Reflecting on Using Film with Children.
Whilst at Shirley Warren I had to adapt to another groups article. Although planning for the right to be healthy, another member of the class had all their group members missing, therefore I was not a part of the planning/organisation process however gained a lot from it. The article I ended up with was the right to relax and have fun.
Working with the children was fantastic and it amazed me how much they knew about filming. Although it is a worry how this would work with a whole class, I think it could be a valuable experience for all as long as groups were organised well and teacher/TA deployment was effective. The behaviour of the children was impressive and I think much of this is due to the engagement with using technology (Dean 2010).
The most valuable part for me today was being able to use the technology in the school. It intimidates me using all these advanced programmes like it does many teachers (Marsh et al. 2005), however I recognised how simple they actually are to use! When in school and on my self directed placement, I aim to use a wide range of resources available on their computers so I can use them in a variety of ways for the children.
Dean, G. ‘Rethinking Literacy’ in Bazalgette, C.
(ed) (2010) Teaching Media in Primary Classrooms London:Sage
Marsh, J. Brooks,G. Hughes,J. Ritchie, L. Roberts,
S. Wright, K (2005) Digital beginnings: Young children’s use of popular
culture, media and new Technologies University of Sheffield (Section 2.10 p.46;
Sections 3.2 & 3.3 p48/49)
You changed groups from animation to filming, how was the filming process and was there anything that challenged you?
ReplyDeleteFilming was really good especially the editing side of it. I did find it a bit difficult to edit at first but because I was with an ICT specialist it really helped when getting used to the programme. How was animation? I heard from the other group that it was quite difficult but I think we were using a different type.
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