Posts Tagged ‘design’
We now have a YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/NorthumbriaInteract – new website and showreel to follow.
If anyone has any work from their time here, and wishes to have it showcased, drop me a line via the YouTube site.
The Visual Communication and Interactive Media area, within the School of Design, are looking to expand the team with new staff members
Granted it’s 4 years ago…but still a good piece of work…
I am about to use this methodology in a new brief with my students.
Moving away from the Neilson/Nelson heuristic approach, I wish to use metaphor (as defined in this paper) as a medium for the students to assess their artefacts and processes, reflectively.
Go here to read the paper.
Gilly Salmon’s five stages of evaluation of an interactive educational environment are as follows:
1. Access & Motivation. Exploring the technology and motivation building are key issues. The e-moderator helps meeting people and learn the environment.
2. Socialisation. Building on the first stage, this stage focuses on social processes and ‘community building’. Moderator does bridge building.
3. Information Exchange. Information is exchanged and co-operative tasks can be achieved. Interaction happens with contents, other participants and the e-moderator that assists exploration activities.
4. Knowledge Construction. Knowledge development and discussion activities become important. Participants start recognizing the value of text-based asynchronous interaction and take control of knowledge construction.
5. Development. Participants become responsible for their own learning and that of their group. Ideas are applied to individual contexts. This stage is characterised by reflection and assessment.
I am going to take these five points as my leads into the workings of the Second Life environment. I am endeavouring to create a learning matrix/outcomes from the above, which relates both to the SL world, and the present set of learning outcomes here at Uni.
E15 is an experimental architecture that places the power of presentation of web content into the hands of those that use it. Based on a dynamic, interactive OpenGL-based scripting engine, E15 exposes an entirely new face to web content, freely modifiable by each individual user.
Visit the MIT site here
so here’s the srl :
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Northumbria%20Design%20School/68/40/26
if you have second life installed you can view it in google maps, and then go there.
my moniker in SL is Bigtam Aristocrat, so feel free to add me once you are there.
again, any responses to the design, layout etc. well recieved by us here.
I must thank Cube Republic for his committment to building the space.
I thought now would be the best time to begin a new blog – one which I control – into which I can pour ideas about the above.
To be frank, this will initially be a place for reflective activity, a repository into which I will pour things.
Emotive and Immersive Media Design and Human-Centred Design, are two new modules I am about to deliver at University, and I wish to collate as much information and input as possible, to keep them fluid and upto date.
I am also involved in the development of the School of Design within Second Life. I am very interested in how pedagogical models function in a virtual environment, if indeed they do.
