About us

Vumi® is a joint venture between the Creative Industries Skills Council and Dynamic Motion Multimedia.  The vumi™ ePortfolio was initiated through seed funding from the Queensland Government (Arts Queensland).

 

VUMI® History

  • Passport is an initiative announced as part of Arts Queensland Arts Culture + Me: Children and Young People in the Arts Action Plan 2008-2011 (“the ACME Plan”) launched at the Edge in Brisbane on 11 April 2008.
  • The Creative Industries Skills Council has been engaged to develop the model, pilot it with schools and develop a plan for further development including costings for future rollout. 
  • A period of consultation with stakeholder groups was commenced including the establishment of a steering committee to guide the Terms of Reference for the project. 
  • An environmental scan was conducted to research the current availability of resources that would be suitable for this project.
  • Dynamic Motion Multimedia (DMM) were approached to discuss options for using a tool that they had previously developed, the DPK, to develop a prototype tool for the Passport Project. DMM agreed to allow the use of the DPK as a base tool for the purposes of this project. 
  • Stakeholder groups were approached to form focus groups which would guide the pilot program. The groups who agreed to participate were:
    • The Queensland Academy for the Creative Industries,
    • Kenmore State High School,
    • Metropolitan South Institute of TAFE, and
    • Eight schools from the Gold Coast who were participating in a project for students wanting to establish careers in the visual arts.  The students were part of a Local Community Partnership (SCISCO) project running over 4 months. 
  • Four focus group meetings were held with twenty students in each group giving a total of eighty young people aged between 15 and 30 years old.
  • During the period of the trial, further consultations were made with stakeholder groups to gain their feedback and comments regarding the long term viability of such a tool to their stakeholder groups.
  • Information gained in focus groups, trials and stakeholder conversations used in the scoping and building of the product.
  • Marketing and branding exercise undertaken. Product name of VUMI™ is chosen.
  • Metropolitan South Institute of TAFE (MSIT) runs VUMI™ trial with both music and music business students, Creative Industries teachers and RPL team.
  • Wide Bay Institute of TAFE undertake trial with Visual Arts students.
  • MSIT students successfully complete trial with outstanding results. Students results were visually exciting, as against a paper resume which is not the ideal medium to demonstrate capabilty and talent. Students traditionally struggled with the previous paper based assignment but found the task of constructing a VUMI resume engaging, effective and easy to complete. This was evident in the early submission of task to teachers.

Creative Industries Skills Council

The Creative Industries Skills Council is a Not-for-Profit Company Limited by Guarantee.   The Creative Industry Skills Council is the lead industry body providing high-level strategic vocational education and training advice to ensure future skills development and enhanced workforce capacity in the creative industries. The Skills Council facilitates collaboration between businesses, government and registered training providers at state and national levels to support economic growth within the creative industries.

Dynamic Motion Multimedia

Dynamic Motion Multimedia (DMM) is a multimedia web development company with a focus on content managed websites and bespoke development that provide internet strategies that work. DMM have extensive experience in sectors including the arts, education, not for profit and small business.