Handing Over Responsibility

Student-Driven Productions

An 8th Grade Production(Year 9)

Year Book

Stance Dual Bilingual School

São Paulo, Brazil

Present an integrated project between an English language and IT teacher with eighth grade students in the production of a yearbook

Share how teachers supported students’ creativity and autonomy

Show how much can be expected of fourteen-year-old students in an English and IT production

Laurence George Bell

laurence@mail.stance.com.br

Objectives

About Us

The Process:The Process:

1.Place the genre in it’s context

2.Inject a sense of realism: Real life situation. Being an intern in a publishing house

3.Stimulate creativity

4.Thorough research and cross reference creates self realized competitive (real-world) standards

5.Seek voluntary responsibility in the creative and decision making process

6.Emphasize the ethics of teamwork

7.Enable students to become autonomous and critical users of ICT software

1.Place the Genre in it’s Context.

Year Books are the modern English name that is now typically given to the earliest law reports of England.

The language of the original manuscripts and editions was either Latin or Law French.

La Graunde Abridgement was a collection of cases compiled out of the Year Books by Sir Anthony Fitzherbert; this printed edition appeared in 1577.

Originally, the Year Books were compiled by the chief scribes, of the English courts, and circulated in manuscript form.

Later editions were produced by printing; the best known printed version is the so-called "Vulgate" edition,

Vulgate

• The common speech of a people; the vernácula.

• A widely accepted text or version of a work.

• Vulgate: The Latin edition or translation of the Bible made by Saint Jerome.

• Before the printing press virtually every book and every document was a manuscript.

• Written by hand, the production of even a single page was an arduous and time-consuming task.

• Books were expensive and only very popular texts of universal appeal were likely to be copied.

• With the invention of moveable-type printing press coping manuscripts speeded up.

• Printing was considered vulgar and only for the poor.

• It fell to the lower classes to recognize the importance of the printing press.

The Effect: People became Literate and Educated

• The yearbook, also known as an annual,has become a book to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school.

•Virtually all American, Australian and Canadian high schools, most colleges and many elementary and middle schools publish yearbooks.

With the rise of Literacy, Universities opened up all over Europe.

• Universities produce yearbooks to list graduate qualifications

• English Schools pick up the same idea

• Yearbooks are expanded to include otherSchool activities.

A 1939 Yearbook ‘La Ventana’ Texas Technological College

Book Layout Process:

Layout:Layout is the appearance of the pages, and it may include the following elements:

The Headline: This is a theme that ties the page into the story and draws attention to the reader.

The Story/Copy: Consists of several paragraphs, capturing the highlights of a specific department, sports season, organization, etc., from the past year.

Photographs: Candid shots of students, suitable to the page's topic and theme. Captions, which describe each picture; these often begin with a lead-in.

Tools of the Trade:

Word processing programms | Photoshop

Pagination/Layout

In the past, most yearbooks were laid out by hand, with photographs physically cropped and placed on layout boards.

The work was tedious, and required multiple deadlines and contact with a yearbook publisher.

Today, virtually all yearbooks are published using computers, which allows for shorter deadlines and easier editing.

Students typically paginate, or lay out pages using a computer program such as:

1.Adobe PageMaker, (Not if you have any brains)2.Adobe InDesign (The Americas)3.Quark Xpress. (UK and Europe)

Advantages:

• Re-Size photographs and place copy, leaving minimal white space behind. Or not?

• These programs are designed for easy navigation, copy/edit/paste functions, and more.

• Wrap text around images

• Best of all they all have linked text boxes.

2. Inject a Sense of Realism

Real Life Situation

Being an Intern in a Publishing House

YEARBOOK ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

Zone of Proximal DevelopmentScaffolding

Alexia Rapha Natasha

Barbara Otavio Tomas

Derek Beatriz Renan

Alex Beatriz.VRafael

Rafael Victor Arthur

Sub-Editor

Journalist

Photographer

Designer

Art DirectorMr.Bell

Editor – in – ChiefMr.Godoy

Positions of Responsibility

Arthur

Flavia

Bruna

Gabriela

Alexandre

Creativity exists not only where it creates great historical works, but also everywherehuman imagination combines, changes and creates anything new.

Lev Vygotsky, Imagination and Creativity in Childhood

3. Stimulate Creativity

The Development of the Creative Imagination

The fusing together of subjective and objective fantasy

Creative Imagination

Internalized

Externalized

Semantic MediationConcept Formation

Creativity is a mental and social process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts.

• or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts.

• Creativity is fueled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight.

There is no single, authoritative perspective or definition of creativity.

Which is more creative?

What is Creativity?

The Amygdalae

Ignore everybody.

Put the Hours in.

• Doing anything worthwhile takes forever. 90% of what separates successful people and failed people is time, effort, and stamina.

• If somebody in your industry is more successful than you, it’s probably because he works harder at it than you do. He may be more inherently talented, but over time, that advantage counts for less and less.

4.Thorough research and cross reference creates self realized competitive (real-world) standards

A reference is a relation between objects in which one object designates by linking to another object.

Reference and ResearchThe Design Process

The

Don’t worry about finding inspiration. It comes eventually.

• Inspiration precedes the desire to create, not the other way around.

Write from the heart.

Passion

There’s really only one way to connect

Communication for all

You can’t love a crowd the same way you can love a person

Write from the heart

Merit can be bought. Passion can’t.

The only people who can change the world are people who want toAnd not everybody does

The Amygdalae

Emotional Stimuli accelerates learning

Those that fire together wire together

The Sacred Neuron

Set the scene

5.Seek voluntary responsibility in the creative and decision making process

5.Seek voluntary responsibility in the creative and decision making process

7.Emphasize Teamwork

Forming

Team Building and Leadership Development

Norming

Storming

Performing

Competition

False

Educational Progressivism

Scaffolding

7.Emphasize Teamwork

Forming

Norming

Storming

Performing

Competition

False

Educational Progressivism

Scaffolding

Team Building and Leadership Development

Teamwork:

8.Enable Students to become Autonomous and Critical users of ICT softwares

Cultural Mediation

Internalization

Externalization

Personality

Culture

Domain - Cultural Transformation

Autonomous and critical users of ICT software

Autonomous and critical users of ICT software

Autonomous and critical users of ICT software

Conclusion

Zone of Proximal Development

Progressive Education

Students Autonomy

Internalization

ExternalizationPersonality

Culture

Universal Emotional Experience