Assignment 4 - Photos

Here's the collection of photos I included for the 4th Assignment.  I've learned from this activity that I'm a point and click type of photographer and don't have the patience or imagination required to improve my skills in this department.

Photo Assignments

1. 8th - Make a photograph of a plastic object that you’ve used today.
2. 10th – Make a photograph where LIGHT is a main element in the image.
3. 12th – Make a photo of part of an everyday object and let everyone guess what it is.
4. 14th – Make a photograph focussing on nature – animals, plants, landscapes, etc.
5. 16th – Make of photograph of technology that you use often.
6. 18th - What’s the weather like this weekend?
7. 20th – Take a photograph from an unusual angle.

1 - Make a photograph of a plastic object that you’ve used today - Readers in Every Room

2 - Make a photograph where LIGHT is a main element in the image - this is a screen grab from my iphone of an app developed just after Steve Jobs died.

3 - Make a photo of part of an everyday object and let everyone guess what it is. - It's an SD card!

4 - Make a photograph focussing on nature -  From My Valentine  - the boy did good!

5 - Make of photograph of technology that you use often. It has to be my iPhone

6 - What’s the weather like this weekend? Up at Loch Katerine on a long walk training for The West Highland Way over 6 days in April (between hail showers - ouch!)

7 - Take a photograph from an unusual angle. Taken  by a student in an FE college we work with - far too clever for me to have thought of.

3rd Assignment - Comic Timing

image from Flickr by hartnupj
licensed through CC

Its a bit ironic given the title of this assignment - Comic Timing - that I haven't been able to find time to complete this one. I can however point you to a case study that we completed here with Glasgow School of Art Library Service about how they used Comic Life to create resources to assist their library induction processes.

You can hear a podcast about the project here. The podcast features Jude Boyd, IT librarian at the Glasgow School of Art who explains how the library team worked together to create a 'comic book' style induction resources for students and staff. The goal was to create an alternative and a more visual style of presenting information for library users which would make the information more accessible to a wider range of users. For example students with dyslexia, those learners with more visual learning styles and also for overseas students who may not have English as their first language.

Take a look at the resources here:
Comic Book guide to the ground floor of the Library
Comic Book guide to the first floor of the Library