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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 The 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 sometimes coffee, tea, and cookies. Wandering through a painting studio always gives me a sense of wonder, like I’m exploring a . . . → Read More: Wondering at The Eastside Culture Crawl 2013 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 Here 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 this post, I’ll try to respond to the propositions it has put before me, and to the methods and patterns . . . → Read More: E-learning and Digital Cultures, Digital Artifact. #edcmooc Some students are now completing the MOOC E-Learning and Digital Cultures. This Prezi gives an interesting overview of some student experiences and observations from this massive MOOC: http://prezi.com/fsfqdiusthcc/sentimental-campus-dublin-february-19/?auth_key=eb36ed77d88e4c2a191d5a7df9d0eba58f701a8c Also, yes, I’m tooting my own horn on this post: one of my illustrations was actually used in this Prezi. It had been my entry into the . . . → Read More: A Summary of Student Experiences from #edcmooc (Prezi style) For an assignment for the MOOC, eLearning and Digital Cultures, I created my first Prezi… It’s my little abstract reaction to the bewilderment of feeling lost inside a 40,000 member Massive Open Online Course. What do you think? Leave me a comment below… #edcmooc I’m currently attending this MOOC: E-learning and Digital Cultures, offered through Coursera. Activity for Week 2 Themes explored this week included technological utopianism and dystopianism, and the idea of technological determinism. I watched these videos: Video: “Day Made of Glass 2″ (Corning) The “Glass as lifestyle” approach is somewhat corporate wishful thinking, IMHO, and . . . → Read More: Week 2: E-learning and Digital Cultures #edcmooc 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? |
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