Meet Susan Silverman. I met her like ten years ago when I leading training workshops for arts educators, artists, and arts organizations throughout New York State on how to use the Internet. I was teaching Web1.0 skills like how to search the Internet, how to manage email, how to build a simple web page with HTML, and other good stuff. Susan was doing these amazing collaborative, user-generated content projects over the Internet.
I remember her community of clocks project -- she facilitated content creation from schools around the world on the theme of clocks. These projects were done nearly ten years ago, but they presage what the social web, participatory media. I wonder what lessons or techniques can be learned from her practice that can be applied with the next generation of tools? How much has our environment, culture, or information overload changed?
I was really excited to find her photo contributed to one of my flickr groups!
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