Monthly Archives: September 2011

Love Thy Tech

Synopsis: A man goes up a big mountain where, in answer to his invocation and in a flood of eerie light, a machine descends from heavens. He brings it down to his compatriots who immediately knock down a bull from … Continue reading

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Life Wall Pro – and Refinements – and the Baby Pictures

The elements of the Life Wall have been encouraging me to dig out all sorts of stuff that was buried away, and recall events and dates (sometimes with the aid of my wife and others) which were already only dimly … Continue reading

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Film nominations!

I’m trying to pull together the suggestions for additional movies as they come through on twitter – let me know if I’ve missed any, and keep them coming : ) Carol suggests: Inception (great for the ‘worlds’ theme too); Metropolis; … Continue reading

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Chat transcript

Here’s the transcript from Tuesday evening’s chat. Thanks to everyone who came along and made it so enjoyable – next one is Thursday 29th at 8pm. Remember the ‘twittorial’ continues until Sunday, so do keep tweeting thoughts on all this … Continue reading

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Thoughts on HAND

My initial thoughts while reading the Hand article were that the idea of a “Global Information Culture” (p 16) is a nice idea, but still far from reality.  The ‘western’ modern world, or first world nations may have access to … Continue reading

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getting to grips…..

Just starting to mess around with my blog and think about my lifestream. It’s like one of those exercises where you are asked to think creatively and your mind goes blank…or at least mine does! I am looking through some … Continue reading

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BAT Life Wall – Refining the Idea

I have found the development of the “Life Wall” a very interesting experience, and sort of went to town on developing something that potentially could be reused in different contexts and used by others. Here are some notes I am making … Continue reading

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BAT Life Wall

I have been inspired by the WallWisher and ideas for creative media in some of the course guides for the MSc in e-Learning… and have begun to think of ways to explore the use of tags and clippings to let … Continue reading

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Semester starts today

Welcome all to the official start of semester! It’s great to have you on EDC this year. We still have a few people arriving so the list of course participants may yet change, but basically we are all on board … Continue reading

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Welcome to my MSc in e-Learning EDC11 Blog

I am pleased to announce the creation of my bog for the MSc in e-Learning at http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/austint/ Feeds on my LifeStream are being aggregated from myself and my virtual worlds avatar “Ai Austin”.  They initially include Twitter (@batate and @aiaiaustin), … Continue reading

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