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Re: Learn Toki Pona to Understand the Basics of Language Learning

jansegers — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 09:21:20 -0000

There is a Russian guy who claims that Toki Pona learnt him which words to study first when learning French. https://www.le-francais.ru/reussites/toki-pona/

Re: Nouvelle orthographe - Notes de PiT

jansegers — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 12:05:19 -0000

attention, sûr (= certain) a maintenu son accent circonflexe au masculin singulier (<> sur préposition)

il fallait donc écrire: dès que je ne suis pas *sûr* de l'orthographe d'un mot
n'importe dans quelle orthographe (traditionnelle ou nouvelle, c'est-à-dire rectifiée).

Re: Feedback - Conint

jansegers — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 14:13:45 -0000

Having problems with French accents in the automatic link resolution
http://www.lesinrocks.com/2...

métier is deformed in the title

Re: Lists are the new search — Benedict Evans

jansegers — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 12:19:33 -0000

I believe "constraint" was the success formula of the 140 character tweets (and still is), and is the success of "the pick of the day" This.cm service (on which I found a link back here thanks to Andrew Golis.)

I believe that the endorphins released by a happy find or serendipity, or even coincidence is the reason why recycling shops are now trendy in Belgium : you just don't know what you're going to find and if your expectations are high to begin with, you sometimes strumble upon the most amazing things.

There is also something mysterious about lists: they can't be exhaustive and as soon as you make a list of websites or webservices, you can be quite certain at least one of the mentioned links will be out of service in a month after you've made up the list.

List are great because of the fact they almost always give you at least one surprise due to the idiosyncracy of their creator marking her/his individuality.

Re: Pres/CEO Society of Physician Entrepreneurs(SoPE) Arlen Meyers, MD,MBA answers Are MOOCs effective? (3 minutes) - VIDOYEN

jansegers — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 12:32:29 -0000

I have to notice that these are not three seperate kinds of people, but three roles you can play once you're participating on a MOOC. I've done some MOOCs by now, and my activity depends highly on the subject matter. But also on the understandibility of the English of the educator (German MOOC in English aren't necessary accent free, to say the least, actually they can be an apt illustration of Globish).

There is one factor that plays also an important role: having to time to complete to first two or three lectures, because one doesn't always starts when the damn MOOC starts; even getting in the next time around isn't easy [I really have to many email addresses :-) ]. This plays when you really want to do a MOOC to have an attestation for it, because not being able to complete the assessments is then a killer.

Besides, being late makes it also quite difficult to participate in the ongoing debates, like your comments won't probably be read, etc.

Re: Why Won’t Anyone Learn My Name?

jansegers — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:52:26 -0000

There are some five sites about the pronunciation of surnames; but none of them have a pronunciation of Scaachi (nor Jansegers) on file. This is not only a problem for current names; it's very hard to find any indication about authors' names as well... Maybe it's time for one of the family name heritage sites to integrate audio material about there last names... just a thought...

Re: Why Won’t Anyone Learn My Name?

jansegers — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 11:37:56 -0000

Could you provide an audio file of the correct pronunciation of your name ? My surname is Jansegers, which is a Flemish(/Dutch) name, but I accept a nearby French and English pronunciation for it as well, chosing myself amongst the best approximations. Same goes for my Christian name Pieter.

As a teacher, I'm afraid that the increased use of the first names for naming student has been based on the fact that the last names are getting more and more an international representative repertoire. It already a kind of luck people do use Latin characters for noting them down.

Curiosity about the origins of a last name isn't bad as such. Many of them have some elements of meaning to them. As a linguist, I'm always curious about names.

Re: The Cathedral of Computation

jansegers — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 11:51:37 -0000

Lim Torpy : you might be quite right, and the result won't be predictable at all. Replication is at the heart of everything that qualifies as alive and adaptation is the second criterium...

Re: Is the golden age of Twitter over? Why nobody retweets anymore

jansegers — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:25:35 -0000

There are also two other factors at play here: first, you now have lists where you can categorize people as an "ensemble" (or just follow a listing created and curated by someone else) and then there is that terrible 2000 Twitter following limitation [ok, it's always your number of followers +200, but that 200 is a sharp limitation on growth anyway]

Many people I know have at least two Twitter accounts, a public and a private one. Plus due to the following limit, some account specialisation accounts for specific purposes [my @jnsgrs started for MOOC purposes, my @pjansegers for my Dutch language postings, etc.]

I'm wondering just how many accounts are really from different users :-)

Re: Twitter User Growth Slows as Mobile Chat Competitors Gain Steam

jansegers — Tue, 06 May 2014 09:18:55 -0000

In my humble opinion, the biggest problem Twitter has is the near impossibility to register a meaningfull username. Most people I know from Twitter have at least two account: one public, one private. Some have up to 10 accounts...

It might be wise to offer an account fusing option to liberate some of these, but the problem of the 2000 following limit that has been partially responsible for creating this mess is still in place...

Re: Infographie - RoboType | | Real Humans - 100% Humain | Cinéma | fr - ARTE

jansegers — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 08:19:36 -0000

Un petit oubli ? le robot hospitalier Zora - http://www.globaltimes.cn/c...

