What I love about this space is that if you peek into one corner of a blog, you can shed light on a whole program of endeavours. Such is the case with this post, which describes a preview of Robot Heart Stories (R<3S), "a 10-day transmedia learning project in which two classrooms in underserved neighborhoods in Montreal (French speaking) and Los Angeles (English speaking) used collaboration and creative problem solving to help a lost robot navigate across North America." This takes us into a diversion looking at the concept of transmedia storytelling, "the best approach to tell a particular story to a particular audience in a particular context depending on the particular resources available to particular producers." The context was the recent DIY Days conference, and Michele Knobel and Colin Lankshear's DIY Media: Creating, Sharing and Learning with New Technologies, described as "a rich book on DIY culture and what it might contribute to reframing contemporary educational practices and pedagogy. (See part one and part two of their recent interview with Jenkins on the book's implications and core themes.)"
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