Thursday, January 23, 2014

Where does this group go?

Hi there, it's me this time. Okay, I know I am not the only one, we wanna get started finally, don't we?!
Even though we're communicating through skype nearly every day, I thought I'd better write a blog post this time and hope that everybody will get the information in this way because you're not all permanently using skype.

First, I wanna say that I don't wanna be the main-admin or the person who runs it all in the end. We started this as a group and hopefully we will run it all together. We all have other things to do besides, but let's give our bests. Every single one of you can contribute something :-)

Now I am finally getting to the point!
Maybe you know that I am still new to CGHub and I didn't (and still don't) really know how the groups there work. Somehow I thought it is like a forum where we can post topics, threads, images etc. But as I found out today, I was wrong.
Together we already collected some ideas for assignments and I also have some ideas on how to start and with what. So today I wanted to just finally start and made a new topic in the CGHub group (I deleted it again later) and in my imagination the topic would be "assignments" and there we could post under-topics or at least we could have seperate topics and then everybody can upload their results from each assignment there.
But no, that doesn't work. Tell me if I am wrong but it seems like we can't upload pictures in topic-replies. So how can we make it work?

I just wanna ask for your ideas and opinion. I gave google+ communities a try and made a STUDY-BUDDY community for testing. There's a timeline (called "discussion"), sharing options, pics can be posted, membership by invation and "events" wich I think are perfect for our assignments. I think it has everything that we need but facebook groups would also be an alternative, if you guys prefer facebook. Or don't want any of these? Please tell me what you think here via comment or skype or wherever you like...

the google+ test-community is here!

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Time to draw ALL THE THINGS!

Studying time! Ok folks--this is a place where you can post art for critical feedback. This is where collaborations can form. This is a place to suggest study topics that everyone can participate in. In short, this is a place to get your learning on! The rules are simple:

Rules
1. Everyone is expected to give constructive criticism. A lot can be learned from critically analyzing someone else's work. That's why members are expected to comment regularly on other people's posts.
2. We can make up more rules as we need to...

Feedback! We can keep this freeform, or we can develop a schedule. Freeform would be people posting whenever, and likewise giving feedback whenever. *OR* we can make a schedule. As an example, everyone posts 1-2 pieces on Saturday, and then everyone returns on Sunday to give critical feedback to all other posters. I'm partial to the latter, so that we can make sure everyone gets the feedback they need, and without anyone being left out.

What do peeps think? Yay! So excited!