tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41214394752655476292024-02-06T21:01:46.246-08:00Digital DiscussionsRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10714023966007153802noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121439475265547629.post-43703412091921018752013-09-18T18:58:00.001-07:002014-07-21T20:00:16.217-07:00Out with the Old, in with the . . . MOOCs?Recently the semester stared. Without me. I have been a student most of my living memory, so to not be a student this semester is weird. It's throwing me off. So I am looking into ways to continue learning even after my degree. My first approach was TED talks and Khan Academy, but as September has worn on I wanted something that resembled an actual classroom more. So I decided to try out a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). I previously heard about Coursera (thanks, Katie Wilkie!), so I browsed the courses starting soon and found several I found interesting. I narrowed my selection down to the courses that seemed the most interesting to me. Then I enrolled in two: "Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative," which looks at the different ways Tolkein's <i>Lord of the Rings</i> is taken into different media, and "Understanding Media by Understanding Google."<br />
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I enrolled in two Coursera classes, and I'm interested to see how they go. A few things that are exciting:<br />
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<li>I get to learn about things I'm interested in, even though I'm not enrolled in a traditional university.</li>
<li>I get to interact, in real time (or delayed forum-time), with other people interested in learning about the same things that are interesting to me.</li>
<li>Teaching across this new medium could open up new ways to teach, and more ways to make education available to more people.</li>
<li>There are people from many places in the world participating in these courses. I hope to learn from the different peoples' perspecitives. One of the MOOCs I'm enrolled in has students from over 150 countries.</li>
<li>It's free.</li>
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But there are some things that make me wonder how this experience will actually work, and how the MOOC format will affect how much I am able to interact with other people and really learn the things the course is about. Here are some of those things:
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<li>There are 44,000 people enrolled in the course. Of those, I suspect only a fraction will stay with it the whole time; let's say a fourth of the people stay. That means that 11,000 people are posting on the forum, on the Google+ group, and participating in the class. There is NO WAY that I, just one student, could keep up with that. Not that I have to. But the constant Google+ notifications and emails are getting annoying, only 3 days into the course.</li>
<li>With such varied backgrounds, how do we have a starting point? What's the common denominator of people tuning in from all over the world?</li>
<li>How does a professor truly <i>teach</i> students that he or she never personally interacts with? Or even know the name of?</li>
<li>Will such a massive scale encourage thought and discussion on topics, or will it be too difficult to monitor even the threads you're participating in? </li>
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I'm interested to see how things will pan out. But for now, I see that MOOCs need to work out a few kinks before they take an established place in the world of further education.<br />
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And by the way, I structured this HTML mostly on my own! I'm learning HTML5 on Codecademy—I feel awesome. Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10714023966007153802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121439475265547629.post-40473599221725622262013-05-02T15:03:00.002-07:002013-05-02T15:03:27.057-07:00Beginnings of a New Kind of Publication?I'm working on a project right now where we're preparing academic articles to be more accessible to a worldwide audience. We've been editing them and preparing them for translation.<br />
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Just for a little background information, the main focus of the online publication is on religious articles, but we also want to have other things that are relevant to the church and its history. The purpose is to aid the readers in their religious scholarship by editing academic articles to be more appealing to a lay audience, and also in a way curating articles that might help in the readers' religious study.<br />
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The current model is to edit the articles, get the approval of the original publishers and authors, and then publish the articles on a website. The original idea was to create a print publication, but we determined that putting the information on a website met the needs of a wide audience better.<br />
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Something that has sat on the back of my mind for a while is that we're making such a great entrance into the world of academic research about our topic, but we're planning on just putting the information out there, then leaving it. That makes a static site, <a href="http://prezi.com/xapzu9ioi_g7/the-zombie-web/" target="_blank">zombie-esque</a>, if you will. We want to generate more interest and discussion than that. And from the digital culture class I took, I know there are so many more ways of using the resource of the internet than just posting and forgetting. I wondered if making the site more interactive would help us meet the purposes of the publication, hopefully in better ways than we thought of before.<br />
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So I'm going to pin down some of my ideas here.<br />
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The purpose of our publication is to encourage people to expand their knowledge of the Church and its doctrine. Our approach is to provide accessible versions of scholarly articles (meaning we shorten them and edit to include global English).<br />
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I wonder if we could enhance learning by providing more interactive means on the website. Here are a few things I've been thinking:<br />
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<li>Discussion boards. People could talk about the issues raised by the scholarly articles. A link to the discussion would be provided at the bottom of the article.</li>
<li>General discussion boards for gospel topics.</li>
<li>Some ways to connect people with other (online) resources. </li>
<li>We want people to be able to create connections, between people and between ideas.</li>
<li>Other ways to let them interact?</li>
<li>A connection to social media sites?</li>
<li>List questions the article raises? (This seems so didactic to me...especially since the information is supposed to be cross-cultural, and people from different backgrounds will probably see different questions in the articles. We don't want to discourage them from participating. How would this be a good thing?)</li>
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What are some other ways to create a place where people can come to talk about topics? How would we get the word out? What are ways we can engage people in a community so they can talk about things, not just read them?<br />
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I've heard people <a href="http://victorianswag.blogspot.com/2011/11/lost-art-of-letter-writing.html" target="_blank">lament</a> the death of the art of letter writing, and I'd have to agree that it seems that the way letters were once will probably never be again, at least on that grand of a scale. But I wonder if the lament is more than just a lament of the loss of the cursive, the folding, and the form of the content of the letter. I think what people are usually mourning is the loss of communication and beautiful words that letter-writing signifies.<br />
