2013 Summit Programme - The Centre for Excellence in Media ...

Friday 20th 11.30 - 12.15. Cantor Atrium
Multiple Modalities - Animated Voices
Oksana Fedotova, Geir Petter Laingen, with Jordan Banister, Callie Booth, Jamie
Depledge, Michaela Wozny
This is a companion poster for the paper “Problematising ‘voice’ and ‘creativity’ in visual storytelling
projects”, presented elsewhere during the Summit. The paper examines the notions
of voice, creativity and engagement, by comparing two visual storytelling projects run within
Media Arts critical studies modules at Sheffield Hallam University. Within the project, the
students created stories and visualisations on the broad subject of ‘student issues’, as a way
to meet the learning outcomes traditionally assessed by essay. Unlike the other projects
discussed in the paper, the students did not work to a tightly-defined client brief, but defined
their own goals and outputs, within the broad parameters of the module learning outcomes.
The poster provides additional illustrative materials and video clips, but also an opportunity to
meet the student participants, discuss their experiences and to consider the potential for the
development of student-generated learning resources, including the benefits and challenges
for the learners, the institution and the broader audience.
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Keywords: visual storytelling, student voice, multimodal assessment, OER.
Oksana Fedotova teaches critical and contextual studies on undergraduate courses in
Animation, Digital Media Production, Game Design, Media and Communication at Sheffield
Hallam University. Her current research interests focus on technology-enhanced learning,
multimodal assessment and visual storytelling in education.
Jordan Banister, Callie Booth, Jamie Depledge and Michaela Wozny
are BA/MArt Animation students at Sheffield Hallam University.
Geir Petter Laingen works as Digital Fluency Advisor and Associate Lecturer, and is currently
in the final year of his PhD on digital media in education.
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