Waiting Room...

thats what today has felt like...alot of waiting and wasted time. Unfortunalty modules posted up onto the blackboard were not working so we spent time virtually hanging about...that was the this morning, eventually someone came to our rescue and we closed doors on one virtual space to enter another where Stuart was waiting hooray! this afternoon wasn't much better...nobody about to deliver new module. I grit my teeth as I think there is alot to be said for virtual learning enviroments, they are souless places that are confusing, time consuming and dull...its weird to think that whilist real life continues their are pockets of people floating about in these virtual no-mans land waiting room! It can only get better...
                                                                                   
...anyway Ive some research today...read through blogs, looked at TED and came across photographer Vera Lutter..who uses pin hole camera to take what are described a 'ghostly' images. I really like this technique, because of its simplicity as well as the wounderful effects that can be created from just a recipe made up of a box, needle, tape and roll / sheet film
http://www.kodak.com/ek/US/en/Pinhole_Camera.htm

 Extract  from Guardian 29th april 2011: One of the reasons Lutter's images feel tangible and yet weird is that they're realised in negative, so that light forms auras where shadows should be cast and the sky is always black. But it's also the way she makes them, using one of photography's simplest and oldest devices –the pinhole camera. This is time-consuming business, requiring long exposures so that the film not only records the outlines of buildings but the ghost-like forms that move in and out of the frame as the clock ticks on. They can be crafted from anything: Lutter has used an old trunk for some of her work, but she's regularly worked with room-sized boxes to create huge, one-off images.

finally...Ive got some reading to do on intellectual property http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ before next week to test knowledge of IP and find out what aspects of IP are mosr important to me and why?? shall think about that one when Ive done some reading. Next supervisory meeting Thursday 6th October @ 1:30 (1hr) blimey need to think about that too my research that is...currently I have been looking at ideas that are different to current thoughts...even the title conceptual narrative is being questioned? i still wont to focus on 'communication' poppers universal concepts are really interesting and Stuarts paper to thinking about problem space is also interesting. what I am not happy with is the practical element...I want to hypothesis about my ideas and write about them as grand theories, having pre-emptied my thoughts in the paper (i cried over) during the summer I realised that the practical element (i.e 2.0) of my not new idea is already very fruitful in education and what is a good thing....how do I compete and do I want too. Steve wheelers blog..Tuesday, 27 September 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjwo-uJaJPU&feature=player_embedded he discusses the importance of 2.0 (social web tool) as the new educational landscape that is forever changing in a way that it is offering so many possibilties i.e. in the way learners communicate, content of learning and collaboration. risks are being taken which is subsequential allows for learners to take responsibitiy for their own learning..I really need to think about this but for now im signing off!!

Talking to camera