I would love to hear from everyone about your teaching situation. How are you teaching: Totally online? synch, asynch, hybrid, flex plan, students take home equipment, meeting outside– how is everyone coping with the first few weeks. I’d love to know (and once I figure it out this will be a poll instead of a […]
Category: Pedagogy
Mute is On: In a Pedagogical Crisis, The Answer is Sharing
Marni Shindleman leads the photography, Art X and AB in Interdisciplinary studies programs at UGA, which has one of the highest rates of Covid+ students in the country. They have mandated face to face classes. It is a crisis of all sorts. She told us: “I wake up some days in tears and […]
LINKS TO DATABASES – PHOTOGRAPHERS / CLASSROOMS / BOOKS
It was so nice to see so many of you last week at FotoFika! I shared a number of resources which I’ll share below, ALL DATABASES ARE WORKS IN PROGRESS AND OPEN FOR ADDITIONS OR EDITS: https://fotofika.org/data/ CALENDAR: if you have events that are open to the public (lectures, etc), please invite [ fotofika2020 [at] gmail.com] – […]
July 1 Workshop Postponed–Google Sign Up For Future Workshops
FotoFika Workshops Update. Out of respect for the continuing momentum behind BLM political movement over the past month we have pulled back on FotoFika both in promoting the All Star Cards as well as the planned workshops. Today’s workshop was to focus on workers rights and unionization and it was the title Solidarity that made […]
181 Cards and Counting!
The FotoFika Allstars trading card project is closing in on 200 submissions to date. We have students from around the world including China, Australia and New Zealand. Becky Senf, Anne, Betsy and I have reached to our network of artists, curators and programers and can confirm the participation of the following list of AWESOME (which […]
Facebook, Andrew Cuomo and the In-between space
It was an overused joke even before the Covid era, but I really did pick the wrong year to give up Facebook. Now I cling to it for connections and the news. As one of my friends said about Facebook, “In 2008 it was a novelty, a year ago it was the ruin of civilization, […]
May 6 FotoFika
My father was a grief expert and I remember him talking about the idea of care for the caregiver, a bit to my mother’s dismay. I think as the caregiver for the caregiver it hit her wrong or exponentially problematic. But it brings up a lot right now of the idea of who is doing […]
Suggestions – planning/teaching – Fall 2020
Keep flexibility in the forefront: We don’t know. The first thing is that we have to be okay with that and then still act. Designing your class and your plan of approach Think Hybrid and Get Comfortable operating between spaces. synchronous/asynchronous, in person/online, using more than one LMS/platform. You will need to create a balance […]