What did you accomplished last week?
- Attitude Adjustment - I’ve been kind of bummed and pissy and overwhelmed. I couldn’t even meet a lousy goal of 30 minutes a day thinking about it. It was touching too many nerves. But in the same school yard way my older sister never let anyone else insult me but her I’ve begun feeling very protective and growly… in a good way.
- New Blog - Websites are just too annoying. I can write them from scratch, but why should I? I installed Wordpress on my own server and now have an easier way to prove I’m not lazy. Wordpress is also flexible enough that if I do decide to create a web-presence for my thesis, a bunch of the work will be done already because it is based on mySQL. More importantly to me it has permissioning built in so I can keep everything in one place, invite everyone to the same place, and yet control the experience. It is still very very raw and I need to collect more of my work there, but there is a bucket.
- Continued Research - This week I’ve been looking at on-line curriculum/processes/journals. This was kind of a reaction to the "so what are you making" question so I can answer that with something comfortingly tangible.
- 1272 Words - An assignment done, and done on Thursday. Kinda the minimum, I know but baby steps. Maybe I’ll even make it to class on time, too. It also represents some progress in thought which doesn’t suck either.
What do you intend to do next week?
- Experience Flowchart - NOT use case scenarios exactly although they may come into play. If I’m talking about pedagogy I need to create a chart for what information people are exposed to, have access to when. Its the Information Architecture, really. This will help decide the delivery format.
- Format blog - make the bucket better. May seem silly but especially if I’m going to let other people engage with the exercises in this format I need to make sure their experience is clear, too… goes with the next one.
- Post some exercises- as of yet, nobody knows what I’m talking about when I talk about these things. I’ve got to get them up and accessible. Also, it is easier to fill things in than create from scratch, so that will help with going forward and doing them myself. I would like the way they are posted to be good enough to share them with Tom I. for feedback on the caliber of their content (not delivery).
- Over 80 % on freewrite/freedraw - So, with everyone itching to see "my work" you would think that DOING and posting the RESULTS to some of these exercises might be more important than the stuff that no one is going to see. Nope. I still might do that, but for my top 4 engaging with my thesis project every day, cornerstone 1, has got to be there still. Maybe I will post some of the drawing, though…
Any recent concerns or unexpected obstacles?
- Split focus - People do need an artifact to relate to. I need to spend more time on the final presentation of the format of the System than on researching what exercises or practices should be included.
- Daily attention - some days I just don’t care. I need to get better at engaging anyway.
- Where’s waldo - People keep thinking that what I make is the point. They keep wanting to see "my work." This is my work… isn’t it? I do want to get down and start having messy fun myself, but how do I convince people that coming up with the exercises is an accomplishment, too?
- Tool vs. Tool Kit vs. Medium - Most painters don’t use just one brush. They’ll uses many brushes, palette knives… a finger even. And then, they can choose between oil and acrylic and gauche, etc… Are they going to make their own paint? What colors do they use? What about Airbrushes? What about a painted ceramics? Is that painting or ceramics? It is really really muddy water and I think as the exercises progress I’m not sure if it will become an easier issue or worse because technologies inherant flexibility.
Any recent insights or surprises?
- Curriculum is a good word for what I’m doing in some ways. Christina Goodness came up with it.
- All of the above!
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