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Digital communication… or lack of

This has been a week of problems with applications and Internet connection.  It’s part of life here that Internet connection can be intermittent.  Although I pay for higher bandwidth, the connection is extremely slow. Whenever I complain I’m told that … Continue reading

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Visual artifact

  After reading the comments I thought it appropriate to provide a closer view of the elements I chose for my artifact: Johnny 5 A.I. DATA Marvin

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visual excellence!

The visual artefacts that have come in so far are really great – remember to take a look and give some feedback, and also to try to get your own up over the next few days, if you haven’t already. … Continue reading

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Uncanny pedagogy: Fear or fascination in digital learning environments

Here’ a link to my visual artefact. http://www.flickr.com/photos/68574450@N03/6238623494/ Looking forward to your comments!

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Visual artefact

Here’s the link to my visual artefact. I decided to use glogster as it seemed quite simple for my simple technological skills and because it allowed me to create an aggregation of images, videos, links and text that had to … Continue reading

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Week three: Transliteracy, metaliteracy…..Carol’s head explodes!

Last week’s and this week’s ‘theme’ of visual literacies has provided me with more (literally) eye-opening ideas, links, and resources than is possible to deal with in two weeks. I have loved the pages that my fellow students and tutors … Continue reading

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Words and things that go bump in the night

Kress* contends that words are empty and have to be filled with meaning. The language Sian** uses in her article e.g. uncanny, phantoms, spectres, haunting and ghostliness is a good example, in my view, of words being far from empty. … Continue reading

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How exactly is the ‘world told’ different to the ‘world shown’?

  The world told The world shown Makes explicit types of relation – causality, agency and power are explicit. Makes explicit position in a framed space – relations of entities made explicit. Objects are vaguely specified Objects are fully specified … Continue reading

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Week 3 Summary

A fairly quiet week for me due to personal obligations, but I was able to attend the Skype chat…  glad I made it since there were some interesting discussions. Bayne: Reflecting upon the readings for this week, I tweeted about … Continue reading

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Is scholarly blogging an oxymoron?

Work demands has made it difficult for me to fully engage with Week 3.  None of my schools have Internet access at the moment so my evenings are spent playing catch-up.  I did some of the readings and I had … Continue reading

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