Multimedia Imagetic Teaching

segunda-feira, 3 de setembro de 2007

How MIT Workshop works?

1 Our wish is to motivate teachers’ creativity, rather than teaching teachers to teach. It’s the person behind the role we work with, intelligent and sensible people. So, through a workshop based on theories of contemporary Philosophers, such as Edgar Morin, Leanordo Boff, etc… we bring thinking and reflecting into photography.

The idea is to suggest photography as language of communication between the individual and the world where they exist. Through a series of exchanging thoughts and socializing ideas on what communication is and the different types of languages and symbols we use in the process, tutors suggest participants to experiment and experience photographing in a freer but more reflexive way, aiming photography as means of communication – “an image is worth a thousand words”.

2 Once participants have experienced enough photographing according to tutors orientation, and some round tables of specific topics about photography such as: composition, light, movement, perspectives, plans and get-to-know your camera activities, we go straight to AdobePhotoshop.

3 At this point we get to Creative Photography and what we call “photosimulacros”, and how to get to feel new stimulus, motivating new concepts and ideas – (sur)realism. After first experimentes we start teaching photo editing and photo designing for imagetic digital material for ELT. We teach basic tools in AdobePhotoshop software and demonstrate some ideas on how to use such tool for photo-based tasks and virtual realia for ELT.
4 Only after practicing and reassuring students are confident in using AdobePhotoshop, tutors then introduce WindowsMovieMaker, for video editing. During this period the group socializes ideas about: imagetic narratives, Musichronism, creative screen play, basic tips for editing, videoart (free expression of mind and feelings) and briefed videos – that’s when tutors lead participants to designed book-based DIY videos for scaffolding ELT in the digital age, where technology is vastly input into contemporary and urban societies – focusing on academic fields.

Project Profile

MIT [Multimedia Imagetic Teaching]

Videoart Applied to Language Teaching

Multimedia Imagetic Teaching

is about a lot of things...

It’s about,
Things you see,
Things you listen to,
Things you read,
Things you touch,
Things you observe,
Things you feel and
Things you realize.

It’s about things
that make you think,
It’s about everything
at the same time.

It’s about emotions,
It’s about sensations,
It’s about imagination,
It’s about language,
It’s about learning,
and it’s about teaching.

by

GHustavo Távora