The Fishbowl

I was looking back on all of my past letter responses/reflections, and I'd like to share the ones that were my favorite throughout the semester. If I had to define my Fishbowl, these are the ones that I would want to show. Response to "Looking at what we're looking at" letter "Indeed, we are all in ...

Action Learning - a process of action and learning within a small group to help develop creative, flexible, and successful approaches to the problem at hand

"Action learning" letter Sanjiv, please do let us know if we end up being able to fund registration for the conference! It would be a shame if we were picked and aren't able to participate. That aside, I will continue my action learning within the Fishbowl until the end of the course, and then outsi...

"By describing experience well, we understand ways of leading more authentic lives." This is why self reflection is so important. When you look back on past experiences and deconstruct them, you can find meaning where you never thought you would. Explanations appear for questions you had regarding t...

Vilem Flusser - He wrote about technical images and examined digital communication technologies and how they have changed people and the world.

Thanks for the clarification. I will be looking at everyone's class notes and speaking to a group mate for more information after Tuesday's class.

Media ecology theory is the study of media, technology, and communication and how they affect human environments. It's true that media has drastically changed our environment - we use technology every day for transportation, learning, and communication. We consume different forms of media through te...

Media - the main means of mass communication (broadcasting, publishing, and the Internet) regarded collectively Ecology - the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings Media Ecology - Media ecology theory is the study of media, tec...

"Mike Troiano, Filmmaker will visit on Wednesday, 12/4 at 3pm (443) and, next Tuesday, 12/10 at 11am (345)." I will unfortunately have to miss our last day of class (12/10) because I have a presentation with BUS 422 that cannot be missed. I know Sanjiv mentioned not to email when we miss class, so I...

Memory - something remembered from the past; a recollection

"Creating social memories and inter-subjective spaces (345)" letter Very interesting to view past students' videos. The most recently uploaded ones were for a different course so some of the topics they spoke of were different, but some things like perspective, connectivity, etc., were in common wit...

"Mutation/motion" letter "When images supplant texts, we experience, perceive, and value the world and ourselves differently, no longer in a one-dimensional, linear, process-oriented, sequential way but rather in a two-dimensional way, as surface, context, scene." We're very used to seeing just imag...