Week 4 - Reflection on Images, Video and Audio

Week 4!

Hey everyone :) how's it going?

Pedagogy of Teaching with Images

Visual literacy is the ability to understand, think, communicate and create graphically. As stated on Learningnc.org, "the first level of visual literacy is simple knowledge: basic identification of the subject or elements in a photograph, work of art, or graphic."



What can teachers do with images? How are they used?

•  to present learning materials to the student with the purpose of engaging thinking 
• to create a learning dialogue between the student and the material, interactivity, which can involve exploration, challenge and assessment 
• to illustrate concepts and to show examples of what you are talking about during a lecture when you can't visit the real thing
• "To inspire discussion of a topic, looking at multiple aspects and contexts
• To enforce and extend language and common terms of the object being discussed, using subject-specific terminology
• To categorise within a subject discipline and potentially build reference collections for student project work and research
• To teach diagnosis and treatment
• To lead onto extension exercise tasks, e.g. research and source other images of that topic
• To stimulate students writing a story/poem about that image - enhancing creative and language skills
• To encourage team work and foster collaboration and the sharing of a learning experience
• To encourage students to become independent learners
• To encourage critical thinking skills
• To illustrate case studies
• To enhance visual communication skills
• To help identify emotions and mood
• To document an event and analyse practice"

Images can be used to support critical thinking.

 

My re-sized image of Ellen :)
Podcasting and Digital Audio
A podcast is simply a sound file. They can be accessed online and shared across the web. You can find them on ITunes and subscribe to them.

I would do all that work and download the apps to record a file with my voice on it but that would be pointless. My internet won't have it. And my laptop doesn't have a working Mic. Aren't I having a great day....

Video
I didn't know what to take a video of so I decided to record this. Of course, not appropriate for the classroom, I wouldn't make them watch this. But for this activity... Please keep in mind that the mouse was humanely euthanised. I did editing to make the video shorter (from a 20+ minute video) and used stabilising effects to help with the shaking, also added audio :)

WARNING-
Video contains content that may be confronting to some. If you don't like snakes then please don't watch.
- P.S- She's harmless and I think she's cool :)

-- Video yet to come -- Internet dilemmas again

 

  Have a great week!

Gab :)

References:

JISC, Digital Media, 2013, "Practical Ways to Use Digital Images in Teaching and Learning, http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/guide/practical-ways-to-use-digital-images-in-teaching-and-learning/