Practical tips for using Google docs as a live collaboration tool. New to me - there is a limit to 10 participants to edit a doc at one time. But 50 people can edit a spreadsheet at one time.

New feature in Google docs - insert>drawing. It would be interstesting to see how this would function in real time with multiple people editing together.

New feature in Google docs as of Wednesday - insert>drawing. It would be interstesting to see how this would function in real time with multiple people editing together.

Regarding our conversation yesterday about the baby and corporate branding.

A call for papers

College credit via YouTube. How's that for Web 2.0 Pedagogy?

This is an old post that resurfaced via diigo this week from a friend of mine. Knowing about Pecha Kucha may help as we prepare for our interconnected gestures! :) 20 slides for only 20 seconds each. Incidentally, this post is by Dan Pink who spoke at NAEA 2 years ago. He wrote the book, A Whole New Mind.

Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein, two Tokyo-based architects who have turned PowerPoint, that fixture of cubicle life, into both art form and competitive sport. Their innovation, dubbed pecha-kucha (Japanese for "chatter"), applies a simple set of rules to presentations: exactly 20 slides displayed for 20 seconds each. That's it. Say what you need to say in six minutes and 40 seconds of exquisitely matched words and images and then sit the hell down. The result, in the hands of masters of the form, combines business meeting and poetry slam to transform corporate cliché into surprisingly compelling beat-the-clock performance art.

This is a great opportunity to *present* at the ed media conference.

This is a great video. It begins with a description of html code (ala 1996), moves to an explanation of style as separated from content (Cascading Style Sheets and PHP), and then into some observations about the participatory nature of Web 2.0. One good thing is - you no longer have to know code to participate. A perfect vid for this class!

Another tool. "Build a video blog, the next YouTube or just a private place to share videos."

Leveraging Identity to Make Learning Fun.

A periodic table of the Internet. Humerous.

New media art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. "The installation lives online, generating an endless series of downloadable video podcasts."

I am interested in how an educational technology "object" like the Posse collection and related tagging and commenting activities might interface with social learning experiences in the art classroom. And, how would a teacher design learning experiences to be paired with this resource. As a stand alone activity, (ie - when a student is "finished" with their artwork, they log onto the computer to add to their Posse collection) this does not seem to be very educational or meaningful. However I think a teacher and students could work together to unpack the issues that image collection presents. Here are some rough thoughts
1) Posse encourages the user to collect images. How is this like consuming images? What criteria should be set forth for a collection? Should the images relate to one another? Should the images share a common theme or context? Is their an opportunity for the user to comment or reflect on the process of curating a collection.
2) What does it mean to be a "collector?" Is this act of collecting images different in cyberspace than in the museum space? How?
3) What are the goals of the Brooklyn Museum in providing this Web resource? Who is the intended audience? How have they encoded the process of collecting? How can the user interact with this in the ways intended? What are the possibilities for interacting with this technology in un-intended ways? And what might a student learn in either case?

I learned that Karen, Lindsay, and I are all fascinated with chairs and images of chairs. I too, have a large collection of pictures of chairs. I created a monoprint series during my masters study that was partly about image of chairs. I miss making art in the intense and sustained way as I was.

Myoungsun Sohn wrote:
> 1. What do you perceive as potentials and limitations of using Posse in your teaching?
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> 2. What have you learned about yourself and others in the group from the collections project?

This relates to the voicethread that Michelle Byers asked us to look at this week.

Free digital version of the comic book, Bound by Law. Produced by the Center for the Study of te Public Domain. You are encouraged to remix your own version by downloading the files.