Sitemap

I have created this site map on a piece of online software called Prezi. Maps have been in the forefront of my mind throughout this project, from the opening chapter of Dust and Magic by Bob Hughes, that uses a metaphor of topology and journey in relation to the development of digital media, to the mediascapes that I have created, based on arial maps and GPS.

I have also been attempting to see the leaning that I have been doing - my personal journey - as if mapped out through this website. The website itself is an exploration that is relevant to my learning new ways for my students to present their own creative journeys in an accessible and assessable format.

From the title that I have given to this project - a walk in the park - to the blogwalking diary that I have kept over the four months of the project, I have been looking at new ways in which I can capture, assimilate, organise and present my creative thinking, and my creative work.

This site map is in itself a further exploration, using an online presentation tool that is in a spatial rather than the more usual temporal format.

I have did not get as far as I had planned with this map, as I realised that actually, it should be the site. We still mostly think of websites as a series of flat 'pages', as we think of presentation software such as Powerpoint in terms of 'slides'. With software such as Prezi, these metaphors are no longer relevant. The notoion of 'space' becomes more more relevant; three dimensional, but virtual, a space of hugh possibility, as new media develops it's own language, rather than borrowing from the print and film. Huge possibilities for the dissemination of information, for sharing, for communication. The next space age?