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May 26, 2006

Podcasting, seminars and e–portfolios

Podcasting is becoming ubiquitous. MP3 players, such as those created by iriver are increasingly capable of recording audio in a high quality but easily handled format. The files that are created can be swiftly transfered to a computer, edited with free software, and uploaded onto the internet. Warwick's Sitebuilder2 web content management system has a built in podcast player. My suggestion is that podcasting could eventually form an essential activity within research oriented seminar based teaching.

Last night I recorded a seminar as part of the What Is Philosophy? project. During the seminar discussion, I made some comments that I suspect may play a key role in my research. It took just a few minutes to edit my comments and the subsequent discussion into a small file, and upload it into my eportfolio and blog. You can listen to this by clicking on the button below:


Podcast play button

This gave me a thought:

Learning to speak in seminars is a key objective of research based learning. When a student achieves success in this skill, that success should be recorded. This offers an opportunity to reflect upon the success, considering the contributing factors. Keeping such a recording may also offer supporting evidence to assessment. Finally, it could also provide a useful resource to present in an e-portfolio, for example, to prospective employers.

Perhaps in the near future, as e–portfolios become more common within higher education, amongst the various snapshots of a student's academic work, we will see podcasts of seminars.


Robert O'Toole : 26 May 2006 21:07 |  Tags:      |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem

September 08, 2005

My ePortfolio homepage text

About me:
Philosophy – people I read include Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Michel Foucault, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard et al, not necessarily because they are more authoritative than Anglo-American writers, but because I like their expansive, divergent and unremittingly creative approach. Favourite slogan: "panic is creation" (Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus). Favourite term: "nomadic anarchitecture" (invented in my undergraduate dissertation). I have an essay on Viral Empiricism published in Deleuze and Philosophy, the Difference Engineer (ed. Ansell Pearson). You can read about my research in my transversality blog.

Technology – I am also the Arts Faculty (including Philosophy) E-learning Advisor, and as such work with creative and critical technologies on a daily basis, as you can see reported in the Warwick E-learning Blog. This has given me a deep appreciation of the need for a clarification and re-assessment of the core concepts underpinning the arts: creativity, imagination, technology and individuality. If you are a Warwick PhD student, and would like an ePortfolio like this, contact me.

About my research:
Supervisor: Keith Ansell Pearson

Research topic/interests: Creativity and technology, some initial questions: What is creativity? In what sense can someone be said to possess creativity? In what sense can an animal, environment, culture, society or other formation possess creativity? Can creativity be a property of a technology? Are there a set of 'problems of technology' recurrent in all human activity? Do these problems necessarily relate to the possession of creativity? In what way is creativity in science ("scientific imagination"), the same as in art and philosophy? What does it mean for creative processes to be 'blocked'? How is creativity surpressed and encouraged by social, psychological, political and economic organisations? Does creativity flourish more easily in such conditions (minor literatures)?

To find out more about my research plans and results, please refer to the research section of this ePortfolio. This contains a more detailed paper on my thesis, a bibliography and list of related web links.


: 08 Sep 2005 22:09 |  Tags:  |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem

My ePortfolio homepage text

About me:
Philosophy – people I read include Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Michel Foucault, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard et al, not necessarily because they are more authoritative than Anglo-American writers, but because I like their expansive, divergent and unremittingly creative approach. Favourite slogan: "panic is creation" (Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus). Favourite term: "nomadic anarchitecture" (invented in my undergraduate dissertation). I have an essay on Viral Empiricism published in Deleuze and Philosophy, the Difference Engineer (ed. Ansell Pearson). You can read about my research in my transversality blog.

Technology – I am also the Arts Faculty (including Philosophy) E-learning Advisor, and as such work with creative and critical technologies on a daily basis, as you can see reported in the Warwick E-learning Blog. This has given me a deep appreciation of the need for a clarification and re-assessment of the core concepts underpinning the arts: creativity, imagination, technology and individuality.


: 08 Sep 2005 22:07 |  Tags:  |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem