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André Klein


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    • “Luckily, my wife earns enough”
      Yesterday, I stumbled over an interesting recording from the re:publica 2012 about the changing face of publishing titled: “What happens when authors circumvent publishing houses”. Especially noteworthy I found Leander Wattig‘s introductory talk whose core facts I’d like to summarize … Continue reading → […]
    • Why There Isn’t Any Competition In Self-Publishing
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    • Botanicula: The Return Of Creative Adventure Games
      I grew up with adventure games. Without characters like Zak McKracken, Guybrush Threepwood, Roger Wilco or Dr. Fred, my childhood is hard to imagine. Not only did these characters teach me the first meaningful sentences of English outside of an education … Continue reading → […]
    • Why The “Descriptive Camera” Gives Me The Creeps
      Everyone seems to be talking about the descriptive camera at the moment. If you haven’t heard about it yet, click the link. Basically, it’s a camera connected to a printer. Only, the printer doesn’t output an image but a description of … Continue reading → […]
    • How Ebooks & The Net Bring Us Back To The Middle Ages
      Recently, I’ve been reading the Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, that (in)famous work of Marshall McLuhan, and it struck me that many of his insights relating to print media and reading culture can be applied to what is … Continue reading → […]
    • “Diamond Scrapmining”
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    • The Bermuda Triangle Of Social Network Data Sinks
      As much as I love the Internetz there’s something that really irks me, and no, I don’t mean the time-wasting (isn’t that its true purpose?) but something else entirely. “When you’re not paying for it you’re the product.” Companies like … Continue reading → […]
    • “Noon is neither before or after noon; it is simply noon.”
      At the moment I’m preparing the launch of my first picture book for children. I’m planning to kick it off with a free promo through Amazon. I’ve done it a few times before with other publications, and I like to … Continue reading → […]
    • Ramasser Les Feuilles à la Pelle
      For some reason only yesterday, after almost a decade of work on this domain, I had the idea to install WordPress here. The motive: to collect all the things that I’ve done over the years in some organizable (uncluttered?) way … Continue reading → […]

  • Articles and Posts by André Klein

    Video Lecture Portals – Universities Online

    January 24, 2010

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    Many universities are beginning to offer more and more lecture content on online platforms like YouTube, etc. One of the most promising portals might be the one by Princeton University which serves aggregated audio and video from academic institutions around the world at UChannel. MIT, Harvard, UCLA, Yale, Oxford and many others by now have…

    Video Games and Learning [VIDEO]

    January 23, 2010

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    Today we bring you a pretty funny albeit “on-point” presentation about entertaiment video games vs. educational games, what’s the difference, why the latter often involves so little fun, wants to “club you with the point” and the first might sometimes leave you feeling empty after hours of playing. Also an interesting concept of “Tangential Learning”…

    Mobile Live Language Translater [Gadget]

    January 22, 2010

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    If you are learning Arabic this little application might come in handy. Simply speak into the microphone and the Arabic Language Buddy will print out the translation in Arabic letters and you can even listen to the correct pronounciation. Although it might be awkward to pull out an iphone in compromising situations, and we recommend…

    Is Online Learning Anti-Social?

    January 14, 2010

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    It is no secret that online-learning, elearning, etutoring (whatever the many names for it…) is still viewed highly sceptically by many learners, teachers and public spokespersons. How come? Is it a lack of experience, filled with prejudices or a truly justified concern? First of all, it needs to be said that an accurate answer of…

    Changing the Face of Education

    January 11, 2010

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    How come that when we as teachers sometimes mention the word “education”, eyes go dry, laughter subsides and a general air of boredom enters the room?  It was Einstein who said ‘No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that created it. We need to see the world anew.’ From this quote and from…

    How to use Skype on your iPhone and make Free Calls

    January 10, 2010

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    As seen in our latest post there are really a lot of potentially helpful applications for mobile learning, but most important is maybe the Skype application, allowing you to be in touch with teachers and students in realtime, over wifi or 3G, from wherever you are. This little video quickly shows you how to use…