Literacy Practices and Assessment

We are planning to make a photographic comic book (“How new teachers survive their day with a 8oz cup”) first, then present it through a video with sound tracts on dialogue and music. Katie and Etel are going to take photographs and make the comic book using Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator; Gladis is going to our actor (main character of our comic book); Yijia is going to make the comic book into video form by using Adobe After Effects. As a group, we are all going to contribute ideas on the topic, script and sound effects. Our project is based on the skills of photography, visual literacy, understanding of narrative and dialogue, musical literacy and digital literacy.

We are planning to create a series of GIFS showing our experiences throughout the B.Ed. program here at UBC. We’ll start with early experiences from the beginning of the year and show the journey throughout the year. We will put all these GIFS into a video format and they will be accompanied with a soundtrack of spliced together pop songs to help tell the narrative. This project will incorporate kinesthetic literacy with the acting out of the scenes. Visual and auto-biographical literacy comes into play with the video/gif format and the story being told through the gifs. Creating the audio soundtrack brings audio and musical literacy into play as well.

Stefana, Tasha, Jordan, Brooke, Lily, & Ryan.

Group Media Project

Enhancing knowledge understanding and knowledge retention using a genre typically aimed at the high school aged audience.  Typically a dry subject, Safety is the foundation of Technology Education and is paramount in what we do as shop teachers.  Our aim is to breathe new life into safety lessons and create a lasting impression on our students with the use of humor and visual entertainment.  We will touch on multiple literacies to maximize the effectiveness of our message.  Literacies used are:

• Digital
• Cartoon
• Humor
• Visual
• Safety
• Internet
• Reading

Brett Harrison
Jeremy O’Shea
Joel Bron

SUCK, SQEEZE, BANG, BLOW.

Well now that I have your attention, we chose to have fun with our project so we decided to do a parody of tech Ed culture and associated literacies. What does this mean? Well let me tell you… We will take you through the several literacies of our stereotypical Tech Ed world such as: wood, beach, plaid, fitness, bicycle mechanics, shot put, cooperative, impromptu dance, gadget, and runway literacy. We intended to push the boundaries of acceptability to broaden people’s minds to all the literacies involved with tech Ed. We did not intend to offend, only to humor and enlighten.

Calvin M  Tim Malindi Nikita Mike S