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Week 10 Lifestream summary

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

This week, like last week I have been mainly considering my final assignment and getting my Lifestream into some kind of order ready for submission. I was unable to participate in this weeks skype session as we STILL have no internet connection at home (something about the house being very old, blah, blah!). My Lifestream shows evidence of researching around the topic of Transliteracy for my assignment. Although I am unsure of the actual title I have decided upon this topic in some form so am doing some general research. I have been using twitter, delicious and tumblr to display my findings, Im hoping that something will really jump out at me soon and make me want to delve even further!

Reflecting on the last ten weeks I have found some of the topics incredibly engaging and others some what of a challenge, particularly Haraway and our cyborg week! I intend to revisit many of the core and secondary readings in order to pull together our topics from the last ten weeks and feed them into my assignment. I am still very undecided about my method of presentation but am trying to think more about the content at the moment.

Week 9 lifestream summary

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Admittedly there hasn’t been as much activity in my lifestream this week. This may be due to one of two things. I have been struck down with one of my students many colds and therefore have a very fuzzy head OR it may be because I have struggled to get to grips with the whole concept of being a cyborg and posthumanisim, and found Hararway particularly hard going. (The lack of understanding may therefore have been a result of the cold!). I came across a youtube video and posted this to my lifestream. This video, “Donna Haraways’ a manifesto to cyborgs, a youtube presentation” certainly helped me to get my head around her ideas and theories a little better.

I have started to consider my essay topic and methods of presentation. At the moment I am considering exploring transliteracy and how offline methods of communication, teaching and learning have been developed and translated into online forms. The concept of Lifeworlds also interests me. I am going to revisit Sue Thomas’ core reading and delve a little further in week ten.