Moodle Server for Digital Media Arts Program
Kenneth Buis
ETEC 565, June 2011
Introduction
I developed a Digital Media Arts program to provide adult students, many of whom are recent immigrants, with opportunities to participate as digital citizens within the global networked society. The main goals of the program include the provision of a stable learning platform upon which to build the digital literacy skills required for 21st century workplace and learning, as well as the integration of social media and web 2.0 tools. According to Tu and Bloche(2008), these tools enhance mediated knowledge creation, provide for information sharing opportunities in personalized environments for collaboration and content creation. The Digital Media Arts program goes beyond the traditional goals of skill transfer based on media arts production. Rather, it is designed to the develop skills and provide opportunities for self-expression and a more reflective use and understanding of media, or critical literacy and media creation as described by Buckingham(2007).