My good friends at FIT have done it again. As a companion to their smARThistory multimedia blog, they have published a companion web site that maps their vodcasts to the exhibits at NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Way cool.
By the way, their blog is up for an Edublog award this year. Am I plugging for them? You bet I am.
Update: For those of you who tried the link and found it broken, it has been fixed now. Sorry about that.
My colleagues at FIT are at it again. Not content to merely use podcasting as part of their art history courses, they are trying out screencasting, using Camtasia to provide audiovisual tours of art works. Very cool.
What I’d like to know, though, is whether one can use RSS enclosures to publish a Quicktime video to a video iPod this way. Will the iPod know what to do with the video? If so, then this would be a great way to broadcast visually intensive learning content.
FIT will be hosting a great conference this October on teaching visual topics online using tools that afford social learning. The conference is just a bit of a misnomer, since much of the content will be relevant and valuable to a more general audience than just art and art history instructors; it’s really about teaching visually and socially at the same time. Steven Zucker and Beth Harris, the conference coordinators, have done a great job of assembling a stellar program. If you can possibly make it to NYC this Fall, I highly recommend attending.
Commenting on a recent post, Beth Harris asks the question of how the tagging system in Flickr could be used for teaching purposes. (Beth, a fellow SUNY-ite working at FIT, is doing some cool stuff with her art history classes using Flickr.) After thinking about it for a bit, I’m afraid the answer I come up with is “Not much; at least, not in its current form.”
Given the huge buzz about folksonomies now, (which I have previously called distributed categorization), this is a disappointing discovery.
What gives?
Here’s my own take it: (more…)
