Assignment 1: People in the Field
Frances Bell In reviewing contributions of women in educational technology, I was thinking about Weller writing in his introduction to 25 Years of Ed Tech about the “historical amnesia of Ed Tech” (2020), something that is echoed by Watters in her blog post (2014). With this in mind, I was struck by Frances Bell, a […]
Social Media and Blogging
Societal Relevance of Ed Tech (Chapters 9-18 of 25 Years of Ed Tech) Media, in general, is a medium of consumption and, while there are aspects of it that I do enjoy (connecting with friends on Facebook), it seems that the Social Media climate has become extremely explosive of late, Twitter especially. Aspects of trolling, […]
Visual Network Mapping
Starting with myself as a node in a network, I’ve mapped my Facebook, Gmail and LinkedIn. Some of my friends, family and colleagues are connected to multiple services, while others are connected to only one or two. Honestly this was a bit of a tedious process, first exporting the data from each service and then […]