Digital utensils

Teacher: Amélie Dumont

The course is designed as a playground around digital tools, a space for free and uninhibited experimentation allowing everyone to work according to a personal approach. Students can carry out the research of their choice, in line with their orientation and their practice. This research can be carried out alone or in a group and must involve a singular and thoughtful approach carried out with digital tools, whether these are already known to the students or not. The research does not necessarily have to lead to a finished project at the end of the semester; a collection of diversified experiments or the in-depth technical exploration of a tool allow success in the course just as well.

The wiki is also an important part of the course. It contains the theoretical content of the courses reproduced, and the students can rely on it for their research, as much for the introductions to many digital tools as for the documentation of student projects found there. Students take part in writing the content of the wiki throughout the semester, both to progressively document their work and to improve the resource pages about tools on which they have conducted experiments. The aim is to constitute a support for sharing knowledge that is useful to them during the course, but also afterwards, for them in their own practice later, and for future students of the course.

The course includes a theoretical component: presentation of free and open source digital tools and discussion with students on the technical and creative possibilities of these tools. Then the work takes place in the form of a workshop during class hours. Students conduct their research independently and a weekly follow-up is carried out

goals

The course has two objectives. The first is to constitute a set of resources and shared knowledge on digital tools and to make these available on a wiki dedicated to the course. The second is to allow each student to understand tools that are part of their practice or not, to question themselves on the use they make of them, and to build a more personal and singular relationship with these tools. digital.

• The achievements at the end of the course are as follows:

• Build up an open palette of digital tools

• learn how to search for documentation on a new digital tool

• know how to write documentation and share research by taking part in a collective knowledge-sharing project

• know how to apprehend a new tool, a new interface

• know how to choose the tools adapted to the challenges of a project

• understand that the work approach and the processes used make sense in a project