Can we create a course that uses info graphics (graphs) and other images to discuss how an image can persuade one way or the other? Is this a plug in?
Discoverability is a public good–we are all artists now
Digital pedagogy and humanities increases “discoverability” across platforms. Education changes with technology so that it is not just for the Academy, but bleeds across borders, becomes publically accessible. Increasing discoverability is a public good. We don’t form knowledge to hoard it. {gift economy} Considerations: Traditionally, the more difficult it is to get into a journal, the […]
communication plan
Projects portal? how to best tell people about the ideas of anything? Can we revitalize profile for 21c education? Can it be faculty and student driven? (not just for students?) can we combine/tag and categorize news so people can see what is relevant to them? Is this something for portal? For CDVL, what about making […]
Houses Like Walden
We could build sustainable/solar paneled houses down by the pond with composting toilets. Partner with GA tech architecture students and build five houses around the pond that are state of the art “tiny houses”. Then rent them out to people as artist/writer retreat. People in them could eat at dining hall, shower at gym. http://www.popsugar.com/home/Photos-Tiny-Houses-14945418#photo-35377248 […]
Landscaping toward the arts
Make a transition in the landscaping on campus that goes from formal to wild as you walk from the front circle/alumnae house to Dana. At Dana the grasses become meadowlands, and we have sustainability student garden beds, and the green roofs in the new buildings (with a goat), so you get the sense as you […]
Trees as Teachers
At info desk in Alston: lend out earphone walking tours like in a museum of the arboretum on campus. Lend hammocks. Create an interactive paper piece that talks about how to see on the walk (framing views, drawing contour, drawing for information). Partner with philosophy, art, history, english etc. to enrich these pieces. Make it […]
QR codes on all art labels and an Art Tour
Create an audio tour of the art on campus. Have students research, write and orate a visual analysis of the works on campus. QR codes can navigate to a student telling yoiu about the work, and we can create an overall tour of the art on campus. (in the library, alston, Rebeka etc.). Compatible paper […]
