JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY & BIOLOGY EDUCATION, December 2016, p. 475-476 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v17i3.1151
Supplemental Materials for Looking through the Lens: Adapting and Modifying Photovoice Projects for Active Learning and Engagement in Biology Karobi Moitra Department of Biology, Trinity Washington University, College of Arts and Sciences, Washington, DC 20017
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Appendix 1: Instructions for assignment Appendix 2: Grading rubric Appendix 3: Titles and link to projects
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Appendix 1: Instructions for assignment.
Photovoice Project Instructions for Students
Photovoice/ Photo Novella project:
A photo voice or photo novella is a collection of photographs and captions that tells a social story. Each photovoice project is different, and each project has a different focus. With photovoice projects, stories are told, different original photographs are captured and different outcomes are sought.
Your photovoice project topic: The topic of your project is Disease/Addiction in my Community. Please give your project a distinctive title.
Instructions:
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Choose your topic and think about the message you may want to portray to your audience. Do the relevant reading required to support your project and make a collection of different sources and information.
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Go out into your community and interview people relevant to your topic (ie: if your topic is the effects of cigarette smoking then you would interview people who are cigarette smokers). Prepare a set of questions beforehand and note down their answers to your questions.
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The interview is optional, you may include excerpts from the interview in your photovoice.
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Take 20-25 photographs using either a camera or your smart phone of situations and people relevant to your topic. Please ask permission before taking photographs of people or private property.
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Decide how you will arrange the photographs.
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Place your photographs in a PowerPoint presentation, you may add artistic effects and add onesentence captions to your photographs with the message you want to portray (~15-20 slides).
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Add a title slide (first slide) with your photovoice title, name, class and instructor and also a relevant photograph that you have taken. On the last slide(s) write your reflections and what you learned from doing this project.
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Find relevant song/background music and add that to your PowerPoint as a sound track – figure out how to do this or ask your friends. Add some slide transition effects and timings to the slides so that they play as a movie- once again figure out how to do this or ask your friends. Your instructor will mentor you in class while you are putting together your project. You will be presenting and discussing your photovoice presentation in class with your peers (time limit for presentation 5 minutes).
HAVE FUN, TELL A STORY, MAKE IT POWERFUL, MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!
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Appendix 2: Grading rubric. Photovoice Presentation Grading and Rubric Name of student: Photovoice Title:
Category
All the information needs to be included to receive all 25 points in the category. Missing or incomplete portions may result in fractional points.
Please include any critiques and suggestions that will be helpful for directing student improvement.
Organization
Logical flow to Photovoice:
Comments:
pts______ Background
Central question/issue that will be examined
Comments:
pts______ Conclusions
Conclusions and message
Comments:
Pictures clearly explained and presented Pictures original Photographs have short descriptive captions
Comments:
pts______ Photovoice Presentation
pts______ Photovoice Style
pts______
Photovoice critical thinking and writing
Spelling/grammar Appropriate amount and size of text on Photovoice Contrast and color/size of Photovoice photographs Photographs appropriate to the central theme Professional appearance of Photovoice Soundtrack appropriate Issue stated clearly Critical viewpoint presented States specific position synthesized from sources Logical links to arguments, evidence and insight
pts __________
Points: Fractional points may be given in any category. Please list your points for each category in the left box. The total of this form should be 150 points.
Total Points Given_________________
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[Critical thinking and writing rubric modified from AAC&U Value Rubrics at http://www.aacu.org/value/rubrics/pdf/CriticalThinking.pdf]. Please note that the rubric can easily be modified to align more closely to one of the project goals of gaining knowledge of the disease/addiction, by modifying the rubric to add a ‘knowledge of the disease/addiction’ item to the rubric if desired.
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Appendix 3: Titles and link to projects.
Titles of some sample student projects: 1.
Addicted
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Substance abuse: Unspoken words, our reality
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Alcoholism- A serious chronic disease
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Addicted to the wrong things
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Obesity and a healthy lifestyle
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AIDS: Don’t share!
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Salmonella: Prevent it!
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Seasonal influenza: Contagious!
Public link to photovoice projects containing examples of a number of projects: http://www.photovoiceworldwide.com/#sthash.hEPXVckC.dpbs
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