hi all well, been absolutely mute here for months, apologies, babies, teaching, and so on.
however, some of you might be interested in the subject I am currently running. It goes by the dull name of Integrated Media One (yes, there is a part two later this year). Second year media undergrads. Basically video blogging based. So, there's a teaching blog where I have a few notes, of course my blog, and I'm also posting examples of student work as it arrives and arises. We are moving into eZedia to make more complex works (starting this week), and most of their practice is currently based around specific constraints. The constraints to date have been: Wednesday at 18:10 (a one minute work about what you were doing at that time) Things That Quicken The Heart (2 video work, one containing text and image, the other only video and put together in eZedia) Sample Movies (a visual sample is made every 5 minutes for an hour x 2, and then placed together in eZedia) More constraints coming, and soon students will be sitting down and spending a lot more time thinking reflectively on their practice (at the moment they are busy learning the tech. ropes). If you vist the blog the MashedMedia tag provides the media, while the 2007 IntMedia tag should provide course commentary, hand outs etc. Questions, comments welcomed (this is the third year we've done this and the 4th or 5th year I've taught video blogging within this media undergrad program). But right now I know most of the students would be shocked to realise anyone outside of themselves saw this content :-) Some of the material is naive, some is very good, most is average but a good start for students who signed up for radio/TV in a media program and aren't generally convinced they have to get their heads around this new fangled stuff. The blog is at http://media.rmit.edu.au/mog/ btw, a brief (incomplete) collection of my academic work on videblogging is gathering at http://vogmae.net.au/content/category/4/23/27/ more being added in coming weeks. -- cheers Adrian Miles this email is bloggable [ ] ask first [ ] private [x] vogmae.net.au
