scholarly journals Media literacy in video production: An experiment with university students

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Stavros Kaperonis
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Video Production ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
Specific Theme ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Tools And Techniques

This article describes an experimental academic e-course during the Covid-19 pandemic, in which 178 undergraduate students were asked to become video creators and narrators through a specific methodology in order to become digitally literate and produce original content.This practical e-workshop took place in the context of the “Video, Image and Audio Editing” course of the Department of Communication, Media and Culture at Panteion University and was adapted to the needs of a distance learning course. Its main aim was the students’ familiarization with literacy in digital tools and techniques that until now was only achieved in an actual laboratory setting. The research is divided into two phases. The first phase concerns this article and analyzes the methodology of video production as well as the students’ acquisition of digital tools. In the second phase, specific factors will be studied, from the videos produced, through qualitative research so as to determine the audience’s interaction with the narrative content, as well as with the factors that students believe contributed to the interaction of that content.Students gained knowledge of digital video tools which was upgraded to the capabilities and needs of each student. They acquired video editing skills based on the content through a specific theme and a theme of each group student’s choice. Students increased their literacy skills in both digital media and video projection on social media and gained knowledge concerning the interaction that was encouraged through these mediums. In this laboratory course, a specific methodology was used that included pre-production, production and post-production. The final product included two videos, the first with a specific theme and the second with a theme of each group student’s choice.

Critique and the video production classroom: providing students the skills to navigate new media literacies

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessie Nixon
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Video Production ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
New Media Literacy ◽  
The Impact

Purpose This paper aims to demonstrate how teaching the discourse of critique, an integral part of the video production process, can be used to eliminate barriers for young people in gaining new media literacy skills helping more young people become producers rather than consumers of digital media. Design/methodology/approach This paper describes an instrumental qualitative case study (Stake, 2000) in two elective high school video production classrooms in the Midwestern region of the USA. The author conducted observations, video and audio recorded critique sessions, conducted semi-structured interviews and collected artifacts throughout production including storyboards, brainstorms and rough and final cuts of videos. Findings Throughout critique, young video producers used argumentation strategies to cocreate meaning, multiple methods of inquiry and questioning, critically evaluated feedback and synthesized their ideas and those of their peers to achieve their intended artistic vision. Young video producers used feedback in the following ways: incorporated feedback directly into their work, rejected and ignored feedback, or incorporated some element of the feedback in a way not originally intended. Originality/value This paper demonstrates how teaching the discourse of critique can be used to eliminate barriers for young people in gaining new media literacy skills. Educators can teach argumentation and inquiry strategies through using thinking guides that encourage active processing and through engaging near peer mentors. Classroom educators can integrate the arts-based practice of the pitch critique session to maximize the impact of peer-to-peer learning.

The Self-Reported Confidence and Proficiency Levels in Communication Skills: A Comparison of Senior Capstone Students and Undergraduate Students in a Technical Communication Course

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Parker ◽  
Kathryn Marcynuk ◽  
Vanier Scholar
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Communication Course ◽  
Proficiency Levels ◽  
Personal Skills ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Capstone Design Courses

One study of American college students foundthat students generally rate such attributes as publicspeaking and writing (along with academic ability ingeneral) as above average [6]. So we wanted to see if ourengineering students felt the same. To do so, weconducted our study over two phases and over multipleyears. The second phase grew out of an earlier one, phaseone, conducted between the winter term, 2013 and thewinter term, 2016. In the first phase, we administered asurvey that asked 2nd year technical communicationstudents to self-report on their levels of proficiency andconfidence in their communication skills – writing,speaking, teamwork and personal skills development (orlifelong learning) [2][5]. In all, 370 students completed thesurvey.This survey, administered at the beginning andtoward the end of the course, asked 20 questions relatedto communication tasks that we routinely ask them to doas part of the course, such as writing documents of >5pages or <5 pages, or giving a speech to groups of >20or <20 people. The survey, which took about 10 minutesto complete, was completely anonymous so that studentscould not be matched to grades nor could we determinewhy a student responded in a particular way. This earlierstudy found that students felt they had a moderate level ofconfidence in their communication skills, but they alsobelieved that the expected level of proficiency in theirsenior year would be substantially higher than theircurrent levels; that is, whereas they believed these currentlevels were, on average, 3 on the CDIO scale of 5, theybelieved the expected proficiency levels would be 4.5 onaverage.We were then curious to see how students in thesenior (capstone) design courses would respond to thesame survey. Once again, the survey was anonymous andcould not be matched to a particular student. Our goal insurveying capstone students was to see whether they stillfelt at least moderately confident in their communicationskills (for the most part, they do) and whether they nowfeel more proficient in communicating the informationthat supports the engineering work done in the course.Our expectation was that this cohort of senior capstonestudents would feel more proficient and confident thantheir younger selves

