Evaluating: Type Animation

[GrahamRGibbs]

Sancha,

your last point, about not counting as an academic resource, reminded me that there is a general issue of how we – and how we teach students to – cite learning resources. I see no reason why they should not cite videos etc. if it is good quality material. I’ve started putting citation information on the pages of written resources of my OnlineQDA website, but I’ve not done this for videos and I’ve never seen it done on YouTube. But why not? We probably need to teach students to apply the same discrimination to the wide range of learning resources as we do to printed materials and to cite them following the same principles (Author, Title, place of production, date etc.) as we use for journal papers, books etc.

Graham

(Still getting terrible scores on my Helvetica vs Arial app)

[Stephen Brown]

Hi Sancha, just to say thank you for posting the link to this lovely, playful, engaging and informative resource. Im definitely going to use this one.  The stop animation technique is great too, although the idea of having to create so much cut paper material, shoot so many pictures and do so much editing is daunting!

Stephen

[ElizabethECharl]

Sancha – a great evaluation of this resource.

Graham – interesing point about citing such items.  I did not think there was an issue with this but it could be because my department includes media studies which equals films, so I am used to learners needing to cite from films and videos wherever they may be sourced. They are treated in the same manner as online databases or other such resources with URL and date and time accessed.

[GraphDesProject]

You’re welcome!

[James Kerr]

One of the learning objectives in my introductory computer science courses is always about citing resources; since it’s an introductory class usually populated with first-year students, this reinforces the requirements for citations that they will need throughout their university career (and beyond).

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