I had good feedback on the hands-on activity and using the Zines from the UAL collections. It is an interesting way to use existing material and change/disrupt the image and message by the act of folding. The Padlet was well perceived as it contained background information of the Zine collection and contextual reference to artists’ work. I was fortunate Kasia also held a micro teaching session about the LCC Zine collection. She used to work with the collection. I was able to scaffold the background knowledge of Zines from her session.
The group was introduced to “what is a Zine?”, what a Zine can be and the LCC Zine Collection. This has allowed more time in my session for the group to view the archival material and create their own Zines. I was worried that there will be too much overlapping in background information. I didn’t present the Padlet as much as I would have liked. Following one of the feedback items, I could add a post on the Padlet to ensure the objective of the session is clear at the start of the session.
This was useful feedback, and I have developed a further workshop based on this one. My plan is to ask the students to design and present a PPP (Personal Progression Project) Research Zine based on their process and research for the PPP unit in Week 21.
Chatterjee (2010) quoted in Hardie (2015) observes “Objects can be employed in a variety of ways to enhance and disseminate subject-specific knowledge, to facilitate the acquisition of communication, team working, practical, observational and drawing skills, and for inspiration” (p. 180).”
Students can showcase their Zine in a mini exhibition. This will be part of their formative assessment.
Notes from the feedback
- Great hands-on activity/ Hands on session (engaging)
- How to make something rom exiting material and change/disrupt the image/message
- The objective remind slightly unclear.
- Nice to have resources that has a lot of depth on the topic and good that was used as part of the class too!
- Great idea to use zines from the UAL collection
- Very impressive Padlet
- Making zine a huge plus
- Task well prepared
- It shows that you put lots of thought and work into the session
- Making a zine is a very interesting way to explore yourself without the boundary and judgement.
- Creating a zine template at the start engaged us from the offset (the immediate satisfaction!) and this seemed to support self-belief/motivation to continue
- I really valued the choice of themes and flexibility of approach. I could make the zine personally meaningful, which I found empowering
- The padlet page was a helpful reference point throughout the session, keeping me focused and inspired. You integrated this really well, ensuring it was a purposeful resource
References
Higher Education Academy. (2015). Innovative pedagogies series: Wow: The power of objects in object-based learning and teaching. [Online]. heacademy.ac.uk. Available at: https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets.creode.advancehe-document-manager/documents/hea/private/kirsten_hardie_final_1568037367.pdf [Accessed 20 March 2023].