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Communities of Practice: intersections between learning, fan-fiction and the institution
Imported from Menticulture
Yesterday I was in two unrelated seminars which struck me as having interesting resonances with each other. The first was a Learning & Teaching seminar I led about Communities of Practice and the challenges of pursuing a 'participatory pedagogy' in the constraints of an institution. The second was led by Richard Berger and Bronwen Thomas in the Narratives Research Group, who both talked about fan fiction and slash fic.
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- From Andragogy to Heutagogy
heutagogy is appropriate to the needs of learners in the twenty-first century, particularly in the development of individual capability
Tags: education learning pedagogy self-directed-study andragogy heutagogy
- A few thoughts on copyright and culture - Ars Technica
Contemporary film, fiction, and music each employ their own sophisticated grammar, their own dense web of allusions, such that they're often not even fully intelligible unless you've been exposed to the prerequisite "texts."
Tags: copyright culture intertextuality
- Networked_Performance - Live Stage: Contemporary Fl^aneurie [Rochester, MI]
How does fl^anerie in art relate to GPS systems, virtual reality, surveillance, mapping, MMPORGs, and social networking
Tags: spatiality space place urban gps flaneur cities
On blogging
Imported from Menticulture
I was recently invited to say a few brief words about the value of blogging. The event was a conference of uni staff who are taking part in a 'research-enhancement' programme of activities with a view to developing their research careers.
Serendipity
Imported from Menticulture
There are often serendipities (though I'm talking about reading theoretical works here, so when I write 'serendipity' you may read 'pain in the arse') in the way I discover new avenues of critical thought to pursue, though now I think about it, the serendipity probably resides in my limited ability to discern and decipher connections rather than the rarity, inscrutability - or even coincidence - of the connections themselves. Perhaps I'm like a half-wit, or at least the opposite of a Quasimodo, who given any chance sees the rightness and absolute simplicity of analogies and apposite moments as though they were the salty truth of the world. I, on the contrary, make hard work where there might be restful ease.
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- Why Bloggers Blog | Britannica Blog
why Britannica and Tom McMahon (whoever the fuck he is) are stupid
Tags: blogging discourse snark
- Project Euler
"Project Euler exists to encourage, challenge, and develop the skills and enjoyment of anyone with an interest in the fascinating world of mathematics."
Tags: programming science learning pedagogy maths resource
- Grand Text Auto >> Beyond the Screen, in Siegen
is it that largely unconstrained combinatorics are something that only a few talented writers can pull off
Tags: literature authorship e-literature machine-literature
- Lies, Damned Lies and Pedagogy
new media literacy: "myth busting, rather than myth making, is the better way to teach critical awareness"
Tags: history education truth pedagogy trust social-media hoax
- Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Choose your own Youtube: The Time Machine
"The Time Machine" is a branching narrative, a la Choose Your Own Adventure, but based in YouTube. It's a series of short videos, each ending with a question. Each answer links to a different clip
Tags: interactive narrative fiction
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- Augmented Learning - The MIT Press
slight smack of techno-utopianism: "a comprehensive and clear view of what games and learning actually looks like"
Tags: learning pedagogy game education
- Grandmaster Flashed: Kasparov Attacked by Flying Penis-Copter | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
I want a flying penis machine
Tags: media-hack activism humour penis-copter
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- Kbeech - Adult Videos
lol: "The U.S.S. Intercourse encounters a giant vagina in outer space and gets sucked into it's massive black hole"
Tags: porn sci-fi lol
- Does your brain have a mind of its own? - Los Angeles Times
lol: "How can one explain, for example, why a busy undergraduate would spend four weeks playing "Halo 3" rather than studying for his exams?"
Tags: psychology temptation
- The age of educational romanticism by Charles Murray - The New Criterion
"the quality of schools explains almost nothing about differences in academic achievement. Family background was by far the most important factor in determining student achievement"
Tags: education sociology pedagogy ability
- Wikipedia Gets Published - Should Writers Get Paid? - ReadWriteWeb
what are the ethics wrt profiting from intellectual endeavour placed into the public domain?
