Time’s Media

I got tired of the hair and took it all down… shiny skin bald in moments.

For those who do not know, Chloe is in French school. Here are clips from three different performances at Summer Camp this year.

She began yesterday with one drum and little 2-second flurries. Day 2, here she is with multiple instruments and putting together recurring beats. Sweet! (and yes, it was just the Blackberry Cam)

Digital Orality and the Online Video Conversation:
Simulating Synchronicity and Preserving Humanness in Distance Communication


This was presented on June 19th at St. Louis University for the Tenth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association. Staying in line with my larger (dissertation) topic, this presentation discusses the use of Seesmic in the online, asynchronous classroom. Seesmic offers immediate, ongoing conversations on virtually any topic. With its threaded, conversational videos, it offers conversing participants a more immediate, nearly seamless way to communicate that preserves much of the social presence of face-to-face dialogue and creates an almost synchronous exchange of ideas.

Don’t worry - I do not read the paper through the entire presentation. I battled using it, at all, but it was requested that I read it, so I did so for the background and set up of the topic.

Here is the presentation I gave at Texas Tech in May.

The Embedded Online Video Conversation:
Humanness and the Semi-Synchronous Situation in the Asynchronous Online Classroom
It discusses the use of Viddler in the online, asynchronous classroom, including an account of data collected through a student survey. This, is getting closer to my dissertation topic, but not quite exact.