Talk:InAEA

Fourth meeting minutes

Meeting time: July, 2nd, 2007 Member present: Diahne Lane, Kristy Handrick

Announcement: I am going to buy a land in these days, and the land will be our InAEA meeting place in the future. (Start from next month.) In my plan, I will have a sky gallery that everyone in the group can have a show there. Besides the meeting time, the meeting place is our “Art educators’ lounge.” All the members can come to relax and talk or visit the gallery~ I will also put all the information about this group or art education information in RL in the lounge. If you have anything you want to share, please contact with me. After I done with the land and building, I will start to make a wiki page in Second Life Wiki. https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/InAEA I will also post all the information about our group or group meeting minutes in that page.

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Third meeting minutes

Meeting time: June 4, 2007 Member present: Artsie McMillan, Roberto Basevi, Rain Winkler, Kristy Handrick

Topic 1: Announcement: 1. We have 19 members now. If anyone knows someone is interested in art education in SL, please invite them. In InAEA, all the members is allowed to invite people to this group. 2. In the end of July, I will build up the InAEA wiki. And, also in the end of July I will try to buy a land in-world. Welcome any amounts of donation. 3. All the meeting minutes can be found in “group notice,” I will try to finish up the group meeting minutes within one week. 4. About the field trip, if anyone found any good places, and want to share, please let me know, thank you.

Topic 2: What do you think about Art education in Second Life—possibilities & Difficulties 1. is being able to give students the museum experience a. elementary school students they can't get in SL 2. to allow students to visit artists studios and exhibits 3. SL is a art place a. the first thing is making self portrait b. great to make 3D stuff c. scripts 4. to teach art in SL for college students is a nice thing a. They try to learn here.. Make here.. and have a show here b. staying in SL through out the whole process c. learning by doing

Topic 3: To make a web site/blog / wiki that can discuss on line post the meeting time and promote this group to people have never been in SL

Topic 4: Next topic & meeting time and place: July 2nd, 6:00PM PDT. At Glidden campus.

Topic 5: Field trip~ Virtual Starry Night - Vincent's, Luctesa (134, 213, 74) It is a really cool museum, if you have time, please come to visit~ ;)

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Second meeting minutes

Meeting Time: May 23, 2007. 6:00 PDT Member present: Cate Ceawlin, Aargh Slade, EXB Allen, BloomingMind Loon, Marvel Recreant. Kristy Handrick

Topic 1: Meeting Date and time

Wed. is the time SL upgrade, Weekly meeting is too often. Therefore, Meeting become monthly, and chenge into Monday. The first monday in every month will be our meeting day~

Topic 2: suggestions for this group EXB Allen: maybe we can go to visiot other lands together --- have a group adventure! This is really a great idea, I (Kristy) think if anyone find any interesting place want to take other members to, please let me know before the meeting. We can have our trips at the end of the meeting.

Topic 3: do we need agenda for meeting or not YES, so, if you have anything want to discuss, please let me know before meeting.

Topic 4. McGuire Art Gallery Field Trip

NEXT MEETING TIME: June 4 (Mon.), 6:00 PDT

Everything is negotiable in this group! If you have any thought, please let me know~ I will try to get a land and a house before the end of this summer. My goal of this group is not for my own research or interests, but is to give a environment that all the art educators or people interested in art education can have a place to talk, to think, and to discuess together. So, if you have any friend want to join us, please invite them or let me know~

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First meeting minutes

Member present: Ali Andrews, Austin Sands, Brooke Hyacinth, Cate Ceawlin, Kristy Handrick, Rain Winkler

Topic 1: Self introduction. Kristy, the founder of InAEA, I am a doctoral student in Northern Illinois University, major in Art Education.

Ali Andrews is the great builder of Glidding campus. Glidding campus belongs to NIU long distance learning department. I also work with faculty at NIU who want to use SL for their classes. Assistant director of eLearning at NIU. I have been here almost 2 years

Brooke Hyacinth: I teach at VCU. Virginia Commonwealth University

I am Rain OSU and Brooke's BF. I am trying to learn how to actually do the basics but I am interested in trying to discuss what I am experiencing

I am Austin Sands, I am not willing to reveal my identity generally. I am doing research on the legal impacts in RL of SL actions. I am a patent lawyer in RL. And computer lawyer

Cate Ceawlin: I am interested in semiotics, and think your topics may be related to my own research interests :)

Topic 2: Ali suggested that we can have a SL Art education resources library

Topic 3: What can this group do? This group is for art education. Hope every member can give Kristy some topics and suggestion that we can discuses in the future.

Topic 4: A web site for this group. Austin Sands:why not have a wiki?

Topic 5. Law and SL: Is not very related topic. If you are interested, please contact with Kristy, I will send you the whole discuession.

