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July 18, 2004
Using wiki's and weblogs for collaboration
Massart's "Renewal, Support and Growth" Summer Intitutes are utilizing web-based collaborative tools such as the Art and Technology Wiki and AEContent to extend the course beyond the eight hour day and one week schedule. The wiki was chosen for its ease of use, and AEContent for its robust collaborative features. In addition, visiting artist/educator Kathy Douglas kept a nightly course journal of the first week that reflected on each day's proceedings. AEContent features documentary photographs of the art work and collaborative experience.
How can these tools extend this experience? Each participant in the summer institutes received instruction in AEContent and learned a bit about wiki's and online galleries. Will they find these resources useful when they return to the classroom this fall? How can AEContent and other web-based resources truly benefit art educators today? How, when exposing talented but not necessarily technically saavy educators and artists to new media tools, do we encourage them to go beyond the discovery phase and utilize these tools in their everyday classroom experience?
Posted by Eleanor Ramsay at July 18, 2004 02:45 PM