#edcmooc-ing

Christmas Eve. From the mailbox - Hubby handed me a brown packaged cube of mystery expectantly: the anticipated Edcmooc gift.

Inside: a shiny glassy classy crimson globe, University of Edinburgh crest old-cheese-golden-emblazoned.

Indeed a delicious and BEAUTifully festive bauble!

Thank you Edcmooc team for this passing year's 2 MOOCs; they've been my portal to new worlds of learning and relating;

And to fellow Edcmoocers and fraingers who've enlivened new channels for communicating and co-creating digital cultures.

This table came about with the edcmooc2 digital artefact deadline of midnight hurtling towards me. My original intent for a digital artefact had been to encompass all the notes I'd made so far on edcmooc2, through its weekly resources, as well as including notes from edcmooc1 in reflection - on a Wordpress blog. Given the circumstances, I resorted to a Tumblr microblog approach, which already had 4 posts up, header all done, set up and ready to go. Contingencies combined with circumstance conditioned what could be done, what had to be left aside.

It is an assemblage (see Ross et al 2013 pdf:p54-55) that grew from a curiosity about how environments were presented in the short films within edcmooc2; the spatial metaphors portrayed of assumptions about place, Nature, what is out-of-doors (and their importance in living - or lack of, or neglect of); visions projected of utopic or dystopic futures near or far (Newitz 2011 @7-11min); of embodied, disembodied or techno-bodied human-technology fusions (and sometimes, confusions, as in A Digital Tomorrow).

What habitats are generated from elearning and digital cultures discourses and interactivities? In a medium that is neither air nor water but material constructs that tap into each and every mind and imagination engaged, what projections are being made about Nature and the Environment?

References

Branit, B. (2009). World builder (9:16). February 24th. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzFpg271sm8

British Telecom. (2010). Heart to heart advert (0:40). July 20th. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5bkniCUAow

Corning Incorporated. (2012). A Day Made of Glass 2: Same Day (5:58). February 3rd. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZkHpNnXLB0

Curio Films. (2012). Inbox (8:37). June 4th. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=75wNgCo-BQM

Harvey, N. (2012). Robbie (8:45). April. http://vimeo.com/40524878#at=0

Hoegg, M. (2012). Thursday (7:34). September 18th. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ1z0Zzqg5U&feature=youtu.be

Intel Corporation. (2012). Bridging Our Future (long - 3:16). Youtube: channelintel, June 27th. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYMd-7Ng9Y8&feature=youtu.be

Kelly, G. (2010). Avatar Days (3:54). May 25th. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9TEdGbvtnc&feature=youtu.be

Lee-Wragge, Ping (pingked). (2013). http://www.flickr.com/photos/pingked/11212361554/. Also available in different sizes here.

May-raz, E., & Lazo, D. (2012). Sight (7:50). August. http://vimeo.com/46304267

MOLI. (2011). New Media (2:21). http://vimeo.com/33193443#at=1

Newitz, A. (2011). Social media is science fiction (7:00-11:00). Google I/O Ignite conference, May 10th-11th. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Ml_zax4A0&t=7m3s

Nova, N. (2012). A Digital Tomorrow (9:35). Vimeo. http://vimeo.com/48204264

O'Regan, S. (2007). They’re made out of meat (7:20). February 28th. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfPdhsP8XjI&feature=youtu.be

Ross, J., Gallagher, M. S., & Macleod, H. (2013). Making distance visible: Assembling nearness in an online distance learning programme. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 14(4). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1545

Toyota G786: the 'real deal' advert (1:01). (2012). August 17th. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Pb_tmPKGk&feature=youtu.be

WIGSCO. (2012). Gumdrop (8:05). November 19th. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7sjoI5QjBY&feature=youtu.be

Zlotescu, S. (2012). True Skin (6:12). November. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoj4Qv7nrN8

We're reaching a departure point with edcmooc2 coming to a close; #edcmooc's growing community continues on in its sea of stories, conversations, and sharing of ideas.

The edcmooc team & more from their MOOC content assemblage.

edcmooc1 Google Hangouts: only weeks 1 & 3

edcmooc2 Google Hangouts

#edcmooc film festival videos

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still shots from each short film [edcmooc1 (Jan-March) & edcmooc2 (Nov-Dec) 2013] - illustrating key moments

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my 1st, one and only #edcmooc1 blogpost

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This 'pop(ular) art' image of anime sculpture as a header for this microblog fits my picture and sense of what #edcmoocing means to me: colourful and creative, delicious and delightful food for thought and the imagination - on multitudinous contributions on elearning and digital cultures, from a diverse global sea of individuals.