"Hello everyone,

I'm writing with details of the "deeper than the eye can see" event with our guest expert, Natasa Lackovic from the University of Nottingham. MSc in E-learning participants, alumni, teachers and friends are all welcome to join in next week on Tuesday 20 November, 7:30-8:30pm UK time.

Before the event, please watch Natasa's introduction and her video lecture. These are available at:

mms://resources.lsri.nottingham.ac.uk/stream/natasa/introduction.wmv
mms://resources.lsri.nottingham.ac.uk/stream/natasa/screencast.wmv
 
These streams will play in a number of clients across various platforms including Windows, Mac and Linux. The open source client VLC worked well for me, and this is a free download from: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Then, on the 20th, join us in Blackboard Collaborate for an hour-long discussion session at 7:30pm (UK time). Along with talking with Natasa about her research and presentation, and learning more about visual methods, this should be a great opportunity to get and share some inspiration and insights for your own research projects or assignments.

On the 20th, you can access the Collaborate session through the MSc E-learning Moodle course, or directly at this link:

https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2011426&password=M.745C01385F5224536FD3990C738F6B

If you haven't run Collaborate recently, you should check your setup - directions for this below.

If you have any questions, please let me know! 

Looking forward to seeing you online next Tuesday evening!

Jen


Check computer setup for Collaborate
1. Check your operating system and Java: Computer Configuration check

2. Use Configuration room v11 to test your connection, settings, and configure your audio.

More info is here: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/services/learning-technology/communication/collaborate/preparing

If you require technical help, contact the University Helpline is.helpline@ed.ac.uk (tel:  0131 651 5151) for technical support."

Hello James,

So nice to hear from you! Thank you for writing and for your kind words.

Your dissertation topic sounds very interesting! I would like to know more about it. In my presentation I won't talk about multimodal analysis, but I have read a lot of material on multimodality and multimodal analysis and happy to suggest some readings but I am sure you already know many of those readings.

I am preparing a presentation that deals with visual research methods in general, pointing at some things to be considered when doing such a type or research and will provide an example of photo elicitation based research (it is the paper on national identity formation and textbook images, I can send you an updated paper). When it comes to analysing data, I like structural frameworks such as the semiotic one which distinguishes between image materiality and its descriptive value, its meaning and the object it represents (of course not as separate entities but working at the same time). It is useful for what I have been doing in my thesis. But yes, feel free to contact me if I can be of any help for your dissertation research.

Yes, "see" you soon (on the 20th for an online discussion but the screen cast presentation will be uploaded earlier).

Kind regards,

Natasa

Natasa Lackovic
Learning Sciences Research Institute, School of Education, University of Nottingham
http://www.lsri.nottingham.ac.uk/people/natasa.lackovic

Having registered to attend the forthcoming 'deeper than the eye can see' seminar, I've e-mailed Natasa Lackovic to reintroduce myself and to let her know my dissertation plans. I've also had a quick glance at her publications list and will add the relevant work to my resources page. Meanwhile, here's a visual bookmark of her page of the Nottingham University website. 'Visual bookmarking' - I like that.

I've signed up for a forthcoming session on the subject of visual methodologies that will be delivered by Natasa Lackovic. As the description says on the MSc course hub, this seminar will be of particular value to those at dissertation stage and interested in visual research, which is me, really. I've met Natasa before and am sure this will be a useful session. In fact we agreed to keep in touch so I should e-mail her ahead of the session to let her know about my dissertation plans.