If your course were an art gallery, what are you inviting your students to see?
Marie Bartlett
Imagine your course was an Art Gallery. What images are you curating and how will they be displayed? Do you have a theme for your show, and what questions do you hope your audience will take away?
In the studio this week we will show and tell where we get our pictures from, and how to display them in their best light, from powerpoint to Moodle. Including all the best practices for curating, presenting, attribution and making your images accessible to everyone.
Visual Agenda
Outline
Spiral in – We spiraled in to the workshop focusing on the materials that were present. No screens. Drawing a spiral brings our attention to the page and frees us from choice. There is time for that later. Our discussion revolves around the materials, and the echos of those marks in the digital realm.
Discover and Curate – Finding images that illustrate your ideas, and elevate your teaching has never been easier. Yet we are still confined by issues of copyright and the conflict with academic freedom. These things are not mutually exclusive. Many resources are available to choose from, one just need know where to look.
The Show – The gallery has been staged, now is the time to bring the audience. Communicating through visuals is as much about the visual choices as it the technical workflow. Each network or platform maintains its own requirements and it is the work of the presenter to navigate and share their experience. The spectacle means little without… spectators, on lookers, participants, students.
Guided Tour – Art does not exist in a vacuum. As the spectator brings energy to the observed, so to do pathways, routes and and maps help to guide others on their journey.
