The article I read this week was called "Increasing Visual Literacy Skills With Digital Imagery" and it was about a College of Education program that used digital photography to help their students with their visual literacy. They said that the camera cart that they set up was used over 50 times by 16 teachers. There was even a class that were showing future teachers how they can use cameras when they start teaching. They discussed using cameras to capture a field trip they took to create a photo journal.
I think that a photo journal is a wonderful way of seeing what students learn and possibly even teaching future students through the journal examples. Digital imagery is definitely a good tool to use for teaching, since there are many students who learn through seeing, not just hearing.
Maybe a way to bring this to a new level could be by having students take home cameras, as long as they can be responsible enough with them, and creating a journal of their lives or a collage of their family.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Storyboarding
This week the blog topic is storyboarding. I never really thought of storyboarding in any way other than making animated movies, but I learned that that is only one of their uses. Storyboarding can be used for any type of presentation. I learned how it can be used through the article entitled "Presentation Storyboarding" which was a very simple article explaining how to use storyboards to create a presentation.
They began by explaining that storyboarding should not be the first step to doing a presentation, rather, it should be done after coming up with ideas. They then went into saying how you can decide between using a computer or using paper for your storyboarding and the advantages to each. They also explained some alternatives to paper and computers. The article ended by explaining how what elements to put in the storyboard and how to complete the assignment after you are done with the storyboard.
I think, in a way, students have learned storyboarding from the time they first start writing essays in school. When you are asked to write your first essay, whether it be on your dog or a family vacation, you are usually told how to do an idea web, or something similar. I learned two ways of doing idea webs and both seem to be like storyboarding, though they never helped me much on my essays. I tended to write my essays with no storyboarding, just letting my ideas flow onto the paper instead. I suppose you could also do presentations like that, but I see how storyboarding can be very helpful for most people.
They began by explaining that storyboarding should not be the first step to doing a presentation, rather, it should be done after coming up with ideas. They then went into saying how you can decide between using a computer or using paper for your storyboarding and the advantages to each. They also explained some alternatives to paper and computers. The article ended by explaining how what elements to put in the storyboard and how to complete the assignment after you are done with the storyboard.
I think, in a way, students have learned storyboarding from the time they first start writing essays in school. When you are asked to write your first essay, whether it be on your dog or a family vacation, you are usually told how to do an idea web, or something similar. I learned two ways of doing idea webs and both seem to be like storyboarding, though they never helped me much on my essays. I tended to write my essays with no storyboarding, just letting my ideas flow onto the paper instead. I suppose you could also do presentations like that, but I see how storyboarding can be very helpful for most people.
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