First group’s kick off is done, 6 more groups to go

We had two weeks of preparation for this class, and despite the lack of time, we think we had a result.
How can we start without some technical issues? It’s seems that one of the senior lecturers stole our class (unforgivable!), so with a little help from Cai, we managed to take over Ada.

When all the technical problems solved, we have started with a short video introduction, made by our group members and a little help from a czech alien. We tried to make it serious as we can, but our group member, Justin Case, had to add some sexual jokes into the video, and since he was in charge of the video editing, we all had to comply.


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After the video has ended, we asked our classmates, what they think design is, what is media, what is art and what is the relation between them is. Since it was 10 in the morning, most of our classmates were still sleepy, but we managed to get some answers we liked and made our point clear.
We gave them a short historical introduction to our subject, tried to cover everything from cave painting until today’s social media in less than 7 minutes.

Our galaxy team in a middle of a mind storming

 We believe that the best way to learn is by laughing and having fun, so we arranged kind of a game with an educational propose. Our classmates divided to 5 groups, and each group had to design a social media for a certain target group: Cannibal Chefs, Galaxy Explorers, Moustache Club Members, Multi-Million Swindlers and Medieval Dictators.
All the groups got the idea really fast, and after 15 minutes we got pretty impressive and detailed results from each groups, and needless to say we all had fun.

Thinking of new ways to steal your money

Teppo presenting the mustache club's social media idea sketch

Joanne, a senior member of the Cannibal Chefs Club

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The group that laughed the most is the one who learned the most

Mustache club sketch

On the second part of our lesson we covered the benefits that the new social media and new technology brought us in the last 2 decades, what media brought and does to business, to society and to the individuals. In the last part we felt it is important to reminds that everything comes with a price. We discussed with our students about the downsides of media, if they ever found themselves or someone they know damaged because of the media and what mass social pressure can do to people.

Our students were pretty supportive and cooperative. We covered most of the things we wanted to talk about, and we made our points clear.
For the downsides: as our feedback group told us last friday, our content emphasised too much on social media and not and media in general as we were expected, and maybe we could cover some of the subjects better. All in all, it was a great fun to work on this subject and we have really enjoyed to do this class. Thank you all.