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So does the death of the letter mean that we don't communicate as well as we used to? We are swimming or sinking in a digital world, surrounded by new ways of speaking, new connections with people who see the world differently, and an inundation of words, words, words. Does it mean that we're stuck with "btw" and "lol" instead of more meaningful ways to communicate? Is all of this making us communication-dumb? Is technology making us less human?!<br />
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To start with, I don't think that everyone in the Victorian period (some mark that time as the height of letter-writing) was good at writing letters. Why would they need letter-writing guides if everyone naturally did it well?<br />
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In a similar vein, I don't think everyone that communicates online does it well or eloquently (sometimes the same thing, sometimes not). I have seen many a poorly-written blog post and many websites that are not helpful at all. But I do think that this change in medium doesn't mean automatic death of our desire as humans to communicate and connect with other people. And so the decline of one medium simply means we will find ways to communicate using our new options.<br />
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It's kind of exciting, actually. Whereas before you had to be good at letter-writing or speaking in person (luckily that one never really gets ruled out) to be able to communicate well, now there is a whole array of options to communicate: video chat, email, social networking, forums, and other institution-organized forms of communication. We can communicate with many people at once through video, and unlike the assemblies of old, our message stays up there, as easily seen in ten years as it is this afternoon.<br />
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So the actual act of conveying words from one person to another can be facilitated by technology. But what of the quality of those words? Does more words mean less true human connection? I think for some people it can. Some people are intimidated by or disillusioned with technology, so their messages to others and the world get obscured by the medium. But I don't think this is new; I'm sure some people got so caught up (or tripped up) by using the form of letter writing, or were so afraid of using it incorrectly, that they communicated very little. And some who were considered "experts" by the neatness of their writing and the fanciness of their paper might have had very little sense in the content of their letter.<br />
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How do we connect in the digital world, not allowing the methods of communication interfere with teh message? How do we make sure our word still carry value, still make connections with other people on the planet, those that share our human condition?Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10714023966007153802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121439475265547629.post-18579055643066883182012-12-11T19:27:00.002-08:002012-12-11T19:27:35.204-08:00Reflecting on the Semester of Digital-ness
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Self-directed Learning</span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Some Topics of Personal Blog Posts </span></span></span></h3>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">a.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="http://mahrtrachel326.blogspot.com/2012/09/arg-blurring-line-between-reality-and.html" target="_blank">Transmedia/reality</a><br /><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">b.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Dissemination
of knowledge [<a href="http://mahrtrachel326.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-printing-press-innovation-and-zone.html" target="_blank">Post</a>, <a href="http://mahrtrachel326.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-printing-press-distribution-of-ideas.html" target="_blank">Another post</a>]<br /><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">c.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Form of
website influencing function and how people interact with it (or not) [<a href="http://mahrtrachel326.blogspot.com/2012/10/design-with-purpose.html" target="_blank">Personal Post</a>, <a href="http://makingmenagerie.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/second-design-feedback/" target="_blank">Making Menagerie Post</a>]</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Kinds of Interactions via Google+</span></span></span></h3>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">a.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Responding to others' posts</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">b.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Posting my
own finds</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">d. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Posting links
to my blog with a question to get discussion going on Google+ and generate
interest in the actual post (hoping people who saw it would want to read the full article).</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Other Materials
I’ve Looked at in My Self-directed Learning.</span></span></span></h3>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">I looked into transmedia storytelling
because I’m involved in developing one right now.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">5 Lessons For Storytellers From the
Transmedia World—</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.fastcocreate.com/1680902/5-lessons-for-storytellers-from-the-transmedia-world">http://www.fastcocreate.com/1680902/5-lessons-for-storytellers-from-the-transmedia-world</a></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Before Jumping on the Transmedia
Bandwagon: The Four Ways to Approach Transmedia Storytelling—</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="http://www.indiewire.com/article/before-jumping-on-the-transmedia-bandwagon-the-four-ways-to-approach-transmedia-storytelling">http://www.indiewire.com/article/before-jumping-on-the-transmedia-bandwagon-the-four-ways-to-approach-transmedia-storytelling</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt;">My Menagerie group—They helped me figure out
elements of digital culture and helped Menagerie become a reality (especially
Sarah Talley on the website design—I wouldn’t have gotten very far without you working
through stuff out too).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt;">Tara—lots of posts, some of which caught my
interest, so I wanted to make my own posts (some of them I was actually
glad/interested in)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt;">Rebecca—commented on several of my Google+ posts, which
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt;">My group’s project—I contributed by putting together
some google docs, by starting menagerie and making menagerie websites,
facilitating discussion during our planning meetings, and posting assignments
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thought that I was pretty good at consuming. I knew how to navigate Google and
the more closed searches in the library database systems. I would watch funny
videos on YouTube, informational talks on TED, and watch movies with my
roommates on Netflix. I used Google Reader as an aggregator and would check
product reviews online (usually starting on Amazon) before buying the product
(whether in-store or online). It was my mindset that the Internet was mostly
there for me to consume information from. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During this class, I learned that
consuming is just part of the use of the Internet. I learned to consume smart,
such as looking for curated lists that other people have made (people-sifted
lists, which can be much better than algorithm-created lists). I became aware
that just using Google may preclude me from finding the things I want to, so I
tried Bing and other search engines to try to get out of the Google algorithm.
