Newsletter #5

An Arts Education Imperative: New Directions for Sustainability 
Newsletter No. 5
17 September 2021

Hello members,  
 

About your PechaKucha videos 

In the past week, we have received your short videos (6min40sec) and we want to thank each of you for your wonderful contributions to this project. Each video has been uploaded to Figshare with a unique digital object identifier (DOI) for later citation. If you have shared your video with us but did not receive a confirmation email, please contact us. Also, if you require further assistance or if you need more time to execute your video, please do not hesitate to inform the team. 

Online research platforms 

Digital methods of creation, collection, curation, and collaboration are central to achieve sustainable arts education as an imperative of this project. As a result, varied platforms, and digital spaces, including, Figshare, Omeka, Zotero, Teams, Mozilla Hubs, etc., are being introduced to simultaneously and in collaboration, shape and inform the project’s outcome. In coming weeks, our team will share short demonstrations of how these will operate to serve the purpose of this project. This week’s short presentation included a demonstration to Figshare which can be used to manage different projects and data. We will send the link for this presentation in our next newsletter. 

Update on progress  

The Omeka virtual gallery space is currently being developed to house and connect the existing and emerging data. In addition, the visual gallery space is expanding to include each video contribution and the artworks. Our team is busy at work, so we will be back to you with our next newsletter on 1 October with exciting news about the progress.  
 
Dr Jenni Hillman | Project Manager 
Nedasadat Sajadi | Research Assistant 
Melbourne Graduate School of Education 
The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia 
E: jenni.hillman@unimelb.edu.au 
neda.sajadi@unimelb.edu.au 
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I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which I live and work, the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung peoples of the Kulin nation, and pay my respects to the Elders, past, present and future.