David Hiddleston’s Blog

The Get On information unit is coming to the College on Wednesday 4^th November and Thursday 5^th November  10am till 3.00pm and will be located in the motorcycle parking area for the two days offering free advice to students, staff and the local community. Jen Kelly is co-ordinating the event and it will be run by a mixture of ETC, ‘Get On’ and community organisation staff.  We will be focussing on two main broad themes  - Finance and Health and Wellbeing.

get-on-poster-09.pdf

At the SQA annual award ceremony last night Edinburgh’s Telford College were awarded winnner of the 2009 SQA International Star Award.

Well done to the International Development Team 

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Broadcast have published my submitted article on the Mentoring Project managed and delivered by Graphic Design team and Industry mentors

Broadcast is the voice of colleges in Scotland.  It is read and respected by stakeholders and key decision makers in the college sector.  The widely distributed free publication is constantly evolving to ensure that it remains a publication that keeps pace with the needs of the sector. 

 Read the article here

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.

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