I bought a zoom lens in a charity shop this week. I saw that it didn’t fit my camera and thought the inside of the lens would look interesting as a frame. My idea reminded me of Devour by Christopher Jonassen. I made the images into an animated gif. Enjoy (you have to click to view).
animated gifs using a zoom lens
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This post is part of EdublogsClub. This week’s prompt is parents. |
Hmm. When I saw this blog post about the role of parents in learning, I didn’t know how to approach it. My parents have had no input in my learning, but they definitely had an impact on it. I don’t want to say they were unsupportive, as they did what they thought was best for me, but education was not respected in my household growing up. I’m sure that if going to school was not a legal requirement, I would not have been there.
That’s not to say that they would have been pleased if I dropped out. On the contrary, they wanted me to go and get decent grades but they didn’t want me to pursue post-compulsory education. They wanted me to do well enough to be employable. They didn’t believe that I was capable of more than minimum wage work, but they thought I’d have a job for life and possibly I’d get promoted over time (for context, they had a 1970s mentality in the 2000s – times had changed, but they hadn’t).
The pattern continues. Yesterday, a few hours after posting my one hundredth blog post, I was invited to a job interview at the university. I could not believe it when I opened the email. I had given up hope of getting a full-time permanent job in Brighton and had started looking elsewhere.
It’s just an interview. But the romantic in me (which I’m deeply ashamed of) wants to take it as a sign that things will get better. Perhaps that Brighton really is my true Home and it’s putting pies on the windowsill to entice me back. Not that it’s certain I’ll be able to get to eat the pie, but I’m liking the scent wafting my way.
I wanted to do a special update for my one hundredth blog post. It’s election day, my leaving party (well, get-together) at work and the first time ever I have run out of money before the end of the first week of the month. I’m hungry and I feel like I am living in a bubble.
The light this morning looked very dramatic when I woke. It hurt my eyes.
A couple of months ago I posted about the Path and I mentioned the aesthetics of the grandmother’s house. At the time, I didn’t use too many visuals because my aim was to write about my favourite elements and let my readers decide if they want to investigate further.
However, as this week’s EdublogsClub prompt is about using videos I thought I could use a video playlist to illustrate the previous EdublogsClub post and how I think videos can be used to reference previous learning.
Also, sometimes videos can explain what my vocabulary cannot. My interpretation of the grandmother’s house can be very different from yours. But I think the style, and the atmosphere, is not something I could necessarily describe without images.