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Archived Version 2021 - 2022
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Description This module builds on ED1017 (Enabling Learning) which students completed in B.Ed1. It further develops the skills of image, sound, animation and digital video editing and deepens understanding of their potential for student learning and meaning making. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Build on and further develop the skills of image, sound, animation and digital video editing and deepen understanding of their potential for student learning and meaning making. 2. Design and create a curriculum resource for use in a specific curriculum area. 3. Collaborate with a small group of children to design and create a short movie. 4. Justify the design of the learning activities/resources in relation to research literature and key concepts related multimodal meaning making. 5. Reflect on the learning activities in relation to their own learning and that of the children they supported. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Learning Activities Indicative ContentNew technologies have brought with them a wide range of text forms that combine words with visual, audio, spatial and gestural modes to represent and communicate meaning. In workshops students will design and create stories using image, animation and digital video (film-making). Through these activities students will further develop their skills in the use of image, sound and digital video editing in learning and reflect on its potential for student learning. The workshop sessions will focus on skill development but will entail discussion and reflection on the effective use of these tools in the curriculum and their impact on learning. Students will be provided with the opportunity to design and create multimedia curriculum resources for use in their own practice and well as to engage with a small group of children to design and create a short movie.Task 1Using Kodak's Top 10 tips for Taking Photographs, take 6-8 photographs on a theme of choice. Using an app of choice (e.g. Google slides, Adobe Spark, Sway), create a presentation in which you include the photographs along with an explanation of how you set up each photograph. Include one photo per page/slide. Add this presentation to your blog.Task 2Complete your reading of the document entitled ‘Taking Photographs’. In particular, carefully read the information contained in the link ‘composition’. Consider practising taking photographs using the techniques discussed. Building on the theme you selected last week, take a further 6-8 photographs in which you make use of a range of the techniques introduced. You can retake some of the photographs you took last week using your new learning. Add the photographs to the presentation you took last week. Include an explanation of the techniques you used when taking each photograph. If you retook a photograph, ensure to not only to explain the techniques used but why you feel this photograph represents an improvement on the original photograph. Ensure to use the language introduced in class as you describe your photos e.g. point of view, framing etc. Add this presentation to your blog.Task 3The following is a link to a collection of photos from the 'New York Times' designed to make students think: - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/learning/40-intriguing-photos-to-make-students-think.html. - Select three photos from the collection and analyse each using the Dimensions of Meaning Framework. Post each photo along with your analysis to your blog (ensure to include the reference/link to each photo).Task 4Your task for this week is to create a short slideshow using a set of 10-12 photographs on a theme of choice. When making the slideshow, ensure to pay consideration to the following: • The message i.e. what is the message you are trying to communicate in this slide show? • In selecting/taking your images (you can use images from the Internet, images you already have/take new photographs) ensure to pay heed to issues such as composition, point of view, framing etc. • Adding an appropriate soundtrack to your slideshow (matching words of song to image, pacing, pan & zoom effects etc.). • Add the slideshow to your blog and write a short description of a) the key message of the slideshow and b) how you constructed it.Task 5 (group task)• Select one of the two readings attached below. Write a summary of this article highlighting what you have learned about designing a claymation from reading it (250 words). • Using either Photostage or Kizoa, complete your claymation and post it to your blog. • Drawing on your experience of creating a Claymation as well as this reading, write a short account of how you constructed meaning in your claymation (250-300 words.Task 6 (Group Task)• Research what makes a good advertisement. • Design and storyboard an advertisement of choice. • Create a new page in your blog entitled Meaning Making through Film. • On this page write a short reflection about what constitutes a good advertisement, your idea and why you chose to make this advertisement. Also include an image of the storyboard your group created and write a short account of the structure of your advertisement. • Having completed the advertisement, post it to your blog (If your movie is too big to be uploaded to your blog, you will have to use Google Drive or YouTube. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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