tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058202284033004714.post619123814261899802..comments2023-07-25T04:36:37.834-07:00Comments on lastrefuge: #EDCMOOC: ELearning and Digital Cultures Rocks: First reflections from week oneSandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17081080969462975250noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058202284033004714.post-73057690035773122052013-02-08T04:56:49.329-08:002013-02-08T04:56:49.329-08:00Hi Britt and Kay C - sorry about the delay in resp...Hi Britt and Kay C - sorry about the delay in responding - but my work PC blocks my access - and I only have my own access to the web from Thursday night to Sunday night.<br />Have I missed posts from you this week? Please let me know - even if through my work email which is:<br />(s.sinfield@londonmet.ac.uk><br />Best,<br />SandraSandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17081080969462975250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058202284033004714.post-57821781899611146052013-02-03T14:29:47.855-08:002013-02-03T14:29:47.855-08:00My apologies on being a very poor quadblog member!...My apologies on being a very poor quadblog member! I too am being swamped by work and am trying to find the time to keep abreast of all of the wonderful material this course is providing. I really enjoyed your reviews of the readings etc, and in particular your perspective on Inbox - layering the cultural context over the film makes for a different interpretation, as I viewed it purely in terms of the relationship between a man and a woman...I love how we all see something different from the same film! I am also struggling a bit with maintaining my personal blog while also writing for my work blog, so my apologies if it lags...enjoy week 2! Kay Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06734116262722721757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058202284033004714.post-70032644236873673402013-02-03T05:51:37.280-08:002013-02-03T05:51:37.280-08:00Sandra, I too enjoyed your analysis of the films a...Sandra, I too enjoyed your analysis of the films and readings. It has been interesting dipping in to Twitter, Facebook and G+ - and I fully understand the worry that we might be missing something! The Hangout on Friday was awesome as well.Britt Watwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08487014790973980773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058202284033004714.post-30755204376162046132013-02-02T08:32:11.639-08:002013-02-02T08:32:11.639-08:00Hi Sandra,
I really enjoyed some of your succinct...Hi Sandra,<br /><br />I really enjoyed some of your succinct readings of the films here. Your comments about 'Inbox' got me thinking about other Dystopian readings of the film, in addition to some of those already posted about the sparse modes of communication. Technology is portrayed here as increasingly pervasive, intruding into spaces some might consider private. The cultural angle is interesting here too: that social media might be seen as propagating all that is irreverent abut western culture – but that would seem to fall back on a technological determinism. <br /><br />Perhaps the portrayal of ‘primitive’ people in Bendito Machine III was a comment on our own lack of ‘advancement’ when subjugated by technology? Although, as you say, that kind of portrayal may itself be problematic. It’s an interesting perspective though, with many readings I think. I’d certainly be interested in problematizing a utopic view of innocent, natural, and somehow more our indigenous people. <br /><br />Glad you are enjoying the course so far! <br /><br />Oh, and I heard that 'Clippy' has returned...<br /><br />http://articles.cnn.com/2011-04-29/tech/microsoft.paper.clip_1_paper-clip-microsoft-office-microsoft-tone?_s=PM:TECH<br /><br />Jeremy<br />Jeremy Knoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12151397117766346628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058202284033004714.post-80482028813916546972013-02-02T00:46:38.976-08:002013-02-02T00:46:38.976-08:00Yay the paper clip!Yay the paper clip!Sandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17081080969462975250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058202284033004714.post-34113867934605708562013-02-01T14:51:52.068-08:002013-02-01T14:51:52.068-08:00That bloody paperclip...!That bloody paperclip...!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02721287864535408016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058202284033004714.post-27360421324051603132013-02-01T11:26:40.501-08:002013-02-01T11:26:40.501-08:00On the theme of Utopias: We ran a class in Second ...On the theme of Utopias: We ran a class in Second Life a while back - building not a classroom but a seashore where reflective learning could take place. We put deckchairs and bonfires to add a bit of character - and when we wanted to deliver new supplies to our students we grounded a seventeenth century galleon there - and the goods spilled out. We also analysed the avatars the students chose to represent themselves - embodied metaphors if you like. Some were versions of themselves as close as they could make them - fat where they were fat, skinny where skinny - mine was a little bit younger (!) - but one woman built herself as a bee - very clumsy and grotesque but still beautiful. Another put the same effort into transforming into a Klingon. I like to interpret this as their taking power within what is normally a disempowering space... The assignments were various - puzzle cubes left around our disrupted educational landscape - this seashore and not a classroom - and they had build upon and inhabit this landscape; they had to make their marks... and this gave me hope that in using these technologies we can disrupt the everyday, that our students can enact power where they are normally rendered powerless and agency is more possible - and not less. Sandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17081080969462975250noreply@blogger.com