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Digital Common Wealth
Professor David McGillivray, Chair in Event & Digital Cultures, University of the West of Scotland
Jennifer Jones, Project coordinator Digital Commonwealth
www.digitalcommonwealth.co.uk
@digCW2014 @dgmcgillivray @jennifermjones
Digital Common Wealth
Creative response to the Commonwealth (Games) from across Scotland, involving diverse range of individuals/communities
Community media clusters -community media cafes and digital storytelling workshops
Schools programme - in-school digital storytelling workshops with primary and secondary learners in Scotland’s 32 local authorities
Creative voices - documentary film, creative writing and community songwriting around UWS campuses
Digital Common Wealth
Themes
Place - local, national, international, virtual
People - diversity, migration, participation
Culture - language, art, music, film, literature, sport - Exchange - common-weal, values, learning
-‘common-weal’
- Common (s) purpose – Ownership - Collaboration
- Sharing
- Accessibility
- Archiving
Schools Programme
• 57 schools, 23 out of 32 local authorities, 585 participated
• transition initiatives (primary & secondary working together)
• cascading skills (learners becoming digital leaders)
• 'creative citizenship' responding to the themes of project
‘Owned’ stories• Schools proposed how they would
respond to the project themes
• Focused on 'ownership' of stories and relation to curriculum activity
• Also enabling creative practitioners to plan their delivery
Open Resources
• Provided a ‘framework’ for expert practitioners to work w/ schools on:
– Blogging
– Audio
– Video
– Social media
What worked
• Collaborative blogs between trainers, teachers and learners
• Connections between participants across Scotland
What worked
• Wider reporting through learning communities
• Project working with external partners and inter-generationally
What worked
• International links were created and sustained
• Transition and cluster projects helped join schools
What worked
• Use of the #DigCW2014 to link and discuss on twitter
• Continued use of skills post-DigCW2014
Challenges• Securing access to LAs to
‘champion’ the project
• Communicating benefits of the project when intended output unknown
• 'Initiative-overload’ in schools around Glasgow 2014 (sport emphasis)
• Continuity of attendees (e.g. not attending all workshops, or different attendees at subsequent workshops)
Challenges
• Lack of available equipment, software and functioning IT infrastructure
• Blocked sites for staff and pupils within and across authorities
• Different engagement and teaching styles
• Assessing ‘level’ of competence pre-delivery
Communicating
Expectations
• “Digital” can mean many things to many people
• Clear about purpose of workshop, what you can and can’t do in the session
• 'Practice' rather than technology
Technology
• Pre-workshop tech audits essential
• Anticipate time to remove 'blocks' & gain access
• Use what groups have already, rather than purchase special equipment
Flexibility
• Expect the unexpected, especially when working with ICTs
• Universal skills such as interview, research and writing for a public audience
• Work & adapt between 4 sessions
Relationships
• Anticipate the amount of face to face time required
• Several layers of communications before identifying school/teacher to work with
• Reliant on connections for good content/stories
Empowerment• Demystify risk through
developing good practice
• Widening discussions relating to new media and education
• Building confidence in teachers & pupils to try new things
More information:
Project website: http://www.digitalcommonwealth.co.uk
Project twitter: @DigCW2014
Handbook of Digital Storytelling: http://www.bit.ly/digCW2014_HB
Email: [email protected],
QUESTIONS?