Your digital visual journal will showcase your artistic explorations across the unit.

Overview

Your digital visual journal will showcase your artistic explorations across the unit.

It is to be shaped around a central inquiry concept that emerged for you as you explored the content.

We recommendat least6 artefacts. You may choose one thing from each session, or you may choose 3 things from one session and none from another, as they relate to your inquiry concept.

The purpose of this assessment task is to:

Showcase your own artistic processes

Connect this learning to readings and resources

Show how what you have learnt can be applied in an early childhood setting

ASSESSMENT DETAILS

You will provide focus to your Digital Visual Journal by choosing aconceptthat emerged for you throughout the unit.

Some examples of concepts for your inquiry might be...

Movement, Encounter, Ecologies, Assemblage, or Time (the concepts in the Encounters with Materials book)

Specific concepts like: Using Natural materials or Embedding Indigenous perspectives'

Broader concepts like: Form (What is art?), Function (How does art work?), Change (How is art changing?), Connection (How is art connected to other things?), Responsibility (What is our responsibility as ECEs when teaching art?)

Any other concept that has emerged for you throughout the unit! Be creative!

You should title your journal An inquiry into... (and complete the sentence with your concept)

Your Digital Visual Journal will examine this concept through your artistic inquiries with sound, music, movement, drama and materials.

You will use a range of media - photography, written or audio narratives, videos, drawings, music, sound recordings and other creative media in this journal.

You will reflect on your own learning as an artist and discuss how this learning can be applied to your practice as an educator, making connections to the unit readings and resources.

PLEASE NOTE:

While you should start with a collection of your explorations and material inquiries in the unit,your visual journal is NOT a collection of everything that you have done through the unit.It should be carefully prepared around the concept that emerged for you through the unit.

Remember: this journal is about you as an artistandapplying this knowledge to an Early Childhood Setting.

You will usePadletto present your Digital Visual Journal:

You will submit the Padletsaved as a PDFas your file to the DropBox, including your reference list.

INSTRUCTIONS

To get started on your assessment task, please follow the below instructions.

In week 1, start aPadletto start collecting examples of your artistic explorations throughout the sessions. If you are completing in-class activities throughout the unit, you will be doing a lot of the work for this assessment task as you go.

As you work through the sessions,document, document, document!You will document your activities, responses to readings, artistic explorations and material inquiries. Document your own explorations as if you would a childs - observe yourself! This documentation will form the raw data for your journal.

Decide on aconcept, theme or idea (see list of examples in the Details section above) that has emerged throughout your studies in this unit. Think about your journal as"An inquiry into..."that theme/concept/idea

Refineyour documentation from step 1 so that it relates to this concept.

Give your Padlet atitlestarting with 'An inquiry into...'

Write anintroductionthat outlines your concept, how it connects to the unit material and how you will explore it.

Artefacts:Consider your artefacts. These are your samples of the art you created, your documentation of your own play and experimentation and how you created it. This could be:

Sketches, plans, drawings, paintings, sound recordings, video, photographs, aural documentation

Notes about the materials, techniques and processes used

The recommended number of artefacts isat least6.For example, you may choose one thing from each session, or you may choose 3 things from one session and none from another, as they relate to your inquiry concept.

Discussion:For each artefact, discuss connections to early childhood educationresearch and literature. Use the unit text (Encounters with Materials), other unit readings, the content and resources in the unit to support your discussion.

Implications for practice:For each artefact,provide a description of a rich, multidisciplinary learning experience, using the language in the artefact and showing how your artistic learning and understanding of the readings can be reflected in an early childhood setting.

Write a shortconclusionthat ties everything together.

Provide areference list, (check your in-text citations!) in line with Harvard conventions.

Save your Padlet as a PDF.

Submit the PDF file with a link to the Padlet (and a password if necessary).(Note: saving the Padlet as a pdf will mess up the formatting - don't worry, we will be assessing the Padlet, we just need the PDF so it can be checked for plagiarism).