http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-602962800234523793
While watching this documentary, write down at least 5 keywords or phrases that focus your attention.
What is the associative link for you with the words/phrases that you have noted down?
Sydney based remix collective Soda_jerk are giving a seminar here at SwinburneWe now have a few new numbers for the list 108.html, 109.html and 110.html – and anxious students who think they won’t be linked to, so do you best to help them out if you can.
If you haven’t already checked to make sure you are on the list, then don’t forget to do it! If you are not, then email me and I will assign you a number.
6508405 – you are 111.html
6157661 – you are 112.html
5697093 – you are 113.html
6508014 – you are 114.html
This assignment is asking you to do three things:
If you are unclear what is meant by the term identity, consider the following:
“If identity provides us with the means of answering the question ‘who am I?’ it might appear to be about personality; the sort of person I am. That is only part of the story. Identity is different from personality in important respects. We may share personality traits with other people, but sharing an identity suggests some active engagement on our part. We choose to identify with a particular identity or group. Sometimes we have more choice than others. In considering identity we have to balance the relative importance of structures, the forces beyond our control which shape our identities, and agency, the degree of control which we ourselves can exert over who we are. Identity requires some awareness on our part. Personality describes qualities individuals may have, such as being outgoing or shy, internal characteristics, but identity requires some element of choice. For example, I may go to football matches on Saturdays because I enjoy shouting loudly with a crowd of lively extroverts, but I go to watch Richmond because I want to identify with that particular team, to wear that scarf and make a statement about who I am, and, of course, because I want to state that I support one AFL team and not the others. We may be characterised by having personality traits, but we have to identify with – that is, actively take up – an identity.” Taken and miodified from Questions of identity http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=176757# If you are interested, you could read the entire document.
On the basis of this, I could list some aspects of my identity that are important to how I see myself. I can even characterise them according to the schema above of agency and structure.
Structural aspects of my identity
Teacher / Mother / Woman / Australian-born / Melbournian / Sister
These are defined in some part by forces beyond my control – however, within these broad categories, there is a good degree of room for choice about the kind of teacher, the kind of mother, the kind of woman and so on. Or even further to that, there is a choice about whether to be a teacher or a mother. So these are inflected by agency – by my choices – to some extent as well.
Aspects of my identity over which I have agency
Richmond supporter / Lover of books / Writer / Musician / Someone who believes in cultural diversity / Gardener
We often like to characterise these aspects of ourselves as structural rather than something we choose – when we say things like “I was born to write” or “I was born to sing”. But clearly, even if we feel very strongly about an aspect of our identity such as this, there is still a degree of agency at work. And often, there is a moment or event or person which drives our identification with an aspect of our identity over which we have agency.
So let’s take one of the latter categories that I identify with – musician – and look at how that got to be there.
There are probably a number of events which led to my interest in singing but the person who most influenced me was my dad. A lovely tenor, Dad would sing in the car wherever we went. When I was really young, the old car that we had didn’t have a radio so Dad would teach us all of the songs that he grew up singing. Being with dad in the car was particularly important to me as my parents divorced when I was 4. So Dad and the car meant an outing – and singing was a really important part of that.
How would I represent that? Well, there’s one really strong memory I have of driving to the Nicholson River in Gippsland to go camping and fishing. The drive took about 5 hours and it was marked by various milestones along the way. There is no one way that I could represent this – but here is an attempt.
See http://netlit.swinmc.net/example/020.html
I can now choose 5 elements at random to link to other nodes.
The following is a nice intro tutorial for working with Dreamweaver CS4. The author has other short Dreamweaver tutorials available on youtube.
1.Collaborative Writing Task/Self Portrait 25%
Filenames to use for assignment
Due Date : 19th April 2010
Network Literacies 2010 