Assignment One: The end Product
Assignment
write up my 'vision of what it is i am trying to do - the product i imagine, perhaps with some links or references to give Yishay a better idea of what it is about for me. (i think this will be for me product in the sense of output a designed text/thing maybe a visual essay of some kind, and also the process of learning about programing as a product).
My starting point
My research is about how people design different modes of representation and communication (image, sound, movement and so on) and the relationship between them to make meaning. At the moment i am looking at this relationship on screen and in the context of teaching and learning. For example i am especially interested in how the site of display of the screen reshapes the relationship between image and writing and what this means for practices of reading and writing, how it can reshape curriculum knowledge, reposition the reader/writer to the production of knowledge and reconfigure the relationship between teacher and students in a formal classroom context.
One thing that i would like to do is explore this relationship in the way i disseminate and think about my own work/writing. i have been trying to do this in a number of ways, for example:
in my use of powerpoint - i've been thinking very consciously about the way i use image, word and speech in my presentations. trying to think about how i relate them, how i use image and word to attend to different aspects of the talk etc.
on a recent research project about screens and the social landscape we decided to build a visual landscape which visually realised the themes that emerged from our discussions about the changing character of screens. so that the way images of the screens are placed next to each other realises (through their visual/spatial proximity) senses of connection, and kinds of classifications, links.
on another research project, about the way in which english is realised as a school subject in london, dehli, johannesburg we have tried to visually capture the ways in which literacies appear in the landscape - just taking photos of how writing and image appear in the everyday world.
end product
my desire (aim) for this 'course' is to focus on this question of how to display, disseminate and to some extent play with and interogate my ideas about modes of representation and communciation in a multimodal form. this aim will be realised in a number of ways:
A. I think it would be great to be able to be able to make (program) some kind of visual and dynamic essay (as an end project) that helped me think about all this and say something about it in a form that goes beyond words and through its form adds to the debate i am having.
i can't really think of any examples of these - um er
i suppose i think of the way in which architecture software has been used by some graphic designers to create 3-D multimodal narratives
or some of the urban tapestries stuff (e.g. http://research.urbantapestries.net/animations/AnimationA.html)
or work of people like ben hooker (e.g. ) or http://www.dataclimates.com/#
I would like to work with a concrete example of some research i am doing now and to explore it in this form. one option would be to focus on data on interactive whiteboards - to explore how the relationship between image and writing, multimodality, pace, and interactivity, in the context of teaching and learning school science?
B. Through this process i will be able to extend my knowledge of the semiotic system of technologies underly the display of content on screen - programing 'language'. this would enable me to better understand the constraints and potentials that shape decisions about how/why things are as they are on screen. In turn this would enable me to think and comment more generally on the ways in which the affordances and facilities of particualr technologies shape representation and communication.
write up my 'vision of what it is i am trying to do - the product i imagine, perhaps with some links or references to give Yishay a better idea of what it is about for me. (i think this will be for me product in the sense of output a designed text/thing maybe a visual essay of some kind, and also the process of learning about programing as a product).
My starting point
My research is about how people design different modes of representation and communication (image, sound, movement and so on) and the relationship between them to make meaning. At the moment i am looking at this relationship on screen and in the context of teaching and learning. For example i am especially interested in how the site of display of the screen reshapes the relationship between image and writing and what this means for practices of reading and writing, how it can reshape curriculum knowledge, reposition the reader/writer to the production of knowledge and reconfigure the relationship between teacher and students in a formal classroom context.
One thing that i would like to do is explore this relationship in the way i disseminate and think about my own work/writing. i have been trying to do this in a number of ways, for example:
in my use of powerpoint - i've been thinking very consciously about the way i use image, word and speech in my presentations. trying to think about how i relate them, how i use image and word to attend to different aspects of the talk etc.
on a recent research project about screens and the social landscape we decided to build a visual landscape which visually realised the themes that emerged from our discussions about the changing character of screens. so that the way images of the screens are placed next to each other realises (through their visual/spatial proximity) senses of connection, and kinds of classifications, links.
on another research project, about the way in which english is realised as a school subject in london, dehli, johannesburg we have tried to visually capture the ways in which literacies appear in the landscape - just taking photos of how writing and image appear in the everyday world.
end product
my desire (aim) for this 'course' is to focus on this question of how to display, disseminate and to some extent play with and interogate my ideas about modes of representation and communciation in a multimodal form. this aim will be realised in a number of ways:
A. I think it would be great to be able to be able to make (program) some kind of visual and dynamic essay (as an end project) that helped me think about all this and say something about it in a form that goes beyond words and through its form adds to the debate i am having.
i can't really think of any examples of these - um er
i suppose i think of the way in which architecture software has been used by some graphic designers to create 3-D multimodal narratives
or some of the urban tapestries stuff (e.g. http://research.urbantapestries.net/animations/AnimationA.html)
or work of people like ben hooker (e.g. ) or http://www.dataclimates.com/#
I would like to work with a concrete example of some research i am doing now and to explore it in this form. one option would be to focus on data on interactive whiteboards - to explore how the relationship between image and writing, multimodality, pace, and interactivity, in the context of teaching and learning school science?
B. Through this process i will be able to extend my knowledge of the semiotic system of technologies underly the display of content on screen - programing 'language'. this would enable me to better understand the constraints and potentials that shape decisions about how/why things are as they are on screen. In turn this would enable me to think and comment more generally on the ways in which the affordances and facilities of particualr technologies shape representation and communication.
posted by carey at 3:14 AM
1 Comments:
cool. so let's get specific. describe your first visual essay (you can call this assignment 1.1): what is it about, why purpose does it where is it seen, and by whom, what kind of content does it contain, and what kind of interaction does it support? and whatever else comes to mind.
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