In the course that I taught, I could see using social media for distance collaboration on video projects. It would be very interesting to allow a student to create visual art with other people around the globe. The activity would also allow them the opportunity to experience the segmentation effects of production environments where you have to hand off assets for others to work on. That sort of collaborative experience is very much in line with how businesses work these days with offices all over the world and contributing to projects without being in the same physical space with your peers.
I think that social media is just another tool in the learning toolbox, so I personally don’t see the need to re-design a course around it. Adjusting activities and modifying current learning modules to use these communication tools doesn’t seem as invasive as a complete re-build of a course. Although I see it as just another medium which perhaps isn’t to other teachers who are more invested in social media in their daily lives.
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Hi Patrick – you are my hero today!
You have just given me an idea for a course. I love the idea of remote collaboration. However, in the past, I only really thought to use it with fellow MET classmates on joint projects.
You mentioned it giving them “th opportunity to experience the segmentation effects of production environments where you have to hand off assets for others to work on”. I would love to find a way to do that within healthcare education. For example, we often talk about interprofessional collaboration. I would love to set up a course wherein we have dental learners in our dental clinic sending digital information to our medical learners in a neighbouring medical clinic. They could forward patient information in real time and discover how helpful that immediacy is when dealing with live patient care.
My problem of course is confidentiality. Currently, patient information has to be stored on secured servers. For the sake of a course, I could set up educational scenarios, however, there is no point in doing that unless we can translate it into real practice.
Anyway, I’m just thinking out loud at the moment.
Thanks for the real inspiration though!
Tanya
Hi Patrick,
Art is, in a way, so personal. I wonder how collaborative creativity would actually work. Very interesting concept. I have a set of artist friends who have completely different styles. Jenn paints photo-like pictures of horses, which her friend Mark works over top of. (Link to one piece is here https://www.instagram.com/p/6gNv1qJftT/) The result is fantastical . . . but I would imagine the journey would be a fair amount of letting go.
Very provocative post,
Keri