Social Media

Callie Neylan, Adjunct Faculty, MICA

Triesta Hall
Department Chair, Full Sail University

David Gelb
Sessional Assistant Professor
Department of Design, York University, Toronto, Canada

Internet driven social networking makes the use of wikis among students an intuitive and natural extension for learning with and from their peers. Familiarity and comfort level with social media technologies is well suited for the co-creation of learning artefacts in the design studio environment. The openness of the wiki platform affords multiple opportunities for collaboration in and amongst students and teachers for design learning.

This presentation will focus on design educators employing wiki technologies to leverage this socio-technological fluency and by initiating classroom activities that translate into meaningful learning experiences in the design studio.

Vanessa Cruz , Professor of Digital Media, University of North Florida

This paper looks at the experience of the creation and development of a virtual society for students participating in distance learning and hybrid courses in Art and Design at the University of North Florida. Students today are familiar and well versed in the technology such as wikis, blogs, discussion boards, video conferencing, and podcasts as a means for keeping in constant contact with one another. They are accustomed to using this technology not only in their classroom experiences but also as a recreational tool. So why not use this knowledge base in an e-learning educational setting to reinforce the sense of community usually experienced through a traditional classroom setting?