http://digitalculture-ed.net/sibyller Part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:43:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en End-of-lifestream summary What is a lifestream? The lifestream functions as a diary of a student’s electronic life (Freeman and Gelernter, quoted in Wikipedia) and in this course it also demonstrated “engagement with the academic themes and content of the course” (Course Guide, p.8). Categories of my lifestream Looking back over my lifestream, my entries ... http://digitalculture-ed.net/sibyller/2009/12/13/end-of-lifestream-summary/ This is nearly the last week of the semester and I've been trying to find a topic and some idea of a structure for the final essay. I've been uploading some of pages from the websites I want to work with onto the lifestream and posted some thoughts on the ... http://digitalculture-ed.net/sibyller/2009/12/07/end-of-week-11/ I'd like to do the final essay on "Online language courses in the digital age" I'm drawn towards this topic because I'd like to investigate online courses a bit closer and I'd like to see how they fit in with the ideas of cyborg pedagogy and multimodality which we've been discussing ... http://digitalculture-ed.net/sibyller/2009/12/04/more-thoughts-about-the-final-essay/ This week has just zoomed by. I've been trying to get a grip on what is meant by cyborg pedagogy. I think this means taking into account the fact that we are inextricably bound to technology and using this to our and the students' advantage when we teach.  Various texts ... http://digitalculture-ed.net/sibyller/2009/11/30/end-of-week-10/ I've been reading Sian's manifesto on uncanny digital pedagogies.  I think it is really well structured and shows up very well which areas are affected and challenged by digital culture. She describes how being put into strange environments, being estranged from yourself through a disonance of body and soul, and ... http://digitalculture-ed.net/sibyller/2009/11/27/reading-bayne-academetron-automaton-phantom-uncanny-digital-pedagogies/ This week I've been discovering a few new ideas for myself: 1. I've still been looking at some of the ethnographies. The great variety of these seem to show up some facts about the internet that we had been dealing with from the start: The virtual communities have utopian elements (such ... http://digitalculture-ed.net/sibyller/2009/11/22/end-of-week-9/ Grammar writing listening http://digitalculture-ed.net/sibyller/2009/11/21/trying-this-out/ Muri's central argument against the idea of disembodiment seems to be that there is too much literal shit being produced for anyone to seriously think we are being disembodied. Obviously, she is right. We're still here and there are more and more of us all the time. She is also ... http://digitalculture-ed.net/sibyller/2009/11/20/of-shit-and-the-soul/ My favourite quote of the day from Gies: "How material are cyberbodies? Broadband internet and embodied subjectivity" "It is important to stress, however, that rather than taking us into entirely new directions, our ‘cyber selves’ (Aas, 2007) constitute merely an additional layer to already densely structured social identities." This seems to be ... http://digitalculture-ed.net/sibyller/2009/11/19/cyberselves-as-additional-layers/ This text is an argument for a view of the posthuman which is more networked. In this sense it continues the development from Hayles text "Toward embodied virtuality" where she was arguing for a collective sense of identity. Embodiment was a key issue of this earlier text and "a recognition ... http://digitalculture-ed.net/sibyller/2009/11/17/hayles-from-cyborg-to-cognisphere/