Teaching Digital Research

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