This paper presents an approach of dealing with the problem of digitally mediating learning in the temporary organization of a music festival. In pursuing the track of stories as central for learning in a workplace context, the paper discusses the role of a video storytelling artefact as mediating this type of learning. The artefact, named The Well, makes it possible for festival workers to rec...

In 2005, a new production of Jane Harrison's Stolen will be presented at the Sydney Theatre Company, seven years after its premiere in a co-production by Ilbijerri and Playbox Theatre companies in 1998 at the Melbourne International Festival for the Arts. The first draft of the play was presented by Ilbijerri at the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 1993, and already, it signalled a new mode of stor...

In this paper we report our experiences with an exploratory prototype festival-wide social network applying unique 2D barcodes on wristbands and mobile phones to uniquely identify the festival participants. Experiments were carried out at the CO2PENHAGEN music festival in Denmark. We describe a set of social network applications involving participant profiles, a microblog and images shared on s...

This paper reports on the authors’ experiences with an exploratory prototype festival-wide social network. Unique 2D barcodes were applied to wristbands and mobile phones to uniquely identify the festival participants at the CO2PENHAGEN music festival in Denmark. The authors describe experiences from initial use of a set of social network applications involving participant profiles, a microblog...

Festival, a speech synthesis system developed by the University of Edinburgh, provides the framework for converting natural language into text-tospeech rules. Hawaiian language, with only 8 consonants and five vowels, can be implemented on the Festival system. However, Hawaiian’s special characters, the kahako and the okina, need special consideration which is not available in the Festival syst...

The Department of Music at Rhodes University inaugurated the International Spring Music Festival in 2009. One of the central educational goals of this festival is to provide a platform for student performers to interact with local and international music professionals and to exchange knowaledge about performance practice through making music together. The shortage of informal venues for public ...

This study addresses the impact of 2 types of written corrective feedback (WCF) on the acquisition of the third person singular -s in English. The study followed a quasi-experimental design: 2 experimental groups and 1 control group that included 57 preservice teachers from a Chilean university. The experimental groups underwent a treatment based on the provision of direct metalinguistic feedba...

This special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae contains a selection of papers initially presented at the 6th International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKT’11) held during October 8-11, 2011 in Banff, Canada. RSKT is an international scientific conference series that has been held every year since 2006. The conferences serve as a major forum that brings researchers and ind...