From the DS106 Assignment Bank (visual) – Make a set of ten photos which take something familiar to you–a town, building, object, etc.–and defamiliarize it, make it seem foreign. Use a mix of extreme closeups, weird lighting, foreground/background focusing and odd angles and other effects to make something that you know very well seem like … Continue reading Assignment Bank (visual) – Defamiliarize

What is it in life that makes many of us define our lives by associating ourselves with external forces, whether it’s products, or political parties, or sports teams?  This question seems to be at the heart of the story by Marina Burana titled “Soccer Sunday” (http://munyori.org/fiction/marina-buranas-soccer-sunday-a-short-story/ ).  She finds in her Grandma’s obsession with the […]

On Friday, 12 August 2016, Sean Michael Morris gave one of two closing keynotes at the Digital Pedagogy Lab Institute held at the University of Mary Washington. The title of the talk was Not Enough Voices and can be found at – http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped/not-enough-voices/ . There are a number of thoughts that Mr. Morris shared that […]

Describe in writing for someone who cannot hear, the feeling of silence Silence is the thing I cannot find.  Unlike you, there are times when I try to imagine a world without sound.  But I never find it.  Everywhere I go there is sound.  Always, relentless.  Even when I cover my ears as best I […]

I’ve been reading chapter one (Sampling “The New” in New Literacies by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel) of the collection  A New Literacies Sampler ( edited by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel, Vol 29. 2007) which looks at the definition and description of New Literacies.  Literacies is a term they use to describe the literacies […]