‘Projecting Plymouth is a new way of looking at the future of your city. It aims to give a megaphone to your voices and opinions, enabling you to have an impact on the future of Plymouth. It is about you, your family, your friends, your hopes and your futures.’ i-DAT develops a Web 2.0 infrastructure/tool for the cultural regeneration of Plymouth by young people. Working with Creative Partnerships and Arts Council England. http://www.projectingplymouth.net/
– AWARDED FURTHER FUNDING. i-DAT’s Infinite Infants project has been awarded further funding from Creative Partnerships to extend the research until 2008.
Infinite Infants is a transdisciplinary practice based research project exploring the potential for networked, sustainable ICT resources for children. The research is an inquiry into the potential for situated and collaborative learning via telematic spaces, by exploiting the qualities that digital technology affords, such as non-linearity, tele-presence and interactivity. The project is currently working with three Primary schools in the Plymouth area, and more recently has incorporated a SEN school located in Cornwall. If you would like to know more about the Infinite Infant’s project, have suggestions for participation or would like to get involved please contact: katina.hazelden@plymouth.ac.uk
The fonts were developed by students and staff from Looe Community School, who have been assessed as being dyslexic or shows dyslexic traits. The fonts were developed as part of the dyslexier.org project by Looe Community School in conjunction with the IBeam project, created by Plymouth Arts Centre and the Institute of Digital Art and Technology. The students also developed the www.dyslexier.org website to reveal their experiences of being Dyslexic. http://www.i-dat.org/projects/ibeam/
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i-DAT / Creative Partnerships. Studentship £12,000 + Fees - £3,010: TOTAL £15,010 pa. Applications are invited for a three-year Research Associateship (with one year’s guaranteed funding with the possibility of extending for a further two years) based in i-DAT. The research context provided by the ‘Infinite Infants’ project explores the pedagogic opportunities provided by telematic/networked learning and teaching environments/architectures at reception level. These networked environments will be developed in collaboration with Creative Partnerships, Hyde Park Infants, Langley Community Infants and Woodford Infants School. The research post will be required to develop tools and systems that enhance the learning environment and extend the technological systems developed through the collaboration. http://x2.i-dat.org/~mp/ii/