Developing students’ linguistic and digital literacy skills through the use of multimedia presentations

ReCALL ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Baohua Yu ◽  
Artem Zadorozhnyy
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
English Language ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Video Production ◽  
Language Curriculum ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Class Presentation ◽  
The Impact

Abstract With the immense presence of English language video content in the online digital environment and students’ everyday exposure to multimedia content, this project aims to explore how to replace traditional in-class presentation with video presentation within an autonomous learning environment, examine the impact of doing so on the development of English language and digital literacy skills, and develop assessment rubrics at both individual and group levels. The project was conducted as part of an English language course for undergraduate students majoring in English in the context of a higher education institution in Hong Kong. Data were collected through multiple methods: survey questionnaires, open-ended questions, and face-to-face interviews. The results showed that the video production mode of presentation could not only replace traditional in-class presentation but also improve students’ learning autonomy, and language, collaborative, and digital literacy skills. The analysis of videos elucidated how the video production (VPR) group of students use multimodal semiotic resources to design their relationships with viewers while simultaneously adapting their discoursal identities. In addition, the comparison between VPR- and non-VPR-group presentations demonstrates that constructing audio-visual resources in a collaborative environment contributes to a variety of aspects to a higher extent. Implications for foreign language curriculum and instructional design, as well as recommendations for future studies of digitalization of students’ oral assessment tasks, are discussed.

scholarly journals A Machine Learning Perspective on Causes of Suicides and identification of Vulnerable Categories using Multiple Algorithms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jitendra Shreemali ◽  
Prasun Chakrabarti ◽  
Tulika Chakrabarti ◽  
Sandeep Poddar ◽  
Daniel Sipple ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Random Trees ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Numeric Model ◽  
The Family ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Country Specific

AbstractBackgroundSuicides represent a social tragedy with long term impact for the family. Given the growing incidence of suicides, a better understanding of factors causing it and addressing them has emerged as a social imperative.Material and MethodsThis study analyzed suicide data for three decades (1987-2016) and was carried out in two phases. Machine Learning Models run after pre-processing the suicide data included Neural network, Regression, Random Forest, XG Boost Tree, CHAID, Generalized Linear, Random Trees, Tree-AS and Auto Numeric Model.Results and ConclusionAnalysis of findings suggested that the key predictors for suicide are Age, Gender, and Country. In the second phase, data from happiness reports were merged with suicide data to check if Country-specific factors impact the list or order of key predictors. While the key predictors remain the same, Country-specific factors like Generosity, Health and Trust impact the suicide rate in the Country.

scholarly journals STUDENTS' OPINION ON THE IMPORTANCE OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES IN GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING FROM THE ASPECT OF DIGITAL MEDIA

2021 ◽  
Vol XII (35) ◽  
pp. 329-354
Author(s):  
Mirela Müller ◽  
Silvija Ugrina
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
German Language ◽  
Final Grade ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Academic Year

The research in this paper aims to determine different approaches in teaching German, the influence of digital tools and to determine the differences between first and second-year undergraduate students at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split and Osijek; to identify links between the impact of the teaching approach, and metalanguage awareness, and the final grade at the end of the semester or academic year; to determine the connection between the influence of different digital tools as auxiliary tools and easier mastering of student obligations, understanding, and finally to determine the connection between teachers and/or lecturers and mastering the German language during studies. The research was conducted on N = 106 students of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split and Osijek. It was conducted during the summer semester of the academic year 2019/2020 in February. The results of the research will provide an overview of the importance of different approaches to teaching German, the importance of the type of metalanguage awareness, the importance of the influence of certain digital media, and the importance of the role of teachers/lecturers as factors influencing the learning and teaching of German as a foreign language. The scientific contribution of this paper is in understanding the new methodology of studying the German language. The research could be an example for the development of new educational paradigms in teacher education, and in particular, it can serve as an example for strengthening the impact of those approaches in language teaching at undergraduate and graduate level as well as more meaningful use of digital tools as e-mentors in order to improve the methodology of foreign languages in higher education institutions.

