Faculty of Film, Art + Creative Technologies Connect Module 2024
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
The module content was updated to include the N-TUTORR themes. It was delivered in hybrid mode, meeting the N-TUTORR theme of Digital Transformation.
| Sessions were run on: | |
| Equality, Diversity + Inclusion | Minding your Mental Health |
| Academic Integrity | Intro to the Library |
| Universal Design for Learning | Disability Awareness + Assistive Technology |
| Employability | Student Learning Centre Supports |
| Sustainability | |
Students formed interdisciplinary groups to create a Digital Artefact representing their view of the faculty or N-TUTORR themes. The groups were self-selected during their FFACT Workshop module.
| Students who took part in this shared module are studying the following undergraduate programmes: | |
| Animation | Film |
| Applied Psychology | Graphic Design |
| Art | Immersive Media Production |
| Creative Computing | Photography + Visual Media |
| Creative Music Production | Television |
| Design for Film | 3D Animation |
Here are exemplars of some of the students’ work for the FFACT Connect module 2024:
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by Matthew Seymour – Creative Computing, Gray Crowley – 3D Animation, Susan Cassoni – 3D Animation and Charlie Shaw – Design for Film
What we thought of FFACT Connect
by Alannah Tanner – Design for Film, Aliyah Yusuf – Applied Psychology, Niamh O Connor – Design for Film, Noah Coates – Design for Film, Gustas Radavicius – Photography and Visual Media
Academic Integrity - Plagiarism
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Academic Integrity - ChatGPT
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A view of IADT - Game
Link to Kahoot game version
https://play.kahoot.it/v2/?quizId=8e553678-5699-4c3c-9ab4-208954bcfe47
A view of the Faculty
Equality, Diversity + Inclusion (EDI)
EDI Sessions were curated by Emma Balfe and run on:
- Active Consent + Digital Intimacy
- Bystander Intervention Training
- Gender Identity + Expression Training
- Gender + Class Inequity in the Arts
- Race Equality in the Arts – Briana Fitzsimons of Black + Irish
- Traveller Cultural Awareness in the Arts – Mary McDonagh, Producer
- Intersectionality in the Arts, Debrief + Reflect
- Policies + Practices
N-TUTORR
An N-TUTORR funding application was awarded to the module lead Louise Glynn. This was used to employ ten students to help redesign the FFACT Connect module and create associated digital media content. This project ran in May/June ’23. The module lead showcased the module redesign at the N-TUTORR Showcase 2024 by way of a Lightening Talk, a Digital Poster and a Interactive Display of students’ Digital Artefact assignment submissions showcased above!.
SAGE
A Best Practice case study on the EDI elements of the FFACT Connect module has been published by SAGE in 2023, 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/