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School of Creative MediaOrientation Week 2010
Dr Linda C. H. LAI(Director of Teaching & Learning)
24 August 2010
What is Orientation Week?
• Week-long, academic orientation:
FORMAL teaching and learning activity
Setting directions and first taste of SCM life-style
• 1st week of Semester A (30 Aug – 3 Sept)
What is Orientation Week?
• For ALL undergraduate programmes
BACM, BADMB, BScCM, AAMET, Foundation Year Study
• OBTL initiative (Outcomes Based Teaching & Learning)
purposes ← → outcomes
What is Orientation Week?
• Divided into Groups• Each group with students from different programmes• Led by 3 year two / three students• Work together / play together / create experience
Independence Vs Inter-dependence
Objectives of Orientation Week
• For an intense experience of the diversity and variety resources of SCM & CityU
• To encounter & experience ‘creativity’ in different angles
• To encounter yourselves from different angles
• To start thinking about learning / teaching / curriculum philosophies so as to build a broader vision of life
Intended Learning Outcomes• Express and build up own identity through different resources...
...e.g overseas exchange program, internship, scholarships, and other existing funds at CityU
… beginning with creating one's portfolio on a SCM students on-line platform
• identify resources within SCM for academic and own creative purpose…
...meeting Production Centre & IT team, discovering faculty expertise and talents
• identify resources within CityU to enhance one's academic and career prospects…
• gain basic understanding of the curriculum of one's degree programmes and principles of structure
• work in a team for artistic creation and build up good relationship with fellows
• understand the new undergraduate system and General Education
Intended Learning Outcomes
Who are involved in O-week?
• Over 50 Year 2 and 3 students as group leaders, programming, execution . . .
• Programme and Studio Leaders • 13 Teaching Staff members holding special
workshop sessions
What's in the week-long programme?
School-level Sessions+
Programme-level Activities +
Group Activities+
Hanging out, Being yourselves...
School-level sessions
(1) Study by the Rules(2) SCM Tales(3) Survival: IT Team + Production Centre(4) SCM Ahead(5) SCM Culture(6) Show Time
(5) SCM Culture
A Group Creation at the end of O-week
(6a-l) Show Time
Staff initiated sessions to share own expertise
Choose a minimum of 3 from the list
(6a) Drive Computer by Motion – Dr Fu Hongbo
(6b) How to Grow an Apple on Your Arm and Befriend a Pen and a Chair – Dr Linda Lai
(6c) Introduction to Game Design – Mr Yim Chun Pang
(6d) Inspection of Certain Possibilities to Re-arrange your Vision of Reality – Dr Olli Tapio Leino
(6a-l) Show Time
(6e) Gorilla Installation: Time, Space & Performance – Ms Koala Yip
(6f) Live Foley Performance – Dr Robert Jay Ellis-Geiger
(6g) Don’t Fear Art, Don’t Fear Electronics! Go Crazy with a 9V Battery – Mr Samson Young
(6h) Animation Showcase since Childhood – Prof Tamas Pal Waliczky
(6a-l) Show Time
(6i) The Rise of Video Game (1950-2010): Stone Age to Modern Time – Mr Dick Thung
(6j) A Role-play Game Beyond the Confines of a Room – Dr Hector Rodriguez
(6k) Visual Storytelling Workshop – Dr Louisa Wei
(6l) Fo Tan Studio Visit – Miss Phoebe Man & Mr Warren Leung
(6a-l) Show Time
Programme-level Activities
• Introduction to Curriculum (BA1, BAD1, BSc1, AA1, Foundaion1)
• Introduction to Academic Advising (BA2)
Group Activities
• Web Portfolio Making• Outing Activities• SCM Culture
Hanging out, being yourselves...
• Counter at SCM Area: news, lost and found, looking for someone, brief chats
• Small Exhibition in the garage area• SCM Blogging
Tasks to be completed
• Web Portfolio Set up• Outing Activities• (6a-l) Show Time: Choose at least 3• (5) SCM Culture
Production Centre Account!
• Account Activation when tasks are completed• Activation with FREE e-money (Details to be
announced on O-week Blog)
Useful info
• O-week Website• O-week Blog• O-week Show Time Registration Page• SCM Website• OBTL Website
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