Learning & Teaching Fellowship Presentation

As the BIAD Fellowship for 2012 draws towards its conclusion, I'm posting the presentation that I gave for this month's Learning & Teaching Symposium. Part of the undertaking of accepting the fellowship is to offer up our projects in a form that can be readily disseminated to other lecturers within the Institute. This is the first part of that process for me.

I've added notes (my 'director's commentary') to the PDF of my slides (originally created in Keynote of course), so they should stand as at least a reminder of the presentation. I've also tried to indicate some of the intended next steps within the notes, so if there's anything you think I should be talking to you about, please give me a shout. I'll share more of my outcomes as they happen.

I'm really interested to learn how others have tackled similar problems of teaching credible web approaches to diverse groups of students (especially in the art & design and creative sectors). How are you ensuring that students can develop strategies that adapt to technical and cultural changes? How are you measuring their effectiveness?

Developing Web Strategies for Creative Enterprise

In August I was fortunate enough to be named as one of this year's Learning & Teaching Fellows at BIAD, with a programme that helps Masters degree students in Visual Communication make effective use of Web and online media in their developing creative practices. We'd piloted this earlier in the year, taking 38 students in a range of creative disciplines through a three-week programme to deconstruct their day-to-day practices and think about how they'd rebuild them using available online tools. As you might expect, social media tools featured heavily in students' strategies, and a significant number of them have continued to use their networks effectively after graduation, building reputation in their fields, securing jobs, and developing credibility.

The Fellowship Award is to allow us to develop the strategies for wider application and to make teaching materials available as a resource to other postgraduate and undergraduate courses in BIAD, and potentially further afield. We're also planning to publish a guide in ebook form. If you've experiences to share, or if you're part of a creative academic programme which might benefit from getting involved, get in touch sharl@mac.com.