David Hiddleston’s Blog

The HMIe aspect visit that took place at Edinburgh’s Telford College and other colleges throughout Scotland is now complete and the report is now published on the HMIe Website.

This report evaluates programmes in the creative digital industries delivered within Design and Media departments in Scotland’s colleges. For the purposes of the report, this covers programmes in graphic design, illustration, photography and digital-imaging, and, in a small number of instances, creative and design aspects of animation and interactive media. These are programmes which use digital technology as a primary tool to realise creative concepts. They are offered at levels from Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) level 4 to level 9, though the report only evaluates non-degree programmes at level 9. The programmes provide education and training for a rapidly developing industry sector which makes a significant contribution to Scotland’s economy and provides employment for a large number of people.

Last year, around 4,000 people registered their interest in a WorldSkills UK competition. This is the last chance to enter (for most competitions) in order to be in with a chance of competing at WorldSkills London 2011. Enter by 19 March 2010.

http://www.worldskillsuk.org/

This competition is open to all Design, Media and Computing students - please contact david.hiddleston@ed-coll.ac.uk if you need further information.

All full time students in Design, Media and Computing have the opportunity to take up the role of Class Representative. For further information contact your Course Tutor.

A team of 3 (David Hiddleston, Colin Briggs and Richard Bisset) from the Curriculum area of Design, Media and Computing - Edinburgh’s Telford College visited India for three days Project Design Workshop with the aim to develop two units of learning (Web and Animation) which can be delivered by the Campus of Open Learning at University of Delhi.

In day 1 we established the roles and responsiblites of both organisations.

Full report will be available on my return.

Be the first to see the best new video games stars in action at Dare ProtoPlay 2009!

We have upgraded to Adobe CS4 and 3D Max 10 for the new college year 2009/10.

All students enrolled on a Design, Media and Computing courses will be using a new computer system.

The two systems in place are -

MAC Pro

PC  - Hewlett Packard

SQA’s final event to celebrate Scotland’s Homecoming Year 2009 will be our spectacular Scotland and Me – A Celebration.

This will be held on Monday 23 November 2009 at the Radisson Hotel, Argyle Street, Glasgow between 1pm – 5pm. It is a drop in event so you can come for as long as you want.

SQA qualifications that support Scottish life and culture will be featured along with some of the magnificent entries received for our Scotland and Me creative competition. (Hopefully our NC Graphic Design Students are successful )

An exhibition space will host the best entries received for the competition. These will be displayed in five themed areas reflecting the Homecoming theme of Robert Burns, Great Scottish Minds and Innovations, Ancestry, Golf and Whisky. The winning competition entry will be on display too!

In the performance space dance, music, poetry and fashion will be delivered by some of Scotland’s hottest young talent.

Our staff will be on hand to showcase a range of SQA qualifications from across all curriculum areas that support Scottish life, culture and society. This will include Gaelic, rural skills, design and Higher National qualifications.

Details of performance times and students being featured in the exhibition space will be available online from early November – please check back for details.

Admission to this spectacular event is free of charge. Admission tickets will be available to download from this site soon, so please keep checking this website regularly.

Come along and be inspired!

We have a new website……..
Marketing and CIS have been working with Ecom Scotland for the past 4 months to come up with a more effective, interactive and user friendly College website.

Feedback from students and staff was used to re-design the site to develop an informative platform with improved functionality. We are hoping to create interactive features using blogs, video and text features in the coming months..
 

New Features:

Clean, easy to use yet professional and sophisticated design with new ‘Accordion’ Gallery on the homepage.The Accordion will highlight the college in a variety of different ways including:

Featured Courses - An extra promotional tool to highlight specific areas

Film gallery - When clicked the user will be taken to a new improved film and image gallery.

International - Used to highlight international courses/areas of interest

E-prospectus - Introducing ETC’s first ever eco friendly interactive flip book prospectus. Available to download or view online.

Course search box on every page and direct eye catching link to online application section on homepage.

New and improved contact form

The online application process has been reviewed and improved. Further development planned

Extended news & events section including scroll bar to include more entries main section links now large button

Page links to bookmarking, sharing and social networking sites such as Facebook, Stumbleupon, Twitter, Linkedin,Myspace to name a few.

Mini interactive Google Map on every page

The college now has presence of Facebook and Bebo used to promote new site continuing development to improve online application process.

Take a look… Edinburgh’s Telford College - Web Site

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