Essay 2 - instructions

Back when the course started, in the beginning of September, we wrote:

"You have to write an individual essay twice during the course; once in the beginning and once more when the course ends. Writing these essays are compulsory."

The time to write the second, concluding essay has now come. This essay replaces other forms of course evaluations. Do note that it is compulsory to write this essay and you will not get your course credits registered unless you have written both essays (for those who for some reasons did not write the first essay, see further instructions below).

/Daniel & Malin

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Please download and use the template that is available in Bilda ("Documents/FoM essay 2") when you write your text. Do note that English or Swedish is ok. Use your family name when you name your file ("Pargman essay 2") and upload it to the "drop box" that has been created exclusively for this purpose in Bilda ("Contents/Essay 2"). Do note that you can only upload the file formats .doc, .docx (MS Word) or .pdf to the drop box.

The deadline for handing in the essay is Friday January 8 (15.00), i.e. three weeks after the final presentation, but, the suggestion is that you write the essay immediately when your memories of the course are fresh - as well as in order to be done with it! The task below is neither very comprehensive nor time-consuming, but please do set some time off to sit down and reflect upon the course when you write the essay.

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The essay consists of three parts:


1A. "Instead of a course evaluation".
- What were in your opinion the two (or three) best things about the course?
- What were in your opinion the two (or three) worst things about the course?
- What are your (perhaps two or three) suggestions for how to change/improve the course?
- What is the most important advice you can give to the students who will take the course next year?

You are of course allowed to posit more than three suggestions (etc.), but plese don't answer each question with just a few words or a single sentence. State your opinions and then exemplify, explain and back them up. We will not specify a set length, but do not just enumerate stuff without also including at least a brief explanation of each.


1B. "The project"
Taking into account that this is a project course, we are interested in creating structures for the project phase (Oct-Dec) that help project groups work with limited resources (primarily time) and still deliver high-quality results. Here are some questions to help you think about these issues (use the list below for inspiration, not as a checklist):
- How would you evaluate your project group's work effort? Are you happy with it?
- Was the work effort in the group more or less well distributed among group members or did some group members work a lot more or a lot less than others?
- Did you reach the quality you aimed/wished for in the allotted time and with the resources available? Why/why not?
- Did group members have similar priorities, or did you have different opinions about some (important) things? How did you resolve them?
- How much (or little) have you enjoyed working with your project group?
- Knowing what you know now, what could/should you or the teachers have done differently during the project phase of the course?

NOTE: we ask this question because 1) we only have limited insights into the work processes of individual project groups during the last few months and 2) we want to learn more so as to be able to improve instructions and advice for project groups next year. Your comments might thus refer to "mistakes" or unfortunate decisions you made in your group as well as aspects of the course that could be improved in order to clarify and support the work of the project groups better.


1C. "Closing the circle"
Go back and re-read the essay you handed in at the beginning of the term (if you absolutely can't locate it, send a mail to Daniel Pargman who will find it and return it to you).

In that first essay (the instructions are here) you wrote about A) your "expectations and apprehensions" regarding the course and B) about your "relationship to the theme of this year's course" (storytelling). What has changed and what hasn't since you wrote that first essay? Did the course live up to your expectations or did you apprehensions come true? Has your relationship to the storytelling changed since then or are they still the same?

Please write no less than 400 words (1 page) and no more than 1000 words (2.5 pages) on topic 1B and 1C together.


For those (few) who did not hand in essay 1 or for some other reason have to do an extra assignment:
I will anonymize and distribute eight different essays to you (making sure that none of them comes from any members of your own project group). Instead/on top of 1C above, you will summarize these essays and furthermore see if you can find patterns that several students agree upon (or important stuff people instead disagree on). I will send further instructions together with the essays. You will not be able to complete this task before Jan 8 since your classmates have to submit their second essay before you can be given this extra assignment.

The jury on December 17

This year, the jury at the final presentations consists of three persons. Here is a short presentation of each of them:

Robb  Montgomery, journalist, filmmaker and teacher. He is the founder of the Smart Film School, and the author of "A Field Guide for Mobile Journalism." He is a world authority on video filmmaking for reporters carrying mobile phones.

