Visual artefact
October 13, 2010 by Liz Kerry
Hi everyone,
I just wanted to let you know that my first ever visual artefact has been posted to you tube – another first!
I found the experience quite fun, it was great to have some creativity and explore (another) technology to create and publish ideas and thoughts.
I look forward to seeing some of the other visual artefacts and reflecting on the experience.
Liz
Hello Liz,
I like your artefact. I had a good chuckle when the tea cup appeared as that mirrors my learning space – throwing myself into the exciting world of e-learning…powered at times by caffeine.
And if it’s any consolation, I’m somewhere in between digital immigrant and digital native. I like to use the phrase ‘digital amateur’.
Hi Liz,
What a great artefact, I have to say most digital immigrants I know don’t even go near YouTube, let alone edit a video and post it there!
regarding PC v MAC, there isn’t really a question to be honest, I am in the process of converting all of the staff where I work, easier to use, no viruses (at the moment) and more fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAEwM7UuID4&hd=1
the question of the wider notion of E-Learning is very interesting, and similar in many ways to the comments Hamish asked for on the Hollyrood Park Hub. The benefits are immeasurable, though beware of people constantly asking about ‘where technology is going’ (I have to give a presentation tomorrow).
As you say ‘E-Learning connects and empowers’ and this is the key for future learning. Collaborative learning, sharing ideas and remixing concepts is a great way to move forwards in all of our understandings.
Elizabeth,
Funky music!
Yes so many questions – hardware, software…. But the big questions relate to – I think – to what purpose do we apply ourselves as digital imigrants to which questions? And do we have all the answers as individuals or do we have to – benefit greater? – engage with the variety of social networks to which we belong, and perhaps play in integral part.
H
Wow Liz, your work captures the frustrations and questions so well. The “why do I need this?” Your choice of driving sound supports the questions, keeping a flow of images from bogging down and negatives from overwhelming your point. “The Scream” while always embedding a trace of humor in hysterical performance, hits just right for balance. I would say, in terms of being a “Digital Native” that you have crossed over; — but I hear (not that I would know) there are very strict part-line, hardliners, and maybe, just for safety, dump the cup of tea and edit in a can of RedBull.
Hi Liz,
I think that this is a really crisp production that uses imagery, text and sound to convey the uncertainty that we “digital immigrants” feel when undertaking something like this course. No doubt Prensky would have something to say about this, and wonder about your transition towards “native” status !
@James
Thank you for your comment, I love the term ‘digital amateur’ It is great for summing off people like me who have never received any formal computer training but know there way around the basic functions of a computer.
As for the tea cup, tea has always played an important part in all areas of my life. Its a comforter, a motivator and a time filler/waster!! My mother solves everything in the world by ‘putting the kettle on’!
@Martin
Thank you for commenting on the PC Vs Mac debate I have held with myself for the last 10 years!! Like people that use eLearning and web2.0 technologies, it is just getting used to a new way of working (rather than a PC)
I hope your presentation went well on where technology is going. My answer when I am asked is almost rhetorical when I ask ‘where do you want it to go’?
As one company will testify ‘there’s an app for that’!!
@Hugh
The music is the ‘I’m a celebrity get me out of here’ theme music. That is where I got the name of my artefact from.
I don’t know what the answers are! I do have a philosophy of not re-inventing the wheel though. If research has already been done in a particular area, why not read it and then draw ideas and discuss them with others through a digital medium? (once I have learnt how to use them of course!!) I think everyone will have their own strengths and weaknesses which is where through collaborating everyones strengths can be drawn out making you central and playing an integral part of it all.
@Dennis
Safety is always paramount, although I will never give up my cuppa for a red bull!! I think I am a long way off ‘crossing over’ to a native! I get frustrated and confused doing just about everything – its only my stubborness that means things get done in the end!
@Mark
Prensky is an interesting chap, as he would have been a digital immigrant that crossed over to being a migrant I find him a wee bit inspirational!
Maybe there is hope for me to get there as well!
Hi Liz,
Lol moment for me too with the cup of tea. Definitely helped me through a few blog posts.
As some of the other posts have said, I think this video is put together really well. The pace is great, and overall feel comes across as a quite calm and accomplished consideration of the issues. I think the ‘big questions’ you pose are really relevant, and I occasionally ask ‘what exactly is it am I doing’ (usually after a long day, staring at my laptop screen).
I think the link with the TV show is interesting. Reality shows have a social element, in that peoples choices effect the result, sounds like some elements of social media. I wonder if the cultural practices of the web are influencing TV, or the other way around? I am just glad it is not part of the Digital Cultures course that we vote each other out at the end of each week…
Hi Liz
I loved this visual artefact its a jungle out there as you capture so well. I think the jungle represents the organic nature of internet – how dense it is in terms of information overload and seemingly unlimited choice (technology, applications) and how dark some corners of it are
The music was so upbeat it sort of captured the craziness of it all too
Ali
Hi Liz
I liked it very much.. So cool. Thought provoking . Meaningful & colourful reflection of your e-learning thoughts.
hi Liz – really nicely done artefact, though you were taking a risk with using the digital immigrant metaphor given how emphatically Sian and I both reject the premise! So, points for bravery as well.
I think I can see echoes of Bell’s stories of cyberspace – the material (PC or Mac, the cup of tea to calm the ‘operator’) and the symbolic (literally the question mark that keeps appearing, and the logos you use, but also the questions you ask).
I wonder about your concluding remark – that e-learning connects, empowers and enables – and whether that might be a bit too essentialist (that e-learning *is* a certain way).
Anyway, good job – I have the same question that I did for Michael, which is whether you might have been able to use less text and still got your messages across? I bet you could have!