I was reading the current issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, and read an interesting article on lifelogging, which is "continually recording images from their vacations, conversations from business meetings, and even intimate confessions to friends." Strange as this sounds, it involves wearing a camera around our necks or a recorder, and recording everything which is done.
According to one of the researchers,
"I fully believe that we will all be wearing this stuff all the time," said Mark T. Bolas, a visiting associate professor in the film school at the University of Southern California, as he hung a digital voice recorder around his neck when we met a few months ago. "The day before you die, your kids are going to look at you, when everybody else is doing this, and say, You mean you didn't record when you were growing up? You're just going to die and all of this is going to go away?"
Sounds interesting, but somewhat unrealistic. Do I really want to sift through every conversation I had at work yesterday? How about the sound of the subway last week? Bathroom sounds? Arguments? Snorring? CLient meetings (yeah, sure they would give permission!). Why would anybody want to record all that? How would it be tagged to find any of it and make use of it? I don't even tag my own blog, much less look at pictures from five years ago or lecture notes from last my college days. There may in fact be some use or functionality with it, but I am not yet convinced.
Well, our whirlwind of a week with the Online Connectivity Conference has now ended, and while I have been getting at least 100 emails extra each day, I will miss the creative juices that have been flowing. I will need to spend some time catching up with some of the posts I have wanted to add, so hope the Moodle server remains open for our comments.
I preliminary finding I had from reading and interacting with my colleagues, there was a great amount of excitement with Second Life, and while the conference was primarily around a theoretical foundation, it is interesting how the theory has been brought, almost seamlessly, into practice. This is a recurring theme in my own research (cf., my upcoming paper presentation at AHRD in March). Nice to see that gap being briedged here.
For all practical purposes, I now have two things to consider–the theoretical foundations of Connnectivism as well as how many see it coming into play in Second Life.