Anna Careborg, head of premium content and digital storytelling at the Swedish daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

Björn Thuresson, teacher and manager of the Visualisation studio VIC at KTH. The studio is a resource for teaching, research and business liaisons in advanced graphics, interaction and visualization. He has a background in cinema studies, journalism and communication studies and professional experience in the production of film.

Future of storytelling trends

The following text about trends is taken from the introductory chapter of our book Future of storytelling:
Below are eight trends that we have identified in the course and that we believe are of importance for the Future of Storytelling and Storytelling of the Future. Each trend is important for at least a few groups, and sometimes for many project groups.

VIRTUAL REALITY, AUGMENTED REALITY AND 360^o VIDEO STORYTELLING

In the future, stories will be told in a way that involves the audience to a higher degree. This can be done by using technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality and 360^o video storytelling and these technologies will be simple to use and easily accessible. Utilizing these technologies to tell stories, the audience will to higher extend than today “experience” content such as sports events, concerts or in-depth news reporting.

BIG DATA AND DATA JOURNALISM

Very large amounts of collected data (“big data”) will aid storytelling in the future. The amount of data that is collected about virtually everything in society is growing exponentially each year. The challenge is to present stories based on this information in new and compelling ways or to develop and explore “big data storytelling” – a genre that hardly exist today.

MOBILE, AUDIO AND VIDEO

An increasing part of storytelling in the future will be told via mobile devices, and preferably by using video and audio. This move towards increased mobile, video and audio contents means that the proportion of text-based, written information is expected to decrease in the future compared to audio and video.

INTERACTIVITY

Storytelling in the future will preferably be done by using interactive tools. This means that the consumer prefers to interact with the story or the storyteller in various ways, for example through computer games or by exploring and interacting with different kinds of interactive stories. It might also be the case that the loop between the storyteller (journalist) and the reader (viewer, listener, gamer, consumer etc.) will become tighter.

SPREADABILITY AND CO-CREATION IN SOCIAL MEDIA

Stories will more easily be spread “laterally” among readers, users or consumers in the future and social media will play an important role in this process. With the proliferation of smartphones (cameras), users will also become more involved in the co-creation of content and eye-witness reporting is one example of this trend.

FILTER BUBBLES, PERSONALIZED STORYTELLING AND POINT OF VIEW

People will to a higher degree consume media content that is adapted and filtered to fit their particular interests. Finding stories that to a higher extent corresponds to my particular interests and points of view as well as a community of others who share my opinions can be perceived as both empowering and liberating. The downside is that being enclosed in such “filter bubbles” and “echo chambers” will make it more difficult to understand others’ sometimes slightly and at other times radically different perspectives. It might also mean that we will miss out on broader perspectives of certain issues, on topics that that we don’t know we are interested in and in topics that we should be interested in, for example “boring”, uncomfortable or difficult issues that are of societal importance.

HUMAN SENSES

The human senses will be used in the future to a higher degree when it comes to conveying stories and media content. New technologies will be presented that enhance our human senses in different ways.

SHORTER ATTENTION SPAN

Peoples’ attention span has decreased and will continue to get even shorter in the future. Most viewers, listeners and readers will have little patience for long news stories and media content that demands a heavy up-front investment in terms of time and attention. This will have serious implications for storytelling in terms of what kinds of stories can and will be told in the future and will spur the development of new genres of simplifying and telling stories succinctly. It might also mean that it will be hard to tell stories that are inherently complex (for example the background to a conflict) unless you “lure” or entice people to engage in long, time-consuming stories

Mid-crit feedback

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Based on the mid-crit 10 days ago and in preparation for the final presentation next month, here is some feedback - general thoughts and comments based on our notes - that will hopefully useful for many/all groups and that you might want to take into consideration.

