Facilitating Creative Collaboration in the Arts with Social Software
Summary: At the end of this presentation, attendees will take away new methods of employing social software in creative/performing arts curricula, and be inspired to rethink both pedagogy and artistry.
Description:
To a great extent, faculty who teach applications of computer-based creative artistry (text, video, music, still graphics) rely on paradigms of pedagogy developed long before the information age. Students may be seated in a cutting-edge learning space, but often do their creative work in solitude.
Social software, including online forums, wikis and blogs, presents enormous potential for artistic collaboration; however, using these tools to facilitate collaboration requires rethinking our pedagogy and our artistry alike. The YouTube Symphony Orchestra project (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gNL512KbEmrHx5T_BGWvtl5XspjQ) is an example of how social software can bring artists together on a global scale. This kind of collaboration can easily be scaled down to a single classroom, and adapted to a wide array of creative and performing arts.
This presentation will explore concrete examples from my own classroom and others, to show social software’s potential for teaching and learning in the arts, as well as the ways that pedagogy and even artistry itself can be rethought in an engaging way for students.
Social software, including online forums, wikis and blogs, presents enormous potential for artistic collaboration; however, using these tools to facilitate collaboration requires rethinking our pedagogy and our artistry alike. The YouTube Symphony Orchestra project (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gNL512KbEmrHx5T_BGWvtl5XspjQ) is an example of how social software can bring artists together on a global scale. This kind of collaboration can easily be scaled down to a single classroom, and adapted to a wide array of creative and performing arts.
This presentation will explore concrete examples from my own classroom and others, to show social software’s potential for teaching and learning in the arts, as well as the ways that pedagogy and even artistry itself can be rethought in an engaging way for students.
Veronica Pejril
Instructional Technologist/Coordinator, Music Instructional Technology Center/Instructor of Music
DePauw University
Instructional Technologist/Coordinator, Music Instructional Technology Center/Instructor of Music
DePauw University
Veronica is an instructional technologist at DePauw University where she also teaches courses in computer-based musicmaking.
A composer and jazz pianist, Veronica is always on the lookout for creative applications of technology in arts education. She believes that immersion in new media can be inspirational, and firmly believes in Charlie Parker's quote: "If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn."
Pleased to be known as a geek-girl, Veronica is a blogger and a parent of twin sons who complete a jazz trio on bass and drums.