Author Archives: friesenn

"Ontologizing" Media Studies

Posted on May 2, 2010 by friesenn

Reading WJT Mitchell and Mark Hansen’s introduction to their Critical Terms for Media Studies: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/532554.html They describe media as an ontological condition that is always-already part of our situation –it is something in which “‘we live and move and have … Continue reading →

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Generations and Educational Change

Posted on March 12, 2010 by friesenn

The “net generation” (also known as “generation y,” “millenials” or “digital natives”) has been defined as those born in industrialized nations between 1977 and 1997, and thus exposed to innovations like personal computers, the Internet, and mobile phones at a … Continue reading →

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Media Theory, Education and the University

Posted on March 7, 2010 by friesenn

A paper I’ve been working on with Darryl Cressman that focuses on Kittler’s media theory and education. One element that this paper traces over a number of mediatic developments (revolutions?) is the role of pictorial elements (above) in conceptualizing and … Continue reading →

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DIY U Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation…

Posted on March 7, 2010 by friesenn

A new book from Anya Kamenetz looks at the crises (rising tuition, falling standards) and opportunities (cc content, blended learning) that institutions of higher learning are confronting. This examination is thoughtful and thoroughly-researched. It avoids the apocalyptic predictions that Tapscott … Continue reading →

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Podcasting & Slidecasting for Dissemination in Teaching and Research

Posted on February 16, 2010 by friesenn

Podcasting and Slidecasting [slideshare id=3187688&doc=podcasting-100215153601-phpapp01] View more presentations from Norm Friesen. This is my presentation from the Teaching Practices Colloquium at TRU. The abstract is below and the slidecast version is above. You can ensure your presentations reach the widest … Continue reading →

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Creative Commons in your Organization or Publication?

Posted on February 3, 2010 by friesenn

Using Creative Commons resources in organizations or publications that still follow the rules of “conventional copyright” is probably more complicated than you expect. These materials generally aren’t “free” –either as in beer or as in speech.Instead, they bring with them limitations … Continue reading →

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The “new Language of Learning:” Lineage and Limitations

Posted on January 8, 2010 by friesenn

Here’s an abstract I just submitted to Gert Biesta’s conference, Theorising Education, in June. It is relatively uncontroversial to describe teaching and education as means through which naturally-occurring, biologically-based processes of learning are directed and facilitated to achieve predetermined outcomes. Gert Biesta … Continue reading →

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CFP – Media: Digital, Ecological and Epistemological

Posted on January 7, 2010 by friesenn

Special issue of E-Learning and Digital Media, Editor Dr. Norm Friesen / Please Forward as appropriate! Media today are everywhere. From educational gaming through portable e-texts to cell phones ringing in class, it seems we can’t escape. Nor can we … Continue reading →

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Data of the World, Unite!

Posted on December 26, 2009 by friesenn

Reading Winthrop-Young’s “Drill and Distraction in the Yellow Submarine: On the Dominance of War in Friedrich Kittler’s Media Theory” in Critical Inquiry. I came across this provocative passage: “With the decline of large-scale political activism in Western Europe and North America … Continue reading →

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Metadata Possibilities: from the IEEE LOM through Dublin Core to …the “Cloud”?

Posted on November 30, 2009 by friesenn

Metadata Cloud [slideshare id=2542495&doc=metadatacloud-091119234756-phpapp02] View more presentations from Norm Friesen. (My apologies for the audio quality) Over the last 10 years, the status of educational metadata, specifically as they relate to learning objects, has changed radically. In the heady days … Continue reading →

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