- We have said that you should aim for a date that is 10-20 years in the future (2025-2035). We have used that range for more than 10 years in the course but since few/no groups are aiming for the far future, we are considering shortening the time frame to 5-15 years in the future instead (2020-2030). Do you have any opinions about that? If so, leave a comment below.
- Remember that this year's theme is "storytelling". We believe that every project will become better if you anchor your vision/concept to, and visualise it through the telling of a good, powerful (news) story. That's the way the journalists themselves work as storytellers.
- Remember your "journalist friends" from the Montgomery week. Even if you don't cooperate with them now, they know some about your projects and might agree to listen to and bounce ideas with you. By all means reach out to them and ask to pitch/discuss your current project with them.
- Remember the guest lectures in terms of lessons, sources, theories, methods.
- Introduce, define and use key technical terms carefully in your projects and use these terms consistently instead of switching between related (perhaps undefined) terms.
- Remember the human aspects of the sociotechnical loop - try not to disappear too deeply into the technical solutions if that leads to loosing track of the people who will live in the future and use your systems/services. A set of technological developments is not a story in itself, or, at least it isn't a very engaging story. You have to imagine a future scenario that is underpinned by those technical developments and that becomes more than those technical solutions.
- This is an exercise in design fiction. An interesting aspect that you might include in your projects is "the history of the future" - what happened that lead up to the scenario that your group describes? What can explain how that future came about? You are free to describe fictive events or developments that "happened" in 2018 and 2023 - if that helps make your vision/concept more concrete and more credible.
- Get to the point quickly when you present. You will have 10 minutes to present your project and the audience should have a clear understanding of what the problem is that your group has worked within, say, two minutes.
- Get instant credibility by quickly referring to (large) companies who already today do X and Y (from which your solution follows). This is a shortcut and it increases the perceived credibility and relevance of your solution.
- Some general suggestions that could be useful: Use concrete examples. Find/tell a powerful story. Show something concrete. Be pedagogical. Fake convincingly. Play different roles on the stage (not just students presenting a project but, for example, business consultants selling a solution to a customer, ordinary users of your future service etc.).
- Some groups used cartoons instead of movies. That is a design representation that can be both simpler and more powerful than a movie with high production values.

Good luck with your projects!

Daniel & Malin

Grading - criteria for judging project groups' performance

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You should at this point take an interest in the criteria we will use for judging and grading your projects. This blog post will tell you what we are looking for. You can use the criteria below as a checklist of sorts.

This might also be a very good point in time to have a look at the course PM again since there is information about examination etc there (available in Bilda).

Please note that the course formally consists of two parts:
- LIT1 (3 credits, pass/fail) - based on individual performance primarily during the start-up phase, BUT, don't forget that you will need to hand in a second essay at the very end of the course in order to get your grade reported (instructions will follow later).
- PRO1 (7 credits, A-E) - project work, see further below.

According to the course PM, each group SHALL at the end of the course:

- write a text/book chapter

- develop a design representation - "gestaltning" in Swedish (the form most often chosen is a short movie, but other forms are also possible).
- present you project at the final presentation (Dec 17)

Some of the criteria below are more relevant to the text, some to the design representation and some to the final presentation. Do also note that not just the results (see above) of your work will be judged, but also the process - "much like a bachelor's or a master's thesis" (course PM).

Criteria 1 - Process. Running work that you have done since you were divided into groups and starting with the project plan and finishing with your last weekly status report on Friday next week.

Criteria 2 - High quality text. The text (book chapter) should be correct and easy to read (worst-case scenario: a text that requires a lot of effort to be understood). The text should furthermore have a well-developed line of reasoning and analyze, reflect and argue for whatever it is you want to say (and it's a much better to say a few things clearly than to raise too many different issues that point in different directions). The text should be coherent and with no internal contradictions. To explain and exemplify is fine. To identify, categorize, differentiate, contrast, combine, modify, conclude (etc.) is better.

Criteria 3 - Creativity. Your project (your Big Idea) will hopefully have a lot of "innovative potential" ("idéhöjd"). To what extent is the results of your work innovative, original and perhaps surprising? Are you onto something interesting and have worked in a creative way to "solving" the problem/challenge of your choice? Does your solution meet real needs? Does the underlying idea raise the pulse?

Criteria 4 - Grounding. To what extent are the project group's results credible? Are your solutions backed up and strengthened by literature you relate to, empirical material you have collected or own experiences that are relevant?

