Tag: mdm program
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Reinventing the Audience Experience at Salon Series #3: A streamed dance event
Often times, at the Centre for Digital Media’s MDM Program, we challenge our learners to innovate. So what does innovation look like in the social media space? Is there any room for innovation or are we stuck in the “just tweet that out to get attention” loop? Are we destined to mainly rely on Facebook…
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Case Studies: Interactive Digital Media Artifacts
In the past 15 years I have mentored over 35 projects and 205 graduate students on various virtual productions leading to interactive digital prototypes (game, mobile, installation, video and web apps) for real-world clients. Documentation generally consisted of a problem statement, problem(s) to solve, research, executive summary, methods, and applying a user-centered methodology. The documents…
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PhD Research
The map below represents a typology I developed with faculty at the Master of Digital Media Program in order to better operationalize the mentoring strategies they used to mentor self-regulatory behaviours from learners on projects with clients from the video game industry. I am now a PhD Candidate with all-but-dissertation (ABD) status, anticipating a defence…
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‘Learning Through Error’ when Solving Problems
In last week’s article ‘Improvisation Principles and Techniques for Design’, Gerber (2007), highlights five areas in which “improvisation applies to design work”. I asked learners to pick one and discuss how it might already apply to their own design process and why. I decided to tally the range of responses to see if there was…
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Disrupting the Assumption of Collaboration
Why should we assume that collaboration means the same thing to different people? Is it enough to say that I’m a good collaborator without really defining what that means. We’ve all had different experiences so will likely define a good collaboration differently. One Solution One of the strategic exercises that I facilitate at the Master…
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Crowd Surfing Love @ the Centre for Digital Media
What better way for a brave group of Chinese students from the Communication University of China to start our fifth IDEA-X @ the Centre for Digital Media Program in Vancouver. Crowd Surfing is a fun and engaging way for learners to embody trust—to know what it feels like to support others who depend on you, and in turn to…
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Work with New Others…Often
It’s difficult advocating the unknown joys and perils of collaborating with others when I’d rather talk about the steady times I continue to have with familiar and aligned collaborators. The truth is we never know what the outcome of a collaboration is going to be. Some of us have the luxury of developing collaborative partnerships that last…
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Assume Learners Are Not Empty Headed
I’ve seen so many teachers think that learners need to be broken down. In order to understand what you are teaching they have to be re-trained from scratch and moulded afresh. This is not only dangerous since it assumes that you have the authority and the wisdom of a guru to do so, but I’ll…
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Disrupting the Classroom
This video shot at the Masters of Digital Media Program by learners who over the years have contributed to the disruption of teaching and learning. The video gives you a taste of different methods of engaging learners in order to promote a teaching and learning environment that is collaborative and self-reflexive. A free download of an excerpt of…
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Improvisation & Communication
A short video detailing the advantages improvisation has to support communication in collaborative activities. Shot with the 8th cohort at the Master of Digital Media Program in Vancouver, Canada. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFKbdLVjOLI