View a selection of the items you find and take notes about what you see. You could use the following questions to inform your viewing: What kinds of information do you get from viewing rather than reading? What kinds of video clip have been made available? What issues do the video clips focus on? Can […]

Multiple choice questioners. Mode of assessment which can easily be implemented on online sites. Validity depends on type of questions posed & feedback given. Questions posed in this quiz skim only parts of Block 1.  Some questions are too superfluous, for example: The Evolution MegaLab project (there was an activity about it in Week 2) […]

Wesch’s  idea was to define Web 2.0. Through his video, The Machine is Us/ing Us, he’s trying to explain how differently from the original web, normal users are the producers in web 2.0 (example YouTube). This is a new type of platform where the normal user becomes the new star; ‘the cyber star’. Comparing the […]

The video is very interesting as it immedietly makes the viewer aware of the differences between written and electronic text. Then it goes on explaining the evolution of the web from static text to today’s dynamic & interactive web.  Whilst viewing this video I beganreflecting on the added value I’m gaining through the use of my blog for the H800 […]

McLuhan’s discussion of participation isn’t exactly convincing. He mentions the idea of having  the audience act as the producer but at the same his idea of participation is linked to the use of different media to ‘view’ the same action. I don’t know if I am getting this correctly but here McLuhan is focusing on […]

OF MIND AND MEDIA Text  is available all the time, detail is written down. Through the different education stages I passed through, there was a great emphasis on the use of books for studying and of paper to jot down notes. Even later, when doing my Cisco certifications, although all the material was available online , […]

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