Media Arts Education

Archive for February, 2006

Interview

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

International womens day – here is something of an interview form by Graham Attwell. Will work on it soon. We may use this as an input to reflect our work… for answers see here on the Wales Wide Web

1. Could you explain your project and the work you are doing ?

2. Who do you work with ?

3. How did you get involved in the work?

4. Why do you think this work is important?

5. What do the students learn from your project?

6. Do the girls and boys approach the work in different ways? If so why do you think this is?

7. What do you hope to get over through your web site?

8. What are the main barriers to your work?

9. What do you hope to do in the future?

10. Is there anything else you would like to say?

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ISEA 06 zero one San JosÃ©
” ISEA 2006 – 8.7.2006-8.13.2006 – San Jose, CA
The next edition of the internationally renowned ISEA Symposium will be held August 7-13, 2006, in San Jose, California. The Inter-Society for Electronic Arts (ISEA) is an international non-profit organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science and emerging technologies.

There are four themes for the Symposium and Festival
Interactive City
Community Domain
Pacific Rim
Transvergence
plus:
Exhibitions – Events – Tours – Workshops

ISEA

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The experimental ground of game design and online communities of practice in education

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

UniversitÃ¤t Flensburg

Bildende Kunst

What kind of experimental fields can be developed for arts education in order to establish an interdisciplinary approach to a new learning culture for art educators? Here is our contribution to the lecture series entitled:

“Experimentierfelder fÃ¼r KunstlehrerInnen” â€“ KunstlehrerInnen als Experten in fÃ¤cherÃ¼bergreifenden medienspezifischen Ã¤sthetischen Bildungsprozessen â€“ Zukunftsmodule fÃ¼r die Kunstlehreraus- und -weiterbildungâ€œ (initiated by the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Flensburg)

by Daniela Reimann and Graham Attwell

In the workshop the issue of game design is addressed in the context of interdisciplinary education scenarios. The potential of kids/learners as designers, bringing together a variety of skills by developing interactive prototypes is scrutinized in the framework of virtual communities and the learning through game play. The workshop is linking the field of game design to the issues of the social web/online communities and non formal learning.
Part 1 Part one gives an introduction to game design in education [Keywords: interdisciplinary approach, research, kids/learners as designers, competences, prototyping]. Further it addresses Mixed Reality games in the context of media art works. The work shop looks at design research strategies to be developed in education scenarios, using interactive, mobile and hypermedia systems for prototyping in shaping processes. What are the opportunities opening up for interdisciplinary education crossing the borders of curricula? The work shop will be linked to media practice (a hands on work shop, e.g. development of interactive characters, 3D-space)
Part 2 Part two will look at recent developments in the area of Open Educational Resources (OER). It will draw on work from the OECD OER project and the European Union elearning programme Bazaar and OLCOS projects. An opposed to the prevailing practice of â€˜expertsâ€™ and publishers producing educational materials to be consumed by learners, the idea of an ecology of learning materials based on removing the divide between producers and consumers will be explored. The workshop will also examine barriers to such a development, how such barriers might be overcome and what the implications of such developments are. This will include a presentation of cutting edge work in the development of Personal Learning Environments and their relation to Communities of Practice.

Team: Daniela Reimann,
Graham Attwell, Pontydysgu, Institute of Technology and Education (ITB) at the University of Bremen

Graham Attwell is the founder and director of Pontydysgu, a south Wales based research and development organisation focused on the use of ICT for knowledge sharing and development. Pontydysgu is a partner in the Open Source Bazaar project. Graham Attwell is a Visiting Researcher at the Institute Technology and Education (ITB) at the University of Bremen and a member of the OECD Open Educational Resources programme Advisory Board. Grahamâ€™s research practice includes knowledge development, informal learning, knowledge sharing in SMEs, elearning and the development of Open Source software. He is running a Blog on learning, knowledge and technology

Dates (in progess):
Fr, Sa, 8 -9 December 06

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Ã„sthetisch-informatische Medienbildung

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

New book in press, to appear in Oberhausen, spring 2006 (ATHENA ARTIFICIUM Schriften zur Kunst und Kunstvermittlung), ISBN 3-89896-249-0 by Daniela Reimann: Ã„sthetisch-informatische Medienbildung mit Kindern und Jugendlichen.
Grundlagen, Szenarien und Empfehlungen fÃ¼r Gestaltungsprozesse in Mixed Reality-LernrÃ¤umen

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we make money not art.com

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

we-make-money-not-arts my current favorite blog is we-make-money-not-art.com by RÃ©gine Debatty
This is such very rich ressource of the developments going on in media arts and digital technologies.

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InSEA World Congress 2006

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

InSEA Viseu
The MediaArtLab@School-project will be presented on the InSEA world congress on â€˜Interdisciplinary Dialogues in Arts Education’ to be held in Viseu, Portugal over 1st to 5th March 2006. paper presentation entitled: Applying Innovative Models of Media Art Education at School and University Level by Developing Hypermedia Environments for Play
3rd March, 4.30 -4.55pm , P250, Aula Magna

I appriciated very much the constant WLAN access facility during the whole conference. That makes live so much easier for us – especially as email/online-addicts ( used to access all day and night long in our favorite places such as cafes, ampussuite and everywher ewe like to work). Is is so much more conveninat in terms of catching up with the work, as well as in order not to get overwhelmed by all the emails after coming back home. ..yes, we are very sad addicts, but easily to be made happy – or unhappy if access does not work on the floor hotel room or you have to pay 10 Euros for half an hour access – that’s nasty, I mean, we are addicts

(PS Little note re Viseu here: I recommand the Hotel Avenida for film making. Great location, one of those old Portugues hotels, the-glitter-of-the-former-times-is-still-in-the-air-sort of style , very nice. One day suddenly the lights turned off in the breakfast room (it was pouring down with rain for a week), so we were given candles. Liked it very much).

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UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

UNESCO

The project MediaArtLab@School will be presented on the UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education, to be held in Lisbon over 6th-9th March 2006, contribution to the theme New Media (Mo, 6th March, 5-6.15 pm). Abstract on the Lea Web site: Developing Interactive Environments for Play at School with Students of Arts Education. Paper to follow

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