Last week I went through the course material about surveys, and we were asked to design a little survey on Web 2.0 tools. I decided to analyse one of my own existing survey designs instead.
While this particular survey was … Read the rest
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Starting to craft my research method
This is my first blog post for the SOCRMx MOOC Introduction to Social Research Methods. In this introduction week, we were supposed to start thinking about research methods.
There was a quiz in the MOOC that was supposed to help … Read the rest
#mscidel retrospective
I would like to close my IDEL course blog with a review of the past 12 weeks.
Building a community
We have started our journey with tasks that helped familiarising ourselves with the various learning environments, such as Moodle, the … Read the rest
Multimodal vs. multimedia
During the last week’s discussions and readings, I have encountered the term multimodality quite a few times. Fitzpatrick (2011) refers specifically to multimodality as:
… Read the rest“Something more than simply multimedia; it’s not just a new relationship between text and image, or
The information (r)evolution
While I was reading Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s essay (2011) about the digital future of authorship, I remembered Michael Wesch’s videos about:
The Machine is using us
Information R/evolution
I agree with Fitzpatrick (2011) that the shift from typewriter to word processor … Read the rest
Merging identities
Gee (2004) states that learning in semiotic domains always involves some kind of identity work in the form of taking on new identities and forming bridges between old identities. People in Western cultures define their identity often through their knowledge … Read the rest
Critique on ROMA in Second Life
We have been asked to write a critique of an educational resource in Second Life (SL).
I spent so much time in Second Life searching for a suitable educational resource, I think I have had an overdose of it now. … Read the rest
Avatars – why appearance matters
It took me a while to get used to Second Life. When I first tried to modify my avatar’s appearance, she lost her torso and legs, so I wandered around with a transparent body. My experience of being present in … Read the rest
Learning spaces
Law and Mol (2001) suggest that social relations exist in multiple, coexisting spaces overlapping each other. They are borrowing metaphors from topology to define these four spaces as:
- Regions
- Network
- Fluid
- Fire
As distance learners we deal with all four … Read the rest
The cyber-metamorphosis
The word cyberspace sounds a bit outdated and too “spacy” for our actual interpretation of the virtual world. Nevertheless, there are some new word formations like cybercrime, cyberwar and cyberterrorism that are very tangible these days. It seems that the … Read the rest