Thursday, April 30, 2009

Portfolio Input

The portfolios are technically due the 14th of May.

For portfolio answer:

SO WHAT?

What issues have come up for you?
- Don't have to incorporate theory
- Working with other - (weird new experience - not bad ~Miriam)
- group dynamic (group as a group or in relation to the course, broader area of discussion.  Social factors?  Linked to participation, consensus,)
- Concepts of micro, macro, mezzo (mediating factors in the middle)
- micro me my friends (good way to learn from what you did) what does that tell you when you look outwards
- macro - the community - more than the people I know
- mezzo - can't account for societ at large but you can speculate (other people like me) makes sense of it, the "so what"
- Annika's 3 areas of the portfolio What expected, what found, what learned.
- what is my baggage coming in
- reflective, descriptive, reflective
- descriptive (this is what happened, it's the easy part)
- the reflective (what I learned is more important)  It's harder because we don't always know what we learned.  Not just me and my people, but something broader
- should you account for everything or account in detail for one particular thing
- For each one I'm going to pick an area and have the spectrum.
- Conclusion (big picture)
- grouping things together in terms of description

How do you know you wrote enough.
- if you read it over a few days after and its just a description
- what does it show me

Podcasts
- you have to know who you are
- may not be as eloquent a speaker as I thought
- audiences - what are they gonna get out of it
- impact of the audience
- easy to abandon (all these tools are easy and free etc)
- not much too it, you can play around with the tools not the same as being invested.   Could do or not do.  Why bother?
- if you sit and think about who you are creating for
- perceived what others want
- constraints
- limits: tech, skill etc

File Formats
- disconnect
- some don't care about the nuances in the difference in them

Blogs
- preparation?  Belief that spontaneous things happen
- If you happen to be the right place at right time - great
- for the most part, the mindset you develop
- tech isn't just objects - way of looking and thinking of things
- sound magnificent can write anything
- by nature, structures what you do
- work to general
- vehicle of democracy?

What is the impact of templates
- then you format what you want to do accordingly.
- encourages a particular type of presentation / constrained thought
- aesthetic of what something looks like and content

Slick looking site vs ugly site with content
- aesthetic vs content
-if you think about think about things on the web, there are compartments that organise what you produce and what looks good
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The portfolio is a point of organisation
- implications (translate personal reflection into something useful)
- connections
- so what is the cumulative impact over time
- what do things mean?
- investment you put it (do I buy, rent, try this product etc) you have to find it yourself
- what are you willing to invest in

Certain credibility to someone who makes stuff, it sucks but keeps making stuff
- that power and politics
- question of mimicry
- we defer back to things we already know

Work time

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