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Creative Project 60%

Research & Development 40%  You are asked to produce a comprehensive blog archiving and annotating your creative development during the duration of the unit. You should use the blog to reflect critically upon your own creative practice and the wider cultural and thematic context of the unit.

Important! Your blog must include…

  

Reviews of the ‘The Unhomely Cinema’ Film programme. Please note – in addition to and support of your own critique, your reviews must include a minimum of 3 quotations from 3 different published reviews + poster art + supporting stills. Please note - Harvard Method must used for all quotations and all illustrations to be referenced correctly. Reviews are to include bibliography and illustration list. 

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• To establish the factors that had led to a

successful, satisfied community

• To evaluate the activity using literature

around online communities

• To try and develop a model which could

help inform my practice

Why was I interested?

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• Community of purpose shared objective

• Community of circumstance similar life experience

• Community of interest common interest/hobby

• Community of practice similar vocation

Types of online community (Marathe, 1999)

• Classroom community is a significant factor for predicting course completion and satisfaction (Graff, 2006; Ouzts, 2006; Rovai, 2002a; 2002b)

• Strong sense of community can promote retention and increased learning of course content (Drouin, 2008; Ouzts, 2003; 2006; Palloff & Pratt, 2007; Rovai & Whiting, 2007).

How can communities enhance student learning?

The pedagogical value of the blogs (Laurillard, 2002)

AdaptiveAdaptive

InteractiveInteractive

Reflective

DiscursiveDiscursiveEnable learning conversations between tutor student and student student

Content constantly updatedDevelops transferable & core skills

Students contribute content andcomment on each other’s work

Blogs facilitate students’ critical reflection on their own and other’s work

• Reciprocal support is a vital part of community networks (Rennie and Keppel, 2010)

• Tutors and peers can provide immediate, targeted feedback at the point of learning (Nicol and Macfarlane-Dick, 2004)

• Comment-based nature of blogging permits asynchrous learning conversations (Laurillard, 2002)

Improved learning experience

• “Members have a shared domain of interest and a shared commitment to the domain”

• “Members engage in joint activities and discussions even though they may work alone”

• “Members are practitioners and develop a shared repertoire of resources, experiences, tools and ways of addressing recurring problems”

A community of practice (Wenger, 1998)

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