the vasa project: beyond the classroom wall

The VASA Project: Beyond The Classroom Wall

Roberto MuffolettoVASA Project

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2nd title:

Photography Education in the age of digital networked learning communities, globalization, and cloud technologies.

With……

Patrick Keough

A.D. Coleman

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Remember the days when …

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We are now in the networked digital world .. Gone are the good

old days.

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The grain of the photograph as been replaced by the pixel.

The object is now the code.

The age of reproduction, global dissemination and access is here.

The social network has removed the walls and the isolation of the castle.

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We are all networked, connected, and available

Social networking spaces and access points change how

individuals and communities learn, share, see, and exchange.

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• Facebook • Skype• Ning • YouTube• Wiki • Flicker• Individual wed sites • Twitter

The smell of hypo has been replaced by the screen.

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What has remained central is the “image”

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and the “experience” of the image

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The VASA Project is an online media workshop that utilizes social networking environments and cloud technologies and applications.

Photography, Video, Sound, Digital Media Arts, Visual Studies

The “Vasa Project” started on July 31, 2009.

The purpose of the project is to build a dynamic and evolving online, global network of artist and theorist, critics and historians, focused on photography, video, sound, and (in general) visual studies.

VASA’s intent is to explore the possibilities for education, dissemination, consumption, and exchanges and networking, using the emerging digital networked social technologies, removing the boundaries of time and location.

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The VASA Project will host

• online workshops• Gallery talks• Focused discussion groups (Jan 2011)• 4 online curated galleries:

-- photography (October 2010)-- sound -- media arts-- video

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A short tour of the workshop:

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Coleman workshop: Ning

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Coleman workshop: Google Documents

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Workshop and Gallery Talk: Students, Participants

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VASA Gallery Talks

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Gallery Talk: Global Thinking

Participants from:

• USA• Canada• Netherlands• United Kingdom• Australia• Slovak Republic• Germany• China

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Gallery Talk Video Archives

Online Focus Groups:

Focus Groups will bring together small numbers of participants to discuss a topic for a short period of time.

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VASA Project: Photography Gallery

The photography gallery will be designed to do the following:

• curated exhibitions• exhibition interns• display in different formats• video interview with the artist• curator/intern statements: context• biographical and other information

Exhibition interns will work with the curator in all aspects of the exhibition.

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VASA Exhibitions will allow the designer and the viewer to experience the work and the artist in different formats.

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VASA on FaceBook: VASA Project

The VASA Project is working with visual arts organizations or affiliates to expand educational opportunities and access to the work and ideas of artist, historians, curators, and theorist.

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http://vasa-project.com

[email protected]

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Visions and insights:

Patrick Keough

A.D. Coleman

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We Must be Rethinking How

we Teach our Course Content

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New “Powerful” Tools for Teaching

● Blackboard / Moodle – course management platform

● Video Clips (YouTube) and Podcasting

● Texting

● Skype / Elluminate - Dim Dim

● Social Networks/Facebook

● Virtual Worlds/Second Life

● Simulations (Jing, Camtasia)

● Instructional Repositories – NCLOR (North Carolina Learning Objects Repository - Merlot

_ Blogging / Twitter

► Online Tutoring

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These tools and techniques can be used to supplement & enhance to Blackboard /

Moodle or any viable onlinecourse management system

Blogging is a great way to supplement your online classes and get students engaging each other on a variety of topics. I incorporate student Blogs into my 2nd year Photography

Courses. Blogs can also be used to keep journals, document activities and projects, post articles, stories and research for

you and other students to view and possibly respond to based

on the parameters you set for the course and the blog.

Benefits of Blogging How can it enhance my teaching?

Blogging is a great interactive tool for getting students to write and share their images outside the confines of the class. It’s easy to create a visually sophisticated web portfolio with WordPress.com or Blogger. Uploading photos is easy, as is incorporating services like Flickr or Photobucket into your blog. You can also embed videos from YouTube, TeacherTube or Google and/or your own YouTube Channel.

