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Digital Citizenship Digital Environments Digital Identity Live Streaming Media Studies Surveillance Virtually ConnectingThe Zoom Gaze
Note: On December 7th I expanded my thinking on the concept of the Zoom Gaze into a full-length article with Real Life Magazine which you can find here https://reallifemag.com/the-zoom-gaze/ I’ve been doing video conferencing pretty intently since 2016 in connection with my Virtually Connecting work. This work has been technical, social, and critical. It has…
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Going Clear: A Call for Conversation around the Ethics of Mobile Live Streaming from #OER17 and Other Events
Last year I read Dave Eggers’ The Circle, a dystopian novel about technology, social media, and society gone wrong. By the end of the novel the lead character is engaging in a process called “going clear” where she is live streaming her entire life save sleeping and going to the bathroom. It is pretty creepy.…
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The Paradox of Inclusion: Reflections prior to presenting at #OER17
Some of us have been accepted to present at OER17 reflecting on Virtually Connecting (VConnecting or VC) as an approach to open and inclusive conferences. The name of our panel is Breaking the physical presence barrier: Virtually Connecting as an approach to open, inclusive conferences. I am absolutely thrilled to be able to present with…
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Further Defining LOOM: autonomous persistence in relation to ethos
I was asked to be part of a panel discussion at the Winter Symposium on Digital Literacies in Higher Education as a part of my work with Virtually Connecting. This time I not only had distance as a barrier but also time – I had a meeting scheduled at the same time. The panel was…
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#MyDigCiz as Critical Experimentation in Opposition to Best Practice: Self-Reflection After #DigPed PEI or why I thought you might care about my soup
It was 2007, I was just finishing up my BS degree in communication technology when I received a google alert on my name one day. Honestly, I had felt a little vain when I set it up but I saw how this could be helpful especially considering the uniqueness of my name. Someone had written…
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#OLCInnovate Fishbowl: So what’s Virtually Connecting all about anyway?
This Tuesday through Friday, June 19th – 22nd, I will be attending, presenting, and Virtually Connecting at the OLC Innovate conference in New Orleans. I’m excited to take the lead on our presentation Fishbowl: So what’s Virtually Connecting all about anyway? on Thursday the 21st at 11:15 am in Oak Alley (4th floor) of the…
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My Virtual Life: becoming a real buddy with a nod to the Velveteen Rabbit
‘Does it hurt?’ asked the Rabbit. ‘Sometimes,’ said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. ‘When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.’ What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be virtual? Over the last year I spent a lot of time expanding my virtual self. Now, I had…
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A call for more #HumanMOOC discussion groups. Or. The very human problem of access with more thoughts on the Interpersonal Multitudes Barrier (IMB)
So I planned this participant led discussion inside of #HumanMOOC. In terms of process I tweeted that I wanted to do this and asked who else might be interested. With those that responded I opened a DM channel and configured a time. Then I advertised the time on the tag to see if I could get…
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The Connecting May be Virtual but the Authenticity is Real: #digped From Afar with Virtually Connecting
Cross-posted on http://virtuallyconnecting.org Photo Credit Bowin Chin: People Connecting Shared with Creative Commons Licensing NC-ND Before we get started I should come clean and say that I have never actually tried one of those virtual conferences. I have been on both sides of webinars and streamed lectures enough that I imagine them to be lacking…
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Connecting Virtually – Considerations from a Virtual Participant
What is Virtually Connecting? Recently, I had the privilege of being able to participate in a couple of Virtually Connecting hangouts; an experiment set up by Maha Bali and Rebecca Hogue. What is Virtually Connecting? Well, for a while now bigger Ed Tech conferences have been streaming sessions, sometimes for a price and sometimes for…