Jess: [phd training session: digital literacy & creativity]

9.5.09

[phd training session: digital literacy & creativity]

A full-day for the AHRC funded CEDAR (Collaborative Digital Research in the Humanities), organised by the Universities of Bangor (Dr Astrid Ensslin) and Aberystwyth (Dr Will Slocombe).

As I've noted before, I'll be talking about academic blogging and the digital literacy (a favourite topic of mine).

For the students participating, feel free to add comments as directed in the presentation.

Please comment on the idea of reading and writing as “an invisible skill” (see Sue Thomas's video, 16:00) and whether you find the Stroop test challenging or not and why.

Literacy + Technology + Creativity = Digital Literacy in the 21st Century

Important that these elements are seen as interdependent

Read The Whale Hunt here: http://thewhalehunt.org

UPDATE: Keno Buss and Sascha Westendorf have joined us for a bit about their project and some hands-on experience with the De Montfort Creativity Assistant.

Labels: academic, creative, digital literacy, education, learning, multimodal, narrative, new media, presentation, story, teaching, transdisciplinary, transliteracy

1 Comments:

At 11:42 AM, Lyle Skains said...: Jess,

It was good to meet you on the day - I found the first session very useful to me personally. Academic blogging is clearly an emerging topic, not without some controversy, as we saw!

For myself, as a practice-based researcher, I love that work and thoughts I'm completing as I undertake my main research project are available to my readers. Imagine if Shakespeare had a blog while he wrote his plays, and we could see what influenced him, what his thoughts were on his own work?

Hmm. Maybe I'll start a Shakespeare blog. ;)

Nice to meet you!

Lyle

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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.