Diana Oblinger
- how is collective intelligence taken into account in learning structures?
- we are a learning society, not information society.
- cannot separate learning from context. context = technology, participatory culture.
- wrap metacognitive activities around assignment.
- age of spreadable media (introduce your media into their conversations) versus sticky media (draw them in and don't let them go)
- remix has been the norm until romantic era
- technical access digital divide gap issue of the 90s was from when we thought about internet as access to information, a digital library. Now it is about participation, connecting to people, creating relationships. Literacy of participation should be central. Jenkins challenges us to incorporate this into our teaching and every thing we are doing. (broccoli and mac-n-cheese discussion finally settled)
- The part in Moby Dick where they discuss the story of Jonah and the Whale reminds of when the characters in "Clerks" discuss all the private contractors that must have been killed when the rebels blew up the death star in Return of the Jedi.
- link to presentation
- a blog may encompass many different genres. Blog is really a tool, just like a wordprocessor may be used to write many different types of letters.
- usually a student blogger will start with one genre, but the longer they blog, the more likely they are to start to experiment with other genres.
- Students blogs not add much value if used fo ra single course or semester, but value will be realized over time and semesters.
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