I also looked to social sources to help find the kind of information or
services I was looking for online. <i>Net
Smart</i> reminded me that we need to be aware of what we’re paying attention
to, and how much time we’re spending on things that have little consequence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Create</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before taking this class, I was vaguely
aware of the option to creating things and posting them online, but this really
didn’t seem like my kind of thing. I thought that people had to either be
fantastically talented or very conceited to post things online. I didn’t feel
like anything I would create would be valuable to complete strangers, and I
wasn’t sure I wanted to figure out how to get around copyright restrictions in
order to post something that had even remote ties to previously-copyrighted
things. I also didn’t want anyone to steal what I created and claim it as their
own. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the course of this course, I
rethought some of those approaches—stuff on the Internet doesn’t have to be as
polished as other formal published material. I learned that you have to just
get stuff out there and not worry too much about getting it exactly “right.” I
started to explore the Internet as an area of discovery by just getting your
ideas out there. I wrote blog posts, some of them without finished sentences,
just to see what it was like to publish something obviously unfinished. I got a
comment on an unfinished (but still published) blog post, and the person
reacted to my ideas, not to the incompleteness of the post. Other creations I
participated in were the Google+ posts, Menagerie, Making Menagerie, and a book
I’m going to eventually finish and sell on Amazon. I wanted to try out how hard
or easy it would be to create a book to sell in print and as an eBook—there
were some hitches along the way, and I’m still working on getting it actually
published, but it has been an interesting process. There are a lot of resources
out there for people who want to share their creative projects.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; text-indent: -1.5pc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Connect</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As wary as I was of posting my
creations online, I was much more afraid of posting information about myself
online, and even more of talking with anyone I didn’t know on the Internet. My
Facebook account was pretty locked down, and I rarely posted on it. I avoided
any site that said it was designed to help its users connect with other people,
be it dating sites, online forums, or “collaborative” endeavors (although,
after watching the TED talk about them, I liked doing the reCaptchas, and I
liked the possibilities that opened up with crowdsourcing indexing and family
history work). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I learned that, although it’s
important to be careful about some information you disclose online, putting
information about yourself in profiles and such gives you some credibility. The
ideas of reciprocity, social proof, and currency all gave me reasons to create
an online presence. If you show that you’re not afraid to show who you are, you
can connect with some pretty cool people that can help you with projects you’re
working on, and you can give them feedback and ideas to help them work on the
things they’re working on. If you follow someone’s blog or Google+, they may
reciprocate and follow you or direct people to you. The most eye-opening thing
I learned about connecting was how much it can help you create online interest
communities to address issues that you’re interested in. It hadn’t occurred to
me before that you can use the Internet to create friendships, not just keep in
touch with ones you met in person. And some digital things can help create
another dimension (ha,ha) with the relationships you already have—I can see my
friends’ recommendations for books on Goodreads, and they can see the
bookshelves I’ve created. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10714023966007153802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121439475265547629.post-87684515842397104132012-12-04T10:48:00.000-08:002012-12-04T10:48:31.102-08:00Engl 326 Final Exam QuestionsFinal Exam Questions<br />
<br />
1. The democratization of outlets to share creations and post information leads naturally to an abundance of available information on many topics, which in turn leads to<br />
a. development of online niche groups<br />
b. most users limiting their contact to the digital world to one device<br />
c. small furry animals crawling out of VCRs<br />
[See part of my <a href="http://mahrtrachel326.blogspot.com/2012/09/response-to-class-media-fast.html" target="_blank">blog post</a>]<br />
<br />
2. <a href="http://goodreads.com/">Goodreads.com</a> helps you share information about what you're currently reading with your friends (either through requesting to be a goodreads friend or through Facebook), and you can look at what your friends say about what they're reading. Goodreads capitalizes on the ____________ part of the create, connect, and consume model.<br />
<br />
3. Shelby Boyer talks about trolling in her blog post "<a href="http://boyershelby326.blogspot.com/2012/09/on-google-audrey-blake-mentioned-how.html" target="_blank">Anonymous</a>." What is a definition of "lulz" in connection to trolling?<br />
a. "buzzing" people's feeds to annoy them and drive them crazy<br />
b. the thrill from getting attention for doing deplorable things online<br />
c. creating a loop in the code to make the website not go anywhere<br />
<br />
4. <span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Print media will be obsolete in coming years due to the way the Internet
and e-reader devices are developing. [See my blog posts: <a href="http://mahrtrachel326.blogspot.com/2012/10/saw-this-sign-in-library-today-and-it.html" target="_blank">post 1</a>; <a href="http://mahrtrachel326.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-printing-press-innovation-and-zone.html" target="_blank">post 2</a>; <a href="http://mahrtrachel326.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-printing-press-distribution-of-ideas.html" target="_blank">post 3</a>]</span><br />
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each person who decides to enter that world (including the Internet) should create
a plan of action for how they will interact with and use their time and
attention there. [See Greg William's blog post "<a href="http://clickconversation.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/what-is-real-the-good-news-of-a-digital-culture/" target="_blank">What is Real? The Good News of a Digital Culture</a>"]</span><br />
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<!--StartFragment--><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><!--EndFragment--><br />Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10714023966007153802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121439475265547629.post-53298259287714208402012-11-08T14:47:00.001-08:002012-11-08T14:47:30.531-08:00Marching Band's Got Culture! So, my old high school band teacher put together an interesting marching show this year. She compiles her own shows and usually chooses interesting themes (while I was in high school we did shows from Final Fantasy VI, Halo 2, X-Men, and Cowboy Beebop, and has also done Rush). This year, she wanted to make a statement about how the internet and technology have dehumanized music. Here's the show if you'd like to watch it:<br />
