitierter Traffic!) habe, und dass ich keine Caching-Plugins testen kann ohne Zugriff auf den Webspace zu haben. Zumindest nicht ohne weiteres. Dementsprechendes habe ich eben dem Support geschrieben und nun harren SteBu und ich erstmal der Dinge.

Siehe auch bei SteBu: Flash Gamez down.

Update: all-inkl bietet mir an mich 7 Tage lang auf einen eigenen Server zu legen damit ich sehen kann wie ich das regel. Das ist doch schonmal was.

Update II vom 27.9.: Leider ist der Ausweichserver so schwach auf der Brust, dass uns das auch nicht weiter bringt. Siehe bei SteBu.

Microlearning Conference 2007: Call for Papers

2006-10-10T23:13:00.000+02:00

The Microlearning Conference 2007 will take place on June 21-22, 2007 in Innsbruck, Austria. We invite papers and posters to present new visions and analysis, innovative concepts, projects, and best practice results related to the impact of the emerging new digital micromedia ecology on the acquistion and construction of information and knowledge. [Read more]

elgg

2006-09-20T15:11:00.000+02:00

Oh and did I mention I'm also on elgg.net? I'm just aggregating some of my edu-blogs there, but feel free to add me to your network.

New layout for Microlearning.org

2006-09-20T14:50:00.000+02:00

I made a new layout for Microlearning.org, check it out.

(Is anybody reading this? Please make noise if you do. Otherwise, there's not much to post here. If you speak German, visit my other blogs: PlasticThinking, BildungsBlog, Flash Gamez.)

Microlearning 2006 Conference

2006-06-13T15:57:00.000+02:00

Photos from Microlearning 2006 can be found here at Flickr.
You might also want to do a Technorati search for Microlearning, or check the corresponding del.icio.us-Tag.
If you speak German, read my German blog post, oder listen to the Microlearning Podcast.
Hope to see you there next year!
Tags: Microlearning, Microlearning2006, eLearning, Innsbruck, Austria.

Wikipedia article on Microlearning

2006-05-15T14:18:00.000+02:00

I just started an article on Microlearning in the English language Wikipedia:

Microlearning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thanks go to Theo Hug for revising the article I initially wrote and to Norm Friesen for expression hints.
I am excited to see if the entry is going to make it. Feel free to contribute.

Microlearning blogs at Technorati

2006-05-04T15:20:00.000+02:00

If you happen to blog about Microlearning and have a Technorati account (or don't mind getting one), please claim your blog and tag it with 'microlearning'. Your blog will then be listed in the sidebar for the Microlearning Tag, right there at the left side where it says 'Who's Blogging about Microlearning'. Your blog will also appear in the Blog Finder: Blogs about microlearning and Explore: microlearning. Isn't that neat, or what?
Note that tagging blogs is different from tagging individual blog posts: You can tag your posts anytime, but you need to sign up at Technorati to assign tags to your blog as a whole.

More photos from Innsbruck

2006-05-03T11:18:00.000+02:00

Still not very much time for blogging, but here are some new photos from Innsbruck which I uploaded to Flickr. Currently I'm working on a definition attempt for the term Microlearning. I hope to make a Wikipedia article out of it in a couple of days, so that we can work on it together.

Microlearning 2005 Conference Proceedings

2006-04-26T20:53:00.000+02:00

I already mentioned that in the (German) BildungsBlog, but here's a little extra for my international readership: The proceedings of the Microlearning 2005 conference in Innsbruck are available for download as PDF!

Microlearning: Emerging Concepts, Practices and Technologies after e-Learning. Proceedings of Microlearning 2005.
Theo Hug, Martin Lindner, Peter A. Bruck (ed.). Innsbruck 2006.

Download as PDF (230 pages / 4,7MB).

You will also find my contribution there: 'Self directed learning with personal publishing and microcontent - constructivist approach and insights for institutional implementations'.

Tags: eLearning, Microlearning, Microcontent, Microlearning2005, Innsbruck.

I hardly blog these days

2006-04-26T20:17:00.000+02:00

But I can implement a new design :-)
Like it? It's kinda miminalistic, but I like it much better than the previous one. As usual, it is W3C-compliant, valid XHTML, does not make use of tables, and relies on CSS formatting for layout purposes.

(As always, I am much more likely to post something to my German blog - if I find the time.)

