Final Summary

 

I did not know how to encapsulate all I wanted to say about the lifestream in the final post of 500 words. So I thought I would write some:

Tips for Lifestreamers

1, Be aware of how your audiences can affect you. This is a public blog, so you are not only writing for an academic community, [...]

Summary Week 12

Summary Week 12

 

Boundaries. The lifestream makes you think about boundaries between:

My text and the texts that I have fed into my lifestream
Me and my audiences – who am I meant to be? Academic writer or blogger?
My thoughts and the sanctioned knowledge of academic publications

 

All of these boundaries seem to be breached in the lifestream. If [...]

Summary Week 11

Summary Week 11

 

I have been concentrating on the essay and on editing the lifestream and these have taken me away from posting on the lifestream itself. The course has drawn to a close, in a way. There is no more reading. There are no more weekly introductions. As a result, it is difficult to know [...]

Multivocality

Reviewing the this lifestream has made me realise how multivocal it is. As Bakhtin, quoted in this link, says multivocality enables a whole to be formed from not one all-encompassing voice, but from many voices. This is apparent in the lifestream via the links to a variety of texts and media.

 

http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/ht/jhup/multivoc.html

Week 10 Summary

Producer and Process

 

This is a little belated, but nonetheless sincere.

The last week of the reading was focused on cyborg pedagogy (Angus, Cook, Evans et al, 2001; McWilliam and Palmer, 1995). Cyborg pedagogy with its three cornerstones of border pedagogy, cyborg ontology and situated knowledge takes us further down the line, across the continuum, of [...]