Reviving the Composition: for social media, multimedia, transmedia…even makerspace!
Way way back in the dark ages, in the pre-history of the Web – around 1991, to be more precise – I wrote a paper for what was then the Scottish Coun...
Category: Media
Post Literacy Post-Haste
Anxiety sells! So says The Economist this week in an excellent piece showing just how long we have had to listen to the oft-heard announcements of the terminal ...
CommonLearn: The Classroom in the Cloud
In the physical world, the classroom, traditionally, is a place where teachers teach and learners learn, where information is acquired, created, distilled, shap...
Dissent and Disloyalty
The great American commentator, Edward Murrow, that country’s voice of integrity through the Second World War and beyond, wrote some words that come to m...
The Flapping Windmill
[This was the paper that wrote in support of The Doctor Laurel Anne Clyde Memorial Address which I gave to ASLA in Adelaide in 2008. It re-visited a n...
Don’t Diss Media Studies
Neil Postman, of Teaching As A Subversive Activity fame, noted in a talk uploaded to Youtube: .…if we had in this country serious.…media lite...