Why a blog outside of Canvas?

 Weekly Studio Blog: Installation Notes

Each week, post a brief update documenting your installation work. Think of this as studio note-taking and record-keeping, not an essay.

Your post should include:

1. At least one image
   This can be a progress photo, test, sketch, material experiment, failed attempt, or spatial reference. The image should not be dark/hard to define. Lets get better at this! It is important.How can you turn the image so it is right side up. 

2. Three short entries (bullet points or short sentences are fine):

   • What I did this week
     (What actions did you take? What did you build, test, move, research, or change?)

   • What changed or became clear
     (A decision, problem, realization, or adjustment—something that shifted your thinking or approach.)

   • What I am doing next
     (Your immediate next step before the next class.)

That’s it. Keep it concise and functional. If this takes more than 10–15 minutes to complete, you are doing too much.

This blog functions as a working record of your installation process—similar to photographing an installation so you remember how it was built, installed, and experienced in space.

Posts are evaluated for consistency and evidence of engagement, not writing style. 

Installation work is:

• iterative

• spatial

• process-heavy

• often not legible until late

Weekly blogging:

• makes invisible labor visible

• externalizes decision-making

• helps me to see where students are stuck before install

• creates a record for critique and grading

• supports staggered installs (this is important)

When blogging is not helpful and what I do not expect of you in this process:

-it’s long

-it’s overly formal

-it’s graded like an essay- it's not!

-students don’t know what I'm looking for

-it feels disconnected from critique or install