Stephen Heppell has begun a RetroBlog... a blog that looks back at the past and places some of Stephen's thoughts and thinking into today's context.
Take a look at some of Stephen's writing over the last decade and his reflections on what progress, if any, has been made on topics including technology, learning, school design and the Internet.
Stephen Powell
Read some of this and found it interesting. However, puzzled by the framing of it as a Blog in this way. If it is a series of articles reflecting upon Stephen
Stephen Heppell
Well... thanks for that thought SP. I used the blog genre because it is very much "of now" - and a great peer to peer vehicle, with broader audience (indeed as it is here). But I wanted the "now" element top be looking back from a today context at some reflections in the past. Hence the RetroBlog bit. At the same time I've build podcasts too, monthly that are again rooted in a current context, but forward looking.
All this shows the kind of mess we are in with "time" on the internet. Mainly what i was hoping to explore was the nature of narrative when it is across time, assembled from components and without much in the way of linearity. How we make sense of narrative without the linearity of a time base is fascinating of course... look at the way multithreaded chats proceed.. or the way people us txt - sometime in an immediate way, other times very differently. Anyway... I hope the retroblog and Podcasts are of some use. They seem be getting a lot of hits!!
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