Criteria 5 - Professional design representation. Your design representation (most often a film but other forms are also possible) should be characterized by a high level of professionalism and craftsmanship. Does you design representation communicate the concept (your Big Idea) well?

Criteria 6 - Professional presentation. Your presentation should be characterized by a high level of professionalism; you have to be able to clearly communicate your message (your Big Idea) to the audience. Was the presentation well structured, was it fun and did the presenter(s) do a good job? You should also be able to provide good answers to potential questions you get from the jury.

Criteria 7 - Credibility. How easy is it to understand your solution? Are your conclusions/solution believable and convincing? NOTE: your conclusions/solution doesn't have to be probable or even desirable, but it has to be believable!

Criteria 8 - Coherence. Does the text, the design representation and the presentation cohere and interlink? Do they support each other (or do they instead pull in different directions)? Can the results be regarded as a well-integrated whole where the sum is more than the sum of the parts?


Good luck!

/Malin & Daniel
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Send in a project summary to the website!

The executive group kindly asks each project group to send them a summary (50 words) of their projects. With each summary they also need 3-5 keywords.

The deadline is Wednesday, Nov 11 at midnight, and the summary should be submitted via the following link:

https://goo.gl/YtsyN4 

Thank you!

Mid-crit schedule

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- The mid-crit will be held in lecture hall V3 between 09.00-17.15. We will have three outside guest critics - please impress them by being on time!

- Each group has 25 minutes for their presentation + questions and discussion. Please use no more than 10 minutes for your presentation so that there is plenty of time left for discussions.
- There are only five groups in the morning session and eight groups in the afternoon session. No group wanted to switch to the morning session so the afternoon session will be one hour longer.

- You should attend all the presentations in your session. Feel free to ask questions for clarifications or pose questions to other groups!

Here is the schedule for the mid-crit presentation:

Session 1

• 09.00-09.15 Introduction
• 09.15-09.40 Future of Advertisement
• 09.40-10.05 Moving images
• 10.05-10.30 Point of View
• 10.30-10.45 BREAK
• 10.45-11.10 Eyewitness 
• 11.10-11.35 Virtual Reality
• 11.35-11.45 Wrap-up/concluding words (teachers, jury)

• 11.45-13.00 LUNCH

Session 2

• 13.15-13.30 Introduction
• 13.30-13.55 Big data
• 13.55-14.20 Personalized
• 14.20-14.45 Computer games
• 14.45-15.10 Audio
• 15.10-15.25 BREAK
• 15.25-15.50 Interactive
• 15.50-16.15 Human senses
• 16.15-16.40 Attention span
• 16.40-17.05 Cross-cultural
• 17.05-17.15 Wrap-up/concluding words (teacher jury)

If you have any questions about the schedule or other practical aspects around the Friday mid-crit event, please post them as a comment to this blog post!

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Please register this week for the News Impact Summit, Nov 24

As mentioned at the recent coordination meeting, we have been invited to speak at a conference, organized by the European Journalism Centre and Google News lab, on November 24, in Stockholm (Odenplan).

The topic for our speech is the collaboration between KTH, JMK and SvD in this course. Anna Careborg, Matilda E. Hanson and I will talk about the challenges and benefits of our recent collaboration, and consequences for the media industry.

This is a full day conference, and the rest of the day a number of (other) prominent speakers are talking, among others:
– Louise Roug, Global News Editor, Mashable
– Susan Mcgregor, Assistant Director, The Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, N.Y.
– Ove Joanson, Chairman, European Journalism Centre
– Chris Moran, Digital Audience Editor, The Guardian UK
– Fredrik Laurin, Special Project Editor, Sveriges Radio (Radio Sweden)
– Raphael Satter, Journalist, The Associated Press
– Marina Petrillo, Reported.ly, First Look Media
– Matt Cooke, European Lead, The Google News Lab
– Jonas Nordling, Chairman, The Swedish Union of Journalists

You can read more about the conference here.

The conference organizers want to see as many of you there as possible, and I have promised to fill at least 10 seats for the whole day. They have also asked me to send them the names of the students from KTH, which means that you need to e-mail me if you like to go, and I will forward your names to the organizers.

