Back in the PBR MOOC days, it started with Google Hangouts for the “Blueberry” group. And expanded from there. Here are documents of past Hangouts, and any proposals for future Hangouts. And a little bit of the “Blueberry” experience.
Four of the six original Blueberries hung out today in Google + for our first 2014 meet-up. I — Christa — facilitated a discussion around my project, “What’s on [My] Mind?”, its current status, concerns, progress. Michael, Molly, and Vanessa listened sensitively, gave useful feedback, posed great questions, and agreed …
We had our final PBR “Articulating Practice” / moving forward Team Google Hangout today! click any blueberry to enter slide show use arrow keys to scroll For 2014 we’re hoping to have a monthly hangout; we’ve just published our first 3 .Re/cipes; and we’re thinking about a virtual book club. …
Had a great hangout with Rebecca today! I loved hearing more about Rebecca’s project. I’m super happy about it — I love the literal gift-giving impetus of her work — and I think that the type of site-specific work she’s creating is just what a place like SFO needs! I …
Now that the Practice Based Research in the Arts MOOC is wrapping up, we’d like to keep “Hanging Out” if we can. I’m not certain that all 6 Blueberries want to continue, and I’m not certain that Mondays at 9am California time / Noon EST / 17:00 GMT is the …
Here are 6 abstracts for projects from Team Blueberry. In the first week of Practice Based Research in the Arts we wrote about our work, then embarked on a wide range of activities prompted by a weekly visiting artist, and now in the 9th week of the course we return …
How do you talk about a work of art anyway? Easy! Just consider the work vis-a-vis these 6 key terms from Team Blueberry. For the images I put each key term in a Flickr / Creative Commons / Interesting search and picked one. The photographer’s name is under the image. …
As part of Gretchen Schiller’s Box of Practice activities, Blueberry teammate Katrina Schaag and I had a Google Hangout to share and discuss our Boxes. We each found that Schiller had asked us to do things we were already doing! As much as an activity, Schiller’s prompt was a sort …
Yesterday the CalArts / Coursera Site-Dance Instructional Team: Stephan Koplowitz and TA’s Jen Hutton, Anne C. Moore & Kerrie Schroeder and classmate Andrew, broadcast a live Google Hangout to answer questions, discuss the course, and think about Site-Dance. The many faces of MOOC! Molly and I are enrolled in both …
For the PBR MOOC, Graduate Assistant Ryan Tacata published a number of videos on Vimeo. Some include weekly messages from the instructors Helen Paris & Leslie Hill. Others, like the Spatula & Bar Code video above, are ideas and prompts from our weekly Virtual Visiting Artists. You can view all …
Like the Blueberries we had our hangout and had some fun with it. Our conversation was also about an hour in length. However our conversation took a different turn, instead of chatting about our project (which we should come back to for another hangout) we chatted about the philosophical and …
In response to the very inspiring video lecture from Spatula & Barcode, Spatula & Barcode was founded in 2008 by Laurie Beth Clark (Department of Art, University of Wisconsin) and Michael Peterson (Department of Theatre and Drama, University of Wisconsin) • Spatula and Barcode website the Blueberry Blintz team had …
I want to thank Vanessa for starting this off-shoot of the NoveEd class that we are all part of. I really think that this can accelerate and advance the collaborative and creative possibilities that are inherent in an online class, and continue long-past the class’s end.
Hello to all of our classmates in Leslie Hill, Helen Paris & Ryan Tacata’s Practice Based Research in the Arts course from Stanford Online / NovoED.
