During my internship I was able to collect a variety of footage for my social media accounts. For my final project I decided to create a video of each session. Creating the videos for the internship allowed me to review all of my images and videos. I was able to see the progress throughout my techniques and engagement with student voice and perspective. Each session brought a new experience and memorable moments that I was able to capture. Throughout creating the videos I was able to appreciate the children’s learning through hands on experiences and collaboration from the leaders and the students. With this video, the students are able to reflect on their experiences and remember their time with the hands on science crew. I used a program called Premiere Pro to create the videos. Premier pro is a video-editing software that is apart of the Adobe Creative Cloud. Premiere pro has a variety of features and functions. When using the program, the application continuously saves the projects you are working on, which is important during the process. The functions allow other forms of media to be imported and exported after effects. What is great about Premiere Pro is that the applications allows you to manually edit all the effects of the video such as, audio, video, images, transitions and more. Videos are shaping the world around us with how they are viewed and the content that they discuss. Media literacy is a skill that involves being able to analyze and understand media formats. Young people love to watch media and make connections to understand the issues and process. Because videos are versatile, students can create videos for any subject and topic. For example, students can document their learning and videotape the process. Students can create broadcasts, dramatic films, public service announcements, commercials, newscast, music videos and so much more. Creating a video for my internship helped me practice my skills and reflect on the hands on science experience. The video can help students retain what they have learned and be showcased for future students. The videos help bring each session to life and help build context and setting of the students’ experiences. The video helps the organization promote their hands on approach to science and experiential learning. Little Miss Video
0 Comments
People can analyze and create their own forms of media that convey a particular message. According to Silvia Tolisano media literacy is to have a critical understanding of the mass media. Habits of the twenty-first century can be documented through media literacy. Documentation can take form through a variety of media texts. For example, "Social media supports reading and writing in new forms". Teachers are notorious at sharing and circulating ideas and resources through text, images, videos and more. As an educator there are many different ways to digitally connect with other teachers around the world. Digital citizenship involves decision making, communications, rights and responsibilities. I believe it is important to be apart of the digital world and understand the relationship and the involvement process to teach students about safety, privacy and security when active online. Educational aspects can be connected to popular forms of media such as twitter, YouTube, and flickr. Educators can use media to develop ideas and connect with other educators as well as document their own personal learning and the students'. Pinterest for example can be related to the Blooms Taxonomy. An educator can organize their social media accounts for educational purposes, recording and saving posts that relate to specific tasks/requirements. The "Bloom's Taxonomy & Pinterest" image demonstrates how Pinterest can be incorporated in the learning experience. In this example a combination of basic, visual, digital, global, networking and media literacy skills are used. During my internship I have been actively involved with sharing the students experience. My intentions for the instagram and twitter account is for the students learning experience to be documented using an engaging outlet. Jerome Bruner (2014) said, "we like people to stick to the factual of what goes on now... I say, the main object of teaching and educating is to get them to think and share their notions of where this leads to go beyond the information given." with that said, I have decided my creations need to go beyond their existence within the platform. Last term, I was able to create accounts and build a "Hands on Science" digital profile and as I continue to work on new and upcoming media related tools for the team, I keep thinking about how I can get the students involved in their own making of the digital sites. I want the students to be able to tell their own story. Behind the camera and the social media is me and my goal this term is to shift the perspective to what the students see and think.
