Live from Turkey: Colleen Macklin sends the following message. [tq]
I just bumped into Yuri Gitman (DT faculty), who shared with me his course blog with Parsons Illustration faculty member Caty Bartholomew. Both are leading toy-making courses this semester, and after my brief e-mail introduction have been sharing ideas. Now they have chosen to document their student work on a blog!
Last year Parsons DT students received much public attention and a few magazine and blog articles focused on their work because it was documented via the public blog for the course. I think this is a great strategy for students to learn how to articulate their work and manage a public presence. Now it looks to be a great way to connect classes in different programs, but with similar strategies. I advocate for a New School-wide adoption of this kind of publishing practice!
Archive and Share!
On October 11th the Communication Design and Technology department will be launching v.1.0 of The Archive — a place where students can upload work ranging from thesis papers to screenshots, movies, interactive work and sound. 
The Archive is a truly “web 2.0″ system — it allows students to tag, search, rate share work and create groups. It also gives us the ability to publish projects in print catalogs or on our website. It’s scaleable and can be used by all students across the university. The database structure is “e-library-compliant”, meaning it is compatible with e-resources like lexis-nexus, etc.
I look forward to showing it to all of you soon. For now, here’s a screenshot.
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