Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Educational technologists may well at this point wonder if “remix” is just a souped-up version of the learning objects vision that absorbed so much energy from so many talented people, with mostly disappointing results. In 2005, Susan Metros suggested in an EDUCAUSE Review piece that “learning objects have not fulfilled their promise of transforming education,” and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 25th, 2007 2 Comments »
The preceding overview of remix culture is not meant to suggest that educators should throw out traditional approaches to presenting instructional content and concentrate their efforts on making YouTube videos that mash up old archival footage (though some are doing just that). But it does assert that the broad outlines of what it means to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Elements of remix have been present in art from the beginning. Maybe the borrowing was framed in terms of “tradition,” or “influence,” but artistic and scholarly work has always built on the work of others. Having said that, it is also clear that the past century’s developments in technology have corresponded with a new attitude [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 24th, 2007 No Comments »
I was looking for images to add to my wiki page for tomorrow’s session, searching on images tagged with “mashup”, and came across the one above. I’m not sure it’s right for the presentation, but it sure is right for something.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
I have a lot of great materials I have created for courses, but I keep them safely locked away in my password protected space. You can’t see them, link to them, and you certainly can’t reuse them. Why should I let deadbeats like you learn for free?
Also, I’ve ripped off a lot of copyrighted stuff, [...]