2016 September Archive | Disruptive Media Learning Lab

The Team / Cathryn Thompson-Goodwin

Project Manager My background is theatrical stage management, arts and education administration, and takes in creative entrepreneurship development, project and event management, and lecturing. My passion is the delivery of an experience, in its widest form, underpinned by preparation, planning and partnerships, successfully delivered by effective collaborative working relationships. [email protected]

Project : CU Domain of One’s Own

26th September 2016
Tags: e-learning, employability, leadership, online learning

Overview Domain of One’s Own (DoOO) initiatives allow students and faculty to register a subdomain (or buy a separate domain) and associate it with hosted web space offered by their universities for free. After leaving university, users have the choice to download a backup of their files and data that may be restored using the..

Blog : Ready to become a Digital Leader?

26th September 2016
Tags: digital leaders, online learning, Social Media

Digital Leaders is a new and exciting opportunity for Coventry University students to develop digital skills and learn techniques to pass those skills on to others. No matter whether you already are digital savvy or not, enrolled in a undergraduate or a postgraduate course, applications from any students eager to increase their own understanding of the digital..

Project : Immersive Telepresence in Theatre

21st September 2016
Tags: international collaboration, online learning, theatre

Project leaders: Dr Tom Gorman, Dr Tiina Syrja, Senior Lecturer in Acting & Dr Mikko Kanninen, Senior Lecturer in Theatre Partners: Coventry University & University of Tampere (Finland) Overview: This project explores international co-operation in acting in a foreign language within a system that promotes a more environmentally sustainable model, eliminating (or at least diminishing) the need to..

Archive Event : Magellan Workshop

5th October 2016 @ 9:00 am — 17:00pm

MAGELLAN is a European funded project that aims to enhance peoples’ creativity in designing location-based games. The MAGELLAN team have designed a location game-based authoring tool to help people easily design their own location based experiences without any technical skills. The DMLL will be hosting a workshop in conjunction with the Serious Games Lab to help..

Project : Beyond Flipped

15th September 2016

Beyond Flipped is ‘a practice that creates learning through active participation and skills development through the curation of educational experiences in a technology rich learning environment’. Beyond Flipped is an approach that utilises the benefits of learning technologies and places an emphasis on student participation and the learning process. Within this approach there is a..

Archive Event : University Remixed - November Expo

16th November 2016 @ 9:00 am — 17:00pm

Save the date for the next DMLL Expo! Expo 2016: University Remixed The next full-day event held at the Disruptive Media Learning Lab will be 16th November 2016 Sign up here! KEYNOTE: Speaker: Jesse Stommel Jesse is Executive Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies at University of Mary Washington. He is also..

Blog : Now Hiring: Student Research Assistants!

15th September 2016

The Arts Gymnasium project, led by the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, will use Theatre and the Arts as a powerful means of contributing to people’s quality of life in terms of raising general levels of health and well-being and encouraging behaviour change across a range of participant groups in the city. A research team led by Dr Katherine Wimpenny in the DMLL,..

Blog : Now Hiring: Projects and Community Assistant Wanted!

15th September 2016

The DMLL is looking to recruit an experienced Projects and Community Assistant to support internal and externally funded Projects and Community Development in the Disruptive Media Lab. This will entail administration, designing and developing marketing materials, developing and maintaining a DMLL social media presence and supporting and promoting DMLL events. We are looking for a..

Blog : Take full control of your online presence: an introduction to Domain of One’s Own

14th September 2016

We at DMLL believe that every student and staff member should be provided with the possibility to have their own web space (and subdomain), so they can take full control of their online presence and develop rich personal learning and teaching environments through a wide range of web applications. Because of that, this academic year..