Monday, April 16, 2007

Final Presentation

Presentations are up to fifteen minutes and open class dialogue is at least five minutes. These may be woven together for a total of twenty minutes. Ractice! Get an idea of your timing and pace before your final presentation.

- Determine the best way for the class to view/interact/experience your project.

- Be prepared, set up, organized and ready to go when it is your time. You may use the time during the previous presentation to get ready.

- Develop open-ended questions that engage the class in the big ideas and issues you are addressing in your project. Facilitate a dialogue.

- Organize the experience for the class. Decide what groupings, movements and structures need to be employed to get maximum engagement.

- Be in charge. This is your project and your time to reveal the great work you’ve done. This does not mean you have to be ‘front-and-center’ to achieve this.

- Make the presentation an experience for the class. Perhaps the end result is more open-ended questions generated by the class.

- Focus on these three areas:

1.) The process of doing your project. Your project has a story, frustrations, successes and new understandings. Relate how those emerged.

2.) Your project as a work of new media art. Situate your project within the ideas, concepts, artists and processes encountered during the course.

3.) Relate how you place your new understandings within the role of future teacher. Consider and present ideas and questions about the role of new media in your future practice as an educator as they relate to your project.

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Boston Cyber Arts Featured Artist

Make a face:

Einstein's Monster

Boston Cyber Arts Featured Artist

Make a face:

Einstein's Monster

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

A Whole New Mind in Med School

Check out the CNN.com article on Med students taking arts courses...



A Whole New Mind in the digital world...

This video grabs many of the concepts we've addressed and presents them in an engaging way...
Thanks to Prof. Wesch of K-State...

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Midterm Format

Write a detailed narrative of a lesson that incorporates new media in making art. That means be specific so the reader can envision the lesson in action. Write this as a Word document then cut and paste into your blog so you do not loose it.

Address the following in your narrative:

· What is the big idea (e.g. concept) the lesson addresses?
· How is the big idea phrased in an open-ended question? (e.g. What is the Throughline?)
· Who is the audience for this lesson? Age? Setting? Timeframe? Gender? Special needs? Museum? Community center? Jail?
· What is the goal for the students? What do you want them to understand or be able to do by the end of the lesson?
· Describe what you, as the teacher, would do during the lesson.
· Describe what the students would do during the lesson.
· How will you know if the students understand the lesson? What will you observe, look at, hear, collect, etc.?
· Why is this lesson necessary? This is the 'So what?' factor.
· What makes it engaging? How and why will students be motivated to participate?

DUE: March 13 at 9 AM on your blog

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

A Good Idea...