Reaching out and getting involved in the variety of online communities available through the photography department is a a great way to jump-start your education and inspire you as a student and a professional.
Here are a few places for information and inspiration:
The AiO-PD Connection
Team would like to invite you to participate in the Connections
Photography Group. This group is for both student and faculty – get
involved and stay connected. Please create your profile, post examples
of your photographs, keep up on Photo Department news and resources, as
well as have the chance to participate in some competitions and
opportunities exclusive to Connections.
What is available within the Connections Photography Department Group?
Login to the Student Common and Visit: http://aiconnect.thecampuscommon.com
Set up your profile
Newsletter:
What is available within the Connections Photography Department Group?
- Blog – updated by Photography Faculty
- Forums and discussion including Monthly Shooting themes and Discussion Topic
- RSS feed of many great photography sites
- Student and Faculty Features
- Helpful documents and resources
- Competitions & Scholarship Announcements
- Information on the AIP-OD Virtual World Student Photography Gallery
Login to the Student Common and Visit: http://aiconnect.thecampuscommon.com
Set up your profile
Navigate to the “Department” tab and find “Photography” and “Join this group”
Newsletter:
First Year Focus and Fire
Targeting newly enrolled
students, we will ask AiP-OD operations to email regular notices of this blog
to students. The information is geared towards soft skills necessary to do well
in online photography courses, how-to tutorials, connecting with the Help
Forum, and otherwise providing practical and basic information. The blog is
organized into themes, such as “Make it Mondays”, which always covers a
technique, Website Wednesdays, which will features a helpful website (such as
Lynda.com), and Photog Friday which will always feature a photographer from
different areas of the industry. The blog will be authored by Melanie Fiander,
Senior Full-time Faculty using her Google + account.
The Blog of Professor Philips
Targeted at 3rd
and 4th year students (but available to all through the PSPN), this
blog presents a friendly and experienced professor that helps to guide students
into the photography industry. The blog is heavily focused on what is going on
in the contemporary world of professional photography featuring reviews, links,
and commentary that introduced near-graduates to the diversity of the industry.
In addition, the blog will features Skype recorded interviews with industry
professionals. Stephen John Phillips, Senior Full-time Faculty authors the
blog.
Photography Student Professional Network Center
The PSPN is simply the place
that brings all of these activities together in one virtual location. Any student and faculty member can post in it
and it will reblog and feature special posts from The Blog of Professor
Phillips, First Year Focus and Fire, and Student Ambassadors. This will also be
the place where webinars and exhibition can be announced in addition to
Connections. Students and faculty will join this community through a Google +
account, which is free. Google + is heavily utilized by photographers and is a
great networking and portfolio hosting site for students.
