Seo Sang Don (서상돈) of Daegu, Korea: revisiting my wife’s great great-grandfather
Michael GallagherSeo Sang Don mural near Gyesan Cathedral and his house. My wife and I spent a day in Daegu (대구), Korea retracing the steps and imprint of her great great-grandfather,…
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…
Mobile Learning and History in Higher Education (Part 2): Disciplinary Practice of History
The second part of this series of posts is the disciplinary subject in question, namely History. Following this will be a post/small Review of Literature for the intersections of mobile…
The DMZ in Korea: from tragedy to conservation to bottled water
I had written a blog postover a year ago about the DMZ between North and South Korea as a nature preserve due to it's lack of human contact for 60…
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…
Off to Insadong for some detective work for Hyun family: mobile learning in Seoul
Slight addendum to previous post. The Supyo address I was documenting yesterday was in fact the head of household address, ie my wife's great-grandfather. After consulting the registry again, I…
Images from old Seoul from Flickr’s The Commons
There won't be much by ay of explanation here except to say that The Commons on Flickr are an absolute treasure trove of historical imagery and I wanted to share…