So the rollercoaster is gaining momentum…This week it has been a case of holding onto the rails of this fast moving vehicle we call EDC. New topics and subjects of interest present themselves with every turn and I have had to find a balance between an exploration of these capillary routes and staying on the main line. Oftentimes the side routes won out…though reassuringly they always seemed to loop back at some point to the central trajectory.
This week my posts have centred on deciphering how these issues and concepts fit in with one another. Perhaps the most interesting [personal] result of this week’s interactions has been a perspective shift. My understanding of the relationship between the book [medium] and the reading/writing [mode] has altered, has been placed within the landscape of the social, economic and the cultural. The impact of multimodality on media provides an open, limitless platform of which the reader / writer may avail.
The concept of convergence, covered by both Kruss (2005) and Thomas (2007) helped to locate my understanding of transliteracy in contexts that I could relate to.
This week also introduced the MOOC. This is all new to me but very exciting.
Recent Comments