Monday, April 20, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Pete Stanwood--Contribution Statement
I would like to reinforce the previous posts regarding the harmonious functioning of our group. It was very smooth--lots of good ideas thrown around, and a willingness to offer supportive and constructive suggestions. No ego clashes, and everyone seemed to find a way to participate that was comfortable for them. I have no complaints about our group.
As far as my own contributions, I:
--acted as Secretary, taking notes on meetings and posting them to the blog as needed.
--set up all Elluminate meetings.
--contributed to the blog.
--posted content to the deviantART site.
--attended all meetings.
--wrote and presented my own brief portion of the material.
A very positive experience overall.
As far as my own contributions, I:
--acted as Secretary, taking notes on meetings and posting them to the blog as needed.
--set up all Elluminate meetings.
--contributed to the blog.
--posted content to the deviantART site.
--attended all meetings.
--wrote and presented my own brief portion of the material.
A very positive experience overall.
individual responsibilities Jamie Kurumaji
As a group, I feel that working together as the Deviant Librarians was very successful. As a group everyone was very active. There was really no need for delegating specific tasks to individuals because if something needed to be done, there was no reluctance or delay. Meeting with a group for projects can be problematic, but we were able to easily find meeting times with one another for this assignment. This was a great experience working with my classmates.
In terms of individual responsibilities, this is what I contributed to the group:
In terms of individual responsibilities, this is what I contributed to the group:
- researched how other libraries have utilized social networking tools
- researched how we as a non-officially affiliation of the SF Public Library could utilize DeviantART, in terms of creating an online presence
- participated in our group activities: email, elluminate, blog
Responsibility Statement by Anissa Malady
The Deviant Librarians group worked very well together. It is actually very hard for me to determine and break down exactly what I did individually, besides research my specific section of the DeviantART site. I am not saying this in way that I only did this one thing, what I want to instill is that we worked so well together that the divvy and breaking down of tasks did not feel as such. Our group ran smooth, when task where up for grabs, or something needed to be done, no one hesitated to do them. All participants showed up, communicated and it was a great experience. The best group experience I have had in my entire higher education, which is quite a success, in my opinion, for the online learning environment.
My individual tasks
- Researched and documented the Specialized features of DeviantART site
- communicated with SFPL about the project
- put the idea out there to use DeviantART.com for our project
- participated in all group activity, in person, online and via email
Individual responsibilities statement Matthew Collins
Matthew Collins: Team Leader
SF Deviants (Deviant Librarians) researching deviantart.com
The SF Deviants met several times to develop our project. The first meeting, wherein our roles were defined and I was nominated Team leader, was a face to face meeting. Subsequent meetings occurred online via Elluminate. I discovered quickly that our group worked very well together collaborating and reaching consensus. As a team we: researched the deviantART site and its applications and developed methods for a Library, specifically San Francisco Public Library, to utilize deviantART. The traditional role of leader in the meetings was not needed, everyone stayed on task, did their assigned jobs and helped move things forward. We really had a great group and it was a pleasure working with all of the members. My role as leader became more important in compiling the final product for submission. The following list is the highlights of what I did as a member of the team.
• Arranged space for first meeting
• Signed up Deviant-Librarians for presence on deviantART (note: data submission and posting was collaborative)
• Researched Art creation/posting
• Researched methods of promoting library (SFPL) via the creation of art (note: other team members researched other methods)
• Researched the added value that deviantART could offer: tutorials and chat rooms
• Created and posted promotional images
• Created Power Point to be used both in presentation and as a backup for those who were utilizing application sharing
• Created and submitted “title page” with link to deviant librarians blog http://deviant-librarians.blogspot.com/ where or individual self assessments reside.
SF Deviants (Deviant Librarians) researching deviantart.com
The SF Deviants met several times to develop our project. The first meeting, wherein our roles were defined and I was nominated Team leader, was a face to face meeting. Subsequent meetings occurred online via Elluminate. I discovered quickly that our group worked very well together collaborating and reaching consensus. As a team we: researched the deviantART site and its applications and developed methods for a Library, specifically San Francisco Public Library, to utilize deviantART. The traditional role of leader in the meetings was not needed, everyone stayed on task, did their assigned jobs and helped move things forward. We really had a great group and it was a pleasure working with all of the members. My role as leader became more important in compiling the final product for submission. The following list is the highlights of what I did as a member of the team.
