How Life is Like Dinner Theatre: On Embracing Participatory Culture
First watch this: This was indeed life not too long ago. Until, perhaps, the “YOU” was inserted as a prefix to “TUBE”, among other advances. In the ’80s, I recall … Continue reading
“Digital Life”: an augmented music video parody #edcmooc final artifact
For the final assessment task in the “E-Learning and Digital Cultures” MOOC (#etmooc) we were asked to, in the form of a digital artifact/artefact “express a question, an idea, a … Continue reading
The Mona Lisa Effect: or Why Da Vinci Would Have Loved Skateboarding
First off, I’m sticking with this title, even though there’s some buzz on the Internet about a very different sort of “Mona Lisa Effect”. Most of us are quite familiar … Continue reading
Poetry, Music, Sunrise, and Puppies: What Equilibrium Tells Us About Being Human #edcmooc
When thinking of what it means to be “human”, I keep coming back to the 2002 Christian (love him!) Bale film “Equilibrium”, a dystopian look at the future where emotions … Continue reading
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