10th May
10/05/09 05:58
Mostly thoughts about working with challenging youngsters, planing the Sydney Gardens Mediascape, with plans for the use of Flckr and Twitter, and games - taking old games and developing them - adding the dimension of digital media
my work with these youngsters at half term is getting very close now a couple of weeks I have really got to think about how it is going to work with them
one of the things that I discovered from doing the mediascape at Sidcot is that you have to have a huge number of recordings to fill the space or else you had to limit the mediascape somehow to a path so given the timescale and the nature of the youngsters I’m thinking that we build just create a tour of the park so that people will go on a specific walk to pick up the story we have to think about building a mediascape that will be interesting to listeners but relevant to the students
I’m still very keen on both my ideas of using a stream of photography homing in on little bits around the park as they walk round and then matching that to memories and working with the students so that what we are building up is either a mediascape of their memories and thoughts about themselves or else imagined memories and thoughts about the people that they see I still think that is pretty strong I don’t want to be to directive myself but also talking to the Simons last week it is very clear that it is only going to work if it is very very simple and keep the structure extremely simple and very keen on what they are doing which is taking old games tried and tested games like tag and hide and seek and just adding the dimension of virtual reality on top
and I thought of this idea of a snakes and ladders game that we could create in Sydney Gardens as an icebreaker of some sort I did a lot of thinking this morning as well I was trying to explain to Cheryl what tweeting is what twitter is social networking and blogging and micro blogging and how I might be working with that and really the whole went to thing Flickr and Facebook Twitter, how you go with that technology and that flow and weave it back into the educational work, work with the grain rather than against it work with the materials and media that you have these ideas coming up from Bob Hughes this morning of keeping it in line with the grain and flow of the technology and that is true of education going with the students rather than trying to force them into doing something going back to thinking about what the Simons was saying using very simple technology like Flickr like SMS texting going with that using what is already out there and just using it in new ways may be unforeseen ways geo-tagging and that sort of thing as well with Flickr and making use of that in the games that we are playing, powerful stuff
one of the things that I discovered from doing the mediascape at Sidcot is that you have to have a huge number of recordings to fill the space or else you had to limit the mediascape somehow to a path so given the timescale and the nature of the youngsters I’m thinking that we build just create a tour of the park so that people will go on a specific walk to pick up the story we have to think about building a mediascape that will be interesting to listeners but relevant to the students
I’m still very keen on both my ideas of using a stream of photography homing in on little bits around the park as they walk round and then matching that to memories and working with the students so that what we are building up is either a mediascape of their memories and thoughts about themselves or else imagined memories and thoughts about the people that they see I still think that is pretty strong I don’t want to be to directive myself but also talking to the Simons last week it is very clear that it is only going to work if it is very very simple and keep the structure extremely simple and very keen on what they are doing which is taking old games tried and tested games like tag and hide and seek and just adding the dimension of virtual reality on top
and I thought of this idea of a snakes and ladders game that we could create in Sydney Gardens as an icebreaker of some sort I did a lot of thinking this morning as well I was trying to explain to Cheryl what tweeting is what twitter is social networking and blogging and micro blogging and how I might be working with that and really the whole went to thing Flickr and Facebook Twitter, how you go with that technology and that flow and weave it back into the educational work, work with the grain rather than against it work with the materials and media that you have these ideas coming up from Bob Hughes this morning of keeping it in line with the grain and flow of the technology and that is true of education going with the students rather than trying to force them into doing something going back to thinking about what the Simons was saying using very simple technology like Flickr like SMS texting going with that using what is already out there and just using it in new ways may be unforeseen ways geo-tagging and that sort of thing as well with Flickr and making use of that in the games that we are playing, powerful stuff