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From the remixing of the online manifesto; to Bell (p192) describing Jones’ questioning ‘why we continue to hold up face to face interaction…as the best way to relate to one another and as the building block of community’; to happening upon an article which talks about how Apple will probably do away with skeuomorphism after [...]

(Image and thoughts not finished) Thinking about Rheingold’s social petri dish analogy and experimental education – an edcmooc visualisation in a dish.

Trying to prepare myself for the ethnography exercise which will be an entirely new experience for me. Tag cloud is from wikipedia entry for ‘Ethnography‘

Apparently the stories have been circulating for some time about creatively named wifi networks, but I must have missed the memo. So when I saw this whilst standing at the bus stop today it amused me. A bit of googling later and I found that this is a common practice and that there are several [...]

Two of my most dreaded things came to pass last week – (1) tight turnaround and (2) a response based not simply on words. Yikes! Oh, and not to mention the fact that the resulting digital artefact will be available to some 40,000+ MOOCers! But, it’s done now and the cybersky hasn’t fallen in – [...]

My very, very lo-fi representation of the blurring of boundaries between some of the binaries which Merchant (2007) discusses. The birds, bees and butterflies are busy cross-fertilising between notions which seem immutable; often going about their business unnoticed while the tree branches get thicker and more immovable. The fruit of their efforts, however, is starting [...]

Merchant (2007) discusses the practice of tagging within blogs and other fora. He suggests that ‘the collection of information, the sense-making, the organisation of information through categorisation and the trading of detail and knowledge describe some of the essential processes of human intelligence” (p.251). He also links tagging to ‘affinity spaces’, as espoused by Gee, [...]

This has been a quiet week on my tumblog due to various pressures, but also in some way because of the massiveness of the theme of visuality and literacy. Kress (2004) talks of the multiple entry points available within websites; I somehow feel the same about the topic in hand. From the readings I have [...]

This image is a happily coincidental acknowledgement of Footnote 21 in Thomas et.al (2007) and its further link to the theme in “Digitise or Die: a personal reflection’. I would like to add though – that I wouldn’t be too keen on my Kindle ending up in such a state either.

Thomas et. al (2007) explore the concept of transliteracy using a number of phrases which invoke the concept of travel and movement. They talk about ‘crossing divides’ (title); ‘ a going ‘beyond’ or a moving ‘across’ (p.6). I am currently travelling by train down the east coast of England and I’m interested to note how [...]