Sometimes I feel a little bit like an oddball in the MET. I’m not really a teacher (yet) but an active investigator, a communicator, a re-mixer, a splicer, a co-creator and an experimenter. I am in love with learning and helping others to learn, particularly with regards to new technologies and new creative endeavors. I really do struggle with questions that relate to teaching practice because I’m still learning how to teach. I imagine you never stop learning new ways to teach if you are passionate about it.
My undergrad at ECU was a unique experience. We didn’t always take classes in rooms with desks but sometimes in hallways, outside, on benches, in galleries and in uniquely constructed studio spaces. Sometimes door handles had knitted cozies, walls were covered in sticky notes and studio spaces with blocks, carpets, cardboard models and plastic forms. The interactions in these spaces are strange, exciting and fruitful but our online materials boring and neglected. Laptops are mandatory and Moodle the dry morning chore. Can Moodle be exciting? Can it be visual and stimulating while catering to the needs of the caffeine-primed creative? I’d like to think so. I keep thinking back to the tools that I’ve seen students of design and dynamic media use the most online so I’m starting a list for inspiration.
Visual maps – Mural.ly, Pinterest, GoVisually,
Images – CC Images Search
Critique/Collab – Marqueed, RedPen, Evernote, Bounce, Skype, Google Docs, Google Hangouts
