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ICE3, day three

Interesting summary by Axel, of Queensland University of Technology of general direction of the interactive web, suggesting amongst other things a new set of digital competences, C4C: creative, collaborative, critical, communicative.  Nothing new in one sense, as Axel pointed out, but in another sense it's hard to make sense of Web 2.0 processes without taking seriously these four qualities.  Just before Axel's talk Ray Land showed us Michael Wesch's now-famous video, which was a good backdrop not just to Axel's talk but to much of the ICE conference.

My answer to (some of) Gunther's presentation points

Gunther's points raised many interesting issues.  I raised some of them, but I'll elaborate on these here, because I think they illustrate what he was talking about, but go beyond them in one sense, and also contain issues that we need to think about re the nature of the relationship between learning and technology.

ICE and Gunther Kress presentation

Attending the ICE conference at Ross Priory, and just listened to a fascinating paper by Gunther Kress.  I've been wanting to hear him talk about new technologies and literacy for some time, and wasn't disappointed.

Being back...

Been a while since I last posted, but I've spent the last five months or so finishing up a book that really started when I was a law student, on legal education, so that's been taking up all available brain space, and left none for blogging.  No more!  I've handed it in to the publisher, and feel...  well, I was going to say great, but actually I feel like I ought to be in rehab.  Five months of keeping the day job going, with the aid of my colleagues, esp. Karen Barton, and talking to the cat while thinking and typing. And now it's gone, except for the occasional twinge of 'God, I wish I'd said...' or 'I shd have put it that way...'