Projects
Link to Recipes for Jamming page
The Recipes for Jamming site is a location for sharing teaching and learning ideas that employ the jam2jam media performance software. It emerged from the proceedings of Jamskolan 09.
Click to download the proceedings.
International Generative Media Systems Education Workshop and Symposium: 3rd-12 August 2009
Kelvin Grove Urban Village Queensland University of Technology
ACID Welcomes International and Interstate Delegates to the first Jamskolan Symposium
Event Calendar
Jamskolan events run for 10 days and each session will consist of a data and context show, share and tell session a discussion around affordances and insights and a practical making session where new resources are identified, made or designed to support the expressive and educative activity.
Program
Day 1 (Mon 3rd August) Orientation. Introduction to the team, facilities and ACID welcome.
Delegates prepares a 20 minute Audio visual Ted talk like presentation on their research site and demographic.
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Day 2 (Tues 4th August)
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Show: Presentation workshop day- each research context presents a 20 minute AV session on their research site and demographic. Use of ACID and QUT facilities and Internet access for presentation prep.
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Share a summary of similarities, differences and implications for resource making and theory building.
Day 3 (Wed 5th August) Share & Show: teacher researchers as guests @ Ellaways Music.
Academics writing workshop. Public presentation planning presentations.
Day 4 (Thurs 6th August) Focusing on Interfaces for network jamming led by Bert Bongers UTS and Adam Postula UQ, Endeavor foundation industry participation.
Day 5 (Fri 7th August) Show: Focus on Methodology statistics opportunity-network traffic.
Public Show: Discussion about the redesign of the jam2jam interface.
Toby Gifford PhD Jambots presentation12-2pm.
Afternoon tech run. Interstate student jam. QACI Student perform jam.
Day 6 (Saturday 8th August) Support: 1/2 day Bush Talk and Picnic Official dinner at Tukkas in West End.
Day 7 (Sunday 9th August) Recreation day (Sunday) Australia Zoo crocodile Hunter bus trip.
Day 8 (Mon 10th August) Support: Conceptual Share Day 2 Birds of a Feather: Engagement across ACID projects a forum examining engagement as at the centre of the conceptual study and research in these projects.
Day 9 (Tues 11th August) Yarning- Focus Group. Support: How can we support Education and community contexts?
9-30- 12-30 Session one will focus on using narrative in digital story telling across contexts. Media/Arts/ Lit/SOSE education morning meeting with teachers, therapists, community arts providers and researchers.
1-30 3-30 Session 2 will focus on media education. A forum Invitation to teacher educators. How does jam2jam fit media education in schools today?
Day 10: (Wed 12th August) Summary and book Organisation workshop. Writing day for chapter outlines. Conclusion distribution and allocation of tasks for the future.
Morning: Discussions about structure and who’s doing what.
2-30- 3-30pm Video conference link with Prof Trevor Thwaites University of Auckland NZ.
Afternoon: Chapter outlines
International Guests
Dr Eva Saether Malmo Academy of Music Sweden.
Graduate teacher researcher: Per Skold
Innovative teacher researcher PerSkold from Humfryskolan will also be attending the Symposium/workshop. Is a music educator and Postgraduate student at Malmo Academy of Music Sweden. His experiences as a teacher began at Rosengårdsskolan secondary school, a school in Malmös most segregated area. Almost 100% of the students have foreign background often as refugees.
Dr Alex Ruthmann University of Massachusetts Lowell USA
Graduate teacher researcher: Anthony Beatrice
A Multi media guru & teacher/researcher from
Pentucket Regional High School in Massachusetts
Anthony Beatrice is a Master of Music Post Graduate student at University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is a music educator and the Band Director and Music Technology Specialist for the Pentucket Regional School District. He teaches concert band to students in grades 7-12 and music technology to students in grades 9-12. Anthony has been trialling jam2jam at Pentucket Regional Highschool and has undertaken detailed research in a number of US contexts.
Dr Matthew Thibeault University of Illinois Urbana Champaign USA
Graduate teacher researcher: Melanie Matchett
Ed D teacher/ researcher . Melanie was a band director in the public school system in Calexico, California. Calexico is located on the Mexico-United States border and is the highest poverty area in California. The city and schools are mostly comprised of Hispanic students and new immigrant students from Mexico.