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building web communities, networks, and portfolios from an academic curriculum: the use of web 2.0 in the arts. Dr. Mary Flanagan Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities Professor, Film and Media Studies Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH USA
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building web communities, networks, and portfoliosfrom an academic curriculum: the use of web 2.0 in the arts Dr. Mary FlanaganSherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital HumanitiesProfessor, Film and Media StudiesDartmouth College, Hanover, NH USA http://www.tiltfactor.orghttp://leopard.dartmouth.edu/groups/digitalhumanities/http://www.maryflanagan.com MARCH 2009 CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
What do we mean-web 2.0? Platforms: blogsrich media websitesyoutube, facebooknetworked artmachinmaarts networks Concepts:connected participatory ever-loggedpublic and private communities, crowds liveness
In May 2007, Bilal confined himself in the Flatfile Galleries in Chicago for 30 days under 24 hour web cam surveillance to raise awareness about the everyday life of Iraqi citizens and the home confinement
Bilal left Iraq due to imprisonment and torture during the last Iraq regime because he had made anti-Hussein regime artworks
Brittanica Productions, Kheri Batal +Michelle Pettit-Mee (nowKrywolf)
200 courses from MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Yale and IIT/IISc – searchable within YouTube EDU.
Studies show that peer review and feedback (assessment) improves retention and performance (McGourty-Dominick1998, Wen & Tsai, 2003, Akahori & Kim, 2003)http://elearn.pri.univie.ac.at/patterns/?pattern=PeerEvaluation
Outcomes Based Teaching and Learning What can be measured and how using web 2.0 tools?
http:// www.maryflanagan.com http://www.tiltfactor.org http://www.valuesatplay.org
Career Opportunities: • game designer, web producer • narrative design / writeranimator, art director, concept artistdigital ethnographerexperience designercontent strategist, culture jammeradvertising, culture and media writer/journalistprofessional artistdigital journalist, professional bloggerphoto editor, graphic designer, photographerweb producer, content manager, videographerwriter, researcher • MA+PhD: Curatorial studies, social science, cognitive science,Human Computer Interaction, AI, Critical Theory
Career Opportunities supported with more links with science • systems designer • programmer, lead programmer • 2D/3D/Graphics programmer • AI programmer. network engineer, system administrator • webmaster, play tester, quality assurance technician • audio engineer, sound producer/programmer • usability expert, HCI guru, interface design • data visualization, large scale systems designers • interaction architect, information architect
At Hunter: Computational Media Courses media 161 Intro to digital media (all the digital creation tools) medp 278 web production I (basic html / css) medp 299 digital design and usability (new) medp 331 web production II (flash programming) medp 278 interactive media production (processing class) media 280 understanding new media (history and theory) media 363 concepts in gaming (game design course) medp 399 game programming I (flash programming class, new) medp 341 web programming (php class) ABOUT TO SHIFT TO A ONE YEAR “MEDIA IN A DIGITAL AGE” YEAR LONG COURSE