Yes, yes, we’ve all heard the news by now. BlackCT Wednesday has hit. Will it be remembered as The Day the Music Died? I don’t think so. Unfortunately, it could be remembered as The Day the Music Was So Badly Wounded That It Became Barely Listenable for a Really Long Time.
You know. Kinda like the ’80’s. Except with software. (more…)
In my last post, I suggested that we need an architecture that is designed with a low barrier of entry for educators to actively influence and change themselves. Today, I ran into a related post by Dana Boyd, which I actually found through Hypergene Media Blog which, in turn, found it via Ben Hammersly. (Whew.)
Here’s the relevant quote:
My argument is that we stop thinking of remix as production, but as active consumption. Remix happens as a bi-product of consumption. What we’re remixing is culture and the active consumption of culture is part of identity development and living as a social creature in society.
Think about clothing consumption. Few people buy all of the items on the mannequin. You buy different pieces and mix and mash them. You might even decide to alter them by adding patches, by dying them, by cutting them up. You make the clothing yours. And then you share your consumption with the world by parading on the streets. In this way, you make the clothing tell your story.
Boyd is talking about remixing content by way of analogy to personal effects, but why couldn’t his point apply equally to software services and applications?
Auricle’s Derek Morrison follows up on his great example of how to make an internet-focused tool like a personal blog system enterprise-robust for large educational institutions. In this latest post, he analyzes the clever features of the University of Warwick’s Blogbuilder tool. This is exactly the kind of article that I love; it translates software features into educational affordances.
Sweet!