Please do this no later than November 6, by e-mailing: picha@kth.se
Thank you very much in advance.

I know this is a full day event, but I think it might be worth it if you are interested in the media business and want to get some good insights and valuable contacts.

Instructions for the weekly status report

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Each group should post a weekly status report on the course companion blog. Every course participant has gotten an invitation to post/contribute to the blog.

Here are the instructions for the weekly status report.

Deadline: Please submit your weekly status report every Friday at noon with the exception of this Friday (Nov 6, mid-crit presentations). The noon deadline will allow us to the chance to provide you with feedback the same day/before the weekend. 

Content of each weekly report:

• Group name. 
• What we have done. What you (your group) have done during the previous week (since the previous weekly report)
• What we will do. What you will do next (next step(s) in your project)
• Challenges encountered. Either challenges within the group or in relation to you plans and "external" entities. 
• Changes in the project. "Evolution"/change of direction of your project (optional). If you have altered or changed the direction of your project (compared to the project plan or to previous status report) - please tell us what and why.
• Resources. We encourage you to also append other materials, for example a photo of your work process, a drawing/diagram you have created or a link to some excellent resource you have encountered (a text or a video for example). 
• Other. Whatever you feel is important or necessary to add to the status report. 

Comment: As stated before, it is not just the final results but also the process that is important in the course. Please see the weekly status reports not only as us (teachers) examining you (students), but as your opportunity to tell us (and impress us with) what you have done lately in your project group. You can also use it as a backchannel to point out obstacles and problems you have encountered.

If you encounter problems that hinder you to progress in your work as a group, do not hesitate to get in touch with Malin and Daniel so that we can set up a meeting and discuss these issues!

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Mid-crit information

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The mid-crit will be held this coming Friday (Nov 6). The lecture hall V3 is booked for the whole day. Here is some important information. 

The day is divided into two sessions; a morning and an afternoon session. Please state if your group prefers to present in the morning or afternoon session below (in the form of a comment to this blog post). Do note that we need a more less even distribution of groups so we will divide the 13 project groups into two sessions with 6 or 7 groups each and you should attend all the presentation in your block. For further information, see the detailed schedule that will follow this blog post.

If you take another course which collides with this event, it is our firm belief that you should prioritize this course over the other course on this one occasion. Do note that the mid-crit presentation is the one and only occasion between mid-October and mid-Dec when you are required to be someplace special at sometime special in this course.

Each group will have 25 minutes at their disposal. We suggest you use around 10 minutes at the most to present your project and reserve the remaining 15 minutes for feedback and discussions with our external guests ("guest critics"). Please use your time wisely to pitch your basic ideas and (hopefully) brag about the work you have done this far (read literature, perhaps interviewed experts or ordinary people, done a focus group, a survey, drawn sketches, built mock-ups or prototypes, brainstormed a storyboard for a movie etc.).

At the mid-crit, you should thus concentrate on presenting:

- Your group's fundamental ideas, concepts, logic, business models, scenarios, vision etc.

- Describe work you have done in the group to support your ideas, concepts, vision (etc.) in terms of reading literature, collecting materials (or planning to do so) etc.

- Please also say a few worlds about your ideas for a "design representation" that demos/visualizes your concept and that you will use during the final presentation (see further the course PM) 

Do note that the emphasis is on the soundness of your concept and your ideas. A successful presentation and a benign reception can be regarded as a go-ahead to continue your work on the path you have (already) taken. Another alternative is of course that you get feedback that encourages you to veer some from the direction you are heading in (ranging from timid suggestions and fun ideas to forceful "recommendations" that you most certainly should take into account after the mid-crit).

We have invited three external guests ("guest critics") for this event - see below. They will listen to each group's presentation/pitch and then ask questions and discuss your work. Students from other groups are of course also welcome to chip in to comment or ask questions!

This is the premier occasion for you to get an idea about what other groups are doing in the course. Perhaps you will realize that there is a need to coordinate your work with the work of another group (for example if you overlap, or if there is a "natural" progression or fit (or contradiction) between your topic and that of the other group). This might also have implications for the order in which we will schedule groups to present their projects at the final presentation in December.

