This is my showcase presentation for the project.
It in some way involves this list of programs and tools:
Paint
Powerpoint
BeFunky
Windows Movie Maker
Audacity
Jazzware
Freecorder
Three different file converters.
It isn't the most stringent research project. It's all about the tools. I have made a presentation giving basic details on remix culture, using a variety of interesting pictures, video and music to give it vibrancy.
The song during the pictures after 'Dude, You have no Qu'ran' is a MIDI composition of mine on Jazzware.
Note: The youtube video I link immediately after the pictures was intended to be in the movie itself but I had troubles with corrupt files. My only option was to provide that link which rather ruins the flow. I recommend pausing at that moment to look at the youtube video first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV7ZYlHJmwA
Double Note: The sound plays up on YouTube aswell. It's 5am. I"m going to bed. Marj, if you want the video properly email me I'll send it. If that still doesn't work which it probably won't come to my house.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Facebook on Toondoo
Sometimes the only way to really tap into the quirky and eclectic nature of Facebook is to let the horse's mouth do the talking. Here I have used the to be honest tedious, but very enjoyable and certainly unique program TOONDOO to create a lighthearted comic based entirely around a set of around eight or nine anonymous facebook posts in the appearing on my wall in the psst 48 hours.
Any line surrounded by speech marks is a direct facebook quote. Enjoy. :)
http://www.toondoo.com//ViewBook.toon?bookid=247517
Any line surrounded by speech marks is a direct facebook quote. Enjoy. :)
http://www.toondoo.com//ViewBook.toon?bookid=247517
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Mindomo
Mind-mapping has always been a useful tool in fleshing out detailed sets of ideas and focusing vague plans in some sort of workable direction. This is particularly appropriate for this assignment. I used Mindomo to brainstorm various ideas for my production project and have uploaded the mind-map below. It isn't meant to be any sort of complete summary of the topics or tools. It is me laying out in two sections, the tools I have found most useful out of which I will use a few for my production project, and the main general topics I find important and will refer to in my creations.
Although Mindomo is fairly simple, and its video tutorial is of great help, it is still a program which provides some frustration. It has some unusual quirks in its interface but the main problem I find is that as a presentation format it lacks the open spatial dimensions of traditional hand-drawn mind-maps. I'm used to the idea of mind-maps as spider style, with legs coming off in 360 degrees around a centrepoint and creating something quite circular. Mindomo is very linear though, it doesn't allow you to freely put things wherever you like and as a consequence it can often get crowded and complicated.
The image my map is it may need some zoom to read closer because of these difficulties.
Although Mindomo is fairly simple, and its video tutorial is of great help, it is still a program which provides some frustration. It has some unusual quirks in its interface but the main problem I find is that as a presentation format it lacks the open spatial dimensions of traditional hand-drawn mind-maps. I'm used to the idea of mind-maps as spider style, with legs coming off in 360 degrees around a centrepoint and creating something quite circular. Mindomo is very linear though, it doesn't allow you to freely put things wherever you like and as a consequence it can often get crowded and complicated.
The image my map is it may need some zoom to read closer because of these difficulties.
Friday, October 29, 2010
CULT3020
This blog is a part of my production project for the CULT3020 class at Newcastle Uni. Of all the different and wildly creative forms of online communication technology, blogging is simultaneously one of the very simplest and one of the most versatile. The simplicity and openness of the blog allows for the easy sharing of knowledge and opinions, and within the community of blog-readers and writers, adds huge amounts to potential learning environments.
Blogs allow for a new and distinctly 21st century style of learning, where the strict structures of academia can give away to greater freedoms for people to interpret and present their learning experience in a dynamic way. Scholarly pursuits remain prevalent though and are in fact made even more convenient through the ability of blogs to provide words from, links to and opinions on academic works.
In a 1999 work, Allen analyzed the potential of the internet as a facilitator of learning and academic discourse within higher education.
"The Really important step forward that universities can take is to begin fostering communities that are less specifically connected to units and are, instead, about issues, subjects, disciplines or professions and which are distinct from those already forming in the virtual world of the Internet by being associated with overall courses offered by that university. Student membership of these communities should become integral to their course completion; where necessary, whole components of the course should become (instead of 'study') knowledge-based community participation (Allen 1999)
Jeremy Williams and Joanne Jacobs interpret this as particularly applicable to the idea of blogs. In their 2004 work Williams and Jacobs specifically research the capability of blogs as learning spaces within higher education. By studying a set of students participating in a course involving work with blogs, they deduced that students enthusiastically agree with and promote the use of blogs within coursework. It is important to note that as time passes the already overwhelming majority of Generation Y people within student communities continue to increase. University demographics are increasingly internet-savvy, with youth raised in the 1990s. I think it's important that internet communication tools are used to modernise and revitalise stagnant education systems. Obviously it goes without saying that the internet's databasing of scholarly material is helpful to academia and that social networking sites like Facebook are communication revolutions. But technologies like Blogs sit in an extremely important middle position between these two extremes, with structures and interfaces well suited to academic pursuits but the equal element of informality, diversity and reader feedback.
For this project I'll be using this blog as a kind of home base. I'll be providing in each post a piece of creative production relating to the course themes, using a few different online tools.
References.
Williams, J & Jacobs, J (2004). Exploring the use of blogs as learning spaces in the higher education sector. Australasian Journal Of Educational Technology, 20 (2), pp 232-247
Allen, M (1999). Don't be a troll! Using the Internet for successful higher education.
Blogs allow for a new and distinctly 21st century style of learning, where the strict structures of academia can give away to greater freedoms for people to interpret and present their learning experience in a dynamic way. Scholarly pursuits remain prevalent though and are in fact made even more convenient through the ability of blogs to provide words from, links to and opinions on academic works.
In a 1999 work, Allen analyzed the potential of the internet as a facilitator of learning and academic discourse within higher education.
"The Really important step forward that universities can take is to begin fostering communities that are less specifically connected to units and are, instead, about issues, subjects, disciplines or professions and which are distinct from those already forming in the virtual world of the Internet by being associated with overall courses offered by that university. Student membership of these communities should become integral to their course completion; where necessary, whole components of the course should become (instead of 'study') knowledge-based community participation (Allen 1999)
Jeremy Williams and Joanne Jacobs interpret this as particularly applicable to the idea of blogs. In their 2004 work Williams and Jacobs specifically research the capability of blogs as learning spaces within higher education. By studying a set of students participating in a course involving work with blogs, they deduced that students enthusiastically agree with and promote the use of blogs within coursework. It is important to note that as time passes the already overwhelming majority of Generation Y people within student communities continue to increase. University demographics are increasingly internet-savvy, with youth raised in the 1990s. I think it's important that internet communication tools are used to modernise and revitalise stagnant education systems. Obviously it goes without saying that the internet's databasing of scholarly material is helpful to academia and that social networking sites like Facebook are communication revolutions. But technologies like Blogs sit in an extremely important middle position between these two extremes, with structures and interfaces well suited to academic pursuits but the equal element of informality, diversity and reader feedback.
For this project I'll be using this blog as a kind of home base. I'll be providing in each post a piece of creative production relating to the course themes, using a few different online tools.
References.
Williams, J & Jacobs, J (2004). Exploring the use of blogs as learning spaces in the higher education sector. Australasian Journal Of Educational Technology, 20 (2), pp 232-247
Allen, M (1999). Don't be a troll! Using the Internet for successful higher education.
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