A small group of performing arts educators participated in an experiment in develop their creativity and conceptual prowess in the arts by developing expertise in technology to create new artistic content reevant totheir discipline while also blogging about issues confronting them as artists and educators, as well as budding arts technologists.
Their work was picked up on a performing arts newsblog, the first of its kind, moderated and selective in accessing RSS feeds focusing on technology and the arts, and arts education, including arts literacy and enhancing literacy through the arts. Over a span of a few weeks, this group created impressive websites with web content relevant to the arts, developing their expressive and technical skills in impressive fashion.
They also produced significant blogs and syndicated their work, becoming aware of a vast resource for the arts that is increasing exponentially every day. Over the days of their blogs, several matured in their writing and thinking in impressive fashion. Language became a source of inquiry and creation.
Perhaps this fledgling group of artists and educators will continue this process beyond this initial concept. Not everyone will continue. Statistics tell us that is so. Yet, everyone should continue, because it is clear that writing about your work and your profession enables you to grow in ways that are astonishingly refreshing.
Blogging enables you to conduct inquiry into yourself, your process of creation and expression, and the essence of your art and its relationship to the world and others. It transcends journaling because of its digital presence and physical structure. It is journaling for a new age, a creature of digital technology and communication.
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