Wednesday 19 November 2014

Teaching observation, Day Five

Today was the last day of my teaching observation period and I had the pleasure of sitting in on the Introduction to Animation class for the first year Fine Arts students. As always, if you click here and scroll through al the other amazingly interesting day recaps, you'll eventually get to Day Five.

Here's an early short animation that was shown today as part of the class, just to keep things interesting. It's about a dinosaur, so what's not to like?!


Tuesday 18 November 2014

Teaching observation, Day Four

Today I attended the penultimate session of my teaching observation period at TAMK, this time sitting in on one of my own subjects, which was different. Like always, you can click here and scroll down to get all the details.

For adding colour, I include now a video of The Hero's Journey from the people at Extra Credits:


Monday 17 November 2014

Teaching observation, Day Three

Into the second week and the third day of teaching observation. Today I sat in on the continuation of the Introduction to Animation course, but now with a different teacher, which helped new things come to my mind. What new things?! You can see here if you scroll down a bit to Day Three.

Here's a making of video about Coraline, a wonderful stop-motion animation that was created using Dragonframe, the program the students were learning today...






Friday 14 November 2014

The Comic - Part Two

Last week we completed the classroom course work for the Comic as a Method for Multicultural Pedagogy, which was two days, the 30th of October and the 5th of November. You can read all about that in the Comic course dairy page, though you'll have to laboriously scroll down past the first two days to get to those exciting last two days. But it's worth it. You can see here.

And here's a comic I drew:

And here's a better comic, that I didn't draw:


The course isn't finished yet, we still have to host our own comic course using the methodology we learnt, which I will do with Anna, hopefully in early December.

Thursday 13 November 2014

Teaching observation, Day Two

The second day of my teaching observation took me to the Demola mid-pitch event at the Finlayson site in central Tampere. If you want to know how that went and what I thought about it, check out the Day Two section in the Practice page of this blog. You have to scroll down a little for it.


Monday 10 November 2014

Teaching observation, Day One

Today I began my teaching observation at TAMK, sitting in on the Introduction to Animation class which was looking at making anthropomorphized characters from animals as well as animating using After Effects. You can see my incredibly insightful thoughts from Day One here.