Multimodal Journey: Week 3: Week of January 28th

Another key piece that I worked on in my Bachelor of Education that I want to incorporate into my learning journey is actually multimodal, although I did not know the term for this at the time. I plan to incorporate this into my learning journey piece as it was very influential in my drive to integrate technology into my teaching practice. An artist came in to our class to show us some of the work that we can do with students incorporating different types of art mediums with photography. Due to time restraints, we never had an opportunity to put together our own pieces into stop motion photography. The instructor had simply taken the pictures and artwork that we had produced and put it together himself. Each group had to pick a cause that they wanted to fight for. Our group had chosen to fight for the integration of arts in education. We were required to use construction paper cut-outs, plastercine, and to create a flip book. Our first task was to create a storyboard to narrow down what messages we wanted to have in our short film, and then we had to plan out what construction materials we would use for each frame and to decide who was going to work with which medium. This activity required a lot of cooperation from all group members and we had a very short time period in which to get everything completed.

I was disappointed that this instructor did not have something set up so that we could actually put our story together how we wanted to. I would have learned more by experiencing this first hand, instead of just receiving a final product to view. This is part of my motivation for wanting to further explore stop motion photography with storytelling. After seeing the final product of our work and experiencing the development of our story I could see the benefits of using this medium in my own classroom.