Mittwoch, 27. März 2013

SkypeSession

We had a Skypemeeting today. I had no real high expectations concerning that meeting. I was wrong it was quite good. I was a bit a bit confused and behaved like a fool in my eyes. I was unable to answer the first questions of the professor. But since I have great coursemates they gave me another chance.

The professor asked what we have done, what we have learned so far and what are our aims for the porjetct and the difficulties we had.

I did..
  • benchmarking about cultural heritage sites on Facebook
  • reading Chapter 9 of the Social Media book - presented it to the others and wrote a summary
  • research paper about tourism photography - presented and summed up
  • analyze the "Mu Pori o kaunis" page and write a summary about it
  • create a Prezi about our current Step in the working process
 I learned to look for different social media tools who fullfill my needs. There are so many available and its worth trying out new ones. We thought about using tumblr for our project but in some way wordpress seemed to be the better option. It has a better structure and is in my eyes easier to handle and guarantees an better overview to the visitor of the page.
I also gained some experience through the groupwork. It was really hard to handle all this perspectives in the beginning but after lot of talkings we made it or at least we are on a good way. It was never so hard for me to be part of a groupproject and the others had the same feeling. Maybe it had to do with the unknown freedom we had. Usually someone - the teacher/professor - tells you what he/she is expecting from you and what shall be the outcome. I guess we whined a bit about being lost with so little information but right today I got the feeling that we made it on our own. That is a quite good one and I were a bit proud of us as group. I think that we are a great team not only cause we solved our troubles ourselves but also cause we are so different and can gain from this different perspectives about the same theme.

We are no nearly done with the theoretical background and can look forward to the "fun things" like making the video. I got some experience in video-making so  I hope that we can benefit from that knowledge.

Montag, 18. März 2013

Back to work

I had a horrible weekend. It's not really relaxing when you have no clue if you have to rewrite all the texts from the past 1 1/2 months or if things are saved somewhere and can be restored. I finally found out what was the mistake. I contacted the admin of the wikiversity pae who had deleted my content. We figurred out that this was a mistake and they re-activated my account. All the texts from my last evening - quite a lot - is gone but its better to rewrite one session than to redo all stuff. Sigh....

Sonntag, 17. März 2013

Crash

I was just finishing my summary of the chapter I had to present to the other. Text about pori and my research paper was done and uploaded to wikiversity. Just clicked the "save" button after two hours of writing and was so glad that another point on my to-do-list would finally be done. But it came different. There was an error on the page. I was kicked out of the system and the article dissapeared. I tried to login again but failed. Also that damn password recovery was a mess and nothing worked. But the worst thing is that not only my lasted text but all of my writings got deleted...I hope this can be fixed otherwise this is quite a disaster for me. I tried to contact the helpdesk of the page - no luck at all. I also contacted the professor but no solution in sight right now. Lets hope the best but its really disturbing my concentration for other things I have to do....

Dienstag, 12. März 2013

Third Meeting

Today we had our third meeting again @CafeArt. It is a nice place and the seperate rooms offer a great working athmosphere. We had to look for a research paper that fits to our group project. We thought about splitting the group into two parts - photography and tracker and combine these topics in the end. I looked for articles about photography - especially digital photography and the visual representation in social media. I found a rearch paper about travel photography which fitted nicely in my eyes because we want to create a tracker for tourists and so it might be interesting how tourists deal with photography. 

After our presentations we discussed what is the concrete goal of our groupproject and how do we want to work on. It seems a bit complicated to have a equal ground for conversation. I dont know why there are quite a lot misunderstandings. We mean the same but explain ourselves so differently that we dont understand each other. This makes it a bit more challenging but we talked a lot about that issue and I think that we are now moving in the right direction as Beth Ditto would say. 

In the evening we met again to fix our goals in a paper. This paper was focussed on the organizational stuff of our project. This ended up quite exhausting because we share the same ideas for sure but its really hard to write out something that is clear for you and the teammates but you must be able to explain your thoughts to a stranger.

Freitag, 8. März 2013

Chapter Presentatiion

We met at Cafe Art again. It is a really nice place. You can easily book a room for your own without any charges. They have nice drinks and cakes and always a good and tasty salmon bread for Thomas :)

After having a little breakfast we started. LeighAnn made a little Prezi Presentation. It was really cute and reminded me a bit on creepy victorian pictures in Tim Burton style. I fitted nicely to the ghost metaphor the author of her text was using. 

I was next and told the others a bit of my chapter. It was about photography and the use of photography concerning cultural heritage. In my eyes it was a really generall introduction to the theme but it was okay.

Nati and Nina had similar topics about participation of the visitors in museums. They highlighted the importance of involve the visitors to make the exhibition attractive to them. Concerning social media they told us that its not only important to be representative in social media but also use them in exhibitions in some way. I liked a term for "digital born" people...I guess I can't really remember it but I liked it maybe because Im one of this digital people who raised up with computers and internet.

Thomas theme was about norwegian boots of the vikings and their reconstruction and how this process can be tracked for future generations and also for social media. But we all agreed that this is a quite difficult project and the way of documentation really relies on what is the result. A short video for a youtubecommunity which must be interesting or a long, very detailed video to document the craft for future generations. 

Later on we talked about our groupproject. The next meeting is sheduled for tuesday and we said that we want to focus on the city Turku and a cultural tracker. I ll check out the "my pori is so beautiful" page on Facebook to see how it works and what we could use for our project.

Mittwoch, 6. März 2013

Chapter Reading

It took me longer than expected to read my chapter. Maybe about 3 to 4 hours. My chapter was about photography - what else :)
I prepared some of the important parts for the others.