tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058202284033004714.post1818723422127928999..comments2023-07-25T04:36:37.834-07:00Comments on lastrefuge: #EDCMOOC week 2: Welcome to UtopiaSandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17081080969462975250noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058202284033004714.post-14603149929331632992013-02-17T02:24:26.516-08:002013-02-17T02:24:26.516-08:00thanks for all the comments - that have provoked m...thanks for all the comments - that have provoked my thinking... <br />And, EMILY, if you would like a copy of that paper I could email it you, I am on .<br />But it is week 3 - and we are all posthuman now!<br />:-DSandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17081080969462975250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058202284033004714.post-3332798257169344852013-02-10T17:50:34.451-08:002013-02-10T17:50:34.451-08:00This is such an excellent post. I found myself nod...This is such an excellent post. I found myself nodding along at so many of your points. <br /><br />I must tell you, I'm glad you are not "squashing" your writing into "an academic genre". It's obvious you are very erudite, your writing is so clear and accessible, it's a pleasure to read. <br /><br />It's a wonderful learning experience for a reader like me. (Oh and extra bonus for using 'autochthonous' in a sentence)<br /><br />@ CĂ©line - if you can find a scanner, bringing in your pencil notes into Evernote is really simple and your colleague is correct, it will convert it to be readable. I'd love to see more pencil notes for sure! Please try!<br />Giulia Forsythehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03673238674307583309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058202284033004714.post-42130998526897249582013-02-09T03:35:04.973-08:002013-02-09T03:35:04.973-08:00+Angela Towndrow "Of course Corning would hav...+Angela Towndrow "Of course Corning would have us eat glass for breakfast if they could, and microsoft would have a chip in our heads connected to a monthly payment plan if it were possible." <br />It's horrible and true but you made me laugh anyway :D Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08205273126882092871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058202284033004714.post-77322572748680722442013-02-09T03:29:40.711-08:002013-02-09T03:29:40.711-08:00Great summary and thoughts on this week Sandra!
P...Great summary and thoughts on this week Sandra!<br /><br />Plus I love your last comment:<br />"what I like about this course is that especially after the pre-course involvement, I feel that I can say what I really want to say - that I don't have to squash the thoughts into a formal academic genre ....- it is the happiest 'homework' I have ever done! :-D"<br /><br />Funny, I always take notes while watching/reading anything, but it never occurred to me that I could use these notes for more than a source for my creative projects. Maybe because usually I do them on paper? <br /><br />I still like my pencil, but I wish there was a scanner that converted notes like these into searchable pdfs with graphics included. +Dave Ferguson told me yesterday Evernote is actually capable of this. I never realized and I've been using it for a year at least! So many cool tools but still you have to learn them all in depth to use all their power.<br /><br />I still have a resistance against writing, when this writing is supposed to be shown to anyone. But I will try your method. Maybe one day my blog posts will be more than a collection of links, quotes and art work. :)<br /><br />Count me in if I can help with visuals and animations.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08205273126882092871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058202284033004714.post-23263353199328760962013-02-08T16:07:44.225-08:002013-02-08T16:07:44.225-08:00Hi Sandra (and Rick), I'm such a lover of tech...Hi Sandra (and Rick), I'm such a lover of tech, but like you, I'm finding these images more confronting than appealing. Of course Corning would have us eat glass for breakfast if they could, and microsoft would have a chip in our heads connected to a monthly payment plan if it were possible.<br /><br />But it is those visions of education that miss the point. We love the interactive dinosaur display at our museum in Sydney, they do all that roaring thing, but dinosaurs are extinct. I think we need to encourage our children to learn about real ecosystems when they go to the forest, especially endangered ones, or we might be the next to be extinct!<br /><br />The tech vision of education is only useful if it gives us wisdom and improves our lives, not if it removes us further from reality.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04693333549126901655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058202284033004714.post-61388086023864222052013-02-08T13:56:37.424-08:002013-02-08T13:56:37.424-08:00Hi Sandra - second attempt to leave a comment here...Hi Sandra - second attempt to leave a comment here! I 'think' from poor memory that what I said a couple of hours ago was that I loved reading this post and that we're clearly on the same page not only in the kind of work we do (I know your name from recent publication spaces we share, and maybe also the 2010 conference in london I attended) but also in terms of the thinking here about discourse analysis and visual metaphor... which I explained by saying something brilliant about the thesis work I'm currently doing, which I don't quite recall how I worded! but basically, yeah, am very interested and keen to keep this conversation going with you :) I can't access the most recent publication you mentioned though - in Investigations, as my uni library doesn't subscribe to that one... do you have it anywhere 'open', to use that metaphor?!e-purserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10953233856385977665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058202284033004714.post-14146713695395232322013-02-08T13:04:12.966-08:002013-02-08T13:04:12.966-08:00Thanks Rick! My technique is to have a Word docume...Thanks Rick! My technique is to have a Word document (with Paper Clip - of course) open - and to free write responses after watching - and whilst reading - and to shape it a bit after. I then edit it into a blog post - and it is definitely something I want to get my own students doing - somehow! what I like about this course is that especially after the pre-course involvement, I feel that I can say what I really want to say - that I don't have to squash the thoughts into a formal academic genre (although I know that I now do that automatically in places)- it is the happiest 'homework' I have ever done! :-DSandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17081080969462975250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058202284033004714.post-86757568420132098042013-02-08T12:21:49.823-08:002013-02-08T12:21:49.823-08:00Nice summary of the week's work Sandra. I appr...Nice summary of the week's work Sandra. I appreciated your appeal to get back to nature rather than look at it on a screen. It seems to me that it's easy to glamourise the tech without realizing the cost. <br />I thought you summarised the material very well. drrbb2ndhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00105106596653235583noreply@blogger.com