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My Alien Plasma

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  My Alien Plasma I made two digital artworks, each with a different approach. The first, Alien Plasma Neo, uses advanced digital editing to show a highly detailed energy being. The second, Plasma Alien, is a gestural painting that focuses on raw emotion. My interest in the 'energy being' theme comes from a lifelong curiosity about forces and life forms beyond what we usually see. I find energies and unseen phenomena fascinating because they represent transformation, vitality, and the mystery at the centre of my creativity. I want to explore how to visually convey inner power and life force, using both digital tools and painting techniques. I like experimenting with different tools to change an artwork. Comparing these two pieces shows how my intent shifts, much as a traditional artist might try out new media and methods. Alien Plasma Neo My first piece, Alien Plasma Neo, was all about hyper-definition and symmetry. I wanted to show this being at its highest energy, even down t...

Distance Education and eduTechnology

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My favorite Distance Learning quotes From https://twitter.com/jjfbbennett Shifting content-based teacher transmitted delivery to student inclusive learning requires a whole-of-school approach. Distance Education provides learning to students separated by distance, this should not lower teaching-learning quality. Technology is not enough. Transformative structures can be easily disregarded by implicit morphic practices Morphic behavior operating in a new structure will not improve learning effectiveness or achievement. It may do at best: maintain output. Distance Education technologies plasticizes the actual place of instruction, within which the teacher fabricates the describable activities. Distance Education teacher is about transformative mastery of ICT contextually applied to the pedagogy used in quality classroom teaching. Gatekeeper teachers can easily conjure up arguments to maintain the status quo to resist disruptive technologies. 5 levels 4, 21c teacher: global, school-org...