Tags: copyright wikipedia authorship revenue
- The Facebook Platform is Biased Toward "Fun" Apps - ReadWriteWeb
facebook = pure surface
Tags: facebook social viral fun superficial simulation simulacrum
- Another Free Album from NIN - Is Free the New Price of Music? - ReadWriteWeb
The theory basically states that any artist can make a living if he or she can cultivate 1,000 "true fans" -- people who will support anything the artist does
Tags: copyright music authorship revenue economics
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- Wired News - AP News
in cuba, uncensored Internet access equivalent to a "virtual raft"
Tags: Cuba surveillance censorship blogging media-participation
- Deep Chalk
Tags: game animation
- Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Wikipedia meets school shootings
Wikipedia-is-evil meme connects with the post-Columbine fear of school shootings
Tags: moral-panic wikipedia
- ABOUT DIGITAL YOUTH | DIGITAL YOUTH RESEARCH
kids' passion for digital media has been ignited more by peer group sociability and play than academic learning
Tags: education learning children pedagogy participation
Facebook Facework
[Cross-posted at CEMP]
Neil Selwyn from the Institute of Education in London recently led a seminar at LSE where he introduced the audience to his findings with respect to the use of Facebook in educational contexts: Faceworking: Exploring Students’ Educational Use of Facebook.
He notes that there is a great deal of discourse surrounding the use of tools such as Facebook in order to support education at HE level, as well as competing discourses which strive to cast Facebook as a distraction, where time spent, in whose consumption, is directly proportional to the deterioration of grade you are likely to receive. So some discourses breathlessly envision a self-directed pedagogic utopia in which learning becomes integrated into informal social activities, while other discourses cast Facebook as another great evil alongside Wikipedia et al, which distracts students from work, or allows them to plagiarise, or generally avoid taking responsibility for their learning.
Selwyn refers to a number of efforts to engage with students using Facebook - Cambridge University have built applications, for example, and even some students themselves have set up groups calling for Blackboard to be ditched in favour of Facebook. I will pass over similar efforts by the Media School at Bournemouth in silence - you know who you are!
In fact, Selwyn finds that Facebook communication is put to a limited set of uses when these students users are left to their own devices:
i) Recounting and reflecting on the university experience
ii) Exchange of practical information
iii) Exchange of academic information
iv) Displays of supplication and or disengagement
v) Banter
When Selwyn looks closer at the actual exchanges which go on under these headings, he finds that they generally reflect an anti-intellectual tone, in which learners portray themselves as inadequate and bored. The university experience of course revolves around the social life, while discussion of seminars or lectures often concentrates on the personality defects of the academic staff. Selwyn notes, nevertheless, that we may take consolation that students do at least get some indentity-work-benefit from tools such as Facebook (in the sense that they are able to find correlations between their own sense of inadequacy and that of others, in what Selwyn refers to as 'facework', after Goffman).
Interestingly, Selwyn also suggests that if academics want to quickly make a name for themselves, research into social networking should be a shoe-in. He offers Danah Boyd's recent visibility as evidence, since she is 'just' a PhD student, but is the 'biggest self-publicist out there'.
Notwithstanding Selwyn's unkindness to Boyd, his argument is basically that educators should stay away from Spaces like Facebook, MySpace, and whatever happens to be the next big thing next year. I tend to agree, not least because the whole business of bringing education into these spaces is analogous to bringing it into any other extra-curricular activity: it's the equivalent of your parents joining in at the school disco, or Tony Blair co-opting the stratocaster; imagine what government sponsored punk would feel like, and you have educational use of Facebook. Totally naff.
Encyclomedia
Encyclomedia
A social site for CEMP which allows users to bookmark media training websites and resources - supported by Channel 4, BBC, and Skillset.
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- CEMP Interactive media community: Splat pedagogy
...the difference between delivering vocational courses which speak to and perpetuate the status quo, and an education which could actually be transformational...
Tags: pedagogy HE education higher-education collaboration research
Splat Pedagogy
Three things recently caught my attention and hit the fan at the back of my mind; this post is a representation of some of the pollackesque splatterings that resulted.
