fictorus

• Review
• The fog
  It starts with confusion.
• Then I had this panic…………………
  Does anyone else know what they are doing?
• E-Lit explained
• E- Literature
• Creative mapping or canoeing up a dead end
  Today I have looked at: Mining for Behavioural Knowledge in Creative Processes by Sascha Westendorf from the Software Technology Research Laboratory published 12.03.2009. This was just following up some of the thoughts I had about Eisner and the way he talks about the creative process. Sascha Westendorf created a software program to identify the pathway [... […]
• Eisner and using theories of art education within wider study
  Eisner is an art educationalist who seeks to bring theories of what make learning and teaching art important, to a wider audience. With his book, ‘The Art of Educational Evaluation -a personal view’ Eisner was seeking to set Art Education within the wider educational curriculum. It was all about how to use the skills developed [...]
• Review of; Visual Culture Isn’t Just Visual: Multiliteracy, Multimodality & Meaning by Paul Duncum
  Paul Duncum’s hypothesis is that even new changes, by art educations, to shift the emphasis of the term visual in visual culture, is not enough to encompass the new diversity of contemporary social culture. He feels that culture cannot be divided into the visual, the auditory, the text-based etc. Within the new digital age, art [...]
• Review of the NESTA Next Gen. paper
  This is a review by Ian Livingstone and Alex Hope about the future of high tech media industries in the UK, such as video games and the visual effects industries. This review is needed, important succinct and pin points the way forward. It also directly relates to my studies as a lecturer and researcher working [...]
• January 2012 – review, update and reflect
  Well a term can seem so long and so short at the same time. I set myself the task of have a good look at flash animation, taking a course on research and re thinking what my PhD is all about. The Flash course was great. Sometimes I knew what I was doing and sometimes [...]