Presentation for mentoring process for group Mejipo, Oulu university LET - Learning & Educational Technology. Mentors Ari, Jaana, Janne, Juha, Hannu and Pirjo, mentees Ana, Fatiu, Liping, Päivi 2013.

1. Photo Diary as a
reflection method
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2. What it is?
Photo diary is one’s personal project
or agenda, where he or she somehow
regularly produces meaningful
photographs about his or her life.
Photo diary helps to perceive world
around us, supports to recall one’s
memory, thoughts, emotions.
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3. Dialogue with
yourself
Perhaps the most important feature is
however to make ‘inner’ dialogue with
yourself. It reveals meanings to your
life. Photo diary can be public or
private and it’s form is totally free.
Technically it can be weblog, homesite,
ordinary photo album, shoebox full of
photos, negative archive, part of wider
net service etc.
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4. Reflection is
thinking
Thinking and
writing, reflecting,
is very important
when working with
photography as
photo diary.
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5. How can you make
your own photo diary?
1. Photograph your everyday life, meaningful, joyful
and interesting things.
2. Publish your photos on your own blog or make a
new blog for it.
3. Pay attention to those thoughts, feelings and
emotions of success that diary working arouses.
Write them down (reflect).
4.Keep on blogging at least 2 months. Take photos
and reflect regularly.
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6. When you decide to start
your photo diary working,
try to find out such things
which are interesting and meaningful for you
you feel to strenghten you
that could help you to surpass your expectations of
yourself
that give you new ideas
that brings up good memories
which represents your way to thing and act when gaining
success
which head your thoughts to the future
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7. Your own stuff
Keeping regular photo diary is your
own decision, your own 'business'
and you are the very person who is
getting potential benefit from it.
Perhaps you'll find some new
aspect of studying by acting like
this manner.
More information about photo
diary and the study:
http://photodiaryblog.com
Keywords: photo diary,
meaningfulness, self-efficacy,
reflection, self regulation,
metacognition
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8. Learning
assignment
Keep photodiary for one week (7 days)
on your blog
Comment at least once your every
studying pal's postings
Start TODAY :)
Closing session on virtual meeting
13.3.2013 6pm
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9. Rehearsal: The time
dimension of photograph
Let's make some photographic
rehearsal that you can utilize
on your own photo diary! One
of the most relevant aspect of
photography is the time
dimension. Photograph always
stops a certain 'time slice' which
is some kind of sample of the
stream of time. The sample can
be thin or thick: from permille
of second to several hours
time. Photograph's very
fascinating property is just that:
to make visible things the
human eye doesn't normally see.
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10. Three ways to
manage light
There are three
ways to manage
the intensity of
light on camera
exposure: the
aperture, the time
speed and ISO
value (so called
film speed)
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11. Some options to try
out time dimension
1. If you have possibility to take time exposure (long exposure) on your camera,
try it. Requirement of time exposure is dark light condition. Keep the camera
steady or swing & sweep the camera during long exposure.
2. Take a photo sequence: try to make sequence (3-5 photos) that tells something
about time.
3. Try TimeLapse photography. Time lapse means kind of photo sequence
(hundreths or thousands of photos) that make an animation. There are
applications for mobile phones for that purpose. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Time-lapse_photography
4. Try pinhole photography, Image without the lens. It is easy to try with Digital
SLR. You need only tin foil and body cap. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Pinhole_camera
5. Try Everyday app or take a photo everyday of your face. After you have at
least few hundreth photos you can make an animation. http://everyday-app.com/
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12. Publish your
rehearsals!
Upload your photos
to Flickr Group
Timedimension:
http://
www.flickr.com/
groups/
2072002@N21/
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13. Questions?
ari.rapo @ gmail.com
044-033 0333
www.blipfoto.com/arirapo
www.twitter.com/arirapo
www.photodiaryblog.com
www.opemedia.mobi/blog
www.cocococococo.co
www.raponet.fi
This presentation stands for mentoring purposes for Oulu university LET students by group ‘Mejipo’, 2012-2013. All rights reserved.
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