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Still Learning: Tracing Pottermore

Saved on July 20, 2011

What happens when an actor desiring creative control tries to own the open spaces of participatory culture?

That is the research question I have written for Tracing Digital Cultures with Dr. Liza Potts. Dr. Potts told us as we started this class that we needed to find an event to track as it unfolded through social media. Well, since this was June 23rd and anyone who is even a remote Harry Potter fan knew what was happening on June 24th, I chose the unveiling of Pottermore. I started out wanting to know how JK Rowling was going to enter into the world of participatory culture, a world she had clearly up to this point left to others such as her fan sites.

PLAYBACK: Playing with Education, Or: Using the Digital World to Make Sense of the Real World | Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning

Saved on July 19, 2011

7.15.11 | One of the ways to determine if a revolution is happening in education is if things that were thought to be the antithesis of good pedagogy are actually becoming the most dynamic way to teach. Welcome to this week’s Playback, which features the instructional power of everything from “Angry Birds” to virtual worlds.