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Reflecting on my high school marching band years with a digital culture lens gave me some insight into why this seems a little weird/meta to me.</div>
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I thought this negative view of technology (as de-humanizing music) was interesting, since the show itself could be considered a remix of other sources. And it's also interesting because the previous shows this very band did were based on video games, a movie, and a TV show. The music from those originators was adapted for band, but they were still very obviously borrowed and reused content from other media. Seems like a remix to me. And part of the fun was that we were putting pop culture in a new format: a marching band show.<br />
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Another element we tapped into was fan bases. Band kids are also known to play video games, and some of the best audience reactions we got were for our Final Fantasy VI show. I think that's because other highschoolers in the audience loved that we were speaking to them by remixing content they were already fans of (and it might've also been because we had a fight scene in it). Like a fan-to-fan communication. And that game has a very tight fan base. A YouTube posting of our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSXyhISHi28" target="_blank">Final Fantasy VI show</a> got comments from other high schoolers that said they wished their school would play stuff that was interesting to the students. So YouTube let them talk about the show even though they weren't physically present when we performed.<br />
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I just thought those things were interesting. And as far as the Internet de-humanizing music? I think it does in some cases—I've heard enough songs die via auto-tuning—but it also allows us more ways to collaborate, like with HitRecord, Kickstarter, and Kompoz. And not to mention all the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/MusicIsGoodCompany" target="_blank">bands</a>you and individuals that can showcase their ability on YouTube or their own blogs. Being able to communicate about music and collaborate over the Internet opens up new possibilities, even though it also creates opportunity for junk to be created and some music pieces to be demolished. </div>
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Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10714023966007153802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121439475265547629.post-35866032750003722392012-10-25T09:51:00.002-07:002012-10-25T09:51:13.800-07:00The Printing Press: Innovation and Zone of Proximal DevelopmentLast week I went to the <a href="http://crandallmuseum.org/" target="_blank">Crandall Historical Printing Museum</a> for a live tour. The museum is a tiny building that I haven't really noticed before, tucked in among some residential houses. Despite its low-profile appearance, it has some great stuff inside, most prominent of which is a working (replica of a) Gutenberg press, complete with actual moveable type. Learning more about the history of printing led me to think about how the development and use of the printing press teaches us how innovation works.<br />
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When Gutenberg made the moveable type, he decided to make the letters look as much as possible like they were written with quills. He knew that people regard change with an eye of suspicion, so printing a book instead of writing it out longhand was a big enough change; he would make all other elements as familiar as possible to avoid raising alarm or stirring up the witch hunters.<br />
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Similarly, it's helpful to remember that sometimes incremental changes are better—change one area of innovation at a time, or it likely won't catch on. The idea of the internet and email evolved much faster than users glommed onto the idea—and if you think about it, email has a lot of the same ideas as snail mail, down to the icons, and an email "address." Going straight from snail mail to texting wouldn't have made as much sense as going from phones to pagers to cell phones to texting.<br />
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It's also like scaffolding in human development: in order to learn how to do something, kids need to take small steps towards the ultimate goal, called the zone of proximal development. In order to learn how to run, babies need to learn how to roll over and then crawl. It's too much of a jump to try to get a baby to use their legs to walk before they've ever used them to move before; or tell them to stand vertically when they've never even held up their head before.<br />
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Just like the baby, we need to see the relationship between jumps in technology in order to understand how they work and use them. The idea of Pinterest would seem strange and maybe even useless to someone still in the world of DOS. The zone of proximal development was to have the idea for and create a graphic user interface, and then have social media with "sharing," and then to have the concept of sharing pictures instead of just text, and then to have pictures as the primary sharing technique.<br />
<br />Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10714023966007153802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121439475265547629.post-59224077714263212482012-10-18T10:57:00.002-07:002012-10-18T10:57:48.206-07:00Midterm Self-evaluationAfter browsing another student's <a href="http://hammergwendolyn326.blogspot.com/2012/10/midterm-self-evaluation.html">midterm</a> blog post, I decided to use the same format, with headings and short paragraphs.<br />
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I read parts of <i><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13058459-net-smart">Net Smart</a> </i>by Howard Rheingold for the non-fiction book assignment. I liked the optimism Rheingold had for the digital age and its development: he was optimistic without being passive or blind to the problems that can arise from technology. His solution to fragmentation, distraction, and the new media becoming vehicles for only destructive things was for people to be proactive and mindful when they use it. His idea is that the new media is still forming, and how we use it today will shape how it develops tomorrow; if we want helpful and inspiring media uses tomorrow, use it for good and inspiring things today.<br />
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The novel I read was <i>The Hunger Games</i>. It gave me a new frame to think about how the form of technology can change how we interact within it. I wrote a <a href="http://mahrtrachel326.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-do-hunger-games-and-literary.html">blog post</a> about it. I've talked with several different friends about how <i>The Hunger Games </i>is like the Internet, particularly with online presence (the tributes must create caracatures of themselves in order to stand out and maybe survive longer in the arena) and the people building websites being gamemakers (but a less malevolent version...usually).<br />
