Relationships!

A few weeks ago, I published an experiment about creating a short story made out of seven photographs which all link to one theme. I decided to give it another try as I wanted to do something that would mean a lot to me and others could reflect on it. 

After looking through ideas on YouTube, I gained a wider knowledge on what I would want to do for my own. While making the short story I found it difficult because it is something that is personal to myself and I haven't long been through the changes. 

All photographs used in the story are my own and are all linked to relationships and how they change. As well as having to decide what photographs I was going to use in the story, I also had to decide on whether I wanted music in the background. I decided on Through Glass by Stone Sour as this song brings back many memories and I personally feel that it has a connection with the story line. 


Below is the story I made by using Microsoft Windows Movie Maker:

Human Life Cycle!

I decided to create an animation on http://www.abcya.com/animate.htm
The animation website is designed for children, which I could tell by the simple tools and features that the website holds. However, I would have liked to slow down my animation but could not find out how to do this. 

The website is also free to use and there is no need to register. After spending an hour of my time trying to decide and create an animation, I got to explore and use the tools available to me, due to the simplicity of the website, all ages would be able to use it. 

My animation is based on the human life cycle. 

Reflection!

What is reflection?

When thinking about reflection my immediate thought is to recall a past event or experience. I would then evaluate it by asking questions such as, if I had to relive it again what would I have done differently? I would also ask simple questions such as, what were the positives and negatives of the event or experience?

Throughout our lives we continue to reflect on the events and experiences that we go through. However we do not always realise that we are doing it. An example of this would be a young child losing a family pet for the first time. You would then reflect by evaluating what has happened, why it happened, would it be similar the next time it happens, and how do you move forward from here?

After looking through research online about reflection I came across an interesting website which has a quote from John Dewey who says, “We do not learn from experience…we learn from reflecting on experience.”

It also mentions metacognition which consists of developing an action plan, monitoring the plan and evaluating the plan. This is also important when it comes to my university course as it is something that we are beginning to learn about. 

This is a diagram showing metacognition:

Below I created a flowchart on the reflective process which I created on bubbl.us.

References

Reflective Practice - Reflection for Learning. 2013. Reflective Practice - Reflection for Learning [ONLINE] Available at: https://sites.google.com/site/reflection4learning/why-reflect 

bubbl.us | brainstorm and map online. 2013. bubbl.us | brainstorm and map online. [ONLINE] Available at: https://bubbl.us/ 

Safety First!

Is it possible to make a themed story in seven photographs? This is a challenge that I am going to experiment with and find out for myself how simple or difficult this can be.

The video below is a demonstration of the themed story that I made about fire safety. The photographs were taken around my university campus where I experimented by taking a variety of different photographs to decide on a theme which would then be suitable for a short story. I decided to base my theme on fire safety because of the majority of signs around the campus which were focused on fire hazards and emergencies.