Polytechnic and design, Vol. 4 No. 4, 2016.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.19279/TVZ.PD.2016-4-4-06
USING VIDEO JOURNALS IN ACADEMIC SERVICE-LEARNING
Nives Mikelić Preradović
orcid.org/0000-0001-9087-0074
; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and social sciences, Zagreb, Croatia
Petar Jandrić
; Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This paper chronicles experience of one of its authors (Nives Mikelić Preradović) with video journals in the service-learning course with year-5 students of Information Sciences at the University in Zagreb (Croatia) specialized in the following fields: Archival Science, Library Science, Museology, and Informatics Teacher Education. The first part of the paper introduces academic service-learning and outlines previous experiences with video journals in service-learning. The second part of the paper describes service-learning at the University of Zagreb, and briefly introduces research methodology. The third part of the paper presents two case studies of using video journals in academic service-learning: TiM: Ti i Muzej (Team: You and Museum) and Readers’ Club Knjigotron. The last, fourth part of the paper, analyses case studies and describes advantages and obstacles to introduce video journaling in service-learning. The paper confirms earlier research in conclusion that the main obstacles to such implementation are technical skills related to video production. However, it also shows that widely available equipment, such as phones and computers, satisfies the needs of service-learning. Therefore, in contrast to earlier research, it seems that equipment has ceased to be an obstacle. In spite of differences in technical proficiency and quality of final videos, students in both groups have met learning outcomes and acquired appropriate critical skills. Instead of speaking of video proficiency, therefore, the paper suggests that future research should turn into the direction of video literacy.
Keywords
Service-learning; Video journal; Case study; Video production; Video literacy
Hrčak ID:
174830
URI
Publication date:
29.12.2016.
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