teaching digital research
DESCRIPTION
Paper delivered at the inaugural Digital Humanities conference held at ANU, Canberra March 28, 2012. Movie image files removed to reduce file size.TRANSCRIPT
CAPACITY CURRICULUM CONTENT
TEACHING DIGITAL RESEARCH METHODS USING BONZA
DEB VERHOEVEN (DEAKIN UNIVERSITY)
@BESTQUALITYCRAB
INTRODUCTION
NATIONAL CINEMAS
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
assessment for learning
mobilising students’ existing knowledge
self-direction and choice
opportunities for continuous improvement
just-in-time teaching
blended learning
engaging students through multiple channels (courseware, twitter)
merging the in-class and out-of-class experiences
BACKGROUNDBONZA MARK I
Adrian Miles: http://vogmae.net.au/
HELEN TWELVETREES
COMMITTEE FOR UNIVERSITY TEACHING AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT (CUTSD) 1999
Project Title:
Developing Authentic Research and Writing Skills in Cinema Studies Using a Hypermedia Database to Create an Online Learning Environment to Enable the Linking of Cinema Studies Essays ‘written’ in Words and Pictures, Between Students and the Film Industry at Large.
THE (ORIGINAL) ‘PROBLEM’
As a discipline Cinema Studies is driven by film ‘texts’ which combine sound and image; its students however, produce knowledge only in print. This not only has implications for the way knowledge is traditionally understood and applied in Cinema Studies, it is limiting in terms of expression. The distance of printed texts from cinema texts hinders the development of thought in relation to Cinema Studies. It also constrains the students’ understanding of research activities and contexts.
This project aims to improve the quality of student learning in Cinema Studies by using an ongoing, online database to link individual student research with the work of other students and the wider research community. In addition, student users of the database will present their research in Internet writing forms that enable the inclusion of words, sound and image. Through the use of an online database, Internet hypermedia essays, self driven learning and supervised teaching strategies this project creates an authentic context in which students will obtain first hand insight into the disparate, multiple, and contentious histories and practices of Cinema Studies research. As a result of these processes, this project will generate a series of ongoing Cinema Studies resources including a fully accessible online Australian film history database, simple ‘forms’ based Internet writing tools and a series of teaching and learning manuals.
LINKS AND CONTEXTUAL RELATIONSHIP
DESCRIPTION
SEARCH
STORYSPACE
ESSAYS
ESSAYS
ESSAYS: EXAMPLE
WHAT IS IT ABOUT THIS WORK THAT MAKES IT A PIECE OF RESEARCH?(PHENOMENOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS)
BONZA MARK II
WWW.BONZA.RMIT.EDU.AU
PARK THEATRE
STAR LYRIC FITZROY
CAPRI THEATRE
SAVOY THEATRE
WEEK 3 POLL
WEEK 6 POLL
WEEK 7 POLL
• Research as a process
• Research as cumulative
• Research as cooperative and collaborative
• Research as a socially and institutionally embedded practice
• Research as productive
EVALUATION
END CREDITS
Emma PriceDeakin University
Alex Gionfriddo, AFI Research Collection