Our three external guest critics for this occasion are Åke Walldius (KTH/Media Technology and Interaction Design), Anna Careborg (Svenska Dagbladet) and Björn Thuresson (KTH:

About: Åke Walldius is a researcher in Human Computer Interaction at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). He earned his Ph.D. in Cinema Studies at Stockholm University after having worked for 20 years in video production and information visualization. He is team leader for the Socio-technical Practices team at the Media technology an Interaction design Group and is an appointed expert in standardization. His main interests are socio-technical visualization, genre analysis and design pattern composition and use. Åke has been responsible (2008) and co-responsible (2007, 2009, 2011) for the course Future of Media at the Media technology programme at KTH.


About: Anna Careborg (https://twitter.com/annacareborg) is head of premium content at Svenska Dagbladet, including digital storytelling (see SvD Story – story.svd.se). She has worked in journalism for 15 years and in managerial positions at Svenska Dagbladet since 2007. She has a special interest in investigative journalism, storytelling and in developing new ideas.

About: Björn Thuresson is the manager of the KTH The Visualization Studio (VIC). The studio is a resource for teaching, reserach and business liasions in advanced graphics, interaction and visualisation. Thuresson has a background in Cinema Studies, Journalism and Communication Studies and professional experience in production of film and educational multimedia as well as in concept development for new media, software development and IT-management. He has acted as researcher and coordinator in several national and international projects. 

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Protocol from the Coordination meetings

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We have "coordination meetings" with 1) Malin and Daniel, 2) the executive group and 3) one representative from each project group every second week. We will have the second lunch meeting today.

Project leaders should communicate the results of these meetings back to the their project groups but it is also possible for anyone with the link to have a look at the outcomes of these meetings and that document can be found here (it is also possible for anyone to leave comments in the document).

Project plan review meetings (Mon Oct 19 and Tue Oct 20)

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Malin and Daniel will meet each group for 30 minutes on Monday and Tuesday next week. Meetings will be held in the seminar room 1625 (house E, top floor).

You should spend the time until then discussing and elaborating your project plan. Please download and use the template from Bilda ("141022 Project plan template").

You can choose to send your project plan to us (Daniel and Malin) by mail in advance or to bring two printed copies of your project plan to the meeting. Here is next week's schedule:


Monday Oct 19:
- 10.00 - Moving images
- 10.30 - Cross-cultural
- 11.00
- 11.30
- 13.00 - Human senses
- 13.30 - Big Data - NOTE: we will meet in the sofa group outside and right below the 1625 seminar room


Tuesday Oct 20:
- 10.00 - Attention span
- 10.30 - Future of sound
- 11.00 - Advertising
- 11.30 - Point of View
- 13.00 - Personalized
- 13.30 - Interactive
- 14.00 - Computer games
- 14.30 - Virtual Reality
- 15.00 - Eyewitness
- 15.30
- 16.00
- 16.30

Thank you!

I just wanted to say thank you, to everyone in the course for your participation in last week's workshop! I know that it was tough sometimes, and that you worked really hard. I think you all did a great job, despite hectic schedules and other obstacles. The presentations of your ideas went really well, and we are very satisfied with the result.

The good thing with last week is that you now have taken a huge leap forward in your projects, which will be rewarding for your groups in the long run. Consequently, I want you to continue with your two subjects for now, and try to further develop the ideas that you have presented. On October 19 and 20, we will meet with each group individually and discuss your work. We will get back to you with a more detailed schedule for these days.

See you on Tuesday at the lecture by Anna Swartling, when we will learn more about how to work in project groups. With your experiences so far, you will most likely find this relevant!

Now, I wish you all a nice and relaxing weekend!

Robb's lecture/workshop notes

If you missed something in Robb's lectures/workshops, you can reach his notes via these links:

Links to my notes
http://www.slideshare.net/vizeds/

A free course is available in the www.smartfilmschool.com - very valuable.

