In attempting to finish up the video project that I started two years ago, I’ve been thinking a lot about the connection between materiality and learning. How is it that using tools, ie tactile, physical, tangible things, helps us learn? Maybe the idea of “using” tools is too limiting, so how about understanding the . . . → Read More: Barbuda video project and materiality in education
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As mentioned earlier, one aim of the project in Barbuda was to allow the field school students to record personal video footage of their experiences. My hope was that these videos would provide a different frame of reference for the public and at the same time give the students a tool with which to . . . → Read More: Student’s video insights from Seaview  Comments are closed  Barbuda, Video Project  active learning, archaeology, digital media, pedagogy, video Seaview site prior to clearing of vegetation Since my last stint in the field, in Iceland last summer, I have swapped the midnight sun for starlit nights and midges for mosquitos. And after much planning, gear purchasing, travelling, organizing, equipment sorting, car renting, food buying, and then accounting for everything we forgot, . . . → Read More: The field school is underway One comment - (Comments are closed) Barbuda, Video Project Barbuda, Digital video, excavation, Saladoid, Seaview This January will mark the fourth consecutive season of the Barbuda archaeology field school, organized by Prof. Sophia Perdikaris from Brooklyn College. A group of ten undergraduate students from across the CUNY system will participate in three weeks of excavation at the coastal site of Seaview, as well as attend lectures and conduct group . . . → Read More: Barbuda field school and interactive technology and pedagogy video project 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Barbuda, Video Project active learning, Barbuda, materiality, networked information economy, pedagogy, social network, video Composite knife – bone and iron Site update! We are approximately halfway through the field season here and things are moving along very smoothly. In Area E, where most of our focus has been, we have excavated down to a context between the 1410 and 1300 tephra layers. Making it to this . . . → Read More: Dirt, bones, buckets, and smoking pipes…and midges 4 comments - (Comments are closed) Iceland, Video Project artifacts, Clay pipe, Maker's mark, Skutustadir Veiðivötn 1477 tephra exposed in Area E Most of our efforts for the past few days have been on Area E, around the house. With seven people on site we’ve managed to take out a significant amount of soil very quickly, now getting down to the Veiðivötn 1477 tephra, and at the . . . → Read More: Closing out Week 1 Our first day on site was a success. Having a few extra bodies certainly didn’t hurt, made the deturfing and shoveling go much more quickly; thank you Howell, Etel, Celine, Stefan, and Oscar. The weather here has been pretty nice, warm and overcast mostly, and the flies only slightly menacing. Lake Mývatn (midge lake) . . . → Read More: Day 1 at Skutustaðir – Shovel:Check; Trowel:Check; Bug spray:D’oh! This summer will mark my eighth consecutive season of fieldwork in northeast Iceland. I have been a part of several projects over the years that have sought to survey and excavate Viking Age and Medieval farm sites from the region, in an attempt to discover more about Norse historical ecology, economy, trade, and migration, . . . → Read More: Archaeological Video Project in Iceland 5 comments - (Comments are closed) Iceland, Video Project archaeology, digital media, Iceland, pedagogy |
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