Digital Artefact: The process

When given the task of making a summary of the edcMooc, I was in a little panic mode because it all seemed too ominous. I have to present a multimodal digital artefact along with it.  Both of these are skills which have gone a little rusty.

So I started by browsing through the discussion forum, and then stumbled on the edcMooc news which contained the blogs from participants.  I soon realised how much talent and skills already being exhibited by the edcMooc community.  I was reflecting on the films they have to watch and comment and the gargantious task of  the Mooc organisers to cater to so many.

Sol Le Witt’s work came to mind.  It was the perfect one to use to display some of the best work that I have seen from the participants.  Then the question of the tool.  There were too many to choose from and I was tempted to use the Prezi but was unsure about the zooming in and out effect.  I clicked on a few and I thought I would give Thinglink a go and see if it does the job for me.

It was easy enough to use and quite perfect for what I need.  I was hoping I could stream in some sound but first it did not permit embedding of sound, but secondly, there was no need for this particular artefact.  I think silence could be more effective, as there was already so much data to see and investigate.

I spent the rest of the week monitoring the various discussion groups, twitter and watching some of the films on edcMooc, while dipping in and out of my own reading on Digital and Design Culture.  I will discuss the reading on another post.  Suffice to note here, that I had not expected to read so much on design on the course!  It seems like my inner desire and childhood dreams of studying design is being realised in EDEC!