Project Details:
DIAL : Digital Integration into Arts Learning
DIAL focuses on the development of digital literacies in Arts Higher Education with the primary goal of improved graduate employability. We expect attendant improvements in discipline development,...
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Funding period:July 2011 to July 2013
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Organisations: Crafts Council Creative and Cultural Skills University of the Arts London |
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using myblogs.arts.ac.uk (open) blogging platform for more informal project communication
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have project facebook page
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| Drupal |
using existing infrastructure from ALTO project to build website, and community area for 16 communities
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| YouTube |
will be creating project channel, building on experience of ALTO
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| Google docs |
may use for open surveys on main site
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| Mozilla Badges |
team investigating potential uses, again influenced by experience of ALTO project, probably for year 2
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| Mahara |
piloting in the institution
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| Blackboard |
current institutional VLE, however institutional migration is likey in early 2012
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for project dissmenation, have @DIAL account (and various college accounts)
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Comments:
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-12-12 11:20:41
Interested in mobile developments, CETIS sending links to W2C project
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-12-12 11:11:54
Institution embarking on changes to main institutional infrastructure - e.g. VLE, eportfolio, general web-presence, DIAL part of institutional discussions.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-12-12 11:07:35
Team exploring collaborative opportunities for developing use of mozilla badges, but will probably be a year 2 development.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-12-12 11:04:32
Another is group focusing around video capture and online conference, team expect this to influence decisions around recording some f2f interviews.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-12-12 11:00:13
Hoping to merge DIAL and ALTO UK focus groups to avoid duplication of effort particularly for more generic issues. These will be enhanced by smaller more focused surveys specific to DIAL
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-12-12 10:57:21
Also creating a "re-mix" community focussing on repurposing and creating resources, licences etc
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-12-12 10:53:52
Encouraging use of video but no formats, technologies have been specified. Will be doing some of this as part of baselining.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-12-12 10:51:20
Have technical group centred around video production - and as project develops will share existing resources and where appropriate via the community portal, and develop case studies from each community.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-12-12 10:48:07
Looking at 16 "problem areas" and communities will focus around these (areas have been identified).
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-12-12 10:46:14
Want to make communications between communities open and transparent, hope to have site up and running by end of January. Code will be released as open source.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-12-12 10:45:06
Drupal site providing aggregation of activities on various platforms (blogs, twitter etc). Project team see this as a prototype system just now.
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