Saturday, 21 April 2012
Group Discussion Critique
The first task is to comment on the group presentation itself. I want you to think of one positive and one negative critique for the speed-dating style presentation. I don't want you to say whether or not you liked it - was it useful? Was it productive? Did you get any advantage from giving your presentation 6 times? Is it more useful presenting in a large group? A small group? To one person? Why? How do you think it could be better? What do you think you missed out on by doing it the way we did it? What disadvantages did this technique have?
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I found the group presentation very helpful as talking and discussing my ideas with different people allowed me to get a clearer vision of what I want to create and to break down my ideas to turn them into something constructive.
ReplyDeleteThe one-on-one discussions were productive as it gave me a range of different opinions and inspired new ideas.I definitely prefer working in smaller groups and one-on-ones as it becomes more like a conversation and ideas flow a lot more freely.
After the third or fourth person however I felt that it became very repetitive and felt that I could have used this time to take in all the feedback and reflect and work on my assignment solo.
I found the Presentation Dating very successful. Although it was hard to be completely prepared, I feel if we had a repeat occasion we would be better expecting.
ReplyDeleteIt was really useful nutting out my thoughts about the assessment verbally and having to converse about them for the stated amount of time (although sometimes got distracted haha)
However I would suggest to save time in the future that instead of having one presenter and one listening moving around, it would be more efficient to simply have both people talking about their work at the same time. Then perhaps there would be more class time for making instead of simply discussing.
I found the exercise interesting. I preferred the one on one format to the small group format because it meant the person listening had to give feedback and couldn't escape In the group. It was also good practice in saying something as though you're saying it for the first time, with interest and clarity. The downside of this and the small group method is that you don't get to see absolutely every student's work, and I also miss the more professional artist talk type presentations we used to do with Belinda, where you would present your work with a PowerPoint, it was a bit more stressful but made you get really clear about what you wanted to say, and therefore what you were doing in your assignment.
ReplyDeleteI found this way of presenting own work very different to other methods we have experienced before however I enjoyed it much more then exercises from other weeks. I like the intimacy of the one on one talks as it felt more personal and as the speaker you knew you had everyones attention.
ReplyDeleteon the other hand though i was disappointed not to be able to hear from everyone and that there was not a possibility for feedback then and there. I would have enjoyed the opportunity to have time in class to reflect and create some initial samples during class time whilst ideas and thoughts are fresh in my head.
I feel the same results of this form of presentation could be achieved in another way that meant we would all hear about everyones work.
cathryn
I liked the 'speed dating' set up because it was a new way to present discussions. It was alway good that we didn't have too much time because it meant we had to get all our ideas out and couldn't really chit chat. By about the 4th person I was sick of saying the same thing although I do realise this is what it is like talking about your work in the artworld. Perhaps if there was one presenter and two people in each group the process would be more efficient. Also because the group is small, people couldn't hide and not participate in the discussions.
ReplyDeleteI found the one on one interview style discussion of our works to be effective as the discussion maintain its focus on the work and generate usually conversation in terms of our works. I do agree with Erin with the idea of having a conversation about both works instead of one as I missed out on talking to some of the girls about their works which was disappointing .I find it more useful to be able to hear about some of the challenges and risks they have taken with their works as sometimes it sparks some ideas for me. By about the fifth person though, the task did become repetitive so maybe next time it would be better if there were 3 people in the group to cut down time and reduce the repetitive nature of the task.
ReplyDeleteSteph