Topic 6. Conference room: Ali Andrews: we should set up a conference room in Altgeld until you have a more premanent space for your group with pose balls so you don't have to work so hard to sit properly

Topic 7. Field trip

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Hope all members can come here and have a brief introduction of yourselves~ :) Wish I can hear from you soon~

The Fifth Meeting

Meeting time: September 3rd, 2007 Member present: Zbornak Docherty, Austin Sands, Jezebel Gibbs, Kristy Handrick Announcement: 1.At the first meeting I made an unfaithful and untrue commend about a professor from my university. I regret for what I had said and sincerely apology for it. 2.Another sorry is for everyone in this group. I didn’t know that if I publish our group land in “search” that everyone has to pay part of it. Now I just changed it. From now on, no one needs to pay that besides owners. If anyone wants to take that money back, just tell me the amount that you think you should get, I will give the money back to you. Really sorry about this. 3.We got our permanent meeting place from now! This meeting place is not only for our group meeting, if you need a place for any meeting, you are welcome to come here to use this place at anytime. Don’t forget to make a landmark here before you left, or you can set your home here. Please tell me what you think about this place, and how can I make this place better~ (I am thinking about rebuild the house, it does not look like art people meeting place. If you have any idea about it, please tell me, thank you :) ) 4.Thank you for someone who donates 51 sq. meters land for our group. However, I have no idea how to use that land yet. I will try to figure it out soon. And Thank you again. 5.We have our wiki now, https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/InAEA I will put all our meeting minutes in the discussion section. So, if you didn’t join the meeting, you can use your user name and password in SL to log in SL wiki in order to give us your opinion. 6.The InAEA sky gallery will be the gallery for our field trip today. Hope everyone can give me some advice about this gallery. Also, if you want to have your show here, please tell me, you are welcome to have your show here! 7.I want to restate that even though I am a doctoral student and my dissertation might relate to Second Life, but this group is not for my own purpose. I just want to provide a virtual environment that all art educators around the world have a space to talk about art education or related subject. Therefore the website of InAEA will be established one day. At that time, we will have a better interface for post meeting minutes and an easier discussion board. (I might have time to do this in my winter vacation.) 8.Finally, after SL got voice, what kind of meeting do you want for our group have? Does anyone want to try the voice meeting? Or we just stay as the Regular (text-based) meeting? Suggestions: 1.prominent artist or art educator you might invite as a guest lecturer who could draw people back? 2.once the website is up, that would be a great place for announcements and such. 3.Maybe advertise at some of the galleries? (Dresden Gallery) 4.There's also a blog, the Second Life Insider. Maybe they'd do an interview with you, and generate interest that way? They're always doing profiles on established and new SL members. 5.I think you should better define your meetings, sometimes you could talk about the instructional aspect of art... and other just talk about some pieces 6.There is a huge meeting room at the DG. It holds around 70 people. Why not get a REALLY prominent artist or art educator to speak in that room? Use the meeting to recruit new members and stimulate interest in old ones.

Next meeting time: October 1st

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2007 October Meeting

Meeting time: October 1, 2007. Member present: Diahne Lane, Ryano Fitzpatrick, Gamilon DeCuir, Ayla Tomorrow, Isabell Rieko, and Kristy Handrick Announcement: I. IAEA conference registration deadline is coming soon! October 5! II. IAEA conference is on October 26 and 27, in Chicago! (http://www.ilaea.org/iaea/events.htm) III. NAEA conference is on March 26-30, Hilton New Orleans Hotel. Convention registration opens early November 2007. (http://www.naea-reston.org/convention.html) IV. InSEA conference 2008 Japan Osaka, congress theme: Mind + Media + Heritage. Registration will begin in October, 2007. Call for Papers will begin in January, 2008. (http://www.convention-j.com/InSEA-WC2008osaka/) V. Texas Art Education conference is in November in Galveston VI. If you have any other information about art education and want to share with us, please let me know, or come to the meeting share with us! Discussion: Do you think we can teach art practice in SL? The question should be: should we teach art practice in SL? Art practice would be difficult maybe art practice theory, such as talking about art education theory and philosophy. However, Black Board might be a better place for discussion. Some members have had some very negative experiences in SL and don’t think the benefits outweigh the drawbacks, therefore, maybe teach art practice would be more safe in a university controlled environment, it would have to be an area set aside for education. Sculpture would be interesting to teach in SL. Some member mentions other 3d programs that are a lot easier and more intuitive. The future will be more and more digital and virtual - this could be a whole other type of art education. We may have to redefine art making for the virtual world, redefine art, or redefine art education. Right now art education is in a narrow box... Redefining art taught in high schools when it comes to digital - virtual could be the wave of the future beyond just digital. Digital art is not as valued as traditional art, but has more communication power in the 21st century. How to communicate change in a world that really needs it. It brings meaning to the viewer and the maker. Digital is also what the students are into! Art education should be much more than just teaching people how to be art teachers. Second Life could possibly be a way to break out of the traditional time and space of the classroom/school model. The 3d virtual world is a novelty that the previous generation did not have and is/will be attractive to students. Some members believe we can improve learning once we figure out why we should improve learning in the first place. Second life might be a good place to figure all of this out. We could create a social constructivist learning environment. It could give a whole new definition to art community

Field trip: Dresden Gallery. Next meeting time: November 5, 2007. 6:00 pm PDT (SL time)