2016 December Archive | Disruptive Media Learning Lab

Blog : Coriolanus Online wins the Reimagine Education Arts & Humanities gold award

18th December 2016

Coriolanus Online, the first stage of the DMLL-supported Telepresence in Theatre Project, has received the gold award in the Arts & Humanities category of the third annual Reimagine Education Awards, a yearlong global competition designed to uncover transformative initiatives across the Higher Education sector. The competition, which is known as the Oscars of HE, attracted 807 submissions from 56..

Conference Papers / Using object-based activities and an online inquiry platform to support learners’ engagement with their heritage language and culture

Charitonos, K. , Charalampidi, M. and Scanlon, E. (2016). ‘Using object-based activities and an online inquiry platform to support learners’ engagement with their heritage language and culture’ In: S. Papadima-Sophocleous, L. Bradley and S. Thouësny (Eds). CALL communities and culture – Short papers from EUROCALL 2016. Dublin, Ireland: research-publishing.net Abstract: Heritage language education is..

Conference Papers / Urban explorations for language learning: a gamified approach to teaching Italian in a university context

Charitonos, K. , Morini, L. , Arnab, S. , Cervi-Wilson, T. and Brick, B. (2016) ‘Urban explorations for language learning: a gamified approach to teaching Italian in a university context’ In: S. Papadima-Sophocleous, L. Bradley and S. Thouësny (Eds). CALL communities and culture – Short papers from EUROCALL 2016, ’23rd EUROCALL Conference’. Held 24-27 August..

Book Chapters / Cultural Citizen Inquiry: Making space for the ‘everyday’ in language teaching and learning

Charitonos, K. (2017). ‘Cultural Citizen Inquiry: Making space for the ‘everyday’ in language teaching and learning. in C. Herodotou, M. Sharples and E. Scanlon (Eds). Citizen Inquiry: A fusion of citizen science and inquiry learning. London, UK: Taylor and Francis This chapter presents a small exploratory study undertaken as action research in two community schools in the..

Archive Event : Remix Play Summit

February 15 @ 9:00 am — 17:00pm

Save the date for Remix Play! When: Wednesday 15th February 2017 Where: Disruptive Media Learning Lab Details and Tickets: gamify.org.uk Download to Calendar

Blog : Yes we can Inchallah: Morocco OER Strategy Forum

12th December 2016
Tags: OpenMed

Reposted from the blog of Open Knowledge International‘s Open Education Working Group By Daniel Villar-Onrubia & Javiera Atenas This week we had the opportunity to participate in the Morocco OER Strategy Forum hosted by Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech as part of the OpenMed project. We spent two very inspiring days learning with the OpenMed colleagues..

Collaborators / Holly Singleton

Subject Librarian I’m a subject librarian for engineering at the Lanchester Library. I love getting students to think critically about the information they find, rather than just telling them where to find it. These skills are becoming increasingly important in our supposed ‘post-truth’ age, and I enjoy challenging this idea through information and digital literacy. When I’m..

Archive Event : #disruptivebyte - Open Citizens

14th December 2016 @ 10:30 am — 11:15am

When: Wednesday 14th December 2016 Where: DMLL Grass For this Disruptive Bytes, Dom Breadmore will be joining us to discuss ‘Open Citizens’, a novel partnership project routed in art/technology and new pedagogies for university outreach and widening participation. The programme partnered GCSE Citizenship students with BA Digital Media students look at how an interdisciplinary approach..

Blog : DoOO-ing my first DMLL project

6th December 2016

I have been working on a pilot scheme with the DMLL (Disruptive Media Learning Lab) at Coventry University for the past 4 weeks. The project is named Domains of One’s Own, also known as Coventry.Domains. This provides a platform to students and academics their own online presence through a subdomain for example mine is: http://armstr38.coventry.domains…

The Team / Malachi Cummings-Hall

Student Activator I’m a 3rd year Media and Communications student with a background of videography and photography. As a current student I enjoy being creative and taking an active role in practical group projects. In addition I also enjoy arcade games and travelling.