Week Three Assignment

     3/1 Digital collage

     3/2 Takeaways from Reading
      This week's reading is quite interesting and focuses on connections coupled with social learning networks in the digital age.
       I am really fascinated by the idea of "interest-driven" arts learning in digital age mentioned by Kylie Peppler. New media and the availability of media and digital devices empower youths to move from a passive "content learner" to a positive "active participant" in art field (Seely Brown & Alder, 2008, p.18). They have more opportunities and technologies to practice in designing, remixing, creating and sharing their work with others. It reminds me what my elementary art classes were like - usually we had to draw one same time, all the class and the teacher would compare each other's work to find, not a best one, but a most similar one. I hated art class because I am not the person who can draw exactly the same thing as what the object is, but also have my imagination in the drawing. While at the fourth grade, we had a new art teacher who taught us to draw what you feel or what you want to express, no matter format, instead of drawing exactly the same thing as what you see. Even though I was not good at art and left behind the class, he always encouraged me to brave in using colors and images. What he did is not only help us to practice drawing techniques, but more; he helped us to expand our vision beyond the tangible objects  and express ourselves in the way of drawing the feeling. He never judged us by the techniques or skills in our drawing, but always inspired us and enjoyed every drawing we created. His lesson, from today's topic, fits in the concept of "interest-driven' art class and has quite positive results that benefit students in a long term.
       In addition, I agree with Kylie that the mainstream social media platform, like Facebook or Youtube, do not have a clear pedagogical objective, which may lead to a result that their digital conventions have potential to backfire. Even though they offer digital space and technologies for users - in our case students - to be engaged in content making and sharing, there is not anything that can lead them effectively, and supervise their progress. They are open space for people who has foundation in the field and are highly motivated or disciplined but what about kids who just want to learn casually? I am really curious what can social learning network or digital connection help students learn offline.

Second Week Assignment

eetiquette.com

There is no time and patience for others to read long email or text. Being brief is being polite, in some way.

We all sometimes need to complete our work in hurry and therefore, have some typo. For me, it is not annoying to read text/email with typos but I would not allow me to make typos to annoy others. Of course, misspelling people's name is kind of rude.

I always worry about my family when they are not reachable. Are they OK? Do they need help? What if some accidence happen...So please be in contact to make others who care about you do not worry about you.

On/Off Experiment

When all the digital devices are off...

I headed to my boyfriend because we live together but he was crazy about his new video game and asked me to keep quite. I feel a little hurt because I thought some talk can comfort me and make me feel I still keep in touch with the rest of the world but actually while others are busy with their digital devices, there is no time for communication offline. After sitting on my chair doing nothing for a couple of minutes, I started to feel anxious as I am running my business in education consulting and worried what if my clients have some problem and want to contact me or what if I have new clients?!!!!! I was losing money!!!! But then I also felt relax because doing nothing is great -  I do not need to worry about my business, my work and can avoid all the terrible feeling when they asked more services but less money. What I enjoyed was I lying on my coach, next to the people I love, even though he is too busy to not to speak with me, and most important, next to a beautiful world whose silent voice I can finally hear.

https://codepen.io/wanqiu/pen/VGVNYV 

This is a little demo that can represent how I feel when on and off

First Week Post

1/1my educational background

As I study English literature and linguistic as my undergrad major, I have two-year English teaching experience and have a strong interest in how technology and new media can reform traditional classroom teaching. Now I choose instructional technology as my graduate major and want to learn more about coding and new mdia.

my experience about new media

I have a small Youtube channel where I record my daily life and tiny shiny thoughts. I do love the way new media empower everyone with internet to express themselves and let the world know their voice and their thoughts. Even though few people view my videos, I love watching other people's video for it's like making friends and communicating through video chat.
Social media also change the way we live. I always post videos about my lunch, my works, my thoughts on microblog or instagram to share it with friends and contact with them about their post. Actually I can barely remember the life before social media become part of our lives. How do we spend our time when we have no work to do? How we share thoughts or daily life with friends offline?

1/2Artist with Tech

Art Entry

Gretchen Andrew is an artist whose work is described as an exploration of virtual reality. Her creativity in art is not only represented as painting techniques, but the entrance of the work in Internet. When she completed the painting with her personal theme, she programed the theme topic as key works in Google search engine and made that theme dominate all the search result of that key works. Her work is multi-dimensional for her work is way beyond painting; it is kind of performance art among Internet.

1/3 Institute with Tech

Cleveland Museum of Technology

• Digital Tour/ Direction
• Exhibition on APP and VR exhibition experience
• Engaging game with motion capturer and touch screen

1/4 Reading Takeaways

• Asynchronous: Because online activities did not have to occur in real time, we ended up having all the time in the Internet world. One actually thought before responding — sometimes a whole day. For example, people always though email replaces traditional mail industry while however, according to the survey, what email challenges is phone call instead of mail because phone call requires both sides at the same time but email can find someone when they want to be found. The asynchronous somehow saves us from having to be at the exactly same time but we sacrifice more time in checking messages from the past and give deeper reflection towards those messages than before. This is like a double-sided sward that make us both benefit and suffer and we have already deeply trapped in this asynchronous world.
• Anxiety: We hard to escape from anxiety in modern life. Even though email and facebook have already saved us from having to be at the synchronous time to exchange information, we still suffer from anxiety that we cannot be too late to response to those messages. In the asynchronous age, what takes most of the time is wait and chase: wait because we cannot receive messages from other synchronously but wait until the other want to respond to the messages; chase is because while the information exchange happens, we are not here and we have to chase after passing time and search through time line to go back to exact when it happened. We are running forward and because anxiety, we always want to running fast to catch up with others and backwards to be in the past.

Greeting

Greet

Hi everyone, nice to meet y'all I wanna share a video about new media on Ted
Hope you have a good week.