Chris FollowsThe DIAL project

Digital Integration into Arts Learning

CCW Technical Staff Away Day 1#Imperial War Museum London

3rd December 2012

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Barriers: Developing Digital Literacies• A vast complex changing field.• Enter the unknown/new roads to travel.• Time: Personal & professional.• Time: as cultural & social technology advances.• Staff/personal development. • Skills (Hard and Soft)• Fear and Anxieties.• Lack of suitable equipment.• Lack of support.• Understanding terms and definitions.• More …………?

UAL new VLE portfolio

The DIAL projectDigital Integration into Arts Learning

http://dial.myblog.arts.ac.uk/• Partially funded by JISC.

• Two year project, year one completed.

1. Cultural change (DIAL cannot be the lone project on digital literacy)

2. DIAL project aims to improve graduate employability and develop confidence and capability in the adoption and integration of digitally enhanced learning for staff and students.

Active, ongoing, new and emerging projects

http://dial.myblog.arts.ac.uk/dial-groups/

Understanding digital literacies at UAL definitions and competencies

Set up and establish a DIAL/Digital life led UAL focus group around ‘Understanding digital literacies at UAL definitions and competencies‘.

The group would debate and draw up collective ideas about how best to map digital literacies across UAL as a whole with an aim of understanding how UAL communicate art specific digital literacy definitions/ideas and competencies.

“You make me feel physically sick when I hear you talk……about using

‘digital”

Course Director UAL academic leaders forum 2012

Digital Baseline, where are UAL?

http://ualdigitalbaseline.myblog.arts.ac.uk/

DIAL small projects

• Self identified• Time to develop• Grassroots• Problem based• Interest based • Open content communities (Culture of helping

each other)

Early thoughts and common features from DIAL evaluation of pilot projects:

The DIAL projects provide opportunity for personal reflections on personal roles and emerge from long-standing challenges people want to tackle, and perhaps up to now have not had the time or resources to attend to them:

• Teachers’ fear of learning in public. (Online reflective practice)

• Dealing with the discomfort of making curricular resources and information public. (Open educational resources/practice OER)

• Anxieties relating to presenting oneself online. (Professional open/online identities)

Early thoughts and common features from DIAL evaluation of pilot projects:

…. there was a growing feeling among project leaders that DIAL’s aim to produce ‘resources’ was worth exploring.

Among some there was a transition from seeing resources as handbooks or hand-outs towards seeing them as primarily residing within the new awareness and expertise of their communities, whilst also finding expression in certain online artefacts and practices.

Desktop Strategy

Rich media and mobile tools for studio-workshop Learning and Teaching

What are staff experiences of using office PCs for rich media practice, is there an issue of use of

mobile equipment in studios and are staff using their own devices?

Digital literacy CPD and a practical pathway into OEP

Digital literacy CPD and a practical pathway into OEP

Feedback helps

“Brilliant...thanks for taking the time and I learned something new...read instructions

of the images I'm using!”

Cara Lee Roth EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPER / Student Enterprise & Employability (SEE)

Digital literacy CPD and a practical pathway into OEP

Thank you Chris Follows

Email: c.follows@arts.ac.uk

University of the Arts London272 High HolbornLondonWC1V 7EY

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