Google Communities/online communities
Google or online communities provide an online forum to bring people together around particular topics; communities tend to share ideas and outcomes in the online environment.
The Group Presentations activity intends to encourage students to participate in team work either through multiple channels or multiple locations. The activity is developed over a number of weeks and is designed to be scaffolded by the work done in lectures and tutorials as the course develops.
Art students create eportfolios with varying levels of sophistication.
#G+ Communities allow real-time collaboration, sharing and engagement while creating a repository of artefacts.
The global intensives are available only to students studying in Melbourne. However, there is an opportunity for our students based in Vietnam, Singapore, China and Spain to participate in these tours. In the past these students have been denied this opportunity because of difficulties associated with pre-departure and post-tour workshops, conducted face-to-face in Melbourne.
The process for developing and building relationships between education and industry for the purpose of WIL is becoming increasingly difficult. And with WIL placement becoming increasingly important for developing graduate attributes and employability there is a need to look for other opportunities.