Sharing Practice – An example of what students can produce when given flexible assessments
Clearly we are into the thick of the term now, so, for a few minutes reprieve, as well as some early term inspiration, grab a coffee and watch this outstanding and surprisingly touching student produced video.
This video documentary was created for an assessed task on a distance learning tourism module in EHC. Paul Mullins, the module leader, who marked and kindly shared this work with us, offers his thoughts and a brief summary below:
“The piece of work submitted by this student was exceptional. He took as his theme the Indian festival of Diwali and captured the changing meaning of the festival by interviewing different generations of his family. It was a very touching, intimate and human exploration of how festivals can unite cultures and how their meaning and significance can evolve over time.”
Additional contextual information is also offered by Paul:
“Students from across South East Asia who participated in last year’s Summer Semester Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality programme were required to participate in a distance learning module to complete their course of studies. One of the assignments set required them to explore the concept of “Eventful Cities”. This is a term that has been coined to describe how city’s draw upon the creative energies of their local cultures and public spaces to animate their cities in order to project very positive, intimate and human sense of place. The students were tasked with observing, recording, photographing and reflecting on this concept within the city’s that they were living in at the time in South East Asia. They were asked to select up to 5 appropriate photographic images that they had taken and that they felt best portrayed this concept in their city and submit them as a presentation via Blackboard. They were also encouraged to support this with a video.”
Do let us know what you think, and please get in touch if you have any other TEL related work that you would be happy to share with the faculty.