The End of The Industrial Schooling System
The first was the news that Knowsley Council in Merseyside is closing all 11 of its secondary schools, and replacing them with 7 ‘state-of-the-art, round-the-clock’ learning centres. In these new centres, pupils won’t attend formal classes or adhere to a timetable – instead, they will be assigned projects in the mornings and disperse into the learning centres’ facilities to work on them in groups. On the surface this possibly appears to be a drastic measure, described by one ‘edu-blogger’ as ‘The End of The Industrial Schooling System’. One motivating factor for this reinvention of secondary schooling is “lack of progress, catastrophically high levels of pupil absenteeism, stubbornly high levels of youth unemployment”. The Independent’s article is sketchy on details, but a PDF document produced by Knowsley Council outlines considerably more. Some interesting aspects of the document:
Democratised spaces: these include self-sufficient ‘pods’ as ‘home bases’ which facilitate year and ‘vertical’ (I assume this means ‘cross-year’) groups; learning spaces which will ‘not be owned by subject specialists’; and learning ‘streets’ which encourage ‘a busy learning and social space in which activity and interaction is a feature’, where performing or visual arts play an ‘integral role’. (p42)
New curriculum models: “Creating a curriculum experience that will offer the opportunity for students to develop personal, learning and thinking skills by learning through projects, understanding how they learn, reflecting upon their progress and being able to contribute their own opinions and ideas. This development is considered to be key to transforming educational practice since the explicit teaching of thinking necessitates a significant shift in pedagogy which will itself significantly transform the learning.” (p50)
The self-analysis of society
The second was the paper on the Consumption and Marketing Portal, Having, Being and Higher Education: the marketisation of the university and the transformation of the student into consumer. While the paper aims high in terms of locating the conflicted interests of students, academics and universities in a society which is more preoccupied with ‘having’ and consuming than in ‘being’ and reflecting, it goes to the heart of the problem of vocational education: when motives are driven by markets, interests which are at odds with bottom lines are pushed out. Realists everywhere cry out, ‘but we live in a market-based society, and HE is there to help graduates function in the market-place’; blind optimists (known sometimes as Marxists, troublemakers and, even worse, ‘philosophers’) insist that, even if nowhere else, universities are the place in which a critique of the market must happen. A good learner must reflect on themselves and their own learning. Surely a good society should reflect critically on itself, and if the HE sector has one determining characteristic, it is that it should perform the self-analysis of society that corporations, atomised individuals and branded politicians substantially cannot.
Acting With Technology
The third piece of fan-hitting stuff came from Kaptelinin and Nardi’s book, Acting With Technology – Activity Theory and Interaction Design (MIT: 2006). The authors note that some of the key aspects of activity theory are its emphasis of human intention, of people over things, of the evolving nature of human interaction with the world around them, and the cultural dynamics that arise. It is an obvious but surprisingly little-considered notion that human beings tend do things for a purpose and are not often willingly determined by the function of the technologies around them.
As part of their argument for framing one’s view with a ‘historical, developmental perspective’ in order to consider the wider impacts of technological design, they hint at the interrelatedness of disciplines which are all too often kept rigidly separate:
“…the batteries and components of wireless devices contain arsenic, antimony, beryllium, cadmium, copper, zinc, nickel, lead, and brominated flame retardants – all toxic. Wireless devices, including cell phones, pagers, PDAs, pocket PCs, portable email readers, and mp3 music players, are being manufactured by the billions. Yet we have not designed or implemented adequate means of handling the wastes they release. Toxins leach into groundwater when wireless devices are discarded in landfills, and dioxins are created when they are incinerated. Used cell phones (and computers) are often donated to Third World countries, so the waste reaches its final resting place in the air and water of the poorest countries […] As designers, how do we respond to these realities?” (p13)
A flippant answer to that question might be that designers won’t or can’t respond. A more common answer might be that the market will respond as the economics evolve, or that politicians need to take a lead, or EUs and UNs and the like ought to co-ordinate their efforts and pass resolutions.
Splat
It occurs to me that one of the characteristics of the HE system, whether at the vocationally disposed end, or at the research-led antipode of the spectrum, is that there are highly specialised areas which carve out their own niches. Spaces, whether physical, intellectual or institutional, are ‘owned by subject specialists’. It is equally clear that the kinds of problems articulated by Kaptelinin and Nardi require intense collaboration between different domains of specialism.
It also seems to me that locating the domains of various activities in a much broader context would be an extremely effective way to expose consequences, and highlight otherwise hidden outcomes and impacts. If we were to try to define a more critical way of thinking, it would surely involve the ability to see beyond the local motives and imperatives of one’s discipline, corporate balance-sheet, market-place, or indeed, capitalist mode of production.
Furthermore, if one broadly accepts the constructivist approach to pedagogy, in which learning takes place most effectively in problem-based activities where theoretical underpinnings are synthesised in the solution of real challenges through concrete collaborative activity, then it seems like a no-brainer to suggest that the cross-domain problem outlined by Kaptelinin and Nardi be investigated and acted upon by groups of people who each want to learn about the various domains of knowledge which deal with those issues.
