Networked Stories

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. 

 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