This photo is a montage of my recent art creations - I will not give up my day job just yet!I have just returned from 10 days in Wellington where I mastered the cable car, the hills, the weather, the coffee shops and investigated the courses offered by Natcoll Design and Technology.
A quote to ponder: All images provoke thought, stimulating the imagination of both the maker and the viewer. They record, if nothing else, our attempts to hold memory in a graphic form. Jacques-Henri Lartigue (French photographer, 1894-1986) quipped that the camera was his memory's eye.
Marc Prensky' s 'digital native' concept has attracted the ire of others. It is interesting to read the comments on this blog regarding his theories of today's digital savvy students.
A big thank you to the staff and students at Natcoll for giving me free reign to roam their corridors and sit in on their classes.
I have re-instated my early podcast through using Podomatic as a host. This is a free hosting service and very easy to use. It allows you to create, watch and listen to podcasts from around the world.
Click here to view my podcast page. This link is now permanently on my Google Blogger page to the right of this text.
My investigations into visual art and digital media continues. I have joined the mailing list for Arts Online in new Zealand (Visartsnet) and there was an interesting post from Helen Cooper, Visual Arts Community Moderator, concerning digital media.
She promotes the following site as "fascinating and stimulating, providing an interesting discourse on digital media".
It talks about its evolution, it's place , it's impact on communication, on writing, on imagery ... on creativity."
I found it interesting reading - discussion on how, today, "nearly the full range of human dialogue can be expressed through electronic digital media". The impact on our students is huge. Their communication is global - relying more on aural and visual than the written work.
A quote to ponder: All images provoke thought, stimulating the imagination of both the maker and the viewer. They record, if nothing else, our attempts to hold memory in a graphic form. Jacques-Henri Lartigue (French photographer, 1894-1986) quipped that the camera was his memory's eye.
Marc Prensky' s 'digital native' concept has attracted the ire of others. It is interesting to read the comments on this blog regarding his theories of today's digital savvy students.
As my year progresses and my own digital skills improve, I continue to view these technologies as tools that educators must use, in conjunction with sound pedagogy, to enhance learning, engage students and communicate successes. Back in the fifties and sixties it was exciting and rewarding to have your poem, painting, story or article reproduced on the banda-machine , pinned on the classroom wall or printed in the school magazine. in the year 2008, the publishing is able to be instantaneous, communicated and shared globally and extremely visual. My question is - why not use it if it works? Dorothy Burt, Pt England Primary, received an e-learning fellowship in 2007. She used her time to investigate the use of podcasting in the school's reading programme. Her results provide hard evidence that even this simple digital tool of the 21st century is engaging students in learning and having a positive effect on, not only, student's reading levels but also their ability to communicate orally.
'Podcasting with KPE in 2007' is informative and shows the breadth of this initiative.
Her research results can be downloaded. Click here.
My foray into being creative with art classes has developed into my enrolling with the Correspondence school for Year 11 Visual Art! I must admit that I am absolutely loving having the time to dabble with drawing and painting. I won't be giving up my day job but my soul is being nurtured!
My ideas for the 'Digital Careers' DVD are developing. Filming and interviewing of tertiary students, staff and people working in the different fields are a major focus for the next few months along with learning the tools of Indesign and Illustrator.
My genealogical webpages are still being developed - it is truly time consuming to collect, scan and edit photos!!
July and still 6 months to go!
This fellowship year continues to nurture my soul and feed my brain!
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