Apart from suitable methodologies, considered practices and good teaching ideas, online teaching and learning at home also depends – or at least may be significantly improved – by appropriate hardware setups at both ends – the instructor side and the student side.
(more…)The following tools and resources for Printmaking are available online, most of them for free – though sometimes with limitations (e.g. time, number of downloads etc.).
(more…)Supposedly we live in an age of social media, thus it makes sense to consider them also for creative practices as well as for teaching, learning and research in the arts. Are.na in this context stands out as a social media platform entirely based around the notion of connecting ideas via a visual interface.
(more…)A digital library, digital repository, or digital collection, is an online database of digital objects including text, still images, audio, video, and/or other digital media formats. Objects can consist of digitized versions of originally analogue artefacts (e.g. books, prints, or photographs), as well as of originally produced digital content. In addition to storing content, digital libraries provide means for organizing, searching, and retrieving the content contained in the collection.
(more…)As many institutions switch to online delivery of studio courses, they often would like to provide video instructions and/or demonstrations especially for certain technical skills. Youtube is a reasonable resource for that, but may be difficult to predict in terms of quality, continuity of availability, legitimacy (intellectual property) or/and – in some contexts (e.g. China) – accessability.
(more…)Other than those main tools needed to deliver an online class, and those related idrectly to specific course contents and creative practices, there are a number of small helper tools or support resources that may not be strictly necessary, but are simply nice to have, becasue they make life easier.
(more…)In all educational contexts fair assessment is at the very heart of the contract between the student, the instructor and the institution; it’s supposed to allow both students and instructors to evaluate student’s concurrent standing in a particular subject matter in relation to particular institutional parameters. All parties involved accordingly rightfully expect assessment to be immanently objective, transparent, and thereby comprehensive.
(more…)As would be expected teaching and learning online is different to teaching and learning in a traditional classroom setting; in particular transitioning from one to the other requires adaptation – and the exploration of very different tools and practices to achieve the best possible learning.
(more…)All of the following tools and resources for various Crafts practices (Glass, Ceramics etc.) are available online, most of them for free – though sometimes with limitations (e.g. time, number of downloads etc.).
(more…)Clearly, Zoom (more information here) has exploded to become a leading platform for online teaching and learning as well as general online meetings in early 2020, but it is certainly not the only platform/tool available, it doesn’t offer all the functions liked and needed especially in creative studio courses, and recently it raised a series of security concerns.
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