Decide just how you want to incorporate Blogs into your online / hybrid class. Don’t

incorporate blogging into your course if it is NOT going to contribute to student learning

and/or reinforce the course content that your students are studying.

Web “Blog” Portfolios

All my 2nd Year Photography students create Portfolio Web Blogs to compliment (supplement) their printed Portfolios.

I make blogging an integral part of myphotography / art courses

My students must post a link to their Portfolio Blogs to our classBlackboard at the end of the final semester before graduation. We begin setting up the student blogs during the 2nd year of our program.

Portfolio Blogs present a crosssection of the students best work.

Students essentially have a web portfolio when they leave our two year Associates Degree Photography Program.

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Photo Student Blog Example #1

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You Tube is an amazing video content resource for instructors from all disciplines. Like the internet, there’s a lot of mediocre or just plane bad content out there, however there is also a wealth of excellent instructional videos that you can embed into your online classes. As online instructors we also must act as editors (facilitators) and search for the very BEST video content on the web then incorporate it into our teaching strategies.

Excellent OnlineTeaching Tool!

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YouTube Instructional videos can be embedded directly into Blackboard or Moodle

Create your own instructional videos and upload to YouTube - You can create your own channel and then embed your video’s into your classes.

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Decide where you want to embed You Tube videos into your online course and how you want to use it and possibly assess that students are learning something from it.2. Go to www.YouTube and search for the subject matter that relates to your course content. For example I teach Art Appreciation and each week I search for a video (video’s) that reinforces and illustrates the chapter from my text such as Prehistoric Art, Egyptian Art, Greek Art, etc.3. It’s important to preview these clips to make sure you find the very best (highest quality) videos that relates to and reinforces your course content.

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Once you have identified the video you want to place in your course you will notice the embedding code on the right of the You Tube video and copy that code. Then go to your Blackboard (or Moodle) and paste it into either your discussion board post, announcement, assignment and/or course documents.

Once you do this you will see the YouTube video box embedded directly into your discussion board post or where ever you decided to place it.

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It’s important to preview these clips to make sure you find the very best (highest quality) videos that relates to and reinforces your course content.

Adding rich media content to your total online and hybrid courses enables instructors to reinforce techniques and concepts demonstrated in the studio or in the field. Podcasts and video content also tap into a variety of learning styles.

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Using Blackboard and/or Moodle Course Management Systems as supplements to my Photography and Art courses, I can teach from anywhere and deliver (and assess) course content even if it is hands-on photographic techniques. Student review the posted podcasts, videos and screen casts then post their own work based on the tutorials I post for them that relates to the techniques we are learning as a class.

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iTunes has a built in RSS feed so whenever the instructor uploads a new instructional podcast or video podcast it downloads directly to all the students who have subscribed to that instructor’s iTunes U folder.

You can either produce your own instructional media and upload it into iTunes U for your students or if you are NOT an iTunes U college there is a vast amount of viable instructional content that you can download and incorporate (embed) into your course blackboards.

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Decide just how you want to incorporate iTunes into your online class. Don’t incorporate podcasts and enhanced podcasts into your course if this type of rich media is NOT going to contribute to student learning and/or reinforce the course content that your students are studying.

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Make sure you have iTunes loaded on your computer and then go to iTunes and click iTunes Store – then iTunes U. Once you have located iTunes U you are ready to search for the podcast or enhanced podcast / video that you want to embed into your Blackboard or Moodle Class. There are thousands of FREE lectures and various educational resources in iTunes – you just have to find the ones that best relate and compliment the material you are teaching your students.

Free is Good!

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•Instructional Podcasts Click Here

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Learning these powerful tools is the easy part of online teaching

Using them to teach your course content creatively and effectively is the real challenge!

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Resources for Blogging, YouTube and iTunes U

• http://dlccc.wordpress.com// (My DL BloG)

• http://66.39.75.209// (NC Tech Resource Center)

• http://www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning/

• (Apple iTunes Information and Application to be iTunes U • http://wordpress.com// (Get Started Blogging)

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Contact Informationfor the Mad Blogger

• [email protected]• Skype ID: Patrick_Keough• www.keoughp.wordpress.com

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