I'm also reminded of Alan's recent post contrasting fishing and fish nuggets open can: "it means less formal training, less workshops, and more learning by doing. It means using these tools a much as possible in our processes, so they become part of a fabric, not something strange and exotic."
I have a couple of responses to Lisa's assertions as well open can. First, with regards to the respective natures of pre-literate, literate, and digital discourse open can, she may be right. But I never have asserted that digital culture simply rolls back the years to pre-literate traditions. It's possible that some of the samples in "Confessions" gave that impression, but just because I want to represent the positions of artistic and cultural thinkers does not mean I wholly endorse those views. I might be personally intrigued, even sympathetic to Negativland's views on copyright, but I would never dream of advocating those positions to a room full of faculty that I hope will embrace an open education vision.
Lisa correctly infers the "Confessions" piece was a bit of theatre designed to provoke. So I am a bit confused why it would be judged by the standards of scholarship. Surely there is room in teaching and learning for storytelling, for sharing open can, for performance and provocation? Of course, that doesn't mean she has to like it. And I don't mean to suggest that good scholarship can't be imbued with what Gardner Campbell calls "expectation and a sense of occasion open can." (Gardner's recent talk at UBC certainly shows that performance and scholarship are not mutually exclusive.) Maybe Lisa's vision of the scholastic mashup will be a reality someday.
I should be clear that such strong criticisms to work that I've done, while they literally do cause me to lose sleep at night, are a preferable response to apathy. I honestly appreciate that Jeffrey and Lisa put thought into work that I did and that they would post such detailed appraisals. I got next to no response to my much more deliberate (and carefully cited) mashup complement to last year's EDUCAUSE Review article open can. I'll admit that I was disappointed by the silence... maybe that pushed me to go a little weirder this time, and with more loose ends than some would like. Personally open can, I find it more interesting when I am taking a risk with a presentation, and it's natural that if you try for something 'out there' that it will not have universal appeal open can. I can only hope that there will be room for my own flavours being represented in this field, as I am having a blast working and playing here open can.