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On a related note, I found social proof of this method of using established literary works and their worlds to talk about different aspects of our lives, to figure out what's going on, and to give us some reference to know why things are happening. In the book <i>Reading Lolita in Tehran,</i> Azar Nafisi explains how she used literature to make sense of the oppression and upheaval she and those around her lived under during the tyrannical reign of the morality guards.<br />
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I've found that the topics brought up in class, in the Google+ stream, and in the assignments from this class often prompt outside conversation and investigation. Tools I've learned about and tried are Diigo, GoodReads, HitRecord, Bing (to explore beyond Google land), Google+, Blogger (for the class blog), Wordpress (for our magazine project), Twitter, and Google Hangout (I tried to use it for a work meeting...but it didn't work), as well as using tools I was already familiar with in different ways (Facebook for social proof and group coordination, Skype for a work meeting, and youtube as a place to find educational things).<br />
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I've also talked about these tools and talked with different people (in and out of the class) about their strong and weak points. I particularly am interested in the idea of social proof—I like that it's okay to present unpolished things for feedback online. I'm also interested in transmedia and exploring how that works with storytelling, especially since I'm on a team trying to create a transmedia story. I also want to continue to explore how technology and new media can help society accomplish things we haven't been able to before—the <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/luis_von_ahn_massive_scale_online_collaboration.html">TED talk about collaboration</a> I watched earlier this year keeps coming to mind—and have been able to try that to some degree with helping publish <a href="http://menagerielitmagazine.wordpress.com/">Menagerie</a>.<br />
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Influence of other students:<br />
Other students in this class have both guided my learning and influenced how I interpret what I encounter online. Some blog posts got me thinking about things and led me to sources of information I wouldn't normally have come across on my own. For example, Shelby Boyer's <a href="http://boyershelby326.blogspot.com/2012/09/on-google-audrey-blake-mentioned-how.html">post</a> on cyber bullying was eye-opening to me on its own, yet the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all">article about trolls</a> she linked to gave me even more to think about, and another source to go to to learn about cyber bullying. More recently, Heather Anderson's post in the Google+ stream prompted me to join the conversation by writing a<a href="http://mahrtrachel326.blogspot.com/2012/10/technology-makes-life-easier-sometimes.html"> blog post</a> about some more aspects of our interaction with technology.<br />
<br />Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10714023966007153802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121439475265547629.post-7744187097958932732012-10-15T17:21:00.001-07:002012-12-04T09:36:57.578-08:00Technology Makes Life Easier. Sometimes. <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">After reading and agreeing with Heather's Google+ post (reproduced below), I felt like this would be a good time to try to flatten out on the computer screen what I think about the effect of technology. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Initially I agreed: technology has certainly made some things easier for me. One quick example is the waitlist that BYU introduced recently, which allows me to sign up for the waitlist and <i>not</i> have to check back every few hours to try to add a class I need. The ways technology has streamlined and reduced the running around in my life are great!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">But, rather than only look at the ways it has changed things for the better, I want to consider ways it has changed things in ways that <i>don't </i>make my life easier. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">As far as school goes,while I feel that a lot of things are easier, general expectation is higher as well. Some of my professors have expressed that their students should be able to manage short deadlines for papers because "everything is online now"; and while I admit many things are easy to find online, sometimes specialized knowledge of how to find them is still necessary, and so many more resources available requires more "sifting" time than if you don't have a lot of resources. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I don't have data for this, but I feel that the expectations of professors in the pre-online-database era would have had lower expectations for finding sources for research or turning in polished drafts (when you have to write by hand or on the typewriter, you can't tweak as much).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Socially speaking, people expect you to stay in touch with them—because it's so <i>easy</i>, right?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">There's also more uncertainty. Sure, I can access resources more quickly, but that's only when the database is working; when there were only copies of something, you knew you had to plan for going to the library to look at it, or place it on hold, etc. But now we expect to have it all the time, and if it's not there, we're not sure when we can access it again. While we do have convenience past generations never had, We have inconveniences that they didn't have to deal with as well. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">More on the topic of uncertainty—Looking to the future, technology has made it easier to search for jobs (no more are we restricted to looking through the paper for jobs posted), but hasn't it also demanded that we use resources like Monster or LinkedIn in order to be "in the loop" with job finding? And all the other ways that have been concocted to help people find jobs...you need to know those, too. The democratization of access to the internet also means that organizations are still struggling to find preeminence and establish that they're the best. I could also go into how technology is changing the actual jobs that are open, and how people approach making jobs. </span><br />
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So, as we're thinking of ways to design our website for the LitMag, I think it's useful to think of ways that people might "defy" our structure, or ways that our structure could lead to the kind of participation we don't want. Sooo....I looked at some other litmags, or writer-workshop-type websites to see what their form told me about what they were looking for and how they wanted people to communicate with them.</div>
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This looks like a text-based tabloid or newspaper with its header font and the way the sidebars, tabs, and banner are formatted. That kind of layout makes it feel more like an online publication, where works go to get presented to the world, as a kind of hyperlinked version of a physical tabloid. There are options to facebook or tweet the articles, but other than that, user interaction is at a minimum (there isn't an option for comments, at least not that I could find at a glance).<br />