The Development of Life and Career Skills in 21st Century Test for Undergraduate Students

2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-68
Author(s):  
Nuanphan Chaiyama ◽  
Nimnoul Kaewpila
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Test Items ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Career Skills

<p style="text-align: justify;">The purposes of this study were to explore factors and indicators of life and career skills and to develop a life and career skills in the 21st century test for undergraduate students. This research employed a mixed-method study adopting an exploratory design: instrument development model to generate research tools. This study was divided into two phases; Phase 1 was to explore factors and indicators of life and career skills in 21st century, by using a qualitative method to analyze relevant documents; Phase 2 was the development of a life and career skills in 21st century test by adopting a quantitative method to collect data from students studying in 12 universities of the north-eastern region of Thailand via the test. In the second phase, the data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) Results revealed that the skills consisted of 6 factors and 35 indicators, and the test comprised 105 items. The quality of the test has been examined by five expertise, the reliability of all test items is acceptable, and all 6 factors demonstrated good construct validity. Factor loadings of six factors were 0.7940 -1.7816. This study can be implemented to measure the life and career skills of undergraduate students in any university to obtain data for establishing a policy and plans for maximizing students’ potential to achieve their careers and a happy living in 21st century after their graduation.</p>

Accurate Detection and Quantization of Leaf- Diseases through Soft Computing

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 236-247
Author(s):  
Divya Srivastava ◽  
Rajitha B. ◽  
Suneeta Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Image Processing ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Bacterial Blight ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Computationally Efficient ◽  
Stage Of Disease ◽  
Accurate Detection ◽  
Two Phases

Diseases in leaves can cause the significant reduction in both quality and quantity of agricultural production. If early and accurate detection of disease/diseases in leaves can be automated, then the proper remedy can be taken timely. A simple and computationally efficient approach is presented in this paper for disease/diseases detection on leaves. Only detecting the disease is not beneficial without knowing the stage of disease thus the paper also determine the stage of disease/diseases by quantizing the affected of the leaves by using digital image processing and machine learning. Though there exists a variety of diseases on leaves, but the bacterial and fungal spots (Early Scorch, Late Scorch, and Leaf Spot) are the most prominent diseases found on leaves. Keeping this in mind the paper deals with the detection of Bacterial Blight and Fungal Spot both at an early stage (Early Scorch) and late stage (Late Scorch) on the variety of leaves. The proposed approach is divided into two phases, in the first phase, it identifies one or more disease/diseases existing on leaves. In the second phase, amount of area affected by the disease/diseases is calculated. The experimental results obtained showed 97% accuracy using the proposed approach.

Representação e simbolismo: artes visuais na fronteira Brasil/Bolívia

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 286
Author(s):  
Paulo César Antonini de Souza ◽  
Derick Trindade Bezerra
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
America Latina

ResumoTendo por campo de investigação o Festival da América do Sul Pantanal (FASP) em 2018, na cidade de Corumbá (Brasil), objetiva-se identificar a materialidade e conceitos que permeiam as manifestações artísticas bidimensionais nesta região de fronteira, a partir da percepção de artistas da Bolívia. A pesquisa se organizou em duas fases: na primeira foi realizado um levantamento em plataformas online de produções acadêmicas em artes visuais, com foco no trabalho bidimensional, utilizando os descritores “arte popular” e “estética latina” resultando em três artigos. Na segunda fase foram selecionados dois trabalhos de uma artista da Bolívia, participante da mostra “Conexão Santa Cruz”, realizada durante o FASP 2018, que foram analisados em seus níveis representacional e simbólico. Pela interpretação das imagens foi possível construir uma leitura sobre a perspectiva da artista a respeito de suas condições culturais dentro da ordenação social em que se encontra situada.Palavras-chave: Artes Visuais. Arte Popular. Arte Regional. América Latina. Representation and symbolism: visual arts on the Brazil/Bolivia frontierAbstractHaving as research field the Festival da América do Sul Pantanal (FASP) in 2018, in the city of Corumbá (Brazil), the objective is to identify the materiality and concepts that permeate the two-dimensional artistic manifestations in this border region, from the perception of artists from Bolivia. The research was organized in two phases: in the first, a survey was carried out on online platforms of academic productions in visual arts, focusing on two-dimensional work, using the descriptors “arte popular” and “estética latina” resulting in three articles. In the second phase, two works were selected by an artist from Bolivia, participating in the exhibition “Conexão Santa Cruz”, held during FASP 2018, which were analyzed at their representational and symbolic levels. Through the interpretation of the images, it was possible to construct a reading on the artist’s perspective regarding her cultural conditions within the social order in which she is located.Keywords: Visual Arts. Folk Art. Regional Art. Latin America.Representación y simbolismo: artes visuales en la frontera de Brasil/BoliviaResumenTeniendo como campo de investigación el Festival de Sudamérica Pantanal (FASP) en 2018, en la ciudad de Corumbá (Brasil), el objetivo es identificar la materialidad y conceptos que permean las manifestaciones artísticas bidimensionales en esta región fronteriza, desde la percepción de artistas de Bolivia. La investigación se organizó en dos fases: en la primera, se realizó una encuesta en plataformas online de producciones académicas en artes visuales, con foco en el trabajo bidimensional, utilizando los descriptores “arte popular” y “estética latina” dando como resultado tres artículos. En la segunda fase, dos obras fueron seleccionadas por un artista de Bolivia, participante de la exposición “Conexão Santa Cruz”, realizada durante FASP 2018, que fueron analizadas en sus niveles representativos y simbólicos. A través de la interpretación de las imágenes, fue posible construir una lectura sobre la perspectiva de la artista sobre sus condiciones culturales dentro del orden social en el que se ubica.Palabras clave: Artes Visuales. Arte Popular. Arte Regional. América Latina.

