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: 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: 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: 2minutesMOOCs and UBC: Top 12 things you need to know now… In September 2012, UBC entered into an agreement with Coursera to deliver online web-based free courses as part of MOOCs. UBC has four...
Reading Time: 3minutesThe 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...
Reading Time: 2minutesI’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...
Reading Time: 2minutesI’m currently attending this MOOC: E-learning and Digital Cultures, offered through Coursera. Activity for Week 1 Themes explored this week included technological utopianism and dystopianism, and the idea of technological determinism. I watched these...
Reading Time: 3minutesLast 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...
Reading Time: 2minutesToday, I enjoyed a visit and stimulating discussion with one of my earliest art school teachers, John Wertschek, currently an Associate Professor at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver. I suppose...
Reading Time: < 1minuteI first read this piece from designer Bruce Mau about a dozen years ago. It’s still good to read these words from time to time, and take them as a personal challenge… Incomplete Manifesto...
