You’re into the challenging part of the course now. Or rather, the ‘get out what you put in part’. But it’s also exciting, because if you can find some useful ideas to help you reach an audience, you are creating very valuable knowledge. If nothing works, that’s ok too – treat this as a test run for your last assessment task, and future projects…
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The Philosophies of Difference group (PoD)
Something that may be of interest to some of you – particularly those interested in engaging with feminist theory. The PoD are running a free seminar tomorrow night (Wednesday 20th April) at 6PM. For more details see the rest of this post:
Lecture schedule
A couple of people have mentioned that they are not sure which weeks include F2F lectures to attend, and which are online. To clarify:
Week 7: Online Lecture
Week 8: Public Holiday – No Lecture
Week 9: F2F Lecture – attend
Week 10: F2F Guest Lecture – attend
Week 11: Online lecture
Week 12: Online lecture
I was hoping to record the remaining F2F lectures but this option was unavailable, so please come along to week 9 & 10.
Week 6 Workshop
We’re getting into some hefty theoretical territory now. Don’t fear, making sense of this stuff is what we’re trying to do. This week’s reading is challenging, but on the plus side, it’s an exceptionally eloquent examination of what are very complex perspectives. Hannah’s lecture will help you get your head around it too, and give some insight into it’s relevance.
Bring on the chit-chat.
Week 5 Workshop
By now we should have built ourselves a nice little network of blogs and content creators. Hopefully you have been reading each other’s blogs, leaving comments, and contributing to an ongoing conversation, whatever that might be. If you haven’t been, you should start doing so.
Now, let’s take some steps outside our micro blogosphere, and start connecting more with the WWW.
A history of the internet – some thoughts
The BBC doco on internet history (additional Resource for this week) provides a comprehensive and balanced take on the emergence of internet infrastructure and online cultures. Their discussion on Wikipedia and interview with Ory okolloh (founder of Ushahidi) makes me think of Landow’s suggestion of hypertext environments as “a model of society or conversations in which no one conversation, no one discipline or ideology dominates or founds the others.” (Landow 2006:123)
How the internet works
In the lecture this week I mentioned a video that explains how information data is accessed and distributed online, in a bit more detail that I did. You can find it here.
I know that this may not interest a lot of you, but the idea is about developing a deeper understanding of what goes on when we create content online. Also it’s less than 5 minutes long, so worth watching!
What you’re writing – Week 4
Lots of good work happening on the blogs, heres a quick digest of some students to check out:
Alana makes some good notes about engaging blogs, and Amalie lists the ways in which she wants to personalise her blog
Cass finds some valid issues with Instagram
Lexie shares some thoughts on active blogging (and/or jogging?)
Belynda critiques 2 hypertext examples with a personal angle, and Karl examines Hypertext in Social Media spaces
Heather & Daisy share their thoughts on Copyright and Creative Commons, and Shantelle looks at rights online
Louis has found a good way to integrate photography into the broader narrative of his blog
Natalie has found her niche
Great reflection on Hypertexts by Juliet including her explanation of what they are, how they work, and an example to boot
Natasha explores the heuristic nature of blogs
Dominic has discovered a great alternative photo sharing community for himself
Dylan provides his take on network literacy, and Cat discusses her strategy for demonstrating it
Sally discusses a media sharing site introduced to her by Annie
Let Caitlin know what you think of her vocal performance on a Demo for Tina Arena
Student Blog links – Tuesday Workshops
See below for a list of Netmed student blogs. This isn’t quite everyone, only students who have added their blog URL to their Assessment Google Doc (thank you to those who have).
Week 4 Workshop
So far, weeks 1-3 have mostly involved building basic skills, knowledge and awareness about blogging. By now, if you’ve been working hard on your blog, it may be starting to get a little messy – this is ok. At this point we’re going to start looking at ways to organise our content to provide an ideas experience for our readers.
At the end of the video lecture for this week, there are two resource’s to check out: Joyce’s Twelve Blue and Prezi – Engaging Blogs . Have a look at each of these (before the workshop) and think about these questions:
- What makes them hypertexts (or not?)
- How do they enhance (or detract from) your experience of story?
- What are they lacking? What would you do differently?
More workshop here: