The Fiction of Relationship: 1st Assignment

Here is the my text written for the first assignment of The Fiction of Relationship MOOC. The ojective was to explain, how do I understand the title of the course.

The first association that appeared in my mind, when I started to think about meaning of “Fiction of the Relationship” was The Shobies’ Story, a short story by Ursula K. Le Guin. A group of people tries to use new method of space travel, but instead of move to another star they move into splitted reality. They can’t agree on what they perceive, they lost connection to each other’s reality. And what do they do? They sit around the campfire and tell the stories to each other, each person tells about own version of reality. And through this stories (through fiction) they are able to re-establish their connection (their relationship). So Fiction of the Relationship can be seen as understanding others via telling stories to another people or telling stories together. Also, relationships are often represented as stories…

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The Fiction of Relationship: 1st Assignment

Here is the my text written for the first assignment of The Fiction of Relationship MOOC. The ojective was to explain, how do I understand the title of the course.

The first association that appeared in my mind, when I started to think about meaning of “Fiction of the Relationship” was The Shobies’ Story, a short story by Ursula K. Le Guin. A group of people tries to use new method of space travel, but instead of move to another star they move into splitted reality. They can’t agree on what they perceive, they lost connection to each other’s reality. And what do they do? They sit around the campfire and tell the stories to each other, each person tells about own version of reality. And through this stories (through fiction) they are able to re-establish their connection (their relationship). So Fiction of the Relationship can be seen as understanding others via telling stories to another people or telling stories together. Also, relationships are often represented as stories…

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(без названия)/стихи

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Стражи в молчании у дверей,
Ворота заперты, город спит,
Время обходит эти места стороной,
Время не знает, что делать с этой страной,
С этой беспечной полупрозрачной страной.

Каждый, кто землю эту считал своей,
Знает, как помнить, когда забыт,
Каждый последний шаг на своих путях,
Вымеренный в движении и словах.
Тропы ветвятся, ветви внушают страх.

Время молчит и чего-то ждёт,
Через мгновение вспыхнет свет,
Между мгновеньем  и светом пройдёт сто лет.
Кто-то успеет даже найти ответ.

Что-то осталось сказать ещё;
Ворота заперты, души – нет,
Хочешь – читай, хочешь – бери взаймы.
Может быть это даже взаправду мы.

Aboriginal Worldviews and Education: 1st Assignment

The objective of the 1st assignment was “Write a short (maximum 250 words) ethnographic description of your chosen place. Using the ethnographic voice, describe your familiar place as though you are seeing it as an outsider for the first time. Your description should insightfully illuminate the cultural worldview operating implicitly in your familiar place”.

I chose library, because this is a place I visit most often. Here is a longer version of my text written for this assignment:

The library

The library is a place where people can get books for free for certain time, usually for an month. To use this opportunity people need to register at the library first and get an library ticket.

The library is a very quiet place, or at least people try to make it quiet. Often a voice of a librarian can be heard: “Please switch your mobile phone off!” or “Please speak with friends somewhere else”. The library can be divided in two zones – “silent” and “not silent”. To “silent” zone belong reading halls and catalogues, where people can get a rebuke even for whispering something to a friend who sits near. “Not silent” zone are lobbies, corridors between “silent” places, checkrooms. So when one gets for example a phone call, he or she needs to first leave “silent” zone and only then answer.

The behavior of visitors can be different. Some people walk slowly from one bookshelf to another looking at the books and searching something interesting. Other tend to visit some specific groups of bookshelves, for example, with new books, with magazines of current year or with light reading books. Some people know what they want, so they just order a desired book, get it and go away.

Although some people visit a library alone, many groups of people, especially students, can be seen there. They come together to discuss something related to reading and study process, but also some other things. Sometimes (and not rare) “we will go to a library” sounds like “we will go to a cinema”, because both means to do something together, in a group, and to combine some useful and purposeful activity (reading, watching movie) with chatting and socializing. Such group visits to a library are typical mostly for students. Elder people usually come alone.

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#EDCMOOC: My digital artifact

I started to make my digital artifact already at first week of the course. I made a short presentation about technology that was included in final work as “Part I”. “Part II” was made during the last week of the course. So I apologize for some stylish diversity of this presentation. Illustrations for Part I (Technology) are my own, illustrations for Part II (Human) was found in the web (their sources are mentioned near each picture).

Maybe you will like to toggle fullscreen mode on, because there are much text at certain slides.

I hope you will like it. I will be also very glad to receive your comments about this presentation.

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