Phone Commercials and Changing Mobile Media Practices: Relentless creation

I feel I know what marketing and advertising is about. I am aware of how it is designed to manipulate emotions, harken back to some real or imagined nostalgia, epitomize what we want and how we want to get it. I worked a bit in marketing, crafted text to such effect, framed banners and logos […]

Taipei ambient sounds: audio backdrop of a book conference, more din

I was in Taipei, Taiwan last week for a very large book conference. I wrote a blog post about this a few days ago, but wanted to revisit this with a different context. I use Audiboo quite a bit to record ambient noise of the places I go and Taipei was no exception. I made […]

The contradictions of ambient audio: flip sides of a protest in Mapo, Seoul from the 23rd floor

I posted a few weeks ago on the use of Audioboo for ambient cityscape audio, capturing and geolocating audio clips from various parts of the city. Specifically, I was posting about Seoul, the same landscape I am discussing here. When I first got here (1998-2006), I was enamored by the protest culture. Koreans take to the […]

Elearning and the torrents of sound; some thoughts on sound in elearning

Working on a research project at the University of Edinburgh that is meant to explore the notion of space for elearners, namely what does it mean to be at a university (in this case, the University of Edinburgh) without physically being there. How do we position ourselves, orient ourselves as elearners? Some fascinating research that […]

Mobile history and data capture in the field: Hyun (현) family street in Insadong (인사동), Jongno Gu (종로구) in Seoul

I will spare everyone the ongoing epic poem I am crafting of my love for mobile learning, except to say that I did all of the following using only my iPhone and had most of the elements online (described, positioned, and tagged) by the time I got off the subway coming home (<20 minutes). What […]

Siri voice programming: offloading process & optimizing reflective attention

(even the examples highlighted for Siri are either process oriented or low-order (low attention) cognitive tasks) I think of Siri and the automation (programming) of routine, how its greatest contribution to the learning discussion might be the reclaiming of cognitive capacity (and time) from process. Siri is significant if not for it what it is then […]

Modern literacies and music composition: To compose and to perform?

I have been doing some thinking about modern literacies recently. What does it mean to be literate in an information driven world? Does literacy pertain to technological skills, the ability to navigate a series of systems and tools? Does literacy refer to traditional textual literacy, the ability to read, write, and disseminate textual information? Or […]