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This blog actually looks like a website, but it still retains the "flavor" of a blog because of the name and the personal profile on the side. It's interesting because this blog also sends the message that it is a disseminator of knowledge, that the content provided by the blogger is above the reader—the content is provided top-down for readers to learn from, not for them to talk about. While looking at this site, it struck me that sites that cram a lot of stuff on pages are not only overwhelming, but also discourage participation. The people behind the site seem to be saying "We have so much information to give, we can't spare a breath or a box of free space!" That message doesn't make me want to submit something.</div>
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The Orphanage:</div>
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Our purpose is to create a community that produces, shares, and celebrates each others' art, particularly the written word. Key words: community, share, celebrate. I think the number one way we can avoid "rebellion" is by making it clear what the site is for, not only in a stated purpose, but also in how it looks and how it encourages people to interact with it.</div>
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After looking at several websites, including the ones I just talked about, I thought of several ways we could encourage people to use the website in the way we intend: to create community, share, and celebrate art. </div>
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Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10714023966007153802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121439475265547629.post-10271907605901685282012-10-03T02:00:00.000-07:002012-10-12T12:19:47.585-07:00<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Saw this sign in the library today, and it made me wonder: Do we lose something when we only read online? What's good about electronic publishing/subscriptions to online content? And more specifically with libraries and educational institutions, how does it change how people access publications? Will it make publications more accessible more quickly? Does it make it easier to control privileged information? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I did a little digging around and found that some research has been done on this topic. </span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC100770/" style="background-color: black;">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC100770/</a></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">This research article, although published in 2002, had some interesting information. The results of the study reinforce some of my thoughts on the matter. faculty used print journals while students and fellows used electronic journals. One reason I see for this is that the faculty likely know their way around the print journal section of their institution's library, while students might not. Students, who tend to be younger than faculty, were probably more familiar with online searching and the advantages of using an electronic copy, such as using the search function to find key words in the text.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">This page lists out some pros and cons of electronic information: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://ctlonline.net/webreadyplus/lesson10_elecinfo.asp">http://ctlonline.net/webreadyplus/lesson10_elecinfo.asp</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt;">As we see in the differences between comments on Ted talks and
YouTube videos, how websites are set up, including how they portray their
content and how well they show their purpose, influences how people participate
on that site. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt;">One way to look at this interaction between form and participation
is to use the arena in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Hunger
Games</i> as an analogy. Because of how the hunger games are set up,
Katniss doesn't trust Peeta. The premise of the arena—what the gamemakers and
the Capitol arranged and set up as the rules and the purpose behind the arena
is that the contestants must all kill each other. That is how the game
works. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt;">Katniss enters the games knowing the form: you play a part, and
the more successful you are at doing that, the more likely you are to receive
help and survive the games. Entering the arena, she knows (from watching
previous hunger games) that the arena provides some kinds of sustenance, which
she will have to find, and that she must play for the unseen audience in order
to receive gifts that she needs to survive (cream to heal her intense burns,
food that Peeta can eat). Her knowledge of the arena (and on a larger scale, the games) informs how she
acts—she kisses Peeta because she knows the Capitol audience will react
favorably. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt;">The frame of the arena also influences how Katniss and Peeta
interact. Knowing that in the context of the games only one contestant can
ultimately survive, Katniss is wary of Peeta and his acts of friendship.
Knowing that most people put on a persona during the interviews to survive,
Katniss distrusts Peeta’s declaration of love for her. Knowing that the
star-crossed lovers angle was what prompted the gamemakers to change the rule
so two tributes could win, Katniss admires Peeta’s ability to act like he’s in
love with her. It doesn’t seem likely to her that his declarations of love are
real, even though in other contexts she would at least have to confront that
possibility. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt;">Ok, now for the connection to literary magazines. Let’s say, for
instance, that the intent of the vast majority of online literary magazines is
the same as that of printed literary magazines—to provide good content and
polish it and give it to the grateful consumer, who reads and enjoys quietly.
The purpose of the magazine is to provide literature to be read and enjoyed—in
silence. The form of those magazines reflects that, with PDF (static) displays
of the works, limited commenting abilities, and scheduled issues that are “published”
(sent to the Internet) in chunks. The form fits the purpose—people can read the
material made available online, perhaps congratulate the author on a piece well
written, and then move on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt;">But what if the intent of the website was to provide literature as
a center of something to talk about? What if the purpose was to provide the
starting place for a great discussion that continues, where even the author can
participate? That would be a different model for a literary magazine, different
gamemakers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt;">How would we frame the organization (game)—and in a smaller way,
the website (arena)—in such a way that will encourage the kind of participation
we want? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt;">We could ask for the author to also send in a video of them
explaining their work, or we could randomly pair pieces (including any art or
other media we get as submissions) and ask how they relate to one another. That
would be more stimulating than just having a piece to respond to or talk about.
Participants could request certain pairings, so they could feel that they’re
part of the game-making. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.5pt;">Another idea for form is to request that readers write something
in response to one of the higher works, and then post that on the site as well.