Hence I imagine undergraduates collaborating in all sorts of ways: leisure industry entrepreneurs commission product designers to work on devices, using materials suggested by chemists and conservation scientists, informed by health workers’ recommendations, backed up by gymnastic legal advice, with interfaces created by interaction specialists, whose lickable finish is ruthlessly marketed, while journalists investigate the vested corporate interests blocking new initiatives through recourse to IP law-suits, and political communicators and lawyers examine the necessary tactics to broker international agreements. I think it’d be a pretty cool first-year project.
Learning from learners who are releasing their potential
Now of course, the proposal from Knowsley Council looks very appealing on paper, but it would be interesting to know how those people on the ground, the teachers, pupils and parents, feel about the overhaul of their schooling system. It has not escaped our notice, to coin a phrase, that systematic changes and corporate plans can look great on paper, while the shop-floor workers are ignored, disenfranchised and demoralised. Learning from learners sounds excellent in principle, but can in practice mean a university manned by researchers more interested in their Experian RAE score than the tedious business of drawing the attention of beginners to their own ignorance.
However, learning from learners could mean something other than the traditional research culture which encourages its practitioners to secret their investigations away from spying eyes until the triumphant scoop in a high-impact journal. It could mean the entire spectrum of academics from freshers to post-docs working ‘vertically’ on the kinds of real problems that require the finest minds to collaborate at the fore-front of their fields away from the commercial and electoral imperatives which so restrict many social institutions. Stephen Downes argues that a good teacher teaches by demonstration and modeling. Don’t ask me what the information you need is; instead, let’s find the answer together, and hopefully I can share with you my experience of finding things out, just as you bring your new way of thinking to my entrenched old habits.
Of course, it all sounds very hard, co-ordinating such large-scale integration of disciplines, activities and objectives; that’s exactly why it should happen in universities while they still have a margin of space within the institution’s financial dependence on public funding. It would be so time-consuming! Yes, but so much more interesting than the equally time-consuming and endless repackaging of courses into credit frameworks, or renaming of the positions in the hierarchical management structures, or the most insidious and soul-destroying of time-wasting pursuits, re-applying for your own job. It could even have the long-term benefit of encouraging generations of people going out into profit-driven market-places, short-sighted corporations and self-serving political systems, who might even find the current strictures of self-interested and myopic businesses and governments quite absurd. It looks very like the difference between delivering vocational courses which speak to and perpetuate the status quo, and an education which could actually be transformational.
I was recently told that Interactive Media Production students write the most utopian dissertations. It wasn’t intended, I think, as an unsullied compliment. But I’m extremely pleased that they are, and very infectious too, thankfully.
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- The Forms of Capital
Tags: culture sociology theory bourdieu
- Change Magazine Article(s): In Defense of Lecturing
Tags: pedagogy teaching lecturing
- social network sites: my definition. Many-to-Many:
Tags: social networking community theory
- German politicians call for ban on violent video games
Tags: game violence germany media-effects
- Internet users cannot be sued for reposting defamatory statements
Tags: us law censorship regulation
- Listening Post
Tags: surveillance
- Wired 14.12: You Tube vs. Boob Tube
Tags: youtube advertising google TV
- The Spam Farms of the Social Web
Tags: social networking media
- Soviet Photomontages 1917-1953
Tags: russia photography photomontage propaganda
- Marshall McLuhan: "The Medium is the Message"
Tags: mcluhan
- empty streets
Tags: blog
- Neighborhood Public Radio
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- best of craigslist : The Girls I Have Dated
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Biblipedia
Biblipedia
A social web tool, allowing users to annotate books, create literature reviews, share notes, and find readings and notes by other users. A social scholarly bibliographical annotation tool. Funded by CEMP, Bournemouth University's Media School Centre of Excellence in Learning and Teaching Media Practice.
