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…
Technology
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…
Euston Station and Kings Cross Station, London: Sounds of transit and motion
Sound and Train Stations: Space and Context I recorded a few more Audioboo posts on my recent travels to Manchester and Cambridge, respectively. I am kicking myself for not recording…
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…
Engaging the material university: (simple) thoughts from a left-handed elearner
I have only just begun this PhD program at the Institute of Education, but I thought I would make my whole doctoral process as transparent as possible. This will include…
Pragmatic Mobile Technology Use in Malawi for mHealth
I have been facilitating the Week 3 Session on Mobiles for Development (M4D) for MobiMOOC and a few days ago we had a speaker from Malawi, Limbanazo Kapindula, discussing mhealth…