Joan of Arc
Originally uploaded by lwb10463
This is the first time I have Flickr along with a lot of the applications required to complete the weekly modules. Flickr was an ease to navigate around and very user-friendly. The image I have chosen to upload here is from a user named lwb10463. I checked his profile and he/she has a prolific array of images that might seem random, but there are some recurring themes (good taste in film, socialist ideology etc.).
This particular still is from one of my favourite films: Carl Dreyer's 'The Passion of Joan of Arc', a silent film that first employed long sequenced close up shots. It is a riveting film and one that every budding film-buff or critique should either embrace or sit through.
Flickr is definitely an effective and proficient way of not only storing images you find in your cyberspace travels but locating genuinely engaging and authentic images within the flickr database.
It seems each week these newly introduced pedagogies help me someway and make the methods I have employed in previous weeks easier. For example, when i was creating my Powerpoint I was saving the images I had used as a bookmark so I could recall to make a reference list. It was annoying and time consuming going back and locating all the HTML to finish my reference list. Flickr can make this easier and more readily accessible when making other digital pedagogies.
Images can play a large role in engaged and active learning as some students can learn better through images. Some instances where images can be used alone especially is through introductions to learning experiences. A good 'hook' could include presenting a stand alone image and letting students embrace and think about the image prior to being exposed to the significance of the image. I am a student primary school teacher, so working with images could be particularly effective in grabbing the perhaps wandering attention of the students. The students can reflect on what they think the image might be attempting to convey. I will ask the students questions to guide their thinking and to connect their semantic knowledge and thinking 'beyond the lines'. This is all very nice, but images alone are not going to make learning scaffolding most effective, just like lectures shoving written text exclusively down the thinking 'throats' of students.
Mahara is a fantastic portal to flood with images along with small amounts of text followed with links to other relevant websites. Images grab attention and make the subsequent text or significance easier to remember or understand. It is these images that lead to other more valued (according to Dale's cone and the Learning Pyramid) digital and non-digital pedagogies like direct experiences (one of the classes involved in my PRAC went on a fishing trip last week).
Balance is required between text and images of course, if some of balance is not met... say goodbye to the undivided attention of your students this course preaches.
- Active Learning. 'Why use active learning?' retrieved from http://www.acu.edu/cte/activelearning/whyuseal2.htm
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