We just wrapped up the 2nd Annual Champlain Mini Maker Faire at the beautiful Shelburne Farms Coach Barn. This was a watermark for my connected learning project from the summer #clmooc. The project continues in the Intro to 3D Digital Design class that I’m giving. One of the themes I am playing with is persistence in time and other experiments in multi modal making. Presenting the faire as a mixed reality event to the students focused their attention to a deadline, an event coming way too quickly. For the most part they weren't ready, neither was I. I left participation online at the faire optional. I was fortunate and each day a student came in world and worked on their makes. Flying around, projected on a screen, in front of passing faire goers -- many curious folks stopped in to ask questions. One student, Blue Rose, did some interesting interior work in her 'box-ish' design.
The creation of interior spaces that the learners made intrigues me. It speaks to the interior process occurring in the make, that turning out, what is in. We look for the product, missing the process. The making is what is so much fun in OpenSim.
Anther student, whose avatar's name is Marcus Brutus made the delicate da Vinci flying glider. A great project for OpenSim. If you have the choice to make anything you can imagine, where there are no material or physical constraints, what is it that you choose to make? What would you choose?
Mr. Higglesworth, the avatar for another student, used the opportunity to rapid prototype his set design for a play he was directing "The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon". This production occurred the same weekend as the faire. When the video is available the Director wants to load into a media URL and project it in world on his set.
The set is a concept. Monolithic, imaginary, mono tone. He explored other textures but in the end went with black.
The set is a concept. Monolithic, imaginary, mono tone. He explored other textures but in the end went with black.
Snaps from the three Dark Stage Makes
These are makes from the Dark Stage, featuring Double-Vision, Seeing Redd Productions, and Movement in Miniature.
There is a tremendous amount of content to chew over and synthesize. In the thick of it its difficult to get my bearings. Making is always going on all around us, if we can see it. In reflecting about connected learning here I wonder about all the separations that we have institutionalized and internalized. We are sorely disconnected, especially from the earth. This is the cirsis we face as a species. Separated, we are planning our own obsolescence, throw away people. Making reconnects, and the more dimensions engaged, the less we are separated.
There is a tremendous amount of content to chew over and synthesize. In the thick of it its difficult to get my bearings. Making is always going on all around us, if we can see it. In reflecting about connected learning here I wonder about all the separations that we have institutionalized and internalized. We are sorely disconnected, especially from the earth. This is the cirsis we face as a species. Separated, we are planning our own obsolescence, throw away people. Making reconnects, and the more dimensions engaged, the less we are separated.