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Digital creativity in the curriculum and beyond Claire Allam – Learning and Teaching Services Graham McElearney, Chris Clow, Tom Foster, Pete Mella - CiCS
Digital creativity in the curriculum and beyond Claire Allam
Learning and Teaching Services Graham McElearney, Chris Clow, Tom
Foster, Pete Mella - CiCS Alan Philips University Counselling
Service Brendan Stone School of English
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Todays session: Introduction Examples Activity Plenary How we
can support you
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What is creativity? The ability to imagine or conceptualise
something new The ability to create some output from this vision
Craft skills Tenacity Project planning and management
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What is digital creativity? The ability to realise the creative
process in the digital domain: Audio Video Screencast (typically
presentation with audio) Website (which has the ability to collate
all the above)
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In the curriculum and beyond Subjects that do NOT ordinarily
involve creating digital media Maybe ostensibly text based Often
using traditional assessment methods Work may typically be
assessed. . or may lie outside the formal curriculum Outreach Well
Connected project (UCS)
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Why Creativity.? Expected benefits: New skills information/IT
literacy Employability employers value creative thinkers
Collaborative/group working skills
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Why Creativity.? Use the affordances of different media to
Visualise ideas Articulate ideas Different ways of structuring
arguments, information and narratives Encourage divergent thinking
New forms of interpretation Creation of media leads to creation of
knowledge
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Examples Galdos Hispanic Studies video interpreting literature
We are tomorrows scientists.. exampleexample Seeing Stars creative
and interpretive audio soundscapes
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What the students say. Ongoing and new projects with students
from Law Hispanic Studies Politics Biomedical Science School of
English ScHARR Dentistry Architecture Information Studies
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What the students say. I was given the the chance to learn new
skills (which will help me in terms of employability) as well as
the opportunity to take a different approach to my academic
studies. I really think that to encourage more creative and
hands-on learning within the University is a great thing.
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What the students say. Also producing the podcast was
particularly useful in helping to develop my verbal skills, by
helping to deliver the argument orally, which in turn led to a
deeper understanding of the topic area Engaging in the process of
producing a podcast facilitated an active exploration and
investigation in to the topic area and in particular provided an
effective medium to put my arguments across.
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What the students say. I needed to reach a greater depth of
understanding of the material in order to present it with
sufficient clarity The process of simplifying concepts and briefly
summarising them helped me to grasp the complexity of the issue I
think it made his work a lot easier to understand as we brought it
to life. Also you had to analyse each line of the dialogue to
decide how you wanted it acted, so this made me understand it
more
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Activity Devise a creative project for your students work in
pairs Use the worksheet to help structure your thinking and write
down your ideas report back
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Activity worksheet prompts Executive Summary Pedagogical
outcomes benefits to students and staff New skills new
understandings What purpose replicate activity of the teacher?
create a learning resource for use by others create feedback on
assessed work
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Activity worksheet prompts What medium to use? affordances of
each audio, video, screencast, web, limitations of each Be
prescriptive or allow free choice? Curricular or extra-curricular?
assessed/non-assessed how to assess?
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Activity worksheet prompts What issues might arise? What
support will you need? Space for detailed notes if you wish
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Plenary a round up of ideas and issues..
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How we can support you Creative Media team in CiCS Chris Clow,
Pete Mella, Tom Foster Creative Media Suite and resources Equipment
and support for audio, video, screencasting, website production
http://www.shef.ac.uk/cics/creativemedia
http://www.shef.ac.uk/cics/creativemedia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5rNnvMyRrQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5rNnvMyRrQ Pedagogical support in
LeTS and CiCS Claire Allam, Graham McElearney, TEL team We carry
mobile media production studios around with us all the time..