One of my favourite quotes from McLuhan’s classical Understanding Media is found in the chapter about radio. I think it is still valid and applicable to other and more modern media forms: “Radio affects most people intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener. That is the immediate aspect ofContinue reading “Lessons learnt: final blog post”

Remember the ubiquitous overhead projectors in classrooms, usually with the electric cord across the floor to trip on, during the lectures and writings on the whiteboard? In Media and Communication Studies they were often used for showing images of media content or figures from textbooks. When I moved my office a few years ago, allContinue reading “Topic 4: Re-designing old-fashioned style for the benefits of online learning”

I thought about Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) the other day when I passed by the local newspaper, and started to wonder if the local reporters are building their PLNs for their continuous professional development. I haven’t really thought about PLNs before and how it could benefit me in my role as a university teacher andContinue reading “Staying connected”

Research, teach, and reach out to the public. Do you recognize yourself in this job description? And if so, do you put your different tasks in this order? For most of us with this job description, we think of the first and third task as a unit – we do research and we share thisContinue reading “To stay in the open – content, context, and connections”

Research, teach, and reach out to the public. Do you recognize yourself in this job description? And if so, do you put your different tasks in this order? For most of us with this job description, we think of the first and third task as a unit – we do research and we share thisContinue reading “To stay in the open – content, context, and connections”

“I am an analogue kind of person”. How many times have I not uttered this to draw the line between what I have interpret to be either digital or analogue? Yes, I am still in the habit to get my first-hand experience of the weather by walking the five steps to the mailbox to pickContinue reading “Online Participation and Digital Literacies”