Writing Tools and Transformative Effect: Scrivener
Michael Gallagher My research (which relies heavily on Lave & Wenger’s Community of Practice, less so on Kress’s Multimodality, throw in some mobility theory) has me thinking in terms of mediation and…
Higher Education
Learning Design, Offline Structure, Pattern Language, Participatory Design, Doozers
My doctoral work has led me, in these beginning few months, in some directions I had not anticipated, but I suppose that is the point fo the whole exercise. Supposing,…
New Media Ontologies and the Technological Unconscious
I am making my way through a weekend of reading, mostly on participatory design processes and how I might relate those to my research on mobile environments for Humanities practice…
Mapping out multimodal methods for mobile (and alliterating, apparently)
Community and Multimodality: Laying out a Disciplinary Flow I am making my way through the first few rounds of rewrites on my thesis and all is going well. As I…
Redefining my research focus: multimodality, role augmentation, and Korea
I have spent the last week or so working through my feedback from my supervisors, much of which has caused me to rework my original research proposal. I wrote about…
Vygotsky’s theoretical construct as city: Life is a constant feeling of effervescence
I am knee-deep in the normal rounds of doctoral reading that someone with any remote connection to the liberal arts, education, or even just doctoral school is bound to read.…
Manipulation of ambient environments; learning the aural context of geography
The Brute Power of Visual Representation That is a fairly grandiose title for a post that might underwhelm, but I am revisiting my Audioboo recordings and listening to the sounds…