This week our timetable changed which meant instead of ICT we started having visual communications as part of our course. The first half of our first lesson we had, we looked at and had to think images and what they represent. There are 3 main areas for this, audience, object and artist. For Braces bread, the object would be the bread itself, the audience would be the consumers, so people who eat this type of bread and the artist would be the people who created the image and product that is Braces bread. Another example is advertisements on television which are aimed at a certain audience i.e. pampers nappies are aimed towards parents with babies.

In the second half of the lesson we looked at some example the lecture had of what images and videos represent. We were showed several images of things which have purpose behind them. We did this for several images, with the famous painting of 'The Scream'.



We also watched a video of 'The Big Shave 1968' which was of a man shaving in his pure white bathroom, and the second time he shaved he began to bleed and yet he carried on shaving until his face was covered in his own blood. I found this hard to watch, however I found out that it was to show criticism towards America's engagement in the Vietnam war.

Image made out of words using text-image.com, the Graffiti creator, Wordle and Tagxedo.com

 A graduation cap and school made out of the word Graduation.

  

Penguin with the word penguin.

Words associated with Cats.

My name using graffiti-creator.com

Words associated with University.

ICT Lecture 10/01/12

Last week in our ICT lecture we started to make a class movie. We were put into 4 groups, each with a specific aspect of University to do the movie on. My group had 'the people' so we had a video camera to capture all examples of 'the people' in University. We walked around the Uni, videoing students, lecturers, dinner ladies, librarians etc who make up the people of our University. We then transferred the footage onto movie maker, where we added music and edited the footage into a film, ready to show our class the next week.

In keeping with the Christmas theme, we could use websites such as blogger to tell the story of the nativity. We could do a daily account of the events that took place at that time or even an hourly account of the events, to make a more accurate story. For example we could write how the three wise men came to visit the baby Jesus and even have a picture of them with their gifts. This idea could set the nativity play out clearly and simple making it easier for everyone to understand the story of the nativity.

Placement

My week placement was great. Although there was not much actual work for me to see the children doing as it was Christmas, I was still able to interact well with the children and staff and therefore have a great understanding of some examples such as the foundation phase in the school. It was the week of the Christmas concert in the school so the children were mostly practising for the concert and doing Christmas activities such as Christmas lists. Overall it was a very fulfilling week and I was able to obtain useful information which will help me with the steps towards a career in this area.