Little Miss Media
Hands on Science is a vibrant and exciting internship, it has been an enjoyment to be apart of each session and have the opportunity to photo document the students, other interns and activities taken place. I was able to capture all the students enthusiasm and educational experience. We emailed a teacher who surveyed her students to discover their favourite social media sites. The grade 8 students mentioned that they prefer to use Instagram and snap chat. Since I was taking photo's at each session I thought an Instagram page would be the best media outlet to share the photographs of each session. The Instagram page is a summary of the main activities the children participated in. My target audience is the students involved in the sessions, teachers and the Lakehead University community. I hope the the followers continue to grow throughout my process working with Hands on Science and continues to grow with future interns. My intention is to share insights to the program and examples of hands on learning in relation to science topics. When developing the Hands on Science Instagram page I took in consideration a system of order and consistent design. The sessions are shown in a collage of four photos that illustrates their arrival at Lakehead, the students participation and the activities that took place. A few couple photos are individually selected to highlight the overall learning. In the beginning of the term, I took a group photo of the internship students. I also decided it would be a creative idea to have an individual photo of each intern holding a sign of what science means to them. I was inspired by the video our media class was creating about what learning means to us. We started our statements with "learning is..." and I adapted it to "science is ...". The interns individual photos are posted in between each session. Each photo has a positive caption, emoticons and a hand full of hashtags. I used the hashtags to broaden my viewers and to attract attention to specific topics. #Lakehead #science #expierencemore #creating #funlearning #handsonscience #onted #students #Orillia I also used Instagram to promote our Twitter account. I hope to use this account to promote more tweets, events, and sessions Hands on Science will be hosting in the next semester. My next steps for advancing and improving our site is to add videos and boomerang shots. I would like to make the account more engaging for the students and have opportunities for them to communicate with us through the platform. I plan to create a flyer and post them in local public schools as well at the Lakehead campus and Heritage Place. The flyers will have paper tabs that people can pull off with our media information. I love being behind the lens because I observe a variety of emotions and reactions. When reviewing the photos, I notice an evolution of engagement and excitement. I am able to be inspured by peers while they teach lesson and provide supportive feedback. They have introduced me to fun hands on science materials and activities. It brings me joy sharing and editing the images for others to see. I am proud of the work I have put forth so far and can't wait to share more photos! Little Miss Instagram
I have been using social media platforms since I was twelve which was when I got my first Facebook account. It is crazy to reflect on how far technology has come since then and how many more applications have been developed. For an example when I first started using Facebook, my friends and I would write on each others walls and write status's daily. Now, I use Facebook for sharing found images and videos that are interesting or just hilarious to me as well as communicating with other if I do not have their phone number. On my news feed now I find more general rather than personal posts and business and companies appear more and more on my newsfeed. Since social media has become a big commodity for connecting communities around the world and promoting large and small business's, their are more features and settings that can adapt the platform for a variety of purposes such as such as advertisements, promotions, contests, social awareness, debate and much more. Students are already familiar with using social media even as early as kindergarten. What's important is that using media as an educational tool allows students to gain web literacy skills which is prominent in the 21st century. As a modern educator teaching students how to use social media to connect with others will create more opportunities for them to grow as digital and social learners but most importantly I can teach my students how to use media safely and appropriately. I have always used media as a personal collection of photos, ideas and a tool to interact with others but being a part of Hands on Science will be the first time I am creating media sites for other than myself. My partner and I had to set up a meeting with media relations and our site-cordinator. The meeting was held to ensure we are representing Lakehead in an appropriate manner. We created a photo with the "Hands on Science" logo that looks the exact same as the other programs at Lakehead. We discussed the type of information and photos we will be posting and came to an agreement that the students participating in the session have a consent form signed and handed in before the session begins and students who do not have a form or do not accept consent will be removed from any photographs that are taken and published. We also discussed the use of hashtags (#), we can use them to connect our site-coordinator and the Lakehead community so that they can be apart of our digital journey. We also talked about creating promotional videos which will be uploaded on Lakehead's YouTube account. One conflict that has arrived is building Hands on Science a website. Hands on Science already has a page in Lakehead's website and we are still waiting on information in regards to accessing and editing the site. After we had conversed about the basic rules of developing social media sites for Hands on Science we were then able to start creating. Since the meeting with media relations and our site-coordinator we have developed Hands on Science first Instagram and Twitter account! Little Miss Following the Rules
|
|