After the group session yesterday, I went back to Becks with her so that I could utilise her spare MAC laptop to work on my locative media assignment and gain some assistance from Beck with how to use iMovie properly as she has used this application previously. Due to the late hour, I stayed overnight as I was kid free. This morning the plan was to continue to work on our personal assignments before attempting to colaborate further on our group assignment and put into place some of the ideas we had all agreed on yesterday. Due to some unforeseen circumstances we were sadly interrupted for a lenghthy period and did not get as much done as we had planned.
Just as we resumed our focus and began working again, I received a rather upsetting call from JC accusing me of being some kind of master mind who had deleted the Facebook group he had created, which we had been using to communicate between catch-ups. JC had previously set this group up for another course he was involved, but altered the name for our group. Apparently he had gone on to Facebook to discover that all of the content had disappeared and thought I had somehow deleted it and then accused me of removing the group altogether. Now....I am no technical genius and I know others who are far more savvy than me who cannot delete a facebook profile once it is created. He proceeded to yell at me and talk over the top of me every time I tried to say something for over an hour. Now if this had not been such a distressing call it would be almost funny as any one who knows me is aware i am somewhat technically challenged. When I pointed this out, he then blamed Beck. While we were on the phone, Beck went onto the net to see if the group was indeed gone as claimed, only to find it was still there untouched with all its content. Strange but true. Sadly the conversation did not end well. Beck and I found this behaviour completely unprofessional and not attention worthy and therfore we collectively decided to part ways due to what I like to call "Artistic' differences.
Not wanting the day to be an entire waste we proceeded to set up our two alias' and to add them to our created Facebook group - 'Power to the People'. As mentioned in my previous post this name came from the idea of handing the power back to the people to either interact or not interact with the specific tasks we set, to like or dislike or post their own comments. By the time the session was over we had created the alias Charlie Davenport for me and then in turn we created the alias Molly Bird for Beck. The creation of these characters is an experiment within itself to explore how willing our members will be to accept friend requests from someone the do not know and interact with them. Additionally these characters enable us to redirect activities to some extent to maintain artistic control.
After this we decided to end the day as we had both lost our mojo and wanted time re-focus.
Just as we resumed our focus and began working again, I received a rather upsetting call from JC accusing me of being some kind of master mind who had deleted the Facebook group he had created, which we had been using to communicate between catch-ups. JC had previously set this group up for another course he was involved, but altered the name for our group. Apparently he had gone on to Facebook to discover that all of the content had disappeared and thought I had somehow deleted it and then accused me of removing the group altogether. Now....I am no technical genius and I know others who are far more savvy than me who cannot delete a facebook profile once it is created. He proceeded to yell at me and talk over the top of me every time I tried to say something for over an hour. Now if this had not been such a distressing call it would be almost funny as any one who knows me is aware i am somewhat technically challenged. When I pointed this out, he then blamed Beck. While we were on the phone, Beck went onto the net to see if the group was indeed gone as claimed, only to find it was still there untouched with all its content. Strange but true. Sadly the conversation did not end well. Beck and I found this behaviour completely unprofessional and not attention worthy and therfore we collectively decided to part ways due to what I like to call "Artistic' differences.
Not wanting the day to be an entire waste we proceeded to set up our two alias' and to add them to our created Facebook group - 'Power to the People'. As mentioned in my previous post this name came from the idea of handing the power back to the people to either interact or not interact with the specific tasks we set, to like or dislike or post their own comments. By the time the session was over we had created the alias Charlie Davenport for me and then in turn we created the alias Molly Bird for Beck. The creation of these characters is an experiment within itself to explore how willing our members will be to accept friend requests from someone the do not know and interact with them. Additionally these characters enable us to redirect activities to some extent to maintain artistic control.
After this we decided to end the day as we had both lost our mojo and wanted time re-focus.
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