Nov 11
I don’t think it’s a controversial stance to say that our education systems need help, especially with digital technology advancing so quickly. Well, Laura Fleming is the kind of teacher I would have loved in school. She truly understands how education can be improved — and implements it in her own classroom every day, using …
Sep 21
At last week’s guest speaker event with Brent Friedman, one of the major ideas he proposed was that the future of media consumption was going to be through the mobile device — phone or tablet. One of the common explanation given for why transmedia storytelling is becoming such a big thing now (whether you think …
Jul 06
A week ago, the Transmedia Vancouver Meetup group had its second get-together, this time with a guest speaker. Matt Toner, president of Vancouver-based transmedia company Zeros 2 Heroes, spoke to the twenty-something attendees about their transmedia project Animism. Animism was a project concept developed by Zeros 2 Heroes (a company that is primarily technology-based, but …
Mar 22
I don’t really want to write this post, because I don’t really want to have to write this post. But SXSW apparently reared the ugly head of not-being-satisfied-with-the-term-’transmedia’. Again. I don’t want to get into a whole thing with this. I thought we were past this. (I founded this blog with what I thought would …
Mar 08
As we enter the second month of Azrael’s Stop, I’ve been putting a lot of thought into the use of Twitter as a storytelling platform — both on its own or as a driving platform, and as a smaller part of a transmedia story. Twitter has already been used in a lot of innovative ways …
Dec 23
I’ve read a few articles in the last couple of weeks about using transmedia in education, and about the need to change (fix) education in the broader sense. I don’t think it’s a radical thought that the education system has problems. Many people have written about it, probably for years. One article I read recently …
Nov 04
Last week I attended the Merging+Media conference in Vancouver, and as I wrote last time, I’m going to continue my brief look at the topics discussed therein by looking at using existing technology. Existing Technology One of the panels at Merging+Media was about new technologies and how they can be used in the world of …
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