Inquiring Mind

This past Friday, David and I had the opportunity to lead seminar. The suggested readings for the week had an overarching theme of play, the virtual world, and of course interface. We decided to restructure the class for the day and had groups of two answer questions that we provided on one of the readings. Each group was to then present their thoughts through “a new interface” by creating a short video. Towards the end of the class we shared our videos then discussed our findings as a class.

David and I were somewhat unsure outcome of the of this activity before class on Friday, but I think that the activity turned out very well. This exercise gave everyone in the class a unique opportunity to think through creation, which is not something normally done in seminar. In the conversation that David and I had while making this video, we started out by doing most of our idea generation through normal conversation, towards the end, I noticed that a great deal of our idea exchanges were done through this interface. All in all—a success!

This weeks reading:

The New Media Reader: ”Will there be condominiums in data space?” 
Life on the screen: identity in the age of the Internet:
“Virtuality and Its Discontents”
http://hevra.haifa.ac.il/~soc/lecturers/talmud/files/547.htm
Rethinking Media Change: Introduction; “Reflections on Interactivity”; and “Forms of Future”