{"id":6819,"date":"2011-11-04T15:19:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T23:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/?p=6819"},"modified":"2011-11-04T15:19:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T23:19:24","slug":"more-on-information-production-d3-pictures-telling-1000s-of-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/2011\/11\/04\/more-on-information-production-d3-pictures-telling-1000s-of-words\/","title":{"rendered":"More on information production (D3): pictures telling 1000s of words"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a previous post<\/a>, I was reflecting on what constitutes information production – noting that the author we were asked to read (Abel) seemed to really equate it to textual production.<\/p>\n

However, something struck me when I was commenting on an earlier post<\/a> by Kristopher, in which he was discussing the potential use of iPads in distributed, mobile learning (in this case, peace operations): the input on iPads (specifically) isn’t only textual. It’s visual too.<\/p>\n

iPads take photographs.<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s obvious, but nevertheless worth mentioning, that the ‘digital explosion’ of the last 15 years or so has also been a visual one… and more to the point, a photographic one. The importance of (digital) photographs as learning devices, and as information producing and disseminating devices, shouldn’t be underestimated. (so says the erstwhile Art History lecturer!)<\/p>\n

After all, isn’t one key facet of the iPad’s popularity its visual appeal? (or rather haptic… visual plus tactile all wrapped up into one)<\/p>\n

How do you take and use – or manipulate (through photoshop, other software, or an old school kitchen knife) photographs in order to produce, share, and disseminate information\/knowledge?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a previous post, I was reflecting on what constitutes information production – noting that the author we were asked to read (Abel) seemed to really equate it to textual production. However, something struck me when I was commenting on an earlier post by Kristopher, in which he was discussing the potential use of iPads […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328740],"tags":[7249,5740],"class_list":["post-6819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-09-emerging-market-analysis","tag-ipad","tag-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6820,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819\/revisions\/6820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}