Digital Media in Education

Latitude Beta Test - Pedagogy project making a film about digital culture

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 20:36:00 +0000

A pedagogy project exploring digital culture through the making of a feature film

Find out more about my Digital Media Work

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:23:00 +0000

To find out more about my work as a Lecturer in Digital Media please visit:

My Digital Media Academic Portfolio where you can also find lots of links to see what I am up to these days

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best

Pete

It's been a while

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:19:00 +0000

Sorry i've not posted anything for a bit. i've moved to the a new Peter Woodbridge website

Our digital future

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:59:00 +0000

and why we need to always remain a bit critical in new technology discourses?

The Commons

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:21:00 +0000

In this video filmmaker Laura Hanna, writer Gavin Browning and video artists/animators Dana Schechter and Molly Schwartz examine the concept of "The Commons" as a means to achieve a society of justice and equality.

Save the Open Internet

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:19:00 +0000

Many governments and corporations are starting to bring in legislation and inhibitions that will limit the scope for experimentation on the internet, which Openness advocators believe is critical to its emergence as a democratic and innovative space.

Go to vision on tv to see more videos about the campaign

Open Learning Conference in Nottingham

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:16:00 +0000

There's loads of great talks about open education on Nottingham University's Excellent Youtube Channel:

does education kill creativity?

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:26:00 +0000

an oldie, but still poignant points from Sir Ken Robinson - a keen advocate of personal fulfillment as a means to innovation

rethinking privacy in an age of sharing

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:51:00 +0000

All that is solid now featured on Adbusters Homepage

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:53:00 +0000

You might remember some time back I was working on a video about Google and the dangers of digital imperialism called 'All that is solid melts into Google'.

Well it's currently featured on Adbusters homepage: https://www.adbusters.org/

While you're there also check out Micah White's article on the Great Escape - an interesting call to arms for the internet's goliath.

The state of the internet by Jesse Thomas

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:43:00 +0000

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.

JESS3 designed and animated this for the JESS3 lecture at AIGA Baltimore in Feb 2010.

The Internet and Social Change in China

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:28:00 +0000

Professor Alan Hunter gave this lecture last week talking about the impact of the web on chinese politics and society.

With well over 300 million citizens online China is now the single biggest networked nation on the planet. This has caused a massive shift in social behaviour and has led to a number of new modes of discursive production in Chinese society. Alan discusses a number of web-based case studies that show how the popular misconception of China - as a country where people are unable to speak out against authority- can be seen as being actively subverted through internet based mass-intervention.

Through analysing social network behaviour within the PRC it can be seen that citizens are heavily monitoring the behaviour of officials - unveiling truth in politics and societal wrongdoings - in order to enact a kind of 'deliberative democracy'. Often through humour and subversion, rather than traditional political rhetoric.

This is a great insight into an alternative view of China and the way the world wide web is working there.

Students help the Haiti Appeal

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:40:00 +0000

A creative project we made with students in aid of the DEC Haiti Appeal. Thanks to all involved.

Liquid Theory TV - now in iTunes U

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:47:00 +0000

We've now added the Liquid Theory TV series in Video, Audio and PDF format to iTunes U.

Episodes include the Introduction to the Liquid Books Project and Deleuze Control Society for you to download and share.

A written explanation of the project is available in the Culture Machine Open Access Journal

Social Media in Higher Education

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:44:00 +0000

Jadu has just released this report into the use of social media in HE. Some interesting stats, but little detail into actual applications of SM.

Deleuze and Control Society?

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:04:00 +0000

A piece that I have been working on for the Culture Machine journal with Professor Gary Hall and Dr Clare Birchall exploring new media ways of disseminating academic ideas and research.

You can also subscribe to the Liquid Theory TV series in iTunes U

An interesting experiment from the creative computing folk

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:42:00 +0000

Youtube direct

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:03:00 +0000

A blow to online news? Or is it the helping hand that news organisations need?

Laurence Lessig- getting our values around copyright

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:02:00 +0000

Laurence Lessig, 'It is About Time: Getting our values Around Copyright', EDUCAUSE09 keynote, November 5, 2009

Net Neutrality

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:12:00 +0000

When Jon Snow came to Coventry

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:13:00 +0000

Shirky on the Journalistic ecosystem

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:35:00 +0000

Clay Shirkey argues that the public role of 'journalism as a watchdog' is at risk.

UNESCO Open Educational Resources: Building Knowledge Societies @ Cambridge ODL Conference 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:14:00 +0000

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

UNESCO Open Educational Resources: Building Knowledge Societies @ Cambridge ODL Conference 2009

View more presentations from Catriona Savage.

Future of Technology in Education FOTE 09

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:25:00 +0000

Just a few reflections from Future of Technology in Education FOTE 09 on Friday:

I was particularly interested in Dougald Hine's talk about unbundling the University. Dougald talked about stripping the university right back to its component parts, arguing that the university itself has become somewhat ordained in a mission where it has lost its connection to learners. He illustrated this with an example of a bunch of folk who, dissatisfied with the offerings of Media Arts MA courses, went and set up their own network of practitioners.

He talked about a number of grassroots initiatives that are springing up as a rejection to this including some of the findings he helped on in the edgeless university by JISC. This included Pippa Buchanon doing a DIY masters by creating a a network of people and content to help her learn, the smart work company who are rethinking managing practices for the 21st century, alterfutures who are a network of alternative design futurists as well as the School of Everything which is described as an ebay for learning to name just a few.

Add to this a number of other current experiments such as the P2P University, University of the People, Openlearn Learning Clubs, Lisa Chamberlain's Open PhD and the plethora of grassroots education initiatives that are surfacing around the uk and beyond at the moment and the statement that "This seminar feels a bit like sitting with

a group of record industry executives in 1999" couldn't have felt more appropriate.

I was also very interested to hear about David Jennings ideas around Progressive Austerity and how if we thought about optimising the use of slack spaces for example, we could make the world of education more open (most university equipment for example is unused for 90% of the time). Seems simple as an idea, but in an educational world motivated by profit rather than serving the educational needs of the people it becomes rather, unneccessarily, complex.

The future of education could indeed be at a radical price. And it could be an even more radical price for our Universities.

The videos from FOTE 09 are available here

Media Education Summit - Some great resources

noreply@blogger.com (Pete Woodbridge) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:35:00 +0000

If you are interested in thinking about the way that the digital (r)evolution is impacting on teaching and learning in HE then I recommend listening to these podcasts from the CEMP Media Education Summit.

Talks include Michael Wesch (Kansas State Uni) on Mediated Culture, Tom Loosemore (4ip) on New Media New Institutions, Andrew Chitty (Illumina) on A new kind of Network and a very interesting presentation from Jeff Jarvis (City University New York) on Distributed Education in the Google Age.