Final Reflections
Closing Reflections: Project 1/5: Challenges, Lessons, and it's a wrap!
Visual literacy is a “set of abilities that enables an individual to find, interpret and evaluate the use of creative images in media”(Brown, 2016). Not only is this stressed in the arts, but also in all academic areas to expand the critical thinking of students. There are 7 main areas that branch out from visual literacy. The first area is defining the images that are needed in a particular circumstance. This includes generating ideas and criteria for images. The second is in finding images through research and discovery where students can select and organize as well as identify the images they find. Additional areas that make up visual literacy are: Interpret & analyze, evaluation, effective use of imagery, creation of visual media, and the ethical use of images and citation.
Challenges: Building a website with Weebly turned out to be an overall experience. I have built several in the past, that were much more challenging than using this Weebly site. The challenges I have faced with this entire project (1 - 5) centers around the expectations. There is a rubric supplied, and for Project 5, the rubric is 4 pages long and has many areas of overlap. So, the overlap is actually quite difficult to keep items straight. The scoring from various projects is also difficult to grasp, for instance Project 1. Creating this Weebly site with many multiple pages and sub-pages, and 100 images, I did put together by the deadline, however with the rubric scores, since I did not put a caption for each of the 100 photos, I had a -125 points deducted, which gave me a zero, with the amount of hours and time I spent building the site and adding images basically turned out to be worth zero points. So, based on that structure alone, it seems as if each project should be worth the total points on the rubric, not where you could have well over 100 points deducted. So, my biggest challenge in this entire process was trying to understand what was expected.
In reflection on the items that I have learned over the course of this class, is that images still do say a 1000 words! I learned more about photographical elements, and would like to have learned more in regards to photography. There are some elements that I knew and practice, and some that I was not up to speed on. I would like to have been able to work on more elements or more time on them and get constructive feedback on photos that we chose to go with various elements, principles and compositions.
I enjoyed learning a different perspective on comic stories and their usefulness in learning. I can see their use in certain arena in my career space with sharing this to my educational faculty. I also like the creativity and usefulness of the comic stories to illustrate a concept or help children learn a particular concept. There are many uses for comic stories or graphical stories to be explored.
Making movies out of still photos is not as creative as I have experience in video editing, so for me, the making movies was the least enjoyable and I don’t know how much I learned. Since I have taught video editing before and am not a stranger to story boards however it has been a while since I’ve done them. The project was a bit of a refresher for me on creating a story board and putting together the idea and plan of a “movie”. I was also able to use Adobe Premiere to put together my movie, so it was nice to play in Premiere again.
All in all, the use of photography in instruction can be used in many ways. I have enjoyed learning about some new ways to use photography, however I do which there would have been more time specifically spent on photography.
References:
Brown, N. (2016). Keeping up with Visual Literacy. Retrieved from Association of College & Research Libraries: http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/keeping_up_with/visual_literacy
Visual literacy is a “set of abilities that enables an individual to find, interpret and evaluate the use of creative images in media”(Brown, 2016). Not only is this stressed in the arts, but also in all academic areas to expand the critical thinking of students. There are 7 main areas that branch out from visual literacy. The first area is defining the images that are needed in a particular circumstance. This includes generating ideas and criteria for images. The second is in finding images through research and discovery where students can select and organize as well as identify the images they find. Additional areas that make up visual literacy are: Interpret & analyze, evaluation, effective use of imagery, creation of visual media, and the ethical use of images and citation.
Challenges: Building a website with Weebly turned out to be an overall experience. I have built several in the past, that were much more challenging than using this Weebly site. The challenges I have faced with this entire project (1 - 5) centers around the expectations. There is a rubric supplied, and for Project 5, the rubric is 4 pages long and has many areas of overlap. So, the overlap is actually quite difficult to keep items straight. The scoring from various projects is also difficult to grasp, for instance Project 1. Creating this Weebly site with many multiple pages and sub-pages, and 100 images, I did put together by the deadline, however with the rubric scores, since I did not put a caption for each of the 100 photos, I had a -125 points deducted, which gave me a zero, with the amount of hours and time I spent building the site and adding images basically turned out to be worth zero points. So, based on that structure alone, it seems as if each project should be worth the total points on the rubric, not where you could have well over 100 points deducted. So, my biggest challenge in this entire process was trying to understand what was expected.
In reflection on the items that I have learned over the course of this class, is that images still do say a 1000 words! I learned more about photographical elements, and would like to have learned more in regards to photography. There are some elements that I knew and practice, and some that I was not up to speed on. I would like to have been able to work on more elements or more time on them and get constructive feedback on photos that we chose to go with various elements, principles and compositions.
I enjoyed learning a different perspective on comic stories and their usefulness in learning. I can see their use in certain arena in my career space with sharing this to my educational faculty. I also like the creativity and usefulness of the comic stories to illustrate a concept or help children learn a particular concept. There are many uses for comic stories or graphical stories to be explored.
Making movies out of still photos is not as creative as I have experience in video editing, so for me, the making movies was the least enjoyable and I don’t know how much I learned. Since I have taught video editing before and am not a stranger to story boards however it has been a while since I’ve done them. The project was a bit of a refresher for me on creating a story board and putting together the idea and plan of a “movie”. I was also able to use Adobe Premiere to put together my movie, so it was nice to play in Premiere again.
All in all, the use of photography in instruction can be used in many ways. I have enjoyed learning about some new ways to use photography, however I do which there would have been more time specifically spent on photography.
References:
Brown, N. (2016). Keeping up with Visual Literacy. Retrieved from Association of College & Research Libraries: http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/keeping_up_with/visual_literacy
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