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- Blogs for Learning | Articles - The Technology of Reading and Writing in the Digital Space: Why RSS is crucial for a Blogging Classroom
Tags: blogging learning pedagogy writing rss
- Connectivism Blog
Tags: pedagogy
- Bully gets bullied
Tags: game us law media-effects
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Warning over 'broken up' internet
Tags: network-neutrality internet future
- Boing Boing: China unblocks Wikipedia, even though it won't censor
Tags: China wikipedia censorship
- DECONSTRUCTING ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Tags: lichtenstein art illustration copyright reference
- Slashdot | China Unblocks Wikipedia
Tags: wikipedia China censhorship culture ideology
- We-think: The power of mass creativity - Charles Leadbeater
Tags: collaboration participation social creativity
- Table of Malcontents
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- Citizen Journalism: From Pamphlet to Blog - blip.tv (beta)
Tags: citizen-journalism video documentary blogging
- 612 Lawns | Gamers With Jobs
Tags: toread mmorpg fraud virtual
- The Mind is a Metaphor
Tags: literature metaphor 18th-century mind
- Boing Boing: Free Josh Wolf: update on jailed San Francisco video-blogger
Tags: blogging activism US law
- Boing Boing: RIAA propaganda movie for students in desperate need of remix
Tags: RIAA piracy copyright propaganda mp3 file-sharing
- Book: Responsive Environments: Architecture, Art and Design
Tags: interactivity architecture art design
- Wired News: Edit This Wired News Story
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- Slashdot | Universal to Offer Music for Free
Tags: RIAA mp3 file-sharing piracy market music copyright
- BBC NEWS | Business | Universal backs free music offer
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- Independent Online Edition > Media
Tags: media-studies academic journalism learning higher-education
- Who needs class when you have a podcast?
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- Net Neutrality: This is serious | Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs
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- Bank Records Secretly Tapped
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- Slashdot | Dueling Network Neutrality Commentary on NPR
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- The Engineer Online - [News: engineering news, engineering info, latest technology, manufacturing news, manufacturing info, automotive news, aerospace news, materials news, research & development]
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- Next Action: Freedom Rings at the RIAA | DefectiveByDesign.org
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- Slashdot | Broadcast Flag Sneaking in the Back Door
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- Flashlands.com - the land of flash arts Heaven by Labix (Chalk Pen)
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- bgblogging: The Question of Teacher Roles in Blogging-yet-Traditional Classrooms
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- Cognitive Daily: Language and time: More on whether the future is literally in front of us
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- EFF: The Corruptibles
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- V-scratch
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- Poly-PEDAL
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- What is a blog? TheWeblogProject - the first open-source movie documentary about blogs and bloggers - TheWeblogProject
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- News and jobs for journalists :: Comment is popular for newspaper's blog portal
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- MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | The anarchy and the ecstasy
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- Main Page - OLPCWiki
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- Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles
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- BBC NEWS | Business | Venezuelan anger at computer game
Tags: game Venezuela simulation
- indiestore.com - Do it yourself digital download store for independent artists and labels
Tags: DIY music download sales commerce
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Privacy worries over web's future
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- BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Police act on German file-sharing
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- BBC NEWS | Technology | Web inventor warns of 'dark' net
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- BBC NEWS | Technology | Free downloads end Sony CD saga
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- BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Big brother' informs baby talk
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- BBC NEWS | Technology | Web attacks end anti-spam effort
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- BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | Hollywood copes with digital age
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- BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | The viral video online revolution
Tags: video internet trends
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Amnesty to target net repression
Tags: human-rights freedom discrimination censorship digital culture
- Good Experience - Interview: Ze Frank, performance artist
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- Welcome to the Game Innovation Database! - GameInnovation
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- BBC NEWS | Wales | Piracy fears over net generation
Tags: copyright creative-commons
- BBC NEWS | England | London | Police investigate 'hate' website
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- Amir Massoud Tofangsazan: The blog continues
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- the broken laptop i sold on ebay
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- :: Douglas Rushkoff - Weblog ::
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- :: Douglas Rushkoff - Weblog ::
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- Mirror, Mirror: Refining the
Element in the IMS e-Portfolio Specification | connect.educause.edu
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- Emerging technologies in education / learning objects
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- Wired 14.04: Posts
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- ArtMuseum.net
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- Boing Boing: Allan Kaprow (1927-2006)
