I have spent the week in a remote village in Kenya with no Internet access, no phone and very little electricity. When I arrived I assumed that in places where there was electricity I would be able to access the Internet using the Dongle I bought in Nairobi as I had read that Africa had [...]
Week 4 summary – Sound track to the Mooc
This weeks blog has focused mainly on the film festival and reactions to the Mooc – my own and others. The films helped revisit the ideas of utopia and dystopian societies, and linked with Bell’s (2001) idea of dronoeconomics, the suffering of the people building the internet and the capitalist control from the government figures [...]
Visual Artefact on the MOOC
Having watched the video’s depicting the future both utopian and dystopian perspectives. One thing I noted was the soundtracks were all pretty epic, creating a further level to the imagery of the dark apocalyptic times. I was struggling to think of how to describe what would make a perfect sound track to the future. perhaps [...]
Dronoeconomics
From a personal point of view I focused on the teaching aspects of two films on the Edcmooc I get this overwhelming feeling whilst watching these video’s of “when would I have time to prepare all that” Made me think of the reading by Bell (2001) who described the Internet as a working zone – [...]
#EdcMooc
Some thoughts on what I see on twitter about the edcmooc Success on Mooc’s Twitter / Search – #edcmooc. Written and Narrated by Dave Cormier Video by Neal Gillis Wow this is huge https://moocnook.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/there-are-40000-people-in-my-class-my-strategy-to-avoid-becoming-overwhelmed/ Sarah Siegel @SarahSiegel #edcmooc – Cool that as of 31 Jan., ~41% of 41622 enrollees were active (http://bit.ly/12fEs4Z ). Wonder how [...]
The Internet map
Thank you very much Giraf87 for this link The Internet map. This multi-modal representation of the Internet got me thinking about Entry points and how people get to where they want to be on the Internet.This map shows the different sites visited on the internet. I was very surprised to see that although Google is [...]
Future of digital education
“the current and future state of digital education” Removal of discrete ICT lesson at sons First school – I hate this but I suppose it links to the idea that IT is in everything we do – a medium or transliteracy (Kress 2005 Thomas et al 2007) The method of access to information to create [...]
Week 3 summary – Multi-modal learning
My Blog this week focused on the ideas of Kress 2005 and the notion of order and entry points and how this has changed with the introduction of multi-modal technology. Although I am comfortable with multi-modality, the change to the notion of order made me feel anxious as I was unsure of which Entry point [...]
Notion of order
When I started the MScEL I found I was confronted by various areas and log ins to access the material, with a variety of entry points. After a time I began to know which was the best point of access for the material I needed – I learned the route to the information I needed [...]
Representation
Culture is represented in many formats, and these formats have changed over time but still remian essentially a imitation or replication of an original idea. Kress & van Leeuwen, (1996) a) that communication is always and inevitably multimodal; and (b) that each of the modes available for representation in a culture provides specific potentials and [...]
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