In Week 1 (and a bit) of Network Narratives there have been two questions for me: 1. How can education be subverted? 2. What do I think about this course theme: Post Pandemic University (PPU) These are extracted from the facilitators introduction and not asked directly. With another open participant, Terry Elliott ( @telliowkuwp ), we have been discussing these questions via the margins using hypothes.is. Terry suggested that the answer to question one might be GameStop. I'll leave that right there! Terry suggested The Boss, aka Bruce Springsteen in this performance of the Chuck Berry song: You Never Can Tell (Leipzig 7/7/13) (Official Video) might be the past predicting the future and what a PPU might look like. Martin Weller suggests in his recent blog that stories and metaphors are two main ways that people make sense of the world. I'm going to use this performance as a metaphor for a PPU. Bruce has over 50,000 students and he starts with a key. He frames this around his
"Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky." ~Willa Cather Networked Narratives Intercept 9 starts this way. The following poem is another interception constructed from this video of Mia Zamora and Alan Levine chatting. VISIONS OF ELSEWHERE Our sense of scale is corrected putting self into perspective when we view the sky or the view out another persons window we need this correction to see our relative unimportance in the world I feel the need of 'elsewhere' time open space and air to breathe it smells like desert rain when you crumble the leaves little things become precious keep them in your heart lupines are budding in your corner my envy echoes through frogs croak I anticipate the crunch of silence like steps in the snow sharing our enthusiasm of daily views seen anew opens the portal of knowing allowing us to feel more magical moments of seeing are the horizon of our time
In this week in the Net Mirror (#NetNarr) Professor Levine is encouraging the use of audio to capture our thoughts. Here I'm playing with audio and using the screen capture feature on Android (Samsung 10) that allows for multiple things: capturing my voice, capturing system sounds, screen annotation, video thumbnail. This would be a very cool way to tell a story using a multimodal approach. This is a cross posting for #WalkMyWorld where I came across the " I Miss My Bar " website which allows customisation of ambient noise. This is becoming a fine art in the recording space. Today I'm watching the Australian Open Tennis match, played from Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne is in a snap lockdown for covid reasons and no audience is allowed at the stadiums but the matches can go ahead. As I watch the telecast, there is fake ambiance added in, crowds clapping, murmuring and talking.
Way to follow your dream, and to recognize that the dream was pulling you somewhere, forward.
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