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> ADC-LTSN e-Newsletter February 2003
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> CONTENTS
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> Editorial and ADC Team News
> Sector News
> Project Funds
> Call for Papers
> Dates for Your Diary
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> Editorial and Team News
> Welcome to the third edition of our bi-monthly newsletter. Please forward
> this newsletter to friends or colleagues. If you do not currently receive
> this directly and would like to do so, please email [log in to unmask]
> We welcome all feedback so please let us know if you find the e-newsletter
> useful and, if not, we will endeavour to change it.
>
> Our new administrator, Sarah Boak, joined us in mid-January from the
> School
> of Fine Art, University of Leeds. Her responsibilities will include
> administrative support for ADC-LTSN funded projects, generic centre
> projects
> including Fund for the Development of Teaching & Learning (FDTL) and the
> Teaching and Learning Technology Fund) etc. Contact her on
> [log in to unmask]
> Katherine Bowden is now Centre Co-ordinator and oversees the day to day
> operations of the Centre. Linda Drew becomes Co-Director of the subject
> centre, in a joint role with Stuart Laing, Vice-Chancellor of the
> University
> of Brighton, and Bruce Brown, Dean of the Faculty.
>
> Sector News
> A major report on Employability is being prepared by Linda Ball, based at
> the ADC-LTSN in Brighton. It is four years since the original report
> 'Destinations and Reflections: British Art, Craft and Design Graduate
> Careers ' was published which examined longitudinal career paths. The aim
> of
> the current report is to identify key issues and models of good practice
> in
> relation to employability and graduates' experience of the workplace.
> Linda
> is looking for findings of graduate surveys (since 1999) relating to
> careers
> in art & design and the creative industries; examples of good practice;
> exemplary models for CPD, enterprise and business start up etc. If you can
> help by sending a brief email in the first instance all contributors will
> be
> acknowledged in the final report and receive a copy of the finished
> report.
> The deadline for the report is end of February. Please email
> [log in to unmask]
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>
> A series of regional workshops about the issues surrounding employability,
> including widening participation and inclusion, entitled 'Employability
> and
> Inclusion in the Creative Industries' is being run, aimed at departmental
> staff in Art & Design, History of Art & Design, and Media, Film and
> Cultural
> Studies. The first one will be held at the University of Ulster on 27th
> March and details about the rest of the dates will be announced shortly.
> To
> book, please contact Elizabeth Grant on [log in to unmask] or visit
> the
> ADC-LTSN website at www.bton.ac.uk/adc-ltsn
>
> If you want to talk about topics and issues that concern you with other
> colleagues in your sector, a discussion list is now available for
> ArtIfact,
> which is the arts and creative industries hub of the Resource Discovery
> Network. It covers Advertising, Architecture, Art & Antiques, Crafts,
> Design, Designer Fashion, Interactive Leisure Software, Music, Performing
> Arts, Publishing, Software and Computer Services, as well as TV, Radio,
> Film
> & Video. Subscribe by going to
> http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ARTIFACT.html. For more info on ArtIfact,
> visit www.artifact.ac.uk/
>
> A new film and television searchable database, known as TRILT, has been
> developed by the British Universities Film & Video Council in association
> with EDINA and is free to HE and FE institutions in the UK. If you need to
> pre-record programmes for your students, the database includes programme
> details for over 300 channels, including terrestrial and cable, at least
> 10days in advance of transmission and you can even set it up to give you
> an
> email alert. Go to http://trilt.bufvc.ac.uk.
>
> The University of Wolverhampton has launched a new careers and education
> website for d/Deaf students and also contains useful information for
> employers who support d/Deaf employees. It features a number of case
> studies
> of d/Deaf people who have succeeded in creative education and employment.
> www.deafandcreative.ac.uk
>
> The first issue of a newsletter that highlights new and emerging
> technologies for use in education is available at
> http://www.techlearn.ac.uk/newsletter.htm
>
>
> Reviews are needed for Phase 2 of Filter Project (Focusing Images for
> Learning & Teaching ñ an Enriched Resource). Each review pays £100 but the
> deadline is 7 February. For more information. contact
> [log in to unmask]
>
> If you curate, exhibit, organise or archive new media art, you may already
> be aware of a website called CRUMB, set up in 2000, New material has been
> added and a discussion list and interviews with curators from MoMA in New
> York and the Tate in London amongst others.
