My lifestream summary as a digital commonplace book

E-Learning and Digital Cultures

Submission date: 12 December!

James Lamb s0900191

Word count: 548

Soundtrack: Kraftwerk ‒ ‘The Robots’ Daft Punk ‒ ‘Da Funk’ Air ‒ ‘Kelly watch the stars’ (Moog Cookbook remix)  

Also includes samples from

‘Wdpk 83.7fm’ by Daft Punk and

‘Electronic Performers’ by Air

(and the ‘voice’ of student s0900191)  

Rather than offering a text-based reflective commentary of my lifestream, I have attempted to extract images, sounds and passages of text from the lifestream itself.

In presenting my lifestream summary, I have attempted to borrow both the spirit and the format of the commonplace book.

A digital commonplace book.

An organic, natural growing meadow...

If my lifestream isn’t yet blossoming, it has at least started to branch out

3 October

I like dropping into the lifestream from time-to-time, to see how it is growing

20 September

10 October

Continues...

The lifestream is dynamic, evolving and alive

Greetings from The Meadows, Edinburgh

With each new passing day, new flowers come into bud, representing each individual RSS feed in my lifestream

The lifestream is dynamic, evolving and alive 20 September

7 November

5 Oct

Exploring aptness of mode through lifestream content

24 September As the weeks progress I’ll be more adventurous, however I intend to adhere to the approach of selecting tools because they help my learning, not because I can

the digital revolution means we can now reconsider whether text is the most appropriate means of presenting every type of information

see Kress (2005)

Continues...

5 November

We have the tools to craft work that matches our vision…machines give us the freedom to speak directly to our audience

Expressing ideas in a multimodal, transliterate way

In the digital classroom, we communicate across a range of media

I decided to try and represent this week’s lifestream review through image as well as words – or what might be seen as a convergence of visual and written literacies

The representation can be seen as multimodal

I expressed ideas through text, film, animation, graphics, photography and sound.

12 October

10 October

29 November

Continues...

this snapshot of my existence shows how we simultaneously appropriate a range of media to facilitate our needs at any one time

the digital revolution provides an environment where [we] can leave class with our creative desires sated

Upon this foundation, I then built additional layers of representation, starting with the author’s voice, followed by background music and then images

see Spalter &

Van Damm

(2008)

29 November

13 October

11 October

78 blog posts 120 blog comments 160 tweets 13 vimeo 36 Flikr 20 delicious and 2 Tumblr entries

the online classroom isn’t bound by the same rigid timetables that we associate with its RL equivalent

v  There’s no 9 to 5 in the online university! Continues...

The lifestream presents a classroom without physical boundaries

29 November

29 November

v  v  

Within our class physical boundaries are rendered artificial by the flow of information

one’s geographical location can change without any noticeable impact upon the level of engagement with the course itself

29 Nov

2 Oct

I have engaged in discussion with different members of the class at different times and as different topics have arisen

Comment on how pic put together

The lifestream reflects my place within the learning community

11 Dec

vv  

This is the ‘real’ me, but it’s also a more considered me, one that spends more time considering the impact of my actions

25 November

V  

The online learning community can be at least as immersive as its RL equivalent, providing DL students with a strong sense of identity and affiliation with their institution

See Hand 2008

see

Bayne 2010 20 October

Ours is a constructionist classroom where we position ourselves in order to build knowledge and create collective understanding

8 December

vv  

Overall reflections on the lifestreaming ‘experience’

vv  lifestreaming is the 24-hour news channel, reporting live as the action unfolds.

I was immersed in technology, swimming in the ubiquitous sea of information that is the Internet.

20 September

22 November

Continues...

vv  

vv  

The information pattern produced by my work was one of repetitive loops, syncopated to the sound of a machine producing invisible (in the physical sense) content

the opportunity to spend a day building and curating my online gallery epitomises how the lifestream exercise has given me a place to experiment with ideas themselves, and the way in which I present these ideas

22 November

8 December

J Lamb (s0900191) December 2010