Re: Feminist professors create an alternative to MOOCs

jansegers — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 08:24:48 -0000

DOCC, distributed open collaborative course, seems to me the re-initialization of the original MOOCs back in 2008

MOOCs from 2012 aren't really "open" anymore, you can't remix their content because you can only use it for personal use.

Furthermore, the initial MOOCs of 2008 were not bound on one platform, but they used multiple diffusion channels.

This sounds like DOCC, isn't it?

see

When is a MOOC not a MOOC? | June 2013 - http://lg.dlivingstone.com/...

The MOOC bubble and the attack on public education | Aaron Bady, May 2013
- http://www.academicmatters....

The MOOC 'Revolution' May Not Be as Disruptive as Some Had Imagined
| Steve Kolowich, August 2013 - http://chronicle.com/articl...

Re: What Kids Learn From Making Coding Mistakes

jansegers — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:16:55 -0000

Absolutely right. Making mistake and experiencing that you can learn from them is quintessential in life !

Re: What Can Kids Learn From Using Online Tools?

jansegers — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:01:01 -0000

Could we have some concrete examples of online available tools in this category ?

Re: Take a scroll down Twitter memory lane

jansegers — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:11:38 -0000

It seems Twitter has put down the possibility to consult the public timeline... a real pitty !

Re: Social media in Belgium: a quick snapshot of their relative audience size

jansegers — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 09:07:09 -0000

Interesting stats, but I'm curious why http://vimeo.com is missing from this list...

Re: Google to Kill Knol, Friend Connect, Wave, Gears and More

jansegers — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:20:03 -0000

Thanks for the warning ! Google Wave and Google Knol will be missed

Re: Is Facebook Losing its Coveted Demographic?

jansegers — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:30:21 -0000

it's worth noticing that on Ning and on Yonkly, you only need one 'personality', but you can connect to quite different networks...

Pieter Jansegers

http://microblogs.ning.com
http://frenchteachers.ning.com
http://webosophy.ning.com

Re: Twitter Doesn’t Create Influence, it Reveals it

jansegers — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:03:35 -0000

It's doing both... but yes, essentially it's the XXI century's Who's Who - http://www.floort.com/show/5664/Twitter-is-the-Whos-Who-of-the-XXIth-Century

Why twitter is such a great success... http://jansegers.tumblr.com...

Re: Google Wave Adds “Follow” Feature

jansegers — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:45:24 -0000

I'm enjoying Wave, but I'm still struggling to embed a Wave on a Ning platform...

Re: Why the mainstream media is dying

jansegers — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:34:55 -0000

Interesting comparison. And also on quite interesting subject matter. Zynga, Facebook and Google are offering us ***free*** games, networking and search/email/blog/...

But ***free*** comes at a price, especially your key demographics and your likes/dislikes are quite usefull to several third parties.

I don't have anything against them selling these off, if you really are informed about it, that's just in the deal; the problem comes that very few people do really read the TOS and Privacy agreements and I can't remember that I even saw them before playing Farmville, I should sign up ones more to control that...

I never buy something online and the only internet related cost I'm willing to pay is that of my access to the internet. That's it.

Why ? because it is quite possible to offer all the other services for almost free, some services do even pay you for doing blogarticles, etc. - I don't believe in that model, BTW, so I never go there neither.

Free services are IMO the only real affordable way for using internet as an individual, that's why I promote them by using them. Ofcourse, it means that others get to know me and about me quite a lot...

I don't know anyone using a search engine he or she's paying for to use in order to consult the internet... nontheless search engines learn a real great deal about us...

It's important though to inform people about the dangers they're running and therefore the blogarticles quoted are of great importance.

It's a pitty indeed that mean stream media aren't more at their guards when coming to tech issues...

Re: Google Wave Federation Update

jansegers — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:23:30 -0000

Nice, I'm trying to get on a Federated Wave via Pygowave.net, but so far, it didn't really work out...

Re: The Three Billion Dollar Cleaning Man

jansegers — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:32:16 -0000

The genuine kindness of a cleaning man can indeed make all the difference of the world...

It makes me thing about the fact that many people use one single dish for making a global judgement on a restaurant, the neatness of the toilets for a bar, etc.

And it make me think that we all should always try to treat people as individuals, not just 'personel', 'clients', 'users', etc. no individuals, this is human beings like ourselves.

Pieter Jansegers
http://webosophy.ning.com

Re: louisgray.com: The Blog's Place In A World of Microblogging: Not Dead Yet!

jansegers — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:48:06 -0000

Quite right... as I just some time ago explained in a reaction to To blog or microblog?
http://edtechkit.blogspot.com/2009/10/to-blog-o...

Re: The Point You’re Missing About Google Wave

jansegers — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:02:32 -0000

Interesting article. I would like invite so I can judge for myself...

please gmail jansegers

http://twitter.com/jansegers

I can't wait to use Twave... Twitter being almost the only application the Google guys have built in themselves - ignoring the existence of Jaiku ...