“Education is ultimately concerned with something more than passive responses. It entails the creation on new visions” (183). Veltman, Kim H. Understanding New Media: Augmented Knowledge & Culture. University of Calgary Press, 2006. In chapter 8, Veltman explained how the corporate world c...
Continue reading ..."Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" – T.S. Eliot "The Rock” (1934) Veltman, Kim H. Understanding New Media: Augmented Knowledge & Culture. University of Calgary Press, 2006. In my last post, I ended with a comment on how new ...
Continue reading ...Veltman, Kim H. Understanding New Media: Augmented Knowledge & Culture. University of Calgary Press, 2006. As I’ve discussed in the past, one of the greatest potential benefits of the online video conversation (OVC) in the asynchronous online classroom (AOC) or anyplace is in regard to space ...
Continue reading ...With every tool, man is perfecting his own organs, whether motor or sensory, or removing limits to their functioning. – Sigmund Freud (1929). Veltman, Kim H. Understanding New Media: Augmented Knowledge & Culture. University of Calgary Press, 2006. Veltman lists the major functions of co...
Continue reading ...A colleague of mine recently suggested that New Media is everything newer than the pencil. However, I cannot accept such a simple definition; all media is new at some point. To the chirographic era, the pencil was new media, as was the Gutenberg press. Being that so many new media forms have arisen ...
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