And my Gear guide
http://www.robbmontgomery.com/p/gear.html

And my YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRnT0qj_Q7GD4MFp2ZAG1Nv1SolW8IU2F

And the Mobile Storytellers LinkedIn group
https://www.linkedin.com/grp/members?gid=6954667

Below is a list of apps/services that Robb has discussed, and in what situations they are best suited:

Live Streaming
- Periscope

Video collage
- PicPlayPost

Story card
- PicPlayPost
- Twitter
- Storyline
- Nutshell
- Legend Text
- Thinglink

Graphics package
- Viz
- Replay
- PicPlayPost

Long form multimedia
- Storehouse

Cinematic short
- Slo-mo cam
- iMovie
- Clips

Real people pop-up
- Filmic Pro
- Hyperlapse
- iMovie

Kinogram
- Legend Text
- Replay
- PicPlayPost
- Layered

Walkthrough
- Twitter
- Clips
- iMovie

Quick hit
- Nutshell
- Twitter
- iMovie
- Clips
- Hyperlapse

Make Money
- Newzulu

About the mini-hackathon Thursday

On Thursday, Oct 8, at 17.00, we invite you to take part in a mini-hackathon at JMK. We think this might be a good opportunity to be able to work together in your groups to finish your workshop tasks. We will provide you with teachers, computers as well as free sandwishes and something to drink.
Stay an hour, two hours, or as long as you need in order to finish. The mini-hackathon will close at 22.00. Welcome!

Some clarifications regarding the workshop week

Here are some clarifications regarding this week with Robb Montgomery, just in case you have questions.

·       We expect you to work in your project groups outside of the lectures with Robb, in order to finish your workshop tasks. Make sure you spend your valuable time wisely.

·       On Friday, you will finish this week’s tasks, and present them (pitch them) to Anna Careborg and to Robb.

·       On Friday, we expect you to present a sketch of your idea/app/solution, not the finished product or solution. We do not expect you to be finished with the whole project on Friday, but to have an idea regarding your project, while using the tools you have been introduced to during this week.

·       Last week, you were given a story, a technology and a group of student colleagues. Use these assets to answer this question: How can we tell this story in the mobile phone (in the future), using this particular technology?

·       Show us a mobile version of a sketch that explains your solution!

·       This week, the focus is on the mobile, and later on in your projects you can use other tools.

·       This week is valuable for KTH students and JMK students alike, since you will learn how to use the mobile for different purposes. This will definitively come in handy later on in the project.

·       Try to be open – at this stage of the course/project there are endless possibilities!

·       On Friday, you will receive feedback from Anna and Robb. This feedback will be useful when continuing with your different projects during the remainder of this course. Take advantage of this feedback!

Schedule for Oct 5-9 (morning/afternoon sessions)

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Below is the schedule for next week (the workshop sessions at JMK/Stockholm University). It was hard to satisfy everyone's wishes since almost all groups wanted to attend the Monday morning and the Friday afternoon sessions. I do however believe that I managed to satisfy the wishes of each group for four out of the five sessions though.

/Daniel

Monday:

Morning (09.00-12.00)	Afternoon (13.00-16.00)
Attention	Advertising
Audio	Eyewitness
Big data	Interactive
Computer games	Moving images
Cross-cultural	Personalized
Executive	VR
Human senses
Point of View

Tuesday:

Morning (09.00-12.00)	Afternoon (13.00-16.00)
Advertising	Big data
Attention	Cross-cultural
Audio	Computer games
Executive	Interactive
Eyewitness	Moving images
Human senses	VR
Personalized
Point of View

Wednesday:

Morning (09.00-12.00)	Afternoon (13.00-16.00)
Audio	Advertising
Computer games	Attention
Interactive	Big data
Human senses	Cross-cultural
Moving images	Executive
Point of View	Eyewitness
VR	Personalized

Thursday:

Morning (09.00-12.00)	Afternoon (13.00-16.00)
Attention	Advertising
Cross-cultural	Audio
Eyewitness	Big data
Interactive	Computer games
Moving images	Executive
Point of View	Human senses
VR	Personalized

Friday:

Morning (09.00-12.00)	Afternoon (13.00-16.00)
Attention	Advertising
Audio	Computer games
Big data	Eyewitness
Cross-cultural	Interactive
Executive	Human senses
Moving images	Personalized
Point of View	VR