Re: [xmca] What about a new kind of XMCA forum?

This is a great idea Mike. On-line course delivery must be one of the most
intensively theorised areas in all of science, and when it's XMCA doing it,
my amateurish mind pales into nothingness .... but from my old days as
support stuff for this kind of thing, can I make a couple of observations.

* please keep talking head video to an absolute minimum, maybe for the
hello and goodbye.
* get professional help not only from IT people, but from audio/video
people as well. IT people usually know little about sound and light, except
for how to store and stream it maybe.
* audio in the background supporting text and graphics usually looks more
professional and communicates better than bad video of some old guy in a
dark corner on the other side of the room talking at some point not the
camera. :-)
* "interactivity" is truly problematic for this format, unless you are
going to enroll people as paying students. The benefit is that students can
play things over and over, focusing on the difficult bits, and at their own
pace.
* "interactivity" for on line asynchronous users implies dedicated
production, rather than as a spin off from a local lecture, IMHO
* "interactivity" could mean asking people to move through a powerpoint
display or website as you talk, filling the powerpoint with suitable
graphics and text, of course not distractions from what is being said, like
the same content reduced to dot points :(.

Please, humble apologies for even daring to raise my voice on these vast
topics.
I am sure all these things are old hat and will be taken in a suitably
condescending spirit from those steeped in learning theory. :-)

Andy

At 08:02 PM 17/04/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>Its up for discussion (and my computer is acting like it has caught a virus,
>so this will be short).
>Its an open question. We could do 10 lectures as a "course" for those on a
>quarter system or 18 for those
>on a semster system, or not link it to our regular teaching.
>
>I am in a position to help in a couple of ways.
>1) I am in a Comm department and a lot of what I do seems loony but this
>would seem like "Communication"
>and we have some GREAT IT staff who have supported my amateur efforts.
>
>2) I am senior and old enough so that people here let me teach as seriously
>as I possibly can, so I can be
>flexible.
>
>3. I am teaching a grad course in the fall which would fit this bill, so I
>can nurture several efforts with one body/soul.
>
>My guess is that some will want to get credit. Some will not give a damn. I
>am TOTALLY open to ideas. But my
>own bias is toward: multivoicedness, interactivity, INTERNATIONALISM, shared
>texts to ground discussion, lots of
>opportunity to comment, great elasticity of timing and media.
>
>UCSD has some good resources technically./ they have been great to me. But I
>am totally lowbrow high tech, so I am sure
>others can do better or chip in.
>
>mike
>
>On 4/17/07, David H Kirshner <dkirsh@lsu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>Mike,
>>Perhaps I missed an earlier email, but can you explain more about the
>>idea. Are you thinking of occasional video lectures for discussion, in
>>the same way as we have occasional readings for discussion, or are you
>>thinking of a series of lectures on a given topic.
>>David
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu]
>>On Behalf Of ignacio dalton
>>Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 9:08 PM
>>To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
>>Subject: Re: [xmca] What about a new kind of XMCA forum?
>>
>>hi mike, loisssss! and all
>> me too!
>> count on me.
>> lois, i send you emails this week
>> ignacio
>>
>>Ana Marjanovic-Shane <ana@zmajcenter.org> wrote:
>> Absolutely YES!!
>>Ana
>>
>>Natalia Gajdamaschko wrote:
>> > I think it is a great idea!
>> >
>> > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:11:48 -0400 xmca@weber.ucsd.edu wrote:
>> >
>> >> YES!
>> >>
>> >> Lois
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> From: Mike Cole
>> >>> Reply-To: , "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity"
>> >>>
>> >>> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:33:12 -0700
>> >>> To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity"
>> >>> Subject: [xmca] What about a new kind of XMCA forum?
>> >>>
>> >>> Deborah Downing has been present at some of the video seminars I
>> >>>
>> >> participate
>> >>
>> >>> in via the internet and has
>> >>> started talking about the idea of a distributed set of lectures that
>> >>>
>> > were
>> >
>> >>> streamed/archives on various topics.
>> >>>
>> >>> Lois's comments about reading Wittgenstein arrived at some part of
>>my
>> >>> distributed cognitive system in
>> >>> conjunction with this idea.
>> >>>
>> >>> With recent changes in technology, we should be able to create a
>> >>>
>> > virtual,
>> >
>> >>> distributed course on key topics of
>> >>> interest to the XMCA community which could be participated in in
>>either
>> >>> realtime or non-syunchronously in
>> >>> combination with XMCA discussions in print.
>> >>>
>> >>> Anyone interested?
>> >>> mike
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