Week 5 – review

Week 5 has been different and, in fact, doesn’t quite feel finished yet. I have been continuing to monitor responses to my artefact. I’ve been very pleased to see that, on the whole, the piece elicited the types of responses that I’d hoped for and more besides. I’m particularly pleased with the discussions around capitalism and corporatism and their relationship with the technological world, and I’m thinking about whether or not I will continue on this thread through my ethnography. I was also very interested in the notion of ‘validation’ which one of the commentators raised especially as this seems to connect with conversations within the Google + hangout regarding how edcMOOC is disrupting traditional, comforting notions of education. One final point on my artefact I am still surprised at the number of viewings, but I find Thinglink, at the moment, is not the greatest tool for promoting discussion as a respondent has to check back to see if the ‘owner’ has re-commented.

I have not been as generous as other classmates with time and effort spent commenting on others’ tumblogs and this I intend to put right in week 6. I also intend to collate a timeline of digital artefact-type activity and pull that into my blog. And then perhaps week 5 will feel complete.

Finally, I’m always delighted to see creative and funny ideas spreading (PrettyFlyforaWIfi). I always wonder who was the first to devise the idea. And I wonder are they delighted that their creation has spread around the world, or are they a bit miffed that their idea has been appropriated with no mention of its origins?