We’ve been thinking through the “Awakening” of the Digital Imagination all semester, and today the New Media Seminar concludes with Scott McCloud’s “Time Frames” and Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal for the HTTP protocol that created the World Wide Web. Now that the Web is in it’s twenty-fifth year I wonder how we might think about […]
McCloud made me think about how we can take a closer look at the new media platforms that we have. In the same way that he digs into the mechanics of comics and deepens their meaning, we can do the…
At the end of an evening of tinkering — fiddling, exploring and stirring — tired and scattered, but invigorated by newly-made connections and the promise of more coherence tomorrow, I offer these modified nuggets-cum-stepping stones from the learning webs of Ivan Illich to those of the 21st-Century connected course. 1) From the introduction to De-Schooling […]
It’s week thirteen of the semester and I no longer pretend I’m going to catch up. Read, make, watch and blog half of what I want to for Connected Courses? Revise and submit the Belyaev fox paper? Pick up the threads of chapter four of Space Dogs? Nope. Not going to happen. Because when you […]
I remember going with friends to a bar sometime in the 1970s in which the game “Pong” became the centerpiece of activities. My friends and I competed to see who could get the highest score. I found the game fun, but I didn’t want to throw away all those quarters just to see if I […]
This is one of the first readings that feels very “current” in the sense of my daily work. In the world of web development, the work of designing user interfaces (UI) has given way to a much better conversation about designing user experiences (UX). To me, this is what Brenda Laurel was getting to with […]
Video games are imaginative play. Step into any pre-school classroom and you will encounter imaginative play. Children have no hang-ups and can easily immerse themselves in a character and play. We learn to edit ourselves as we age and grow boundaries that prevent us from experimenting with this type of play as we grow. BUT […]
I was struck immediately by the idea of working backwards from the big picture not towards it. As a musician we are taught to break everything down into manageable pieces and building blocks. We work on each layer and stack them on top of each other to complete the whole. The metaphors are endless here and I probably use […]
I caught a glimpse of the orange sign on my way to the conference hotel. “David Bowie Is.” “I am going,” I promised myself. Best. Decision. Ever. Even if you are too young to remember Ziggy Pop, or cringed through the “Let’s Dance” era, this exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art is worth whatever […]
