1. 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

2. Today’s session: Introduction Examples Activity Plenary How we can support you

3. 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

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. Why Creativity…….? Expected benefits: New skills – information/IT literacy Employability – employers value creative thinkers Collaborative/group working skills

7. 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……

8. Examples Galdos – Hispanic Studies video interpreting literature We are tomorrow’s scientists….. exampleexample Seeing Stars – creative and interpretive audio soundscapes

10. 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

11. 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.”

12. 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”.

13. 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”

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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?

17. Activity – worksheet prompts What issues might arise? What support will you need? Space for detailed notes if you wish

18. Plenary – a round up of ideas and issues…..

19. 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…..