In the first week’s reading, Adrian Miles discusses the crucial importance for media students (and teachers) to use blogs so that they are practicing within the network in order to strengthen their network literacy.
[Blogs are] exemplars of an interlinked, networked, fluid and distinctly contemporary writing practice and communicative space, and it is these qualities that can be leveraged to make them effective learning environments.”
I just read Adrian’s interview on the Korsakow website about his experience of using Korsakow in the classroom. Below are the moments that resonated the most with me, which I am going to try and keep with me as I start using Korsakow and thinking about my sketch film (and eventually our major project).
The problem [is] that each week they learn a new trick, but because the vocabulary is so large, and the time to learn so brief, they end up confusing tricks with making something worth making, and with ability. (It’s similar to using 12 typefaces to design your brochure because you have 12 typefaces, and confusing that with ‘design’.)
The structures that form are about poetic, associative relations between the parts. The software system should enable this to emerge in the making so that you don’t sketch it somewhere else, and then import this structure, but work in your medium.
Links are moments of risk.
It’s about poetic noticing of the world.