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A strange disconnected week. I spent much of my time at Glasgow Sheriff Court waiting to see if I would be picked for jury duty and pondering what it is to be human in a place where the complexities, the … Continue reading →

I started watching this clip (it is long at 50 mins), and I have to say it blew me away.  In 1963 Dr. Robert White of Cleveland Medical Hospital performed the first experiment to keep the brain alive outside the … Continue reading →

It doesn’t look like I have done very much this week but that is misleading.  Much of my time has been lost in trying to either connect or re-connect to the Internet.  For example, I could either access this site … Continue reading →

“…Being digital without being human…” I keep reading it over and over, and can’t decide if I like the statement or not, if I agree, or not.  What does it mean to be human?  Do we exist separately both in … Continue reading →

In preparation for the lifestream assessment, I have renamed this post from the original “Communities” to the summary for this block as I felt it more appropriate.  While I have left the original text as is, I have added some … Continue reading →

When tasked with doing a micro-ethnography I tossed around many ideas… blogging the study, PowerPoint, etc, but I finally settled on using Prezi… honestly because I had never used it, and I wanted to try it.  Hopefully the final project … Continue reading →

Is Cayman News Service an online community? Created and posted on Prezi Unfortunately despite having the possibility to embed the link code and player from Prezi, it does not appear to work within the framework of this site.  Please follow … Continue reading →

My lifestream this week has been taken up with looking at three areas, the latter two as preparation for deciding on and writing my assignment: the posthuman; politics, digital culture and e-learning; and transliteracy. I have to admit, on the … Continue reading →