Multimedia Project: Assessing Newer Text In Language Arts
My apologies for being late with the submission of my final project. The impetus for this assignment was ostensibly a…
RipFeedMIx: Finally a Photo Essay Designed Exclusively for Mobile Devices
Well here it finally is, my RipMixFeed project. When making my project on photo-essays, I wished to include my own…
The Long Overdue Assignment 2
Good Afternoon ETECers! Due to personal challenges I have not been able to complete this project earlier and I humbly…
The Past, Present and Future of the Web
I changed topics in my mind for the multimedia project several times before settling on exploring the past, present, and…
Analysis, Forecasting, Synthesis
Hey everyone, Mackenzie here. I’m going to respond to a set of 2 ideas that drew my attention, and I’m…
Hypermedia and the Digital Footprint
Hi everyone, For our final multimedia assignment, Kim and I focused on the topic of ‘Hypermedia and the Digital Footprint’….
Fifty-two Icons for Storage
Fifty-two Icons for Storage There is a famous quote found within Margaret Atwood’s (1972) Surfacing that proclaims, “The Eskimo has…
Rip Mix What?
After struggling with the video documentary a few weeks back and finally spitting out this short comic strip, https://www.pixton.com/comic-strip/eaxphrrx, it…
Multimodality and the Breakout of the Visual
I do think we are witnessing the decline of text alone modes of representation. Alpha-numeric art, emogi’s and memes are…
Bolter, Bush and Hypertext
What socio-cultural factors may have motivated the development of hypertext? The proliferation of communication technology in the 20th century has…
In consideration of word processors
The essential feature of the word processor is the ability to manipulate text (and rework expression) is changing the way…
Rip.Mix.Feed – Reading
Hello, everyone! First, thank you for your assistance with my project. I know how valuable your time is and…
Don’t Digitally Recreate Paper!
Inspired by Ted Nelson, I’ve remixed my 3rd blog post and integrated some related concepts and key words from classmate’s…
Photo Essays
Hello Everyone, For your consideration I offer my Video Documentary exploring photographic essays (It can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPW5ihAp5Kw&feature=youtu.be ). …
Freedom from the Bonds of Paper (pun fully intended)
I am going to tackle this from a personal historical context to set perspective for the viewpoint to follow. My…
From Typewriting to Handwriting
I built this video using Camtasia video editing software. I find that it is the easiest to use and has…
For those thinking about teaching overseas
Not ETEC 540 related but this is a blog site so I thought to post this here. One of the…
Channelling Bolter for a Documentary Post-mortem
Having had Bolter’s chapter 4 as an assigned reading after we had our documentaries due is either a stroke of…
Death of the Author and Birth of the Reader as Author
Can you imagine if someone painted a building and then took credit for the entire finished product? It would be…
Storytelling Over Time-From Orality to Print to Computers
Storytelling is a sensory experience. This could…
Stone technology and language: a theory
Hey everyone, Let me know what you think about the below. For me, this is some pretty exciting stuff! Here’s…
In defense of Orality
W. J. Ong Orality and Literacy is a provocative read for a student of Indigenous Studies. Much of Ong’s teachings…
Making the Transition: Oral to Literate
My homeland, Jamaica, in many ways still reflects the traditions of an oral society. Jamaican Patois, which is an oral…
Applying the Continuity Theory in Educational Technology
This may seem a rather circuitous route to expounding on “the merit of “continuity” theory in the context of educational…
A big hello to everyone
Hi, I just joined the class on Tuesday and now I can post on the weblog! This is the first…
Greetings from the Comox Valley
Good Afternoon, My name is Ken Lees and I am halfway through my MET. This program has certainly opened my…
My own ignorance lead me take this course
It is funny how different I thought this class would be. When I read the title “Text Technologies: The Changing…
It’s all in the spelling…
Hello everyone. My name is Siobhán McPhee and I am a faculty member at UBC in the Department of Geography….
Hello from Kamloops, BC
Hi everyone, My name is Brad Forsyth and this is my second course in the MET program. I am employed…
Hope I’m posting this in the correct place?!
Hello everyone! My name is Marcia. I have been living in San Francisco with my husband and 2 year old…