Curatorial Practices and Exhibition

This group is comprised of full time NIE degree students that are art trained and don't quite have the same pressures or demands of my in service students who are balancing real work and part time study. This demographic is also a little different as they are younger, tend not to have family demands. (usually unmarried) and no office demands. There is also a slightly different perspective as they are wholly exposed to ideal teaching situations and dont have much reference to the actual demands of their jobs.

The objectives of this course

===EMAIL on 17 SEP 2007 ===

Hi there Catherine, A BIG THANK YOU for making it all possible!

yes it is difficult to read the audience... i totally agree. In real life, i was with 4 other students and all the rest were in their respective homes. I do know that one with me was having hardware problems and that caused her to log on an off every ten minutes, another had to leave early because of prayers before the breaking of Islamic fast.

I did brief the students about behavorial expectations and essentially said that the emphasis was to read the messages going by and literally not to move... (i was rather militant). To a large extent.... the behavorial modification was more for the presenters as it was the only human cue that we had. Apart from textual feedback.

(perhaps a new character animation called 'perfect student mode' should be conceived)...

all in all... i thought it went rather well... Ernest or Ernesthtically was fortunately very vocal as asking plenty of questions... .but students here tend not to ask to many questions so I was pleasantly surprised that they seemed a little more chatty. Comparatively if you were a caucasian person from the UK presenting in our classroom in real life, they would probably be even quieter.Curiously they seemed a little more willing to breakdown social and hierachical barriers.i suppose avatar representation tends to do that.

Over and above... i do think it went well.... it was extremely informative... i'll keep you posted on our progress and if there is anything that i could help you with, do let me know. Lets stay in touch :)

Paul

ps... will send you photos shortly