Category: ‘Readings’

The kids are alright, so are the Boomers

There’s an interesting story by Richard Sarson over at the Guardian in which he interviews children about their internet usage and the role technology plays in their lives. They might not be a terribly representative sample, but it does confirm what we have been saying for some time - children are much more able to […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 10th of May, 2007 in Learning & Teaching, Readings 2 Comments

Jerry Johnson on Creative Waves 2005

Jerry Johnson, one of the mentors for Omnium’s Creative Waves 2005 project wrote a short paper about his experience of it for Troy University’s eCampus Colloquium 2007.

Jerry is a professor of graphic design at Troy University and Chairman of the Department of Art and Design. After all this time, it was great to hear his […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 30th of April, 2007 in Learning & Teaching, Readings 0 Comments

Creative Waves on Core77

A big thanks to the good people at Core77 for listing the Creative Waves 2007 project.

There are only a handful of design blogs that I regularly read and Core77 is up there at number one at present. Many of the Omnium Creative Network members came via Core77 too - I wonder if it is something […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 8th of March, 2007 in Readings 0 Comments

A picture is worth how much exactly?

Interesting post by Michael Feldstein on a graduate thesis by Fernanda Bertini Viegas titled Revealing individual and collective pasts: Visualization of online social archives. I haven’t read the thesis yet, but Michael uses some of the higher-level points and applies them to online teaching. This one particularly caught my eye:

A picture is worth […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 27th of February, 2007 in Readings 0 Comments

Web 2.0 - the machine is Us/ing Us

Prof. Mike Wesch from Kansas State University’s Digital Ethnography project posted the above video to YouTube, which is clear explanation of what Web 2.0 is all about.

I have to say I hate the term Web 2.0 as it is really just the Web (indeed the early Internet before the Web) ‘done properly’ both in terms […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 13th of February, 2007 in Readings 0 Comments