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- Boing Boing: Smithsonian's Showtime deal: critical attorneys shred it
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- Boing Boing: Google Earth to feature video clips from Discovery
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- cityofsound: Ripples, or "The Social Life of a Broadcast"
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- Making an Organum Mathematicum
Tags: music
- HOW TO -Put together an inexpensive recording studio
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- Coming Sooner to PCs: Movies - Los Angeles Times
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- The Word in Hollywood, "Download"
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- The World's Most Maintainable Programming Language: Part 1 - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog
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- Edge 178
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- IBM developerWorks : Blogs : Open standards, open source, open minds, open opportunities
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- Britannica attacks : Nature
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- Experiential Learning Vs.Traditional Schooling: John Taylor Gatto's Educational Ideas Still Worth A Good Look? - Robin Good's Latest News
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- Players Who Suit MUDs
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- BBC NEWS | Technology | US cook wins blogging book prize
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- Boing Boing: WI judge shuts down website over anonymous posting
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- The State of Digital Music in 2006 Page 1 - Featured Article - Designtechnica
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- The Power Of Open Participatory Media And Why Mass Media Must Be Abandoned - Robin Good's Latest News
Tags: participation media msm citizen-journalism
- EDUCAUSE REVIEW | March/April 2006, Volume 41, Number 2
Tags: education learning teaching pedagogy web2.0 social
- Isn't it semantic? : Articles : Internet : BCS
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- Washington Post Blogger Quits After Plagiarism Accusations - New York Times
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- Best P2P Blogs at P2P Foundation
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- Slashdot | Houston Police Chief Wants Cameras in Homes
Tags: privacy surveillance
- Slashdot | Consumers vs. IP Owners: The Future of Copyright
Tags: copyright law
- Boing Boing: Students learn more from teachers who hand-wave
Tags: learning pedagogy
- Boing Boing: RIAA using kids' private info to attack their mother
Tags: RIAA DRM law copyright
- Boing Boing: Apple censors OSX-on-Intel message boards with DMCA
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- Slashdot | Interview with a Botmaster
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- How to Save the World
Tags: innovation education pedagogy
- we make money not art: Storyboard Valentines
Tags: digital art text
- A brief history of hard drives | CNET News.com
Tags: computer history
- Boing Boing: My first screen kiss
Tags: mobile trends
- we make money not art: Online visualization of teens breakups
Tags: teenagers art digital
- Sifry's Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, February 2006 Part 2: Beyond Search
Tags: blogging trends
- Boing Boing: Google Video DRM: Why is Hollywood more important than users?
Tags: google copyright DRM video
- Boing Boing: Why Publishing Should Send Fruit-Baskets to Google
Tags: google print piracy
- Boing Boing: Princeton DRM researchers release Sony debacle paper
Tags: copyright DRM law
- The Enquirer - Firm implants ID chips
Tags: technology culture RFID privacy
- John Battelle's Searchblog: Never Poke a Dragon While It's Eating
Tags: google Yahoo microsoft cisco censorship ethics
- things magazine - print issue coming in the Spring...?
Tags: blog
- Slashdot | Chinese Claim Internet Censorship Modeled on West
Tags: china censorship
- Wired News: How to Almost Live on Blogging
Tags: blogging advert advertising
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Yahoo makes plea over censorship
Tags: yahoo china censorship privacy industry
- BBC NEWS | UK | 'Hacker' extradition case reopens
Tags: hacker law
- Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
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- CETIS-Learning Design and reuseability
Tags: learning e-learning pedagogy modularity
- SCROLLA ~ Improving Learning Outcomes Through ICT-Based Learning Designs
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- ILRT - Institute for Learning and Research Technology, Bristol University
Tags: information pedagogy education learning
- Educational Research: Reports
Tags: pedagogy
- Anna Sfard
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- University of Helsinki - Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research
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- Moodle - A Free, Open Source Course Management System for Online Learning
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- Z39.50 for All, Ariadne Issue 21
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Intro to Digital Media at BU
This page contains resources supplemental to the Digital Media Lecture I delivered on 20 April 2005. The subject ranged over digital reproduction, controlling and distrinuting media, and some of the significances we can observe. We also talked about blogs, RSS feeds, Podcasting and intellectual property.
Here's the Powerpoint presentation on Digital Media
Here's a list of links to some of the things we looked at:
- Mushrooms: http://www.guardian.co.uk/drugs/Story/0,2763,1461138,00.html
- Murdoch: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9071-1568961_1,00.html
- Benjamin: http://bid.berkeley.edu/bidclass/readings/benjamin.html
- Girl Blog from Iraq: http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
- SharpReader RSS aggregator: http://www.sharpreader.net/
- BBC News RSS feeds: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3223484.stm?rss=http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml
- iPodder: http://www.ipodder.org/
- Reith Lectures: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2005/mp3/podcast.shtml
- BluggCast http://www.blugg.com/cast/
- My Silver Mount Zion http://robular.libsyn.com/
- Radio Clash http://www.mutantpop.net/radioclash/
- EchoRadio http://radio.echoditto.com/
- Paticipatory Culture http://www.participatoryculture.org/
- Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/
- Creative Archive: http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/