Sign of Life

2006-04-26T18:39:00.000+02:00

Hi there! Some people have been asking me if everything is allright with me, since I haven't been posting here for a pretty long time. Well, what can I say? I'm fine, but it just seems like blogging in english does not really work for me.
Anyhow, here's a little roundup of what's been happening, just in case you're wondering, too.

After having written my diploma thesis, I finally managed to do all the diploma exams at the end of last year, and got my diploma with honors :)
Since the beginning of April I've left the city of Giessen and currently reside in Innsbruck, Austria. I will be working for the eLearning Environments Studio of Researchstudio.at until the end of June, maybe longer. I was already here last year at the Microlearning Conference 2005, and now I am working for them on the didactial research & design of their microlearning product, which goes by the name of Knowledgepulse.

Unfortunately, I do not have internet access in the flat where I am staying, so there won't be much blogging going on in the next couple of months, since I have to stay longer at my workplace to use the internet for private purposes. It's pretty hard not to have internet access at home when you're used to reading, blogging, listening to music, chatting with friends, making calls with skype, watching tv and pretty much everthying else on the internet. I feel kinda disabled. But I do like my new job, so I guess that makes it up.

Oh and by the way, I got a new phone number here coz the roaming charges for my German SIM card are just ridiculous. So I got myself an Austrian SIM card by T-Mobile, the number is +43 676 395-3423. Feel free to call!

Photos from Innsbruck, part 2

2005-07-21T14:45:00.000+02:00

Here are some photos from my second MicroTrip to Innsbruck, Austria.
Tags: Innsbruck.

Interviewed by Handelsblatt

2005-07-21T14:43:00.000+02:00

Michael Smith interviewed me for the Zukunftsatlas Internet in the German Handelsblatt: Wie Social Software das Netz verändert – Eine Usermeinung.
Tags: PlasticThinking, Social Software, Handelsblatt.

Re: Innsbruck

2005-07-13T15:31:00.000+02:00

Not so much time for blogging these days, I have trouble keeping up with my German blogs, not to speak of this one. Anyhow, I'm going to be in Innsbruck again on Thursday night (July 14th) and Friday morning. Anybody up for a beer or a coffee in Innsbruck? I'd be glad to hook up with some people. Give me a call: +49 172 732-1032.
I won't have email access on Thursday and Friday.

Diploma Thesis

2005-07-13T15:25:00.000+02:00

My diploma thesis is online, maybe I should also mention that here? German only:

Mosel, Stephan: Praktiken selbstgesteuerten Lernens anhand der Nutzung von web-basierten Personal-Publishing-Systemen. Unveröffentlichte Diplomarbeit, Uni Gießen 2005.

MIT Weblog Survey

2005-06-29T12:55:00.000+02:00

http://blogsurvey.media.mit.edu

Tags: MIT, Survey, Blogging

Tagging Microlearning 2005 and BlogWalk 9.0

2005-06-27T14:06:00.000+02:00

Martin Lindner asked me to summarize our idea how to tag our content about Microlearning 2005 and BlogWalk 9.0, so that we can stay in touch, develop new ideas and maintain a web-based discourse on the topics.

At the end of BlogWalk 9.0, we came to the conclusion that it would make sense to tag photos, postings, links and so on with both "Microlearning" and "Microlearning2005", or "Blogwalk" and "Blogwalk9", respectively. This enables people to choose if they want to see all Blogwalk photos, or just photos from Blogwalk 9.0.

You can tag your photos with Flickr, Buzznet or 23people, for example.

It is also possible to tag any blog post, regardless of the blogging system, if your blog gets indexed by Technorati. Just use Technorati Tags to tag your posts. This is how it is done: At the end of your blog posting, just insert the following code for any tag you'd like to include: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/YourTagHere" rel="tag">YourTagHere</a>.

So, if you'd want to tag your posts with "Microlearning", "Microlearning2005", "BlogWalk", and "Blogwalk9" like I am doing now, you would use

<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Microlearning" rel="tag">Microlearning</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Microlearning2005" rel="tag">Microlearning2005</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/BlogWalk" rel="tag">BlogWalk</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Blogwalk9" rel="tag">Blogwalk9</a>

You can also use a bookmarklet for tagging your posts, so you don't have to enter all that code. Just drag & drop this bookmarklet to your browser and click it in order to enter your tags: Technorati Tags Bookmarklet. Seperate different tags with spaces.

Each of Technorati's Tag Pages also has an RSS feed which is publicly available and contains all the posts. Unfortunately, you have to subscribe to the del.icio.us and flickr tag feeds seperately, because the Technorati feeds only show weblog postings.

