Your Cart

• Log in

• Related Products
• Parent
  • • Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal
• Associated
  • • Culture and Design
  • • Dance and Data
  • • The Changing Roles of Communication Designer in Ubiquitous Media
  • • Achievement to a New Pattern in Architectural Design Education Model
  • • Exploiting Social Networks to Teach the Art of Critique
  • • Teaching Creative Drawing Techniques in Preparation for Computer Aided Industrial Design
  • • Between Chinese Poetry and Western Typography
  • • Design for a Life of Learning
  • • How Many Users Does it Really Take?
  • • Design Drawing
  • More →

Exploiting Social Networks to Teach the Art of Critique: Redesigning a Face to Face Digital Photography Course to Integrate Online Social Networking

By Markam Keith Adams.

Published by Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal

This paper is derived from coursework delivered in a university level, face to face digital photography course, wherein regular critiques are used as the foundation for evaluation and assessment. Utilizing specific guidelines regarding the evaluation of assigned photographic work, students are instructed to use their existing Flickr, MySpace or Facebook accounts to post, organize, share and critique their colleague’s work for all scheduled assignments. Each step (posting, etc.) is based on certain criteria presented and discussed in class and agreed upon by a consensus of the group (practices need to work for all). The professor also provides feedback on the site(s) to each student for each assignment. Online critiques are supplemented with traditional face-to-face critiques and students are required to submit printed versions of what they consider to be their best representation of the assignments for face-to-face evaluation and discussion by the group. After each assignment deadline, the process continues and students can revise/revisit (multiple times, depending on previous feedback) their work and resubmit for further comment. Driven by the evaluative guidelines, this process reinforces thoughtful, intelligent dialogue in the form of constructive feedback. It also opens up the traditional art-making practice to a more fluid and dynamic (immediate) exercise.

Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp.21-26. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Article: Electronic (PDF File; 1.332MB).

Professor Markam Keith Adams

Assistant Professor, Fine and Performing Arts, Rowan University, Montclair, NJ, USA