Week five summary

After an intense week of creation of the edcMooc response, followed by close monitoring of Twitter post, it was time to take stock of the course so far.

I wanted to get to grips with Rose’s article on Researching visual materials and  other reading materials, so I could have a framework for critique of the artefacts created by all in the course.

I also experimented with other tools such as Prezi and Voicethread, and review Pinterest.  I made a response to Amy’s work by creating a voicethread visual and audio artefact.  And I  tried the same with Rose’s article.  I created a Prezi presentation of the automobile culture, with the visuals I have collected from my visit to the Autoworld museum in Brussels. It made me think of how I could define eLearning and digital culture, and consider the differences between the two technologies.

I revisited my coursemate’s EDCMooc response and these are some thoughts reviewing the tools:

a) Phil’s multilayering, reflects the adobe tools.

b) Amy brings home the fact that one can’t quite escape the use of text.  However, manipulating font sizes, and breaking them up in short phrases  is effective.

c) Steph’s thinglink presentation, as she pointed out, it is not a platform that invites discussion as much as we would have like it to be.  The choice of image, and decision on what is linked is critical.

d) Candance made effective use of Prezi,  introducing the brilliance of glass, and surprisingly the sound of glass too.

e) Nikki’s glogster: the title, the image of the frame reminds me of Roses frame for cultural thought, in this case of surveillance.

f) Anabel made good use of the  culmination of nominated songs, and the continued invite to add to the artefact.

g) Gina’s Pinterest board has generated a lot of discussion.  Her response to each comment is key to building up communities based on the visuals on the board.

Reference:

Rose, Gillian (2007) Researching visual materials: towards a critical visual methodology, chapter 1 of Visual methodologies: an introduction to the interpretation of visual materials. London: Sage. pp.1-27