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Oct
21
Week four: The eye of the beholder…..
October 21, 2011 | 52 Comments
The latter half of week 4 has been taken up with the posting of and commenting on our visual artefacts. What has become clear, if it wasn’t before, is just how much a visual representation of any kind is not, as Kress (2005) suggested, a specific symbol, but has as much interpretation involved in [...]
Oct
12
Visual artefact
October 12, 2011 | 8 Comments
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 be thought about as a whole as well as the sum of parts. The poster [...]
Oct
12
Week three: Transliteracy, metaliteracy…..Carol’s head explodes!
October 12, 2011 | 7 Comments
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 have pointed me in the direction of and those that I’ve found, very often, serendipitously. [...]
Oct
4
Week two: Rhizomes and portals
October 4, 2011 | 94 Comments
I’ve been looking back at how my lifestream developed last week, keeping in mind my thoughts on its, possible, randomness and it struck me that, rather than random it was developing in a different way than we normally expect any piece of writing to do so. So I took a look back at Deleuze and [...]
Sep
27
Week one: Floating down the lifestream…..
September 27, 2011 | 5 Comments
The first week of getting my Lifestream going has been challenging both in terms of getting to grips with the technology of the blog and conceiving a way of having a Lifestream that is not too random a collection of tweets, links and so on. Or perhaps a Lifestream should be random if one [...]
Sep
20
getting to grips…..
September 20, 2011 | 3 Comments
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 of the suggestions for feeds but, for the moment, sticking with twitter and trying to [...]