Faculty of Film, Art + Creative Technologies Connect Module
The aim of this module is to:
- support the transition to level 8 study
- give students an overview of their chosen discipline
- enable students to collaborate with and gain knowledge of the other disciplines in the Faculty and their place within it
- enhance students Critical and Creative Thinking and their communication skills
- focus on the First Year Experience and help students to get to know each other and the Institute
Sessions were run on EDI (Queer theory and Intersectionality, Race Awareness and Anti-racism, Traveller Cultural Awareness, EDI & Mutual Respect and Consent Plus), Academic Integrity, Neuro-diversity, Mental Health, Disability Awareness, Assistive Technology and Intro to Library.
Students formed interdisciplinary groups to create a Digital Artefact representing their view of the faculty. The groups were self-selected during their FFACT Workshops module.
| Students who took part in this shared module are studying the following undergraduate programmes: | |
| Animation | Design for Film |
| Applied Psychology | Film |
| Art | Graphic Design |
| Creative Computing | Photography + Visual Media |
| Creative Music Production | Television |
Here are exemplars of some of the students’ work for the Connect module 2022/23:
Animated GIF
Behind the Scenes
Photography
Videos
Video Credits:
- What we think of the FFACT module by students from the Electronics Workshop: Marcus Nebelius, Ruth O Brien, Livia Martin, Robyn Casey, Sol Brophy and Fionn Mc Elwain.
- A day in the life in IADT by students from the Audio Production Workshop: Samira Sikder, Saoirse Mc Evoy and Julia Batutay.
- DAB stop-motion animation by students from the Animation Workshop: Amadeus Jackiewicz, Amreeta Leddy, Gia-Le Hoang, Kai Ryan, Sorcha Ryan, Brandon Conway, Maggie Heaslip, Harry Courtney, Sarah Bennett, Talitha Cole, Rachel Werner, Tomas Bermingham, Abby Nable , Maud Garland, Amy Mc Andrew and Anna Grigoreva.
- Gesture Drawing stop-motion animation by students from the Gesture Drawing Workshop: Ben Mc Cabe Macari, Sophie Burns, Jessica Doyle and Stefanos Leader.
- FFACT module puppet feedback by students from the How to make a Puppet Workshop: Siobhan Murphy and Cormac Timmons.
- Photography student montage by Emma Byrne.
- We Coded! by students from the Electronics workshop: Alexander Buk, Matthew Dent, Aaron Doyle, Alannah Bennet and Ava Forde-Connolly.
- FFACT Connect Module Puppet intro by students from the How to make a Puppet Workshop: Darragh Bird, Princess Deans, Ben Verdes, Lucjan Lewandowski, Julia O’Sullivan, Ciara Hederman and Jessica Dunne.
- “Passing the Phone to” Faculty programmes explainer video from the Ideas that Capture Eyeballs Workshop: Tommy Cox, Rebecca Munnelly, Rory Mc Auliffe, Martin Hally, Grace O Sullivan, Michael Keane and Laura Gallagher.
NTUTORR
An NTUTORR funding application was awarded to the module lead Louise Glynn. This will be used to employ students to help redesign the FFACT Connect module and create associated digital media content. This project will run May/June ’23. Any students who are interested in paid work on this project should fill in the following form.
SAGE
A Best Practice case study on the EDI elements of the FFACT Connect module has been published by SAGE, which is the equivalent of Athena Swan in Australia. The EDI elements were co-ordinated by the IADT EDI Manager Claire Mc Ging and sessions were delivered by Claire, Rachel Skelly (IADT Consent Officer), Adaku Okafor (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Consultant) and Mary Mc Donagh (Traveller Cultural Awareness Consultant)
https://sciencegenderequity.org.au/resources/initiatives/embedding-edi-into-a-mandatory-module-for-first-year-students/