Pedagogy of Simultaneity (PoS): Exploring learning in the intersecting, concurring spaces
Michael Gallagher Background and a Dialogue of Ideas Before I go too far, the PoS site can be found here. I have been working for the last year, casually, with Pekka Ihanainen…
Higher Education
Need for guides in open learning: Virgil and Fitzgerald as instructional facilitation
I think it is important to think holistically about the field of elearning, mlearning, and open learning (particularly of the massive variety) as it undergoes significant evolution. I am not…
Iconic images, collages, assembly: multimodal storytelling presentation
I was putting together a presentation I am giving soon at the University of Edinburgh via Second Life. It is on multimodal composition in the Humanities via mobile technology, which…
Timbuktu Manuscripts as Artifacts
This is a post a bit outside the norm for this blog, so apologies. I have just been processing the devastating initial reports about the burning of many of the…
Artifacts vs. products in new media: unfinished and incomplete
I passively accepted the use of the term ‘artifacts’ when referring to knowledge constructions and only now have I paused to think of why I was so accepting of it.…
Learning artifacts created or inspired by Elearning & Digital Cultures course (2010) ahead of #edcmooc
This post was inspired by the upcoming Elearning & Digital Cultural MOOC being offered by the good people at the MSc in Elearning at the University of Edinburgh. I recommend…
Community of Practice & Multimodality (Part 3): Semiotic assemblies and salient characteristics of ‘new’ texts
Reader: this is Part 3, the final part. I wanted to take the time to say that I appreciate your patience in this journey. I promise to post something frivolous…