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Thoughts, reflections, and analysis on the impact of media technology on education. A focus on changes to media production practices and how these can be integrated into school environments. Also, regular features on topics relevant to the teaching of Media Studies.
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Digital Lives, Media Musings

English - Media Studies, Technology, Education
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Digital Lives, Media Musings · 8M ago

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Digital Lives, Media Musings · 1Y ago

I've moved over to Wordpress!

Hello everybody, After two years of happily using Blogger I have moved over to a hosted version of Wordpress.You can find me now at: www.svanstraten.comI've moved for a number of reasons:I wanted to have more control over the look and feel of my web spaceI wanted to bring all of my web activities un
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Digital Lives, Media Musings · 2Y ago

A tragic loss, a terrible warning

image courtesy of the BBCMy heart sank as I heard the story on the radio about the murder of teenager Ashleigh Hall by the convicted rapist Peter Chapman.He had posed as a teenage boy, using a false identity, on Facebook, and lured the unsuspecting 17 year old into his web of lies.When they met even
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Digital Lives, Media Musings · 2Y ago

Digital Childhood and the lessons of history

There's been significant coverage in the last week or so concerning young people, their exposure to inappropriate imagery in the media, their treatment by the media, and the recording of them covertly by a school authority. It struck me, as often it does, that there are patterns of behaviour which t
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Digital Lives, Media Musings · 2Y ago

Visual Language and its power to communicate

Bronwyn van der Merwe has written an amazing blog post at the BBC, detailing the corporation's detailed plans for re-designing the visual language it uses across all areas of its online presence. It provides a first rate insight into the importance of design in communication, and the need for media
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Digital Lives, Media Musings · 2Y ago

Pollock, Fractals, and how Maths can make Ed Tech Research Better

As time progresses the way I'm using my blog is evolving.Last year and the year before, when I started to blog in earnest, I found that I was often making shorter blog posts, as I discovered interesting ideas or technology that I thought might be useful.Then I discovered Twitter and most of those ti
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Digital Lives, Media Musings · 2Y ago

SeeSaw Saw You Wanting TV

News comes in that yet another online TV aggregator has launched.SeeSaw aims to provide a vast array of TV back catalogues to British viewers, thus filling gaps that the big players like YouTube and Hulu either don't fill, or in the case of the latter, don't yet provide, as Hulu has still not launch
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Digital Lives, Media Musings · 2Y ago

Why does the Hitler meme seem so popular?

One of the interesting web phenomena of recent years has been the rise of the Hitler meme on YouTube.In these, a clip from the film Downfall (2004)is used repeatedly, but with a range of subtitles added.The idea combines a mixture of humiliating the demonic figure that Hitler represents, while also
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Digital Lives, Media Musings · 2Y ago

Teens go for micro rather than macro blogging

An interesting report, quoted in the Guardian, suggesting that teens are moving rapidly away from the contemplative, longer form style of multimedia writing that embodies the production of a blog; choosing instead to write often and little on Facebook status updates and Twitter tweets.The interestin
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Digital Lives, Media Musings · 2Y ago

How fast are those fingers on the keyboard?

Phil Gyford has produced a fantastic blog post, in which he's experimented with data input times on a range of devices, from an iPhone, to a Mac laptop keyboard, vintage Apple Newton message pad, and two flavours of Palm - a phone and a PDA.His results are intriguing and not at all what one would ex
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