scholarly journals Development and validation of a short version of the Sarcopenia Quality of Life questionnaire: the SF-SarQoL

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Geerinck ◽  
C. Beaudart ◽  
J.-Y. Reginster ◽  
M. Locquet ◽  
C. Monseur ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Reduction Process ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Short Version ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Quality Of Life Questionnaire ◽  
Two Phases

Abstract Purpose To facilitate the measurement of quality of life in sarcopenia, we set out to reduce the number of items in the previously validated Sarcopenia Quality of Life (SarQoL®) questionnaire, and to evaluate the clinimetric properties of this new short form. Methods The item reduction process was carried out in two phases. First, information was gathered through item-impact scores from older people (n = 1950), a Delphi method with sarcopenia experts, and previously published clinimetric data. In the second phase, this information was presented to an expert panel that decided which of the items to include in the short form. The newly created SFSarQoL was then administered to older, community-dwelling participants who previously participated in the SarcoPhAge study. We examined discriminative power, internal consistency, construct validity, test–retest reliability, structural validity and examined item parameters with a graded response model (IRT). Results The questionnaire was reduced from 55 to 14 items, a 75% reduction. A total of 214 older, community-dwelling people were recruited for the validation study. The clinimetric evaluation showed that the SF-SarQoL® can discriminate on sarcopenia status [EWGSOP2 criteria; 34.52 (18.59–43.45) vs. 42.86 (26.56–63.69); p = 0.043], is internally consistent (α = 0.915, ω = 0.917) and reliable [ICC = 0.912 (0.847–0.942)]. A unidimensional model was fitted (CFI = 0.978; TLI = 0.975; RMSEA = 0.108, 90% CI 0.094–0.123; SRMR = 0.055) with no misfitting items and good response category separation. Conclusions A new, 14-item, short form version of the Sarcopenia Quality of Life questionnaire has been developed and shows good clinimetric properties.

scholarly journals SWIPT in mMIMO system with non-linear energy-harvesting terminals: protocol design and performance optimization

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kui Xu ◽  
Ming Zhang ◽  
Jie Liu ◽  
Nan Sha ◽  
Wei Xie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Performance Optimization ◽  
Power Transmission ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Wireless Power ◽  
Half Duplex ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
And Performance

Abstract In this paper, we design the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) protocol for massive multi-input multi-output (mMIMO) system with non-linear energy-harvesting (EH) terminals. In this system, the base station (BS) serves a set of uplink fixed half-duplex (HD) terminals with non-linear energy harvester. Considering the non-linearity of practical energy-harvesting circuits, we adopt the realistic non-linear EH model rather than the idealistic linear EH model. The proposed SWIPT protocol can be divided into two phases. The first phase is designed for terminals EH and downlink training. A beam domain energy beamforming method is employed for the wireless power transmission. In the second phase, the BS forms the two-layer receive beamformers for the reception of signals transmitted by terminals. In order to improve the spectral efficiency (SE) of the system, the BS transmit power- and time-switching ratios are optimized. Simulation results show the superiority of the proposed beam-domain SWIPT protocol on SE performance compared with the conventional mMIMO SWIPT protocols.

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