I thought I’d share a couple of fledgling projects and move away from the theoretical for a bit.
1. Our art students are in the process of building a formal gallery in the library. (Our facility is already graced by lots of student art!) We got a local grant to buy display panels. The goal is to highlight the work of individual student artists and allow them to function as “art professionals.” We’ll write artist statements, prepare exhibit brochures, and host formal openings. We wanted to support this physical space with a serious virtual presence, and so we created a blog to mark our progress and a Flickr gallery to allow artists to present and describe and create notes about their work. Right now we have the work of just one artist represented, but the other artists are truly excited by this model and there is much more to come!
2. After months of trouble trying to get interactive material suggestion forms working on my site, I decided to go with a far less formal approach. Our new materials suggestion wiki already has one suggestion.
3. After our seniors read The Handmaid’s Tale, one of their projects was to create a movie poster highlighting a scene or a theme from the book using original photography. We are using the movie poster tools from Flagrant Disregard’s Flickr Toys, below is one sample. More to come after Friday’s deadline. We created some wonderful inspirational posters highlighting words of advice from our new teachers back in September.
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[...] Question to anyone who might be reading this…I just read this post by Joyce Valenza’s post Premature (?) Sharing… (she seems to be my favorite lately) on some exciting things students are doing in her building. I’ve read several of these at other places and have so wanted to pass these along to my teachers. However, I have a hitch. With our new filters in place, we can’t get to site like Flickr or Flagrant Disregard’s Flickr Toys (see Joyce’s post) or several Web 2.0 sites. Several blogs are blocked and the like. The reason for the block, the powers that be say, is that it may not be the part that someone is getting to but several pages within the site that contain inappropriate material that student could to if they are willing to navigate through and find it. I’ve tried to convince the powers with that it is good for students. But all they see is that it can also be abused. [...]