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welcome to our final week of semester

Well, this is it – our final week. It’s been a wonderful, colourful journey for Siân and for me, and we hope it’s been rewarding and interesting for you as well.

A few reminders and some information in relation to your lifestream submission and final assignment.

The lifestream is due on Sunday 13 December, and the submission [...]

week 10 – can you believe it?

Hello all, and welcome to week 10! Siân and I were saying this morning that we can’t believe how the semester has flown by. Your blog posts, comments and tweets over the past couple of weeks have been extremely thoughtful, interesting and creative.

This week:

This week is our final week of structured content for the course, [...]

welcome to week 8 (and our final block)

Welcome to week 8, and to block 3 of the course!

Firstly, you have obviously been working extremely hard on your micro-ethnographies over the past few weeks, and these are varied, exciting and rich – well done! As with the visual artefacts, let’s take a few more days to comment on these at the same time [...]

Welcome to week 6 (still Block 2)

Hi everyone – welcome to week six. For the next two weeks you should be conducting your micro-ethnography and reporting on it using an online medium of your choice. As with the visual artefacts in block 1, try to leave enough time next week to engage in discussion about your own and others’ work. Please [...]

Onward to block 2

The visual artefacts have been fantastic – I had real trouble tearing myself away from them this weekend, there’s so much to say about each one. It makes no sense to try to summarise such rich diversity of  thinking and expression. However it does seem to me that a few themes have tended to dominate: [...]

Exploring the visual – welcome to week 4

Hi everyone, and welcome to week 4! This week our main activity will be creating and discussing visual artefacts which help draw out themes, issues or ideas from across Block 1 of the course.

Remember that you want your artefact to appear in your lifestream, and for us to have somewhere to discuss it, so if [...]

Week 2 begins

After a really interesting first week, we’re starting to discuss our second film cluster today, with the Twitter hashtag #mscworlds. This will run til Thursday, when we’ll move on to our final cluster, #mschuman. We’ll continue to explore these films in light of the weeks 1 and 2 readings.

There is now a link to the [...]