Piracy & Digital Media

In this week’s lecture we talked about several different Issues that arise in IST. One that I really wanted to focus on was Piracy especially in adolescents. I found an article that states that fewer than 1 in 10 teenagers believe that music piracy is morally wrong.
                             
                              1 in 10 Teenagers believe that music Piracy is morally wrong

I found this to be an astonishing statistic and want to highlight that music piracy is morally wrong. I found this article to be an excellent teaching resource if not shown to the students it would be an eye opener for them. Discussing an issue like this would be a good lesson to almost try to convince the students why it is wrong and try to change their mind about Piracy whether it is music, TV or movies.

This week i decided to write about the lesson that we experienced this week and the different techniques and strategies that they used that i found to be effective.

Within this week’s tutorial we participated in another class that was based on Digital Media. I found this lesson to be taught quite well. The presentation included several video s that would be very useful within a class room. One of the YouTube clips was about the Disney movie tangled and how digital media is used within the creation of the movies.

This is a great example that could be shown to a class that they will enjoy and relate to as they would have probably seen the movie.

One other aspect that was great about this lesson was the activity of where we needed to make a short 30 second video using apple imovie. One thing that I felt could have been done better was maybe a little bit more instruction on how to use imovie as I personally have never used it. A way to improve this could possibly have the students watch a short you tube video such as this one so as they can bet the basics and go back to video to check or watch and learn again.

The teaching methods that were used included presenting the information about digital media, introducing the activity and then leaving the students to their own work. I found this to be very effective however more instruction on how to use the program would have just made the lesson slightly better than it already was.

I found that the activity was really fun and exciting and something that the students could work on together and work collaboratively. This was a quick and easy activity that it getting the students to play around with imovie and learn about the program whilst having fun doing it.

References:

Animation, D. (Director). (2012). A Tangled World: Creating the look [Motion Picture]. Retrieved From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awlBswjJC-g

Group, B. (2009, April 26). Fewer than 1 in 10 teenagers believe that music piracy in morally wrong. Retrieved March  2012, from Barna: http://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/5-barna-update/139-fewer-than-1-in-10-teenagers-believe-that-music-piracy-is-morally-wrong

Poult, K. (Director). (2011). iMovie in under five minutes [Motion Picture]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J79_0h3ozS0&feature=related