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"The interstices or gaps between the
tesserae speak their own language in mosaics."

-Terry Tempest Williams, "Finding Beauty in a Broken World"

sorry about the image quality, I've been having a hard time loading my pictures.  I'll bring it to class but until then, a description will have to do.  As we were walking through the city, I became really enamoured of all of the different doors, so I ended up splicing them together into one big mosaic.  I particularly enjoyed the doors that seemed out of place (ie the ones that were in the middle of mosaics), and the disguised doors hidden my their surroundings.

(PS sorry this is so late, the website crashed,, and I didn't get the chance to upload before class this morning)

Here is my mosaic; please let me know if it is not visible. Serendipity has been giving me lip when I try to upload photos.

(Last night when I tried to upload the webpage was unavailable.)

People are a part of mosaic.

The background is seeing the magic garden through the gaps in the mosaic wall in front of my eye.

In the center is my reflection in the pieces of mirror on the mosaic wall.

Other three are pictures of people making mosaic more interesting and dynamic.

My time in the Magic Gardens seemed like a blur, a mesh of everything mixed together. I didn't remember many specific things, just a mass of beauty. So I put all these pictures together, upside down, sideways, every way possible, which was as close as I could get to a visual representation of my thoughts while there. I felt like I was part of the art of the Gardens while I was in them, so it seemed fitting to place a picture of myself reflected back in some of the mirrors front and center.

Over the past couple of weeks, I have learned that technology provides learners with various means to enhance the quality of their understanding and reinforce their prior learning in and outside of traditional classroom. Technology can in fact improve learning if used in an appropriate and effective manner, i.e. technology can enhance learning if it’s effectively incorporated into the course curriculum. In addition, learners can expand their knowledge through online programs and by interacting and collaborating with other individuals and content experts via social media across the nation and the world for that matter, providing easy access to information and resources.

Rose: This course and the materials we’ve learned thus far have changed my perception of the use of technology in education.

 Throne: I’d like to learn more about whether technology hinders physical interactivity now that technology has made interaction and communication so much easier via social media. 

Each of the pieces of this mosaic is a photo I took when I visited the Magic Gardens and other mosaics around South Street over the weekend. Together they become compeletly new versions of what they were before.