Then the pieces will be interacting, modeling how we want people to interact on
the site. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Capitol created the paradigm of the game arena by
forcing all people of Panem to watch the hunger games every year. What cues
could we give to people who visit the site so they know what’s going on and how
they need to act and interact with other participants? (I hope we wouldn’t have
to inform them that the purpose of the forum isn’t to harm other participants...)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I didn’t do the fast. But I think my observations about how
the fast was brought up and how some carried it out could add to this
discussion.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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The call to fast</h4>
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I heard about the call for a media fast obliquely—it was
mentioned by some people in my Google+ feed, and it wasn’t until class that I
realized this was something initiated by a class member and that he wanted all
to participate. Even after trying to find it, I never read the original post. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I think this mirrors how information is disseminated on the
Internet: someone posts something, and then people who think it’s interesting
take it up, and people enter the conversation at all points. This means that a
lot can go on that some people will never hear about. That stands to reason,
but this illustrated it for me—I’m in the same class as this person, and look
at Google+ nearly every day, yet I missed (and would have completely missed)
his call to action. Who you know, and who you follow, matters. <o:p></o:p></div>
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How I responded to the call for a media fast</h4>
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After I heard about the media fast in class, I wasn’t that
interested in doing it. It came as a request from an equal, and that gave me to
option to not participate. And it turns out that I didn’t.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The idea of elective participation is also integral to the
Internet—people participate in things they want to do. This elective
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It also highlights the de-centralized nature of Internet
interaction: in a traditional college class, assignments are handed down from a
central authority (professor) and students do it. The model is simple, and
reinforced with the grading system—the return for completing the assignments in
the way the professor expects is a grade that, added with other grades for
classes outlined by the central authority of the college, becomes a diploma. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Defensiveness—Some people seemed defensive about their media
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Relief—When some came to the conclusion that they couldn’t
live without media, there seemed to be a note of relief. Maybe because they
found legitimate reasons to use media, and are able to refute the social bias
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Definition of media—there were differing definitions of what
“media” is. Technically, almost anything can fall under “media,” but the most
common definition included the Internet and electronics. I wonder why those are
put under such scrutiny and general social disdain. Is it because these things
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I came away from the media fast weekend wanting to monitor
and reform my interactions with media. I also realized I need to define what
kind of media I think is most necessary to limit (phones? Any computer work, or
just the Internet?), and if there are some I want to use more (physical books,
playing instruments in person).<o:p></o:p></div>
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How much do I value being the first person to know that
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Do I need to check email as many times as I do a day?<o:p></o:p></div>
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What other sources of entertainment can I actively pursue (physically
active and actively making it happen) instead of passively consuming
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Root words can be an informative way to start: "trans"=across, "media"="means of conveying something" or "system of communication, information, or entertainment" (thank you, <a href="http://m-w.com/">m-w.com</a>). So transmedia storytelling is telling a story using different means of communication. Examples of how this has been done will probably be more helpful than an abstract definition.<br />
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<a href="http://collapsus.com/">Collapsus.com</a><br />
This is a documentary-style transmedia story about several young adults during a major breakdown of energy sources in the world. The audience is young adults, and the purpose is to raise awareness about alternative energy. The user experience includes a cool interface with three panels, 1-with a game about energy sources that updates 2-as you watch the video in the middle panel and 3-a news story that broadcasts as the video in the middle progresses.<br />
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<a href="http://www.jer3miah.com/">The Book of Jer3miah</a><br />
This was a project BYU professors (including Jeff Parkin, who is going to talk to our class this week and gave <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to2IZzhRCs0">this</a> TED talk) put together. It has the core of a narrative through webisodes. Then they created a website for the bad guys in the show, called "The Davenport Papers" where they would plant information about what was going on on their side of the story.<br />
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The Beast<br />
This was an advertisement campaign for the movie A.I. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_(game)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_(game)</a><br />
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"<a href="http://cirquedumot.com/transmedia/">What Is Trans-Media Storytelling?</a>"<br />
This post has a list of other articles that discuss different aspects of transmedia storytelling.<br />
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"<a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/29/transmedia-args">Transmedia Storytelling: What's the Alternative to Alternate Reality Games?</a>"<br />
The concluding idea of this article is "<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px;">We need to stop creating more closed narratives and finite tales, and instead concentrate on fragmenting the stories we already have into a million pieces and sparking the imaginations of our audiences so they want to put them back together in the way that feels right to them."</span><br />
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<br />Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10714023966007153802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121439475265547629.post-91581420661910058662012-09-18T17:31:00.004-07:002012-09-18T17:32:55.000-07:00Media FastI<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">n class there was talk of having a media fast. These are my thoughts on the possible benefits of a fast and why you might approach such a venture. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Full Fast for Mindfulness<br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">A media fast is a great way to reinstate mindfulness while using the media. In the book Net Smart, Rheingold champions mindfulness as the best way to make the Internet a useful tool. By fasting from the media, you can see more clearly what is a productive use of the Internet and what you could cut back on. Taking a step away can also give you perspective to help you decide how to proceed when you start using media again. A full fast can be useful in clearing your mind and breaking habits.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">My roommate decided to do a Facebook fast because she would find herself turning to it whenever she was bored or had a spare moment. A cold turkey fast helped her break the habit of logging in all the time. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Like doing a juice fast, you could decide what kinds of technology are necessary to make your life run reasonably smoothly (cell phone for calling, car for driving, online calendar to keep your commitments, email to stay current in your job), and then cut out everything else. Or you could set parameters on your interactions with different media, like a time limit or a priority list or something.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">A semi-fast allows you to continue life as normal but still provides an opportunity to take a look at your habits and re-define your relationship with technology. Limiting or defining your use of media also lends itself to becoming a part of your lifestyle, whereas a full fast isn't really sustainable for a long period of time. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span>Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10714023966007153802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121439475265547629.post-7693183420625631932012-09-13T21:51:00.001-07:002012-09-13T21:51:32.584-07:00Death Gone Digital (and other privacy issues)I've noticed some people using Facebook status updates to tell quite personal information: anything from tirades about a friend or family member's behavior to proclamations of love to a fiance, from ultrasound pictures of the baby-to-come to the state of the wart on their second toe. These might not sound that bad to you, but it's likely you've winced or groaned at something personal someone has posted online (I'm thinking of Facebook).<br />
