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Comment on Copyright remix – Fair Dealing in Image Resources for a Digital Age by leighblackall

leighblackall — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:21:01 +0000

Wow, let me know if I can be of any help. I imagine probably most in the initial ideas – pointing out issues and considerations from just another perspective. Congratulations.

Comment on School of Art Digital Literacy by Rachel Gillies

Rachel Gillies — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:17:17 +0000

Hi Leigh, just gathering my thoughts, good to see you’re still reading! Thanks for the headsup on the copyright info – will have a look – I intended them to be viewed under the wikieducator copyright…so I’ll just ensure that they are! rg

Comment on The world’s first national intranet for education by leighblackall

leighblackall — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:32:05 +0000

What a shame the Scotts are so intraverted…

Comment on School of Art Digital Literacy by leighblackall

leighblackall — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:38:43 +0000

Thanks for the notes Rachel. Very informative and helpful. The PDF download needs a copyright statement on it. (pain in the arse copyright, and I’m in two minds mentioning it). Hopefully you’ll select CC By for it so that its consistent with both Wikieducator and Otago Polytechnic’s efforts to build open educational resources.

Comment on The world’s first national intranet for education by Julia Fenby

Julia Fenby — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:24:38 +0000

Hi Rachel, thank you for spreading the word. The Glow Arts Project will bring some of Scotland’s leading arts organisations together with learners and teachers to explore innovative approaches to using Glow for learning through the arts. The Call for Proposals goes out this week and we expect to be announcing the successful projects in December. As Andrew says, I’ll be blogging to update on project progress. All best, Julia

Comment on The world’s first national intranet for education by Julia Fenby

Julia Fenby — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:24:26 +0000

Hi Rachel, thank you for spreading the word. The Glow Arts Project will bring some of Scotland’s most exciting arts organisations together with learners and teachers to explore innovative approaches to using Glow for learning through the arts. The Call for Proposals goes out this week and we expect to be announcing the successful projects towards the end of the year. As Andrew says, I’ll be blogging to update on project progress. All best, Julia

Comment on The world’s first national intranet for education by Andrew Brown

Andrew Brown — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:14:22 +0000

Hi Rachel – glad you are finding our project interesting. It’s exciting times here in Scotland – we started rolling out ‘Glow’ the national intranet for schools about two years ago to our 800,000 stakeholders, and this year sees the beginning of this great initiative between the Scottish Arts Council and Learning and Teaching Scotland to bring the work of arts organisations and schools closer together. Kep checking out the blog posts from Julia to keep up to date with the progress

Comment on Presentation by susamellis

susamellis — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:11:33 +0000

I’ve been a teaching & research assistant at Otago Polytechnic edc. the past year. I’ve revisited your blog posts having first viewed it at the beginning of the year it looked to be a course I was interested in, as I enrolled in the DFLP instead I am finding a lot of parallels between it and the course plan I am designing to complete the DFLP learning outcomes.
Luckily for me I am revisiting thisjust now and this time I have given your powerpoint presentation a very thorough hearing and followed some of your plan where I was confident there was comprehensive correspondence with my plan to offer a flexible short seminar based course integrating collaborative network sound design module aimed at developing timebased educational materials, BY designing this as A MODULE and calling it new media my present plan is to stay in the generalist camp. This plan is coming together (at last) however as far as I’m concerned it is likely to stay a hypothetical module (intended) which seems fitting for its a very hobbled together document that has come about ostensibly for self assessment purposes. I am in full support of your initial digital literacy course objectives at the art school and will be interested in watching its progress and you seem very enthusiastic about the need for digital literacy

Comment on update – flexible learning forum by midwikied

midwikied — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:01:38 +0000

A movement towards a generic digital literacy project across the Polytech would be great and is very necessary I believe. I do think we need to do it, maybe this is a stepping off point for that. Lets take what art and design have done and use it as a starting point to make a generic project to cover all disciplines. Can we do it as a separate unit, would it be possible to have a digital literacy project which was embedded in other courses?

Comment on update – flexible learning forum by Leigh

Leigh — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:38:23 +0000

I reckon you add the new people to the NL email forum. Creating a new forum seems to defeat the purpose to me, and hopefully the new faces will help stimulate discussion AND action.

Of all the email forums I have been a part of (jeez thats a few) it isn’t until membership numbers get up around 200 that things really start to self organise. Up until that point it always seems to take more energy and nothing really seems to roll on its own. Perhaps soon, we can look at getting outsiders involved as well. The issues are very common.

Since your meeting, The Community Learning Centres are throwing their weight behind the creation of a blogging handbook, learning support services, and actual workshops if there is a need. This is meant to try and support the departments and their students with extra options for help, as well as providing services to past and future students who may not have access to your facilities.

I’ve done some more thinking about the generic vs contextualised and keep coming back to the same point.. if we start from the contestualised end, how do we know what we are doing is not already being done just 2 doors down? If we started on or made efforts to stay involved in a generic development, then we would know what the left hand was doing and would save ourselves time.

Dunno if you noticed the small edits I made to your course wiki? But I certainly saw bit that could be well supported by a generic development.