Jess: June 2005

14.6.05

[moving along]

Well things are moving along well. My application has been posted to DMU and soon Sue should receive the formal paperwork.

11.6.05

[dizzy]

I'm feeling dizzy.

9.6.05

[crossed fingers work]

Met with Sue and can I say OMG!!! It was amazing to speak to someone who actually knew what I was talking about!!! Wow. It was great last year when I met Deena Larsen (she's great!) and I got to talk about her Disappearing Rain but other than that and meeting Carolyn Guertin and e-mails to Marjorie Luesebrink...I couldn't really talk about ANY of this exciting stuff with my supervisor. I'm in the wrong place me thinks. ;) Well it looks like Sue (and Andy Hugill) at DMU are willing to take me so come October I'll be in the right place. Whew.

4.6.05

[journey beginnings]

I've e-mailed Prof. Sue Thomas at DMU. She started trAce at Nottingham...she'd make an excellent supervisor. She actually "knows" about hypertext and more than that, she participates daily in the online environment (judging from her list: writing and the digital life). Oooh. Lucky me. Just heard back from Sue. She's interested in my work. *yay!!* Looks like I'll be meeting her on Thursday...

About Me

Name: Jess

Location: Edmonton, Canada

Update: Winter Term: *** Lecturing at Grant MacEwan University on several topics including journalism, professional writing, e-learning, critical theory, analysis & argument and communications. As always, still interested in the role of new media in education.

currently I'm...

still thinking about online narratives. Well, I've spent the past few years thinking about it but now I'm going in a slightly different direction. I'm thinking about wiki fictions, blog stories, youtube stories and facebook storytelling. I guess it's narratives 2.0? But I'm also researching transdisciplinarity in an academic context and editing two issues of the IOCT journal before steering the emergence of a fully-peer-reviewed journal (tentatively) titled: Transdisciplinary Studies in Creative Technologies. I'm running the Digital Cultures module for the IOCT Master's, giving guest lectures for the Creative Writing and New Media Master's as well as part-time lecturing on new media and digital lit. I'm involved with the Narrative Laboratory project and this year's focus in on mapping social networking. I also contribute as an author to Transliteracy.com, a collaboratively written blog. I'm very interested in how the online environment and its particular affordances are affecting education. To that end I'm involved in a project linking the Inanimate Alice stories to digital literacy. Want to be involved? Check this out.