Artistic Thinking: Read and React Week 8

Read:

Chapter 8: Creating Content - Images by Brooks-Young

            In this chapter, Brooks-Young discusses spatial/visual learners and sharing images. The author also educates readers about the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 that restricts information that can be collected and shared by children under age 13. When describing video creation and sharing by teenagers, the author points out that by posting media, teenagers are able to communicate with friends, start conversations, and receive feedback/validation from their peers –concepts that are of value to the iGeneration. As with other chapters, the author discusses common objections to using online media sites, such as privacy issues, safety, cyber-bulling, copyright infringement, and child pornography.

Chapter 10: Media Sharing by Digital Diet

In this chapter, the authors discuss how to set up and use the photo-sharing site, Flickr. When using Flickr the user can create an account that is public or private, upload photos and small videos, tag images for searching, add descriptions, and leave comments on images. The authors give advice as to how to use Flickr in the classroom by combining its ability to share within a restricted group and use in conjunction with VoiceThread to create multimedia stories. The authors suggest four steps for working with multimedia stories: (1) Define and outline the parameters of the task, (2) Design and preplan their project through storyboards or mind-mapping, (3) Do and create the multimedia project, and (4) Debrief and reflect on the creation.

React:

            I like the Brooks-Young chart of 4 questions to ask when determining educational fair-use of copyright material. These questions can easily be transformed into questions that students can ask when looking to use materials in their projects. While another Instructor teaches Photoshop in the IT Program, there are a couple ways that students could use Photoshop in my A/V courses. They can create richer, more complex graphics for use in their videos. Currently I show them Premiere Pro’s Titler but it can be a little clunky to use and does not have as many functions. Photoshop can also be used to create vignettes for their videos too. I like Digital Diet’s suggestions for using photography and VoiceThread to tell stories about trips, etc. I could see my students taking “behind-the-scenes” photographs of their video shoots and using VoiceThread to reflect on their projects.

References:

Brooks-Young, S. (2010). Teaching with the tools kids really use. (Kindle Edition). Available from http://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Tools-Kids-Really-ebook/dp/B00486THRE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1296870495&sr=8-2

Churches, A., Crockett, L., & Jukes, J. (2010). The Digital Diet: Today’s digital tools in small bytes. Canada: 21^st Century Fluency Project.