Bryn Mawr College's Digital Competencies Program helps students build the digital skills and critical perspectives on technology needed for success in the digital age.
Winter break means that many Bryn Mawr College students will be taking holiday selfies and vacation videos. In honor of all of this creative production, our Competency of the Month is 2.3 Audiovisual production and analysis. We've got a few examples from Bryn Mawr students to share, below.
In Their Own Words: Students on the Digital Competencies
Bryn Mawr students are developing the digital competencies everywhere--including by working on the Digital Competencies Program! We're committed to making sure that students we work with have the opportunity to reflect on and practice articulating their competencies. In this rough cut of student interview videos, our summer interns discuss their experience gaining digital skills while working on digital curriculum projects. Plus, the video is also student-created!
Interview with a Student Graphic Designer
Digital Competencies Abroad: Making the Case for Broad-Based Digital Skills Education
"To close the skills gap and provide long-term employability, we in higher education must continue to offer a broad-based education in which digital skills are not developed within a single set of courses, but rather throughout the entire curriculum and the wider array of co-curricular experiences," write Kim Cassidy and Gina Siesing in a new Inside Higher Ed article. Read more.
Gina Siesing, CIO and Director of Libraries, also wrote us a post on last month's Digital Competencies Think Tank at Davidson College. "We’ve focused extensively on scaffolding for students so that they have many opportunities to reflect on what they’re learning and to practice telling compelling stories – in person, on resumes, and in digital portfolios – about their capabilities and how those apply to their chosen pathways," writes Siesing. Read more.
If you want to hear more about the Think Tank, we'll be reprising this material online in January as two EDU-PLACE webinars. We will talk about how to develop a framework that’s meaningful within your institutional context, ways to leverage college partnerships and build on campus initiatives, and approaches to integrating digital competencies across the student’s curricular and co-curricular experience. Details will be posted later this month on the Digital Competencies website.
Bryn Mawr Faculty Opportunities
If you're a faculty member interested in developing a new digital assignment or in technologies that will let you write on screen, we're offering two workshops on January 17 and 18 that might be of interest to you. Learn about the different options and experiment with a range of tools and techniques along with other faculty. This can be a great way to get started if you're interested in applying for Digital Bryn Mawr Seed Grant Funding for the February 15 deadline.
Upcoming Events
- R Community of Learning
1:30pm - 2:30pm December 6, 2017 - R Community of Learning
1:30pm - 2:30pm December 8, 2017 - Teaching with Technology Forum at Haverford
9:15am - 11:15am December 19, 2017 - Applied CS
9:00am - 4:00pm January 16, 2018 - Applied CS
9:00am - 4:00pm January 17, 2018
The Competency of the Month and newsletter will take a brief hiatus in January for winter break, but will be back in February. Want to nominate a Competency of the Month? Email us!