edc lifestream summary
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This is my lifestream summary for the E-Learning and Digital Cultures course on the MSc in E-Learning at The university of Edinburgh.TRANSCRIPT
My lifestream summary as a digital commonplace book
E-Learning and Digital Cultures
Submission date: 12 December!
James Lamb s0900191
Word count: 548
Soundtrack: Kraftwerk ‒ ‘The Robots’ Daft Punk ‒ Da Funk Air ‒ Kelly watch the stars (Moog Cookbook remix)
Also includes samples from
‘Wdpk 83.7fm’ by Daft Punk and
‘Electronic Performers’ by Air
(and the ‘voice’ of student s0900191)
Rather than offering a text-based reflective commentary of my lifestream, I have attempted to extract images, sounds and passages of text from the lifestream itself.
In presenting my lifestream summary, I have attempted to borrow both the spirit and the format of the commonplace book.
A digital commonplace book.
An organic, natural growing meadow...
If my lifestream isn’t yet blossoming, it has at least started to branch out
3 October
I like dropping into the lifestream from time-to-time, to see how it is growing
20 September
10 October
Continues...
The lifestream is dynamic, evolving and alive
Greetings from The Meadows, Edinburgh
With each new passing day, new flowers come into bud, representing each individual RSS feed in my lifestream
The lifestream is dynamic, evolving and alive 20 September
7 November
5 Oct
Exploring aptness of mode through lifestream content
24 September As the weeks progress I’ll be more adventurous, however I intend to adhere to the approach of selecting tools because they help my learning, not because I can
the digital revolution means we can now reconsider whether text is the most appropriate means of presenting every type of information
see Kress (2005)
Continues...
5 November
We have the tools to craft work that matches our vision…machines give us the freedom to speak directly to our audience
Expressing ideas in a multimodal, transliterate way
In the digital classroom, we communicate across a range of media
I decided to try and represent this week’s lifestream review through image as well as words – or what might be seen as a convergence of visual and written literacies
The representation can be seen as multimodal
I expressed ideas through text, film, animation, graphics, photography and sound.
12 October
10 October
29 November
Continues...
this snapshot of my existence shows how we simultaneously appropriate a range of media to facilitate our needs at any one time
the digital revolution provides an environment where [we] can leave class with our creative desires sated
Upon this foundation, I then built additional layers of representation, starting with the author’s voice, followed by background music and then images
see Spalter &
Van Damm
(2008)
29 November
13 October
11 October
78 blog posts 120 blog comments 160 tweets 13 vimeo 36 Flikr 20 delicious and 2 Tumblr entries
the online classroom isn’t bound by the same rigid timetables that we associate with its RL equivalent
v There’s no 9 to 5 in the online university! Continues...
The lifestream presents a classroom without physical boundaries
29 November
29 November
v v
Within our class physical boundaries are rendered artificial by the flow of information
one’s geographical location can change without any noticeable impact upon the level of engagement with the course itself
29 Nov
2 Oct
I have engaged in discussion with different members of the class at different times and as different topics have arisen
Comment on how pic put together
The lifestream reflects my place within the learning community
11 Dec
vv
This is the ‘real’ me, but it’s also a more considered me, one that spends more time considering the impact of my actions
25 November
V
The online learning community can be at least as immersive as its RL equivalent, providing DL students with a strong sense of identity and affiliation with their institution
See Hand 2008
see
Bayne 2010 20 October
Ours is a constructionist classroom where we position ourselves in order to build knowledge and create collective understanding
8 December
vv
Overall reflections on the lifestreaming ‘experience’
vv lifestreaming is the 24-hour news channel, reporting live as the action unfolds.
I was immersed in technology, swimming in the ubiquitous sea of information that is the Internet.
20 September
22 November
Continues...
vv
vv
The information pattern produced by my work was one of repetitive loops, syncopated to the sound of a machine producing invisible (in the physical sense) content
the opportunity to spend a day building and curating my online gallery epitomises how the lifestream exercise has given me a place to experiment with ideas themselves, and the way in which I present these ideas
22 November
8 December
J Lamb (s0900191) December 2010