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
Bobbi, it’s always great to hear about your experiences and knowledge. I also love the look and feel of your blog…honestly I expected nothing less. Thanks for the Feedly tip; although i’m still figuring out how exactly to embed it….uggghhh.
I have added a few RSS feeds to my blog and I look forward to checking in on your page especially!
Good luck this term!
Kent
Thanks Kent, sometimes I think that design has made me a bit weird, but I’m grateful for the experience of it. I also like to carry on studio habits of really playing with my projects so I have fun tweaking the blog space. I use Feedly just as a quick, stand-alone way to read the class feeds in my browser. I hadn’t thought of adding RSS feeds to my blog, that’s a good idea. Thanks for sharing : )
Great links, Bobbi! I can commiserate with your sense of feeling like an oddball, but it does make for interesting conversations and perspectives with the cohorts. We seem to be a particularly diverse group in this iteration of 565A.
To add to your list of inspiration, I like the website http://elearninginfographics.com/ for visual-information inspiration, and the website http://pixabay.com/en/ for top-notch CC0 images.
Thanks Nicola, the extra links are great! In design we always begin a project by looking for visual, form or functional inspiration so compiling a list is fun. It will be even better if I can work some of these into my project : )