Reading Time: < 1minuteI’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,...
Reading Time: < 1minuteThe Eastside Culture Crawl is East Vancouver’s own open studio tour. I don’t go every year, but have gone for many years. It feels good to wander through studio space, smelling paint, sawdust, and...
Reading Time: 2minutesI’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...
Reading Time: 3minutesBack in the late 80s and early 90s, there was a term called “The Computer Widow”. This referred to the wives who hardly ever saw their computer-obsessed husbands, except from the back. It’s a...
Reading Time: 2minutesThis 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...
Reading Time: 2minutesYeah – 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...
Reading Time: 3minutesThis post is the first in a new series of assignments for a free online course. This open course is called Why Openness in Education. The first assignment given in this course proposed: “Think...
Reading Time: 2minutesIn Week 4 of the MOOC E-Learning + Digital Cultures, one of the “Perspectives on Education” articles asks the question “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”. I must admit that I’ve sometimes asked myself a...
Reading Time: 5minutesWeek 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...
Reading Time: 5minutesHere is my “Digital Artifact” for the MOOC E-Learning + Digital Cultures. This blog post and the embedded video, form my Digital Artifact , my personal response, to the MOOC “eLearning and Digital Cultures”. In...