I wanted this course to be about exploration and figuring out what this field, CHI, meant for this sector, GLAM. As we built this course in the fall, I realized I was making a huge mistake. It was too controlled. Too rigid. Too much about me. When we go to a museum, library, gallery, or archive… it’s all about you, and your exploration. That’s how meaning emerges, right? So we tried to come up with a way for you to set the agenda and still meet the learning goals.
Goals for this week
- Settle the schedule
- Explore the GLAMWorkbench
Listen
Make sure to listen to each episode - talk about the podcast in Discord! It can be hard to start a conversation from scratch with strangers in an online class, I get that; maybe post some observations or statements from the podcast that surprised you or immediately challenge your ideas about what this course might be about. Try to do this each week, and our Discord will start to feel like a ‘real’ place!
Do
- Choose Your Own DHMuse Adventure. Open that link in a new window.
-> Add a tile by clicking on the big plus sign, bottom right.
-> Select 3 possible readings that intersect with your interests from at least two areas in our library, and paste them in; find something we should watch; and find something to explore. So five things, ok?
-> We will arrive at a path through these materials by consensus, resolving any conflicts, discussing in the appropriate discord space. I’ll then add connections as per our discussion so you can see the logic, and assign dates. I will update the relevant weeks on this course website as well so you can schedule appropriately. - Explore the Glam Workbench. One of the outcomes for this course is for us, as a class, to create a simpler version of this. What kinds of ‘tacit knowledge’ are required to be made explicit for you to work with this material? Discuss in our discord space.
By all means, try some of the more technical aspects of the GLAMWorkbench. But remember: with tech work, if it doesn’t come together in about 30 minutes, it won’t come in an hour. So take a break. Close the laptop. Call somebody up for help. Find another pair of eyes to look at the problem. I don’t want to hear that you labored heroically for 2 hours to do something. Jump into our social space and ask for advice.