INTRODUCTION
Hanife Karakaya is the teacher leading the Technology miniMooc creation. She has been working on that project wih the active involvement of some other colleagues namely Hesna Doğruyol, Emel Akyol Kas and İmren Mazman Başeğmez. They are all teachers at Manisa Social Sciences High School (Turkyia).
Technology is the main focus of the Mini-Mooc but the Mini Mooc also practises some other disciplines. The target audience (high school students) have to do Science, Art and Maths within that Mini-Mooc. It also allows the students to develop several skills:
- Soft skills: Visual communication, Verbal communication, Creativity -Aesthetics ,Attention to detail, Analysis - Critical Thinking, Logical reasoning, Observation, Brainstorming, Decision making- , Active listening, Patience and Time management, Motivation, Collaboration, Coordination and Idea Exchange
- Hard skills: Photography Skills, Photo Editing , Cell Phone / Digital Photography, Post Processing Apps Skills (Photoshop, Lightroom, Snapseed...etc), Social Media, Zoom - Photo composition, Foreign language skills, Computer skills and Presentation skills
Each miniMOOC is developed on the same methodology, including the parts Engage, Explore, Explain, Extend, Evaluate. You can browse all miniMOOCs with guest account, however if you want to mark the checked resources (which you explored, which still need to be explored), to post something in Forum, to provide us Feedback or to do Moodle tests - you need to self-create an account by selecting login and creating an account with your Gmail (or other) acount.
- Photography, the art of light, uses reflected light from a scene to record images and it is your camera which focuses this reflected light and magnifies the image. The first film camera went on sale in 1888. The first digital camera went on sale in 1994. Today photography is changing from a chemical technology into a digital technology - with great advances in the field, photography deserves to be the topic of a Technology Mini Mooc. Visiting Science Museum Group and observing the photography machines = cameras will also offer the insight into this photographic technology.
The international mini MOOC outline has 5 E’s phases:
1.Engage 2.Explore 3.Explain 4.Extend 5.Evaluate
The main tasks involved in each E phase are :
1. Sharing two photos from the cell phone gallery and telling about them.
2. Putting the photos into the correct sequence -visiting museum and checking the right sequence.Commenting on the right sequence.
3. Answering a pre-test and studying the knowledge of the photography
4. Exploring the school museum within several activities; taking the photos of the museum objects.
5. Answering the post-test and Designing a virtual museum.
Please self-create an account if you want to post something - we would appreciate any comments of suggestions or questions (just note that project ended in August 2022 and it may take time for us to respond).