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A Project funded by the Teaching Development Grant of UGC

City University of Hong Kong School of Creative Media. A Project funded by the Teaching Development Grant of UGC. Creativity in Practice (CIP): Teaching and Learning Outside Classroom. Principal Investigator: Dr. Linda LAI

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A Project funded by the Teaching Development Grant of UGC

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  1. City University of Hong Kong School of Creative Media A Project funded by the Teaching Development Grant of UGC Creativity in Practice (CIP): Teaching and Learning Outside Classroom Principal Investigator: Dr. Linda LAI Co- Investigator:Mr. Wesley TANG (left CityU in 9.2008) Current course coordinator of Portfolio and Practicum:Mr. Yue-jin HO TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai

  2. INTEGRATION OF THEORY & PRACTICE IN MEDIA ARTS • Managed under a CIL core course Portfolio & Practicum (SM4146) & assessed by all faculty as part of a student’s Graduation Thesis (SM4140) • For the roughly90Critical Intermedia Laboratory • (CIL, one of the 3 study areas in BACM) students • Last for 20 Months (January 2007 – August 2008) • Investigated by Studio leader Dr. Linda LAI • In Alignment with the CIL curriculum (PILOs) What isCreativity in Practice (CIP)? Formalization & Consolidation of Existing Good Practices for Systematic Administration and Assessment TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai

  3. What isCreativity in Practice (CIP)? Talks and Seminars (Alumni &professional experts to Broaden Horizons) Internship (roughly 6 weeks) (Professional) Art Workshops (Educational) Art/Cultural Projects (Community Services) Outreach Activities DIGITAL PORTFOLIO created in Portfolio & Practicum SM4146 CIL Creative Bulletin #1 (Art-Making) (annual showcase of CIL course-art-works to the public) Sentensia (Curatorial Practices) (competitive cash award for students to run an exhibition) SKILLS 13-week training in class Expository Writing: Writing for CV DVD Production Website Production TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai

  4. (1) Create a Core course Portfolio and Practicum Differentiated ILOs for * Students (ILOs) * Staff * the School • Reflect and apply creative art knowledge & skills • Develop leadership, presentation and communication skills • Learn more about own views and abilities • Deliver works meeting the professional standard of • media industry • Exercise concern for society in concrete actions • Verify own values in real organization’s actual practice • Develop and extend professional networks • Build a website to demonstrate evidence of PILOs: • display students’ digital portfolios & documentation of • outreach activities • (2A)Outreach • Education Programme • (2B)Internship at • Media Organizations The aim & activities of CIP • (2C)Local Art & • Cultural Events (3)Digital Portfolio (4)International and Local Experts (5)Exhibition *Realize with the help of a research assistant, student helpers and the faculty members in CIL TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai

  5. (1) “Portfolio and Practicum” the course • http://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/sm4146 13 weeks of 3-hour workshop Writing: Personal narratives of creative development + artist’s statements + c.v. Reflection: Personal creative path, internship and outreach experiences Multimedia production DVD production, web-site production Seminar with professional experts and alumni Case studies: sample portfolios by good artists TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai

  6. (Senior-year) Students practise what they have learnt in SCM through teaching others 35 student-instructors, 16 teaching teams, 16 secondary schools, 16 4-to-8-week creative workshops on Photography, Creative Writing, Video, Animation . . . (2A) Outreach Education Programme http://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/teachingandlearning/new/events.shtml#schoolcia TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai

  7. Full-time commitment of students in the field of media productions • 26 students, 15 media production companies including Television Production, • Animation, Design, Website Design, Publishing, Advertising . . . (2B) Internship in Media Organizations Full-time employment of some graduates in the organizations they worked as interns TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai

  8. Support art and cultural organizations in the form of local art community services 32 students, 10 art and cultural institutes including research, production, communication, administrative, operational . . . (2C) Local Art and Cultural Events Positive Feedback from Students and participating organizations Students are excited to participate in local art event Continuation of part-time involvement of students in the affiliated organizations TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai

  9. (i) Student digital portfolio (ii) CIL digital archive for student works from different courses • All portfolios are uploaded to the internal e-Portfolio archive • Good works are uploaded to the CIL website:http://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/cil/works.htm • A news section for the CIL community is created: http://cilnews.wordpress.com/ • A server is bought to store all CIL-related digital archives (Videos, portfolios etc.) (3) Digital Portfolio “The CV and portfolio writing workshops in Portfolio and Practicum is useful in making a better portfolio for potential employers” • “Through good course works of senior students, I can understand what • the courses are about. The showcase can be an inspiration • for my own course work too.” TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai

  10. (4) International and Local Experts • International and local experts are invited to broaden their horizon Around 60 students, 4 guest speakers, 6 seminars TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai

  11. (5) Exhibition • Art-making & Curatorial Experiment CIL Creative Bulletin #1 Course-based student work showcase open to public • “SENTENSIA” • Creative Community: • Group Exhibition Fund ($10,000) An end-of-semester exhibition showcasing 60 works A community based 5-day-exhibition organized by 7 CIL students TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai

  12. CIP deliverables are realized: • 16 Creative Art Workshops, 38 internship experiences in 25 organizations, • 32 Digital Portfolios, A CIL studio webpage, 6 guest lectures and seminars, • involvement of more than 80 students Achievements in CIP Sustainable impact • The course Portfolio and Practicum becomes a core course • All CILstudents graduate with a digital portfolio • becomes a mandatory practice • Awareness of the importance of portfolio • Extending the CIL community to key players and professional • in the art community including: • Secondary school, commercial companies, art and cultural institutions, • the local and international art community, and the public at large . . . • “Theory as Practice”enforced as concrete experiences • inside and outside campus TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai

  13. Reflection (1) The necessity to sustain a CIP through broad networking with an extended notion of internship (2) The difficulty of sustaining multiple expertise for Portfolio and Practicum (technicality, writing, presentation, narratives on artistic development . . .) (3) The requirement of human resources to sustain a comprehensive outreach programme (4) The difficulty in evaluating the effectiveness of CIP Suggested Improvements on Digital Portfolio (1) Topics and tree structure could be refreshed (2)In Consideration of the target reader (for Personal development, Documentation of educational experience in CityU, future employers or art curators in museums and galleries . . .?)for the final submitted portfolio TDG Project No. 6000135 PI: Dr Linda Lai

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