“Everything you ever wanted to know about social software but were too afraid to ask…”
I’m at the Arts Council this lunch time, joining Rachel Baker (from Visual Arts, Media Arts and Moving Image) and Charles Beckett (from Literature) in facilitating the session “Everything you ever wanted to know about social software but were too afraid to ask...” to discuss with staff the terminology and terrain of social software in relation to art.
I decided to show the way I’m currently using social media in art and media education. For that, I’ve selected the lulu projects
Brief-led Project:AME 3BLP 0708: Photo-/Self- Publishing at LULU
Photographic Cultures: AME-2-PHC 0708: Photo Publishing at LULU
And as a pedagogical background, to introduce the concept of e-tivities, a term coined by Gilly Salmon (in her 2002 book), and the 5 stage model.
It might be interesting to compare the lulu project with the way I developed the project last year, when the course was run mostly on the blogging platform wordpress. At the time, the students kept separate blogs at wordpress as well and lulu was used in the last stage, to upload the books and print them, but with limited use of the social software available within lulu.
However, i’ve been warned of some IT difficulties at the Arts Council. So, first question is: what to do when you want to present your work in a setting where access is not available to laptops external to the network and the browsers in the in-house machines are six years old (no firefox but, instead, the old ms explorer)?
-option 1: to download my google reader feeds to offline mode so i can show the feeds from all participants’ blogs
-option 2: to create a post on my blog, with links to all the previous, so i can do a live browsing session which i just completed. Bravo!
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