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E-learning & Digital Cultures
http://digitalculture-ed.net/tracys/
This blog is the online record of my E-learning & Digital Culture course, part of my MSc in E-learning with the University of Edinburgh. But don't let that stop you commenting!
- Added on: Oct 11th, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Tracy Dumais
- Listed in: eLearning Social Media
- Tags: education Culture web2.0 social networking e-learning lifestream
Recent Posts
Week 12: lifestream summary
This entry is part 12 of 12 in the series weekly summaries I began my lifestream with a sense that I would be saving ephemera. In my early blog posts I played with the ‘why?’ of the activity. Was I creating commonplace book, a scrapbook of no...
Week 11 summary: Authority
This entry is part 11 of 12 in the series weekly summariesAfter speaking with Jen I decided to do my final assessment on authority, in particular how we sometimes feel that authority is compromised in digital spaces and what if anything we (should?) ...
Week 10 summary: embracing the uncanny
This entry is part 10 of 12 in the series weekly summaries Our new pedagogies may be uncanny but it was with a sigh of relief I returned to the familiar realm of education. The jaunt through cultural studies has been extremely interesting, but I wa...
Week 9 summary: (re)cognising the cognisphere
I was getting quite frustrated with the readings on cyborgs and posthumans, not that they weren’t interesting, but they were so embedded in western ideas of self and being and what it is to human (and therefore cease to be human) that I was be...
week 8 summary: is pending
more later...
Cyborg life through Aimee Mullins’ eyes
Aimee Mullins was the guest editor for Gizmodo’s current theme This Cyborg Life. The weekly theme explored many areas, but stuck mainly with the focus on medical / physical prosthesis. I found it while looking for cyborg related content an...
