Sep 27 2010
Urban Drift • m-Learning with apps • 2-22 July 2012
Twitter Hashtag: #udrift
Have you wondered about m-Learning and the relationships of mobile phones to e-Learning? This class will explore pedagogical connectivity in urban or natural spaces around you for an introduction. We will use Google Earth and Maps to track environmental territories and conceptually overlay ways of spatial occupation documented through video, drawing, and text. In this context we explore ideas of the “digital flâneur,” media presence, and discuss implications of mobility, social media connectivity, and Twitter-flux. This is an experimental framework open to app exploration and the extension of learning and assignment production in the environment. For those interested, work may be produced from smartphones; but mobile phone use is not a requirement. The class may be completed from laptop and/or desktop computers.
Free!
Open only to current students of the MSc in E-Learning, and limited to 10 places. For further details, contact Dennis Dollens at D.L.Dollens@sms.ed.ac.uk
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Urban Drift Student Questions?
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They may be emailed: D.L.Dollens@sms.ed.ac.uk
Or Twitted to our hashtag: #udrift
Please look at the page (top of the screen) titled: Drawing w/Satellites
Wow, I love this so much. Visual echoes of ‘the red balloon’ (which I saw for the first time this summer). For a while I really was convinced there was some kind of robot/motion creating device in there. Some of the interactions with passersby looked staged while others seemed to be unscripted. The acceptance of the strangeness (because it is almost not strange) was impressive – though the animals knew better. Didn’t Douglas Adams write that the best way for aliens to land undetected would be to do it in broad daylight on a football field where no one would see them because they wouldn’t *believe*?