> http://www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb/
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>
>
> Project Funds
> Don't miss out on possible funding for your sector. The deadlines are
> approaching for both the ADC-LTSN small project funds:
>
> * Pedagogic Research Project Fund
> The deadline for applications for the 2002/2003 funding round is 12 March
> 2003
>
> * He in FE Project Fund
> The deadline is 10 April 2003
>
> For more information on the funds and details of how to make an
> application, visit www.bton.ac.uk/adc-ltsn/projects.htm
>
>
>
> Call for Papers
> Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education
> The third edition of our peer-reviewed journal invites contributions from
> a
> wide and diverse community of researchers. We are looking for major
> papers,
> shorter papers and reviews of recent publications, conference reports etc.
> For more information, please contact Kath Bowden at the ADC-LTSN
> [log in to unmask] or visit www.bton.ac.uk/adc-ltsn/publications.htm.
> The
> deadline for the next issue is 1 April 2003.
>
> Cultural Values: Journal for Cultural Research
> A new publication by Taylor & Francis based in Lancaster University
> Institute for Cultural Research. If you are interested in submitting a
> paper
> please email [log in to unmask]
>
> Dates for Your Diary
> FEBRUARY
> Enhancing Graduate Employability in HE Music Provision
> 6 February
> Venue: Bath Spa University College
> The number of students on HE Music programmes in the UK has risen
> dramatically in the last 5 years ñ there are currently 14,000 students
> registered which is an increase of 46%. This one-day workshop looks at
> ways
> in which we give them the key skills they need to make it in the music
> industry. To book a place contact Barbara Hargreaves at
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Producing Assessment: assessing performance and production work in
> vocationally oriented higher education courses in the performing arts
> 12 February
> Venue: Rose Bruford College, Kent
> If you would like help in the planning and assessment of practical
> production work this seminar will look at issues of dealing with students
> on
> different courses. Contact Paul Kleiman at Palatine
> [log in to unmask]
> for more details or to book a place contact Barbara Hargreaves 01524
> 592614
>
> Shakespeare in Performance across History
> 18 February
> Venue: Royal Holloway, University London
> This one-day event considers the implications of the increasing
> availability
> of audio visual material for the study of performance in terms of changing
> teaching practices. The day will culminate in the launch of the Designing
> Shakespeare project. To book a place contact Barbara Hargreaves at
> Palatine
> ñ [log in to unmask] or telephone 01525 592614
>
> Supporting students with dyslexia in art & design ñ II tackling texts and
> mind maps
> 25 February
> Venue ñ CLTAD, 65 Davies Street, London W1
> This session is for participants who have already attended introductory
> training in dyslexia. For more information visit http://www.cltad.ac.uk or
> telephone 0207 514 8162
>
> Supporting students with dyslexia in art & design 1 ñ the basics (repeat
> workshop)
> For more information visit www.cltad.ac.uk or telephone 0207 514 8162
>
> MARCH
>
> Exploring Strategies for the Assessment of Creativity in Art & Design
> 4 March
> Venue: CLTAD, 65 Davies Street, London W1
> This one-day workshop is aimed at teachers who are thinking about or
> currently engaged in new course or module design, or those who are
> overhauling existing courses. For more information visit www.cltad.ac.uk
> or
> telephone 0207 514 8162.
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>
> How national initiatives are impacting on academic practice
> 4 March
> Venue: CLTAD, 65 Davies Street, London W1
> Legislation such as SENDA and HE priorities, including Widening
> Participation, HE in FE and Employability are impacting on the academic
> practice of staff in Art & Design as in all other disciplines. This
> one-day
> workshop will look at how the legislation will impact on curriculum
> development and identify staff development for course teams. The workshop
> will be led by Barbara Thomas, Academic Developer for Art & Design, at the
> ADC-LTSN.
>
>
> From Retention to Progression: From Intention to Action
> 21 March
> Venue: University of Paisley
> Dealing with the issues of student retention and progression, this one-day
> conference will look at ways to implement strategies. Featuring a mixture
> of
> presentations and workshops, there will also be a poster session and
> contributions to this are welcomed. For more information, contact Vicky
> Lawson at Robert Gordon University [log in to unmask] or telephone 01224
> 262175. Contributions to the poster session should be initially discussed
> with Veronica Johnston - [log in to unmask] or telephone 0131 455
> 6355.
>
>
> 18 March
> Effective curriculum planning
> Venue; CLTAD, 65 Davies Street, London W1
> Aimed at providing module leaders and teaching staff with a toolkit of
> techniques for developing outcome-based curricula for deep learning. The
> session will connect varied teaching methods to effective assessment, and
> provide a means of checking provision against benchmark statements and QAA
> level descriptors. Workshop taken by Jonathan Baldwin, Academic Developer
> at
> ADC-LTSN.
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