The Birmingham School of Media played host to the launch of a new text book aimed at students studying on media courses that has been edited, and mainly written, by two key Interactive Cultures staff. Paul Long and Tim Wall, along with contributions from Vian Bakir (University of Glamorgan), Andrew McStay (University of the Arts), Oliver Carter, Faye Davies, and Andrew Dubber (who are also based at BCU) have developed the book over the last few years based upon their approaches to teaching first year studies.
This is a busy week for publications from Interactive Cultures.
Dubber has contributed to the timely, if optimistic, ‘After the Crunch’ edited by John Holden, John Kieffer, John Newbigin and Shelagh Wright (free to download). He is also one of the team who contributed to ‘Media Studies: Texts, Contexts and Production’, a textbook which is published this week by Pearson Longman.
A rather lengthy title for an exciting project that the Interactive Cultures team are currently undertaking!
Andrew Dubber and Jez Collins are leading on a project that uses research and industry knowledge skills and how, as lecturers and academics, we can transfer that knowledge back into the classroom and use innovative approaches to teaching and learning by using online technologies to enhance student studies and professional understanding of the creative sector in Birmingham.
Phase 1 of our “Interactive Technologies for Active Learning“project has just come to a close. During Phase 1 we considered how student teachers might adopt Flip video cameras within teacher training. This week Nick Webber & I met with BCU colleagues Dave Kane & James Williams (from Centre for Research into Quality) and Anita Reardon (from the School of Secondary and Post-Compulsory Education) to debrief on the project so far and to look at opportunities for Phase 2.
Interactive Cultures is the research centre of the Birmingham School of Media at Birmingham City University.
Tel: +44 (0) 121 331 7280 info@interactivecultures.org