• Arranged space for first meeting
• Signed up Deviant-Librarians for presence on deviantART (note: data submission and posting was collaborative)
• Researched Art creation/posting
• Researched methods of promoting library (SFPL) via the creation of art (note: other team members researched other methods)
• Researched the added value that deviantART could offer: tutorials and chat rooms
• Created and posted promotional images
• Created Power Point to be used both in presentation and as a backup for those who were utilizing application sharing
• Created and submitted “title page” with link to deviant librarians blog http://deviant-librarians.blogspot.com/ where or individual self assessments reside.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
jamie's rough draft for presentation
Introduction:
DeviantART is an international online community for artists. Its main goals are to provide a site or place for any artist to exhibit and discuss his/her works. Artworks are structured into these various categories: photography, digital art, traditional art, literature, Flash, filmmaking, and skins for applications. Also included are downloadable resources such as tutorials and stock photography.
The DeviantART site has over 10 million members. It has over 75 million submissions and on average, it receives roughly 100,000 submissions per day.
Survey completed by Compete.com......36 million visitors annually, 2008.
Censuring mature content option
As a group, we created a persona that represents the SF public library, unofficially. Some of the various ways that we were able to establish the library's presence on DeviantART are.....
- devious info
- newest deviations
- favourites
- journal
I will mention these tools of the site only very briefly and will leave more detailed descriptions or usages for others.
There are many other optional tools that one could use on DeviantART, however many are only available if you choose to subscribe to DeviantART. This allows the user to more features that the site has to offer. Some of these extra features include: 120 deviations, browse ad free, access to archives, etc.....
DeviantART is an international online community for artists. Its main goals are to provide a site or place for any artist to exhibit and discuss his/her works. Artworks are structured into these various categories: photography, digital art, traditional art, literature, Flash, filmmaking, and skins for applications. Also included are downloadable resources such as tutorials and stock photography.
The DeviantART site has over 10 million members. It has over 75 million submissions and on average, it receives roughly 100,000 submissions per day.
Survey completed by Compete.com......36 million visitors annually, 2008.
Censuring mature content option
As a group, we created a persona that represents the SF public library, unofficially. Some of the various ways that we were able to establish the library's presence on DeviantART are.....
- devious info
- newest deviations
- favourites
- journal
I will mention these tools of the site only very briefly and will leave more detailed descriptions or usages for others.
There are many other optional tools that one could use on DeviantART, however many are only available if you choose to subscribe to DeviantART. This allows the user to more features that the site has to offer. Some of these extra features include: 120 deviations, browse ad free, access to archives, etc.....
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
matt's Rough draft
I’m Matthew Collins and I’m going to talk a little about the dual dynamic nature of a Library utilizing Deviant art as a way to reach a target audience.
· First drawing people to your library: promotion
· Second utilizing the site as a resource itself: added value
Deviant art.com is a young art interested audience
Annie has already mentioned a few of the ways to get the word out to the deviant artists about cool happenings sponsored by the San Francisco Public Library
Now to further draw this young art interested audience you need to highlight relevant library resources on the site.
You can do this two ways
· one in the journal feature already mentioned
· Or creating and posting art which draws attention to the resources
Photography books
Photography collections
The downside to these posted pieces, unlike the journal is that you cannot imbed links on an image however there is an artist’s comments section for each image where links are possible.
Highlighting cool or unexpected resources can show a different face of the Library and attract new patrons. However, the other cool side to utilizing deviant art.com is its added content.
There are a large number of tutorials on the site
Collections of tutorials
Examples
These can be used to Show current library patrons new avenues to explore
Connecting patrons together to exchange ideas
Rough Draft of Pete's Spoken Presentation
OK, hello everyone, my interest in using deviantART focused mainly on the Literature aspect of the site. The main focus of deviantART, in fact, is on the visual arts component, but I felt there were a lot of rich opportunities for interaction in the area that concentrates on the written word.
Here are a few screen shots from this section of deviantART. Each of the boxes, with text, represents a written work, and as I flip through these screen shots, you can see that there are quite a few categories to which writers can assign their work.
Most of this writing, as I experienced it, seemed to be done by young people. It was highly emotional and romanticized; it was also sweet and innocent in spite of a put-on air of world-weary cynicism. I remember writing stuff like this in high school...
But the important thing is that there is a lot of interest and a lot of passion around this site, and people are just into doing this writing and sharing it with others. That high interest seems like a great jumping-off point for looking at ways that libraries can tap into the young writers' passions, and to interact with users of the site. It's also a way to introduce interested library patrons to what deviantART might offer to them.
I think the site has quite a lot of potential for bringing library users together with writers. So, the question is how to use the deviantART site to build interest in writing among library patrons--how do we get one group to interact with the other?
