I posted the following on the Student Facebook Group : Arch 771 Fargo's Town & Gown District Study.
With face to face studios, Blackboard, and our blogs not to mention email and cell phone texting and conversations, we just can't figure out which mode we should use to communicate any more. That is an apology of sorts for the lack of activity on this group. For those none student members there has been action in our studio.
Go to my blog to index the student's blogs.. http://seeksolveshow.blogspot.com/ (From Fall 2009)
If I could interject an observation regarding studio as it NOW is versus as at was when I left it back in 2003.. nothing appears to be happening.. YES it is all in those folding contraptions called laptop computers but the information seems" classified".
For years the studio culture included learning from your peers.. MAYBE NOT SO MUCH ANY MORE... except at the final presentation when it is too late. My studio is using blogs, where students post and comment on their work in progress any one can comment. This harkens back to my wondering around 3rd year studio when I was teaching in second year removed but also involved.
Blogs are free and "open to the public" ( if set up that way). Faculty can require weekly or even daily postings and layout ground rules making the blog a gauge of process not presentation. Blogs used this way become analogous to a pile of tracing paper (something that only Steve uses these days). Students can establish a blog and use it from studio to studio and beyond as an archive.
Ok that all was a bit harsh and as Fall Semester reached its conclusion the desks did start revealing what was happening. This still doesn't change my opinion about the need for STUDIO BLOGS.
With face to face studios, Blackboard, and our blogs not to mention email and cell phone texting and conversations, we just can't figure out which mode we should use to communicate any more. That is an apology of sorts for the lack of activity on this group. For those none student members there has been action in our studio.
Go to my blog to index the student's blogs.. http://seeksolveshow.blogspot.com/ (From Fall 2009)
If I could interject an observation regarding studio as it NOW is versus as at was when I left it back in 2003.. nothing appears to be happening.. YES it is all in those folding contraptions called laptop computers but the information seems" classified".
For years the studio culture included learning from your peers.. MAYBE NOT SO MUCH ANY MORE... except at the final presentation when it is too late. My studio is using blogs, where students post and comment on their work in progress any one can comment. This harkens back to my wondering around 3rd year studio when I was teaching in second year removed but also involved.
Blogs are free and "open to the public" ( if set up that way). Faculty can require weekly or even daily postings and layout ground rules making the blog a gauge of process not presentation. Blogs used this way become analogous to a pile of tracing paper (something that only Steve uses these days). Students can establish a blog and use it from studio to studio and beyond as an archive.
Ok that all was a bit harsh and as Fall Semester reached its conclusion the desks did start revealing what was happening. This still doesn't change my opinion about the need for STUDIO BLOGS.
