Crowded Wisdom

The use of blogs as a way for me to communicate with you and for you to keep a portfolio of your work and to comment on each other’s stuff, etc, is not something I’ve done before. I can see advantages and disadvantages to doing it this way, but what do you think?

Can you please drop me a quick note in the comments below with your thoughts on the use of a blog as a tool for learning in this course. Is it good? Is it bad? What do you like? What would you change? You don’t have to be shy… tell me what you really think.

The world has changed a lot in the last few years, but some teachers seem not to have noticed. A guy I know (another teacher) made this video to show his teaching colleagues, who he thinks are not really “getting it”.

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Take a look at the video and leave me a comment on your reaction to it. Do you think he has a valid point? Do you agree or disagree with his point of view? What do you think about his video?

You’ve been working on your banners for a couple of days now. Most of you have realised that this exercise is a little trickier than it maybe first appeared - the size of the banners is quite restrictive, the information to be communicated can be challenging, etc.

In the comments below, please leave your thoughts so far about the design issues you have been facing, and tell us how you have (or plan to) resolve them. Give the rest of us an insight into the creative processes going through your head…

As you are hopefully discovering, Photoshop can make you doubt what you see… by adding, deleting, changing an image, it can fool us into seeing things as they really aren’t!

Check out this one… http://www.snopes.com/rumors/crash.htm
Also, these might be worth checking out.

• http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/lavey.asp
• http://www.snopes.com/photos/iceberg.asp
• http://www.snopes.com/photos/lili.asp

Too obvious? What about fashion magazines? Surely THEY wouldn’t lie to us? Better have a look at this site and make up your own mind…

Write a comment below responding to these websites. What do you think about the use of digital image editing tools like Photoshop to modify images? How much is too much?

Copy your response into your own blog as well if you like.