Due April 10:
A1. Conduct an assessment of your experience of The University Classroom. How is the social constructed? How are bodies associated and distributed in space? What kind of information is exchanged? How is it exchanged?
Create a detailed visual information map, or reconstruct it in Second Life.
Due April 17:
A2. Using A1 as a starting point, revise the classroom to match a pedagogical model of learning that counters Friere's "banking model of education," and supports his and Boal's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. If we could remodel the interior of your classroom, what might be good to do? What structures and information flows would better support lateral teaching methods and constructive social interactions? How about different and compelling power relationships? How can everyone in the classroom teach each other? How can everyone talk to each other? How can classroom structure and layout facilitate this? What gets learned? What is the role of the professor in this model? How does the layout and dynamic flow of bodies in space support this. You should work in the same environment of A1, so that A1 and A2 can be compared. You might make overlays in DHTML or Flash for example.
Due April 24:
A3. Create a series of icons and symbols that relate to emergency situations. Make a symbol for fire, flood, earthquake, fallen trees, radiation, injury, water source, food source, directional flows, etc.
Due May 1:
A4. Conduct an assessment of the UC Emergency Plan found here. How is information disseminated? How is it disseminated over time? How do bodies move though the University landscape - what are the traffic flows? You might show this temporally through div layers in DHTML or using Flash. OR Devise your own distributed, networked emergency plan. What would it look like? How would it work? Would people need to be trained? How would resources be distributed? You might study handbooks or information guides to best figure out how to convey information in this way.
Due May 15:
A5: Group Project : Work on one of the following :: Guerilla Grafting website. How to indicate Real Wealth. Public Option website. Map information and material flows of an urban garden. Visualize a story, anectdote, problem or scenario from this section in Second Life.
Due May 22:
A6. Parti.
Due May 29:
A7. Approach.
Due June 9:
A8. Release.
A1. Conduct an assessment of your experience of The University Classroom. How is the social constructed? How are bodies associated and distributed in space? What kind of information is exchanged? How is it exchanged?
Create a detailed visual information map, or reconstruct it in Second Life.
Due April 17:
A2. Using A1 as a starting point, revise the classroom to match a pedagogical model of learning that counters Friere's "banking model of education," and supports his and Boal's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. If we could remodel the interior of your classroom, what might be good to do? What structures and information flows would better support lateral teaching methods and constructive social interactions? How about different and compelling power relationships? How can everyone in the classroom teach each other? How can everyone talk to each other? How can classroom structure and layout facilitate this? What gets learned? What is the role of the professor in this model? How does the layout and dynamic flow of bodies in space support this. You should work in the same environment of A1, so that A1 and A2 can be compared. You might make overlays in DHTML or Flash for example.
Due April 24:
A3. Create a series of icons and symbols that relate to emergency situations. Make a symbol for fire, flood, earthquake, fallen trees, radiation, injury, water source, food source, directional flows, etc.
Due May 1:
A4. Conduct an assessment of the UC Emergency Plan found here. How is information disseminated? How is it disseminated over time? How do bodies move though the University landscape - what are the traffic flows? You might show this temporally through div layers in DHTML or using Flash. OR Devise your own distributed, networked emergency plan. What would it look like? How would it work? Would people need to be trained? How would resources be distributed? You might study handbooks or information guides to best figure out how to convey information in this way.
Due May 15:
A5: Group Project : Work on one of the following :: Guerilla Grafting website. How to indicate Real Wealth. Public Option website. Map information and material flows of an urban garden. Visualize a story, anectdote, problem or scenario from this section in Second Life.
Due May 22:
A6. Parti.
Due May 29:
A7. Approach.
Due June 9:
A8. Release.