DIAL presentation at the first All-CCW Technical Staff Away Day held at the Imperial War Museum London

1. Chris Follows
The DIAL project
Digital Integration into Arts Learning
CCW Technical Staff Away Day 1#
Imperial War Museum London
3rd December 2012
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3. 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 …………?

4. UAL new VLE portfolio

5. The DIAL project
Digital 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.

7. Active, ongoing, new and emerging projects
http://dial.myblog.arts.ac.uk/dial-groups/

8. 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.

9. Digital Baseline, where are UAL?
http://ualdigitalbaseline.myblog.arts.ac.uk/
“You make me feel physically sick
when I hear you talk……about using
‘digital”
Course Director UAL academic leaders forum 2012

10. DIAL small projects
• Self identified
• Time to develop
• Grassroots
• Problem based
• Interest based
• Open content communities (Culture of helping
each other)

11. 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)

12. 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.

13. 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?

14. Digital literacy CPD and a practical pathway into OEP

15. Digital literacy CPD and a practical pathway into OEP

16. 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)

17. Digital literacy CPD and a practical pathway into OEP

18. Thank you
Chris Follows
Email: c.follows@arts.ac.uk
University of the Arts London
272 High Holborn
London
WC1V 7EY
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