You can also generate RSS feeds with keywords instead of tags. This means that you will also find entries which use the term "microlearning" in the posting, for example, even if they are not tagged with that term. Just like a technorati search. In order to do this, you'd have to get an account at Technorati and add these terms to your watchlist, and you'll get an RSS feed then. I already did this for the terms "Microlearning" (RSS) and "BlogWalk" (RSS), so you can just use these liberated feeds without having to register.

Tags: Microlearning, Microlearning2005, BlogWalk, BlogWalk9, Tagging.

Photos from Microlearning 2005 and BlogWalk 9

2005-06-27T13:55:00.000+02:00

I just uploaded my photos from Microlearning 2005 and BlogWalk 9.0 into a Flickr photo set: Innsbruck 2005.

Tags: Microlearning, Microlearning2005, BlogWalk, BlogWalk9, Innsbruck, Austria.

Back from Innsbruck

2005-06-27T11:17:00.000+02:00

I just came back from Microlearning 2005 and BlogWalk 9.0 in Innsbruck last night, where I stayed from Wednesday until Sunday. It was great to be there, and I hope to meet a lot of people again next year at Microlearning 2006! I also hope to collaborate with Research Studios Austria in the future, in some way or the other. They really are onto something.

Thanks to Martin Lindner, Theo Hug and Peter Bruck for asking me to come! It was great to meet Sebastian Fiedler and Chris Langreiter again, and I also got to know Michael Schuster (twoday.net), Roger Fischer (kaywa.ch), Seb Paquet, Bryan Alexander, Arnaud Leene, Norm Friesen, Hagen Graf, Andrea Handl, Renate Millebner, Patricia Köll, Wolf Hilzensauer, Gernot Tscherteu, Junichi Azuma, Bruno Haid and many others.

I found both the discussions and presentations on MicroContent and MicroLearning as well as the social networking very rewarding, and hope that we will not stop here but transform and establish this discourse on the web. I will write more about this later, I just need some time to let things settle a bit.

Tags: Microlearning, Microlearning2005, BlogWalk, BlogWalk9.

My paper for Microlearning 2005

2005-06-21T14:34:00.000+02:00

Here is a draft of my paper for the Microlearning 2005 conference: Self directed learning with personal publishing and microcontent - constructivist approach and insights for institutional implementations (PDF). Your feedback is very welcome, please let me know what you think! (Abstract)

Tags: Microlearning, Microcontent, Constructivism

'MicroContent is everywhere (v0.2)'

2005-06-21T13:47:00.000+02:00

Arnaud Leene published the second version of his paper for Microlearning 2005: MicroContent is everywhere (v0.2) [PDF]. (Here's my comment on the first one).

Tags: MicroContent, Microlearning

'Microcontent, Web 2.0, and the Knowledge Home'

2005-06-21T12:59:00.000+02:00

Sébastien Paquet (National Research Council Canada) and Sebastian Fiedler (University of Augsburg) published their text for Microlearning 2005:

Abstract
The Web is rapidly evolving towards a much more dynamic and broadly participative medium. In the Web 2.0, everyone can, and many people indeed do, become creators. Content from a rapidly widening array of sources becomes available as digital flows of reusable/remixable objects. In this context, learners are empowered to create personal learning environments. This contribution seeks to illustrate through concrete examples how this is happening, and tease out salient implications of this transition: learning becomes networked and personalized; valuable learning resources become increasingly easy to find; and collaborative, constructivist learning is enabled.

Conference program for Microlearning 2005

2005-06-18T10:29:00.000+02:00

Martin Lindner just emailed me the preliminary conference program (PDF) for the Microlearning 2005 conference, just in case you are interested. I'll be speaking on friday morning (11.00-12.30), I guess. I might upload a draft of my paper soon (abstract).

Tags: Microlearning

BlogWalk 9.0 in Innsbruck on June 25th, 2005

2005-06-13T12:04:00.000+02:00

BlogWalk 9.0 will take place in Innsbruck on June 25th, 2005 (the day after Microlearning 2005).

BlogWalk is a series of face-to-face meetings aimed to bring together weblog researchers and practitioners for in-depth conversations about their work, possible trends, and visions. The format we strive for is an intellectual Salon where minds can meet and inspire each other in direct conversation.

About BlogWalk - BlogWalk 9 Wiki Page

See also my postings on BlogWalk 2.0: 'The role of personal Webpublishing for self-organized and informal learning', BlogWalk 2, Reflections.

Tags: BlogWalk, Microlearning, Innsbruck