Narrative ecologies

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or Ecology of Narratives :)

Hybrid Narrative Ecosystem

Anatole-Pierre Fuksas

Interview with Anatole of geotagged literature

Kai Pata

Participants

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Contents

[edit] Course settings

Tallinn University main Building Narva road 25, room P-510.

Course Blog (we will also aggregate other blogs here)

Wiki for collaborative work (we do groupwork in Wikiversity pages)

Courselandscape.jpg

[edit] Aims of the course

  • To give learners an authentic experience of planning and participating in an ethnographic experiment exploring the geolocative ecology of narratives.
  • To develop competences of conducting design-based and action research.
  • To develop competences in analyzing geolocative data using soft ontologies.
  • To involve students into research initiatives that can be related with their master projects.

[edit] Brief outline

A geotagging setting, conceivable as a hybrid ecology will be developed with students, according to the principles of design based research, incorporating aspects of action research approach.

On 3 contact days:

  • I) Introduction to the framework of ecology of hybrid narratives. Determining the theory and tools. Planning the experiment and augmenting artifacts.
  • II) Data collection methods in virtual ethnographic settings. Participating in an ethnographic experiment prepared by peer-students.
  • III) Data analysis methods, including soft ontology methods. Evaluation of the experiment as an hybrid ecology.

After 1st contact day, students work in pairs to plan and augment a social narrative into the experimental setting. After 2nd contact day each pair of students collects geolocative narrative data from the settings. After 3rd contact day the pairs analyse data and prepare a report.

[edit] Grading

  • 50 % active participation in experiment planning, conducting and analysis.
  • 30 % preparing the short report consisting of initial narrative, observations from the experiment, analysis of final narratives.
  • 20 % formative peer evaluation of reports.

[edit] Design experiment groups

here will appear the group-work with design experiments

[edit] Outline and resources

[edit] DAY 1 29.01

[edit] 12-13 Theoretical introduction ecological thinking, enacted learning, embodied simulation forms (Anatole, Kai) (1 h)

[edit] 13-14 Introduction to design experiment (Kai) (1 h)

Ecology of narratives as a design experiment

What? This theory is derived from ecological thinking, enacted learning /Kai/, embodied simulation forms /Anatole/ (Theoretical lectures from Anatole and Kai)

Students start thinking what can be discovered and explored with this design experiment about cognitive interaction with stories.

How? This practice is derived from geolocative m-learning studies, Web 2.0 storytelling, emerging standards (Practice examples from Anatole and Kai)

Students start thinking, what is an applicable solution for urban hybrid narratives – who will participate, why, where, what tools are needed, how stories become visible for collaboration, which are new story-telling formats

[edit] 14-16 Geolocative m-learning studies, Web 2.0 storytelling, emerging standards (Kai & Anatole, 2 h)

Pedagogic principles applicable in M-learning [1]

GIS and affordances of places

Papers:

[edit] 16-18 Practical task Day 1: questions, topic of the narrative, personal tools

  • The design session is started with theoretical questions.
  • Discussing and deciding the topic of the individual/collaborative narrative.
  • The available personal tools are listed, discussed and tested.

(we could use wiki)

Questions on slides

[edit] DAY 2 30.01

[edit] 12-13.30 The presentation and testing of some possible tools and software (Anatole & Kai) (1,5 h)

Scenario 1

Scenario2.jpg

Final data flow.jpg

Note instead of Twemes we use search.twitter.com

Three scenario.jpg

[edit] List of Tools

compatible with yahoo_id (flickr), twitter, brightkite

http://www.openstreetmap.org/

Students start blogs.

http://wordpress.com

Aggregation of course monitoring site in blog (or aggregatror if many participants).

Discussion: preliminary ideas what might work technologically

[edit] 13.30-15 The activity starts in town – testing the applicability of the design idea in context. Finding some limitations. (1,5 h)

We need to determine possible area (depends on the topic) and wifi areas in town

[edit] 15-16 Practical task

The design session is finalized and the groups prepare preliminary designs (1 h).

Slides with questions

Practical task goal in general (final in day 2): Students discuss the aspects presented in the slide and prepare in groups preliminary design – flow of narrative construction with tool, people, artifacts (landscape view and activity view) and tell a user story (can be audio-recorded during presentation). Topic of the narrative. Data-collection methods. Monitoring strategy during design experiment (aggregator for personal blogs or aggregated course blog).

[edit] 16-18 The groups present their designs, the common ground is reached for applicable design. (2 h)

Discussion: how the work continues for running the design experiment (monitoring and data-collection, how much narrative-writing and reflection is expected for the last contact day. )

[edit] February-march: Individual and collabrative work

[edit] Geolocative activity in town

Data collection of geolocative narrative and collaboration on stories.

The storytelling can be monitored.

[edit] Students’ weekly reflect postings

Writing impression in personal blogs, relating postings geolocatively with the artifacts from narrative (data collection of cognition).

[edit] Monitoring what is going on

Blog feeds are pulled together to monitor the activity online (in course blog or aggregator)

[edit] DAY 3 23.03

[edit] 10-14 Data analysis. Conclusions of the design experiment. (4 h)

(we could use wiki)

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