Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Week 4: Engagement Activity 7

This engagement activity involved creating a movie.  Although it was very time consuming, movie-maker made it very easy to make the movie (CQUniversity Australia, 2012).  I wasn't quite sure where we stand in regards to adding music as to copyright laws so I didn't add music for fear of getting in trouble by the artists.  I also found that the podcasts were not really relevant to add into my movie. This is something that I plan to work on in the future.  I have included my first attempt at a movie.  I do realise that I still have a long way to go in regards to becoming a better movie creator but I did really enjoy the process of making it all the same.  Unfortunately despite trying hard, I was unable to upload my digital video to my blog.  I was able to upload my digital video to my website but weebly stated they weren't able to publish it unless I upgraded to a 'Pro' version which required payment (Weebly, 2013).  Instead I uploaded my digital video to my wikispace.  This fortunately was successful.  I have included the link to my wiki.  This link is:

http://emmataylor411.wikispaces.com/home

I feel that facilitating students to create a movie can greatly improve engagement and learning in the primary school setting (CQUniversity Australia, 2012). We were asked to justify how teachers can facilitate students to utilise video to create, present, communicate, summarise and evaluate.  Students can be facilitated to use video to create a number of helpful learning activities from art to a step by step process, presented in the form of a digital video (CQUniversity Australia, 2012).  Students can be encouraged to present assessment in the form of oral presentations or drama presentations in a movie (CQUniversity Australia, 2012).

Students can be encouraged to communicate through the use of movies by using forms of self expression or focusing on sending a particular message (CQUniversity Australia, 2012).  Students can be encouraged to use movies to summarise or provide a brief overview of a learning topic (CQUniversity Australia, 2012).  This also leads to a deeper understanding of the topic as this is required to provide a topic summary (CQUniversity Australia, 2012).  By being involved in the movie creation process, students will develop the tools to evaluate this process in the future (CQUniversity Australia, 2012).  It can also promote reflection as well through observing their movie after completing it (CQUniversity Australia, 2012).

A teacher can improve learning outcomes with the use of digital videos by utilising the TPACK framework including a good knowledge of how to utilise digital videos and an effective scaffold to facilitate student creation of digital videos (CQUniversity Australia, 2012).  The teacher needs to model and teach safe, ethical and legal guidelines to adhere to when creating videos (Queensland College of Teachers, 2011).  Teachers should gain parental permission for students to participate in and create digital videos (Education Queensland, 2012).  Students should be encouraged to credit any sources they use in their digital video (CQUniversity Australia, 2012).


References:

CQUniversity Australia. (2012). EDED20491- ICTs for learning design:
            online study guide. Retrieved from  
            http://moodle.cqu.edu.au/mod/page/view.php?id=115238


Weebly. (2013). The easiest way to create a website. Retrieved from
           http://www.weebly.com/

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