Slack is a proprietary instant messaging platform, with basic functions similar to other platforms: persistent chat rooms (channels) organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging etc. It’s core ambition is to replace email as the primary method of communication and sharing within organisations, i.e. to consolidate all communication that might otherwise be scattered across emails, text messages, or in person meetings.
(more…)In difference to other communication apps, Discord may not be on many instructors’ screen, but it quite certainly is on their students’. Originally mostly frequented in the gaming community as a separate Voice over IP (VOIP) channel used in parallel to any ongoing game to discuss team tactics in private, it’s since developed into a communication tool with much broader appeal in particular with younger audiences.
(more…)Like any other, online classes require a degree of pre-supposed trust between instructors and students as well as between students themselves. If stakeholders are to work together, share ideas, to some extent expose themselves personally, to accept others’ judgement and advice, they need to at least know the other, and feel safe in their (social) setting. Such sense of security needs to be initially built and subsequently continuously maintained.
(more…)Initially Jamboard was a piece of hardware, an interactive whiteboard, essentially a huge touchscreen on a stand that collaborators could log onto via a dedicated app. Since its inception in 2017, the Jamboard app now may also stand alone, i.e. collaborators may directly connect and work with each other without the hardware.
(more…)Miro is an online collaborative whiteboard platform to enable teams working together by means of a very pleasing visual interface. Miro focuses on real-time collaborative work on canvases with different templates: diagrams, mind maps, workflow board, etc. Each board is “infinite”, thus can keep lots of stuff in different forms (digital sticky notes, minutes, sketches, images, charts etc.).
(more…)A long tradition in the movie industry, casted sugar may be a substitute of interest to practice some glass techniques at home. Using food colouring, a double broiler (a Pyrex bowl on top of pot of boiling water), wax paper, and cream of tartar, sugar may be molded into sheet – e.g. to create stained glass – and/or poured into forms with silicone molds.
(more…)Bullseye Glass Company is a Portland, OR based manufacturer of coloured glass for art and architecture with worldwide distribution. Along their manufacturing business they’ve also developed a strong education and residency programme for contemporary kiln-glass.
(more…)Deep Space is a project by Seattle-based artist/curator Satpreet Kahlon, operative on and off since 2016. It’s conceived as “a physical gallery that only exists online”.
(more…)Kunstmatrix is in fact a software bundle intending to support the entire virtual representation of practising artists; this includes the tools Art.Depot, Art.Spaces, Art.Office, and Art.Augmented.
(more…)Artsteps is a a web-based environment – a little like Sketchup – that allows to create virtual art galleries in lifelike 3D spaces. Users may model complex actual or virtual exhibition spaces including specific colours and surface textures, and populate them with digital artefacts (images, 3D objects, videos and sound) to curate realistic virtual exhibitions.
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