Category: ED 654

Where are you now?

I refer to my Yawp post which I began concerning the work done by David White, & Alison Le Cornu on Visitors and Residents in online engagement. As well my Make and Share SoundCloud “podcasts.” Initial Ruminations on Digital Citizenship Digital Citizenship Redux Thank you, Chris, for not needing me to duplicate work. I think the…


Your Choice Assignments: Think About Your Thinking

Think About Your Thinking  Online Self/Embodied Self In crafting the audio for the Make and Share, I fell into this manner of speaking. I like it markedly better than the real/virtual phrasing of our divided experience. We seem to forget that our night time dreaming is real too, for one example, even if it is…


Your Choice Assignments: Search & Research

Technological Somnambulism Definition: Langdon Winner seems to develop a McLuhanian concern about the value-free quality of tools; he as well questions technological determinism. Versions of determinism as defined in Wikipedia: Hard determinists would view technology as developing independently from social concerns. They would say that technology creates a set of powerful forces acting to regulate our…


Your Choice Assignments: Search & Research

Digital Humanities Just having completed Skip Via’s ED 677 Digital Storytelling class, it made sense to start with this topic. Definition: Bryan Alexander offers a working definition: “Simply put, it is telling stories with digital technologies. Digital stories are narratives built from the stuff of cyberculture” (Alexander, 2010, Loc 110 of 3318). I think there…


Your Choice Assignments: Make and Share, 2x

Make and Share Initial Ruminations on Digital Citizenship Digital Citizenship Redux #makeandshare


YAWP

David White, & Alison Le Cornu, (2011)  offer a criticism of the binary digital native:digital immigrant framing of a web presence. However, they do not stop there, but rather they develop a theory of visitor:resident as a continuum of participation in their article Visitors and Residents: A new typology for online engagement. In this video, White…