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I’m enjoying the MOOC “The Future of Storytelling” (#StoryMOOC). This little video is my response to the Creative Task for Chapter 4 (“Inspirational Week”) The proposition for the task was this: Take a camera, be it you mobile phone, a webcam… Introduce yourself to the other StoryMOOCers, telling us who you are where you are . . . → Read More: #StoryMOOC : My Creative Task for Chapter 4 I’m enrolled in the MOOC “The Future of StoryTelling” (#StoryMOOC, iVersity.com). This Massive Open Online Course provides a foundation in the principles of the formats and methods of fictional storytelling. The reasons this online course attracted me are: The topic interests me: I’m beginning to write again, and I want to learn more… The method . . . → Read More: The Future of StoryTelling #StoryMOOC This is like an inventory of things I do to express myself. I don’t know why I nee to do a catalogue, but it feels right – like emptying a closet before you reorganize it. Writing I post musingsand observations to my blog. Theseoften are like a journal of reflections, or some passing whim or . . . → Read More: Reporting Life: Creating blog musings, scribbles and other artifacts… Yeah – I’m going through a DEVO phase again. I listen to their music all the time. Their voices and sounds are familiar, like visiting an old neighbourhood. I get emails from Club Devo,and see snippets of mutated art from Mark M., photos from their irreverent, young new wave days, and so many artifacts of . . . → Read More: DEVOlving: musings on art, music, and creative synthesis… Week 4 of the MOOC E-Learning + Digital Cultures explores the theme of “Redefining the Human”. I think the over-arching message this week is that our concept of humanity has become a relative and subjective thing. These videos explore that idea in different ways and different genres. Robbie – A Short Film By Neil . . . → Read More: E-learning and Digital Cultures, Week 4: Redefining the Human #edcmooc The MOOC I’m taking, E-Learning + Digital Cultures, continues to unfold in front of me, gradually showing me new perspectives and more detail. But it’s not for the impatient… For me, being in a MOOC has felt like being seated inside a vast, unlit stadium where you can hear other attendees whispering and you can . . . → Read More: The Long Hello – Meditating on #edcmooc, Gardner Campbell, and eLearning Last year, I read an astute saying that said “If you didn’t pay to use a service, then you are the product being sold”. I feel like that kind of “buyer beware” maxim could be applied to ease-of-use in information technologies too. Here’s what I mean… If a technology tool or platform is popular, we . . . → Read More: Improving hardware and software usability, but for whom? This site is an experiment. It’s my attempt to document the wide array of personal interests, curiosities, and self-directed learning efforts which continually seem to occupy my off-hours. My interests tend to vary – I tend to hop around a lot conceptually, in terms of what motivates or excites me. I go through phases; minor . . . → Read More: I am a perpetual student. All through my post-secondary education (which was four frantic, sleep-deprived, incredible years at art college), I never knew exactly what I wanted to do in art and design. Now, 21 years after graduating from the ECCAD four year program and receiving my diploma in fine arts, I look at the preponderance of digital media and information systems in the world around me, and I’m amazed at how much that culture and technology have converged, and have even seemed to become practically inseparable. . . . → Read More: Reflections on a multimedia career… |
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