Some ideas might include:
1. Establishing a physical space in the library that would focus on the potential of deviantART. A small learning center-type area with some computers, and lots of
examples of the kinds of (hopefully inspiring) things one might find on the site.
2. Using the Tutorials section of dA to display some helpful video or other instructional material, such as ideas for creative or other writing, "tell me about yourself" type video
introductions, writers discussing their creative processes, etc.
3. Developing collaborative projects between Library user and dA users. There is a large
collection of film, video and animation work on the site. It's easy to imagine collabor-
ative work between writers and filmmakers who would be brought together by dA.
Also, collective writing exercises, zines, literary/poetry anthologies, workshops led
by more experienced writers, mentoring programs....these all seem like potentially
rich areas to explore.
4.Using the Journals feature of dA to keep people aware of writing-related events taking
place at SFPL.
Haven't quite put the conclusion part of this together. I wonder if we want to make it a collaborative effort?
Pete
Here are a few screen shots from this section of deviantART. Each of the boxes, with text, represents a written work, and as I flip through these screen shots, you can see that there are quite a few categories to which writers can assign their work.
Most of this writing, as I experienced it, seemed to be done by young people. It was highly emotional and romanticized; it was also sweet and innocent in spite of a put-on air of world-weary cynicism. I remember writing stuff like this in high school...
But the important thing is that there is a lot of interest and a lot of passion around this site, and people are just into doing this writing and sharing it with others. That high interest seems like a great jumping-off point for looking at ways that libraries can tap into the young writers' passions, and to interact with users of the site. It's also a way to introduce interested library patrons to what deviantART might offer to them.
I think the site has quite a lot of potential for bringing library users together with writers. So, the question is how to use the deviantART site to build interest in writing among library patrons--how do we get one group to interact with the other?
Some ideas might include:
1. Establishing a physical space in the library that would focus on the potential of deviantART. A small learning center-type area with some computers, and lots of
examples of the kinds of (hopefully inspiring) things one might find on the site.
2. Using the Tutorials section of dA to display some helpful video or other instructional material, such as ideas for creative or other writing, "tell me about yourself" type video
introductions, writers discussing their creative processes, etc.
3. Developing collaborative projects between Library user and dA users. There is a large
collection of film, video and animation work on the site. It's easy to imagine collabor-
ative work between writers and filmmakers who would be brought together by dA.
Also, collective writing exercises, zines, literary/poetry anthologies, workshops led
by more experienced writers, mentoring programs....these all seem like potentially
rich areas to explore.
4.Using the Journals feature of dA to keep people aware of writing-related events taking
place at SFPL.
Haven't quite put the conclusion part of this together. I wonder if we want to make it a collaborative effort?
Pete
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Specialized Features of Deviant Art Site by Anissa
News Section: Broken down into several sections
My Postings
- Just Submitted and Popular
- Art News: resources, photography; traditional; literature; artisan crafts;
- Culture: chat news; art shows & events; interviews; art blogs & mags;happening; editorials; projects
- deviantART News: community relations; hot topic; policy; prints; tech & features; help & FAQ; deviantART Blog
- Fun: Books/Graphic Novels; Video Games; Music; Gossip (Cobrastarshipp)
- Art History Contest
- Art Nouveau
- By Date: Adidas ; Bring Your Vision to Life
- Charitable Events: not used often
- Projects and Clubs: da Loving Day 2008; Art Institute online
- World Events
- Holidays
- Tributes
- deviantARt
- Prints
- Community
- Employment
- Entertainment
- Hardware
- Operating Systems
- Software
My Postings
Sunday, April 5, 2009
"What is news and what is not"
this disclaimer explains to the user what accounts as news and to whether it should be posted in this section of not. Bottom line: "dose it pertain to a larger audience?"
Historic Bayview Event. Posted in News>Art Shows and Event section under the main topic of> Culture.
River of Words Youth Poetry and Art Contest: Posted in News>Art News>Resources
this disclaimer explains to the user what accounts as news and to whether it should be posted in this section of not. Bottom line: "dose it pertain to a larger audience?"
Historic Bayview Event. Posted in News>Art Shows and Event section under the main topic of> Culture.
River of Words Youth Poetry and Art Contest: Posted in News>Art News>Resources
Thursday, April 2, 2009
deviant journal posting
Yesterday I posted an event in the Deviant Art "journal space" area. I was a bit disappointed to discover that as the author you are not capable of linking items to outside sources. So that is not so beneficial or user friendly to get people to use. They would have to actually cut and paste the URL to get to whatever we are talking about. which is easy, but people move on if they cannot quickly click on a link and be there. Do any of you know of any way other way to add links?
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