A Presentation for the 2008 North Carolina Art Education Association Professional Development Conference Robert D. Quinn, Ph.D. East Carolina University.

A Presentation for the 2008 North Carolina Art Education Association Professional Development Conference

Robert D. Quinn, Ph.D.East Carolina [email protected]

What is Social Networking? On the Web, A Platform For:

Making New Friends Aligning for a Common Cause Re-Acquainting with Old Friends Gathering Popular Support for a Brand/Product

Advertising Other Similar Social Functions

What Does It Look Like?

A Variety of Formats, Most Popularly: Facebook MySpace Ning YouTube deviantArt Classmates

Facebook- www.facebook.com

MySpace- www.myspace.com

Ning- www.ning.com

Ning- www.ning.com

YouTube- www.youtube.com

deviantART- www.deviantart.com

ClassMates- www.classmates.com

Leveraging Social Networking For Art Education? In the classroom:

A “star” student might display his or her work for the class

A work of video art might be screened

for the class “Show and tell” for the 21st century

Soundtracks for the classroom during studio time

Leveraging Social NetworkingFor Art Education? Beyond the classroom:

To critique student work To discuss art history videos To critique time-based work To make interpersonal connections To distribute art-related audio podcasts

To collaborate (Ning) To make class-related announcements

Questions for Discussion

How are you using social networking websites in art education?

In what additional ways could you envision an art educator leveraging social networking websites in and beyond the classroom?

Other Questions?

A Presentation for the 2008 North Carolina Art Education Association Professional Development Conference

Robert D. Quinn, Ph.D.East Carolina [email protected]