Week 2 Lifestream Summary
The lifestream entries this week reflect the film festival themes of ‘other worlds’ and ‘being human’, mainly through a combination of tweets, Tumblr posts and more in-depth blog posts. The...
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The exploration of mode has been the focus of my lifestream this week. Chinese calligraphy is an ancient mode that often incorporated text and visual art. Sign language in Second Life is perhaps a way...
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This week’s lifestream reflects my continued interest in how ideas are communicated. Transliteracy and multi-modality are concepts that bring us closer to understanding how knowledge is communicated...
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My activity this week has been focussed on background research for my ethnography, and some more theoretical considerations of ethnographic practice. On reflection, most of my lifestream entries have...
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The final week of the ethnographic study began, and continued, with much commenting on the work of others in the EDC group. On reflection, this communication has been integral in the ethnographic...
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A thoroughly enjoyable week of cyborg theorising (I wonder if such emotion is tangible in the lifestream elements). Early on I began watching a lecture by Haraway for the European Graduate School, and...
View ArticleWeek 10 Lifestream Summary
This has been a week of revelation, perhaps even heightened awareness, regarding the cyborg and posthuman themes. I see the posthuman as providing an underlying concept for the previous course themes...
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After the submission of my posthuman pedagogy in week 10, I have continued the vein of inquiry into the shaman as a possible metaphor for pedagogy in the digital domain. Some initial research found a...
View ArticleWeek 12 Lifestream Summary
This final week of the lifestream demonstrates my continued exploration into knowledge and epistemology. To this end I included a very useful You Tube video entitled ‘Epistemic Breaks’ which outlined a...
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Reflecting on the lifestream at the end of week 12, this flexible and highly engaging tool seems to reflect many of the course themes. The early readings articulated ‘narratives’ or ’stories’ about...
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