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Student Authored Lecture Replacement -

Walter Meyer

Art History- Art Department

Santa Monica College

Jeremy Kidd, Oriental Pearl Pudong, 2012

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Fundamental Influences/Assumptions/ Biases

  • ELECTRACY
  • SINGULARITY
  • HAPTIC and GROK
  • DELIVERABLES

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ELECTRACY- The digital is to contemporary society what the printing press was to the last 3 centuries�

Aaron Koblin, This Exquisite Forest 2012

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SINGULARITY- Chips get 2x faster, 2x smaller, & 2x cheaper every 2.5 years- We are nearing the exponential part of the curve�

John Craig Freeman, EEG AR: Things We Have Lost, 2012

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HAPTIC and GROK- Students enter with different comfort levels and most are more adept at the digital world than myself and are more seamlessly integrated with it.

Stelarc, Extended Arm, 2000

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DELIVERABLES- The real world wants specific tangibles that are about content and not how to. There are many ways to get to a goal.

Penelope Umbrico, Sunset Portraits, 2011

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Students, Faculty, The College

  • I personally teach over 800 students each year.
  • Art History has 14 adjunct faculty, all of whom employ digital pedagogy and teach an additional 3000+ students annually.
  • High Impact Practices dramatically improves learning for Underserved Students- Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
  • Facilitating student use of technologies that immediately empower them to participate in creating content for the digital world in which we live

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2007 Flipping the Classroom

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2014 Classroom as Game

  • Unlimited videos that address specific topics that students are interested in
  • Unprecedented ownership of classroom material
  • All universally accessible, and hitting multiple modalities

1998 Entered Grad School

  • assigned TA ship that included managing Blackboard site

2002-2005 Taking the Online Plunge

  • eBooks & online study guides

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Students Make Great Teachers!

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EACH WEEK- MASTER AN IMAGE

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Group Homework Deliverables

  • No more than 2 groups can work on the same question
  • You must have a minimum of 3 people in your group and a maximum of 10. 
  • You are to create a written and visual presentation of your answer. If this question was on the exam, would your content effectively demonstrate critical analysis and an understanding of the chapter material? 
  • Groups will be rewarded for converting their homework presentations into an audio/video universally accessible format and posting the youtube link in the discussion area.

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Group Checklist

  • Group Leader- Organized communicator who can keep everyone on task
  • Editor- Effective writer of English (native speaker of English helps) who can edit & synthesize work
  • Technical Expert- Good with the digital world and/or learning new skills within the digital environment
  • Scholar- good at research, scholarship and fact checking

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Final Project Deliverables

  • Curate a show on Art from Prehistory to the Gothic style (Chapters 1-13 of your text) and select any 10 pieces of art from your textbook. 
  • Come up with a specific thesis and title for your exhibition and discuss 10 works of art in relation to how they relate to your thesis as part of the theme. 
  • You will write a 12 paragraph document containing an intro and conclusion with a paragraph in the body for each of the 10 works of art explaining how it fits within your exhibition.
  • You will also create an audio/video summary of your project that will be uploaded to youtube so that the class can view a teaser preview of your project.  The youtube video must be universally accessible and include close captions. It must not be more than 5 minutes long.  For examples search SMCProfessorMeyer in youtube for my class and you should find plenty of good and bad ones.
  • You are required to work in groups make sure that all group members are listed on everything that you submit.  Please do not have more than 6 members in your group. 
  • Everything (paper and youtube link) should be posted in the Final Project Discussion Area
  • Have fun and Enjoy!

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GAME PLAY- Each Student is a given a work of art for the week. The more pertinent information they post about it the more money they earn in the game environment and points toward a grade in the course