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But that's their deal, right? They can decide what they do or do not want on the internet, and they can pay the consequences for that, including being revealed as immature, ridiculous, or gossipy. That is, if the information is theirs alone. But often it isn't.<br />
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You can share a lot of information and media online, and often the only inhibition placed on you by the sites is the dialog box asking if you have the right to publish that information. You simply click "yes" and it's up. Pictures, personal information, videos of subjects who thought it wouldn't leave the room, even embarassing gushing of a parent on a teenager's Fb wall—all of it, if it is within the bounds of "decency," can legally and easily be published online.<br />
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Is a mourning family entitled to not have to tell anyone or console anyone else for a few hours, or should they tell everyone immediately?<br />
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How is that information to be prevented from finding its way to people not particularly wanted at the funeral? Just some thoughts.<br /><br />
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<br />Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10714023966007153802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121439475265547629.post-6663221195766988462012-09-06T21:01:00.001-07:002012-09-06T21:01:19.453-07:00Review of Net SmartI recently browsed a book about the Internet. My review:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Net Smart is an interesting take on the potential of the Internet. It is optimistic in its outlook of what we as humans can do together through the web. But Rheingold also points out that each person has the responsibility to participate and contribute to the online communities, because what people do on the internet and what they use it for now will influence how the web develops. That is, we can directly contribute to what’s available on the web as well as direct how the web will work in years to come. His approach to pulling readers out of passivity and offering them the driver’s seat is to help them understand the controls in front of them and how they can be purposeful about what they give their attention and participation to.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Rheingold starts with explaining that attention is powerful. When people who go online direct their attention purposefully, they take control of their situation.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Then Rheingold talks about how to filter the content online, from detecting good sources of information to finding new sources.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The next section is about how participation works as a driving force to funding and companies on the Internet.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Then Rheingold goes into different platforms that encourage collaboration. He optimistically remarks on all that can be achieved when many people come together to work on projects for the common good.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The next area is related to collaboration: the social networking functions of the web. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Rheingold closes the book with several issues raised by the ways people interact on the Internet, such as copyright with remix culture, and how to respond to how kids are using the internet.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">An interesting aspect of this book is that it’s old media—a printed book—offered to help ease the reader’s mind about new media. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">I particularly like the urgency to Rheingold’s message. We can change how the Internet works if we understand how participation and mindfulness affect more than ourselves. And understanding how to use the Internet to gain and share knowledge and build communities will put the power in our hands instead of a digitally literate elite. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Interesting read, helpful to get a new view of the Internet and how it can work for good.</span><br />
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See my book review on Goodreads:<br />
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http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/409015986Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10714023966007153802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121439475265547629.post-43810588009109802822012-09-04T10:52:00.000-07:002012-09-04T10:52:21.159-07:00Ads and CookiesI don't like people to be able to Facebook stalk me, so I set my profile to "private." It also really bothers me when corporations dig around on the internet or through my digital interactions to get them a better chance of receiving my business. I can't set "private" on that, other than to block cookies, but that disables some services and functions of internet browsing (as far as I know...).<br />
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I was shopping around for auto insurance quotes a few months ago. After inputting my address (required field, so I entered the information—should I give in to what the corporation requires me to give them?), I was shocked to see that they knew exactly what cars my father owns, down to the make, model, and year. All I had to do was click on the one I wanted to insure, and it would give me a quote. This (or something similar) happened with three websites I went to for an insurance quote. Two of those companies had never had our business before. So how did they obtain that information, and why would they want it? Maybe the insurance companies thought it would encourage potential customers to complete the online quote process if they didn't have to know the make and model of their car off the top of their heads. How did the companies get that information? I don't know, but I DON'T like it.<br />
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On the other hand, I do like that I can customize the ads, for example, on Facebook, by clicking the "X" to tell them that's not something I'm interested in. I have seen a great decline in ads that could be shocking or offensive to me. And while it bothers me that stores keep track of what I buy, or my browser keeps track of the sites I visit and gears the ads to reflect that, I think it's the fact that "they" (who is "they," anyway?) could use or sell that information to steal my identity is what really bothers me. That is, the fact that that information can be taken and stored and used for others' ends bothers me more than the particular way the browser currently uses the information (to gear ads to what I might be interested in).<br />
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What should the tradeoff be between privacy of information and ease of service? Am I willing to block the cookies on my browser even if that means I can't participate in some things online? What is your balance, and what are your breaking points? Should those be legislated for corporations when they want to use the information to improve business?<br />
<br />Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10714023966007153802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121439475265547629.post-14502805349120225572012-09-01T12:37:00.003-07:002012-09-01T12:37:52.286-07:00ARGs: Blurring the Line between Reality and Fiction<br />
Recently I heard about the project <a href="http://www.jer3miah.com/">Jer3miah</a>, which was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmedia_storytelling">transmedia</a> project created by a BYU class. In talking to some people about it, I found this TEDx talk by one of the professors for that class:<br />
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There are so many points I could comment on, but the ARG (alternate reality game) is particularly interesting to me. What happens if you give people the opportunity to interact with fictional universes beyond the game console or computer? Do the elements of the fictional universe become somehow real? For example, does the door the woman sees through her phone actually exist? If it makes her walk only through it if it's "open," yet she won't hit a door if she does try to walk through it, is it really a door?</div>
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I'm torn between fear of the unknown and excitement for the possibilities--can you imagine how engaging it would be to somehow participate in the story of your favorite book or TV show? Or how easy it could be to get children excited to read a book because it uses the universe in their favorite video game? How does this change how we tell stories and listen to them? What else could ARGs be used for?</div>
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