Sustainability in my teaching. Part 2 - Getting creative
In this module you will, through collaboration with other module participants, create a video essay/digital story about a connection between your interest in sustainability education and your own teaching.
Why choose this module?
Sustainability requires creativity from all of us to develop new approaches or adapt familiar ones. This module continues where Part 1 stopped, moving us from Getting started to Getting creative. It is a workshop designed to open up creativity in your imagination of sustainability-related teaching at UiO.
We use an established, well-structured approach to supporting each others’ individual work. You will walk away with a self-created video of 2 to 3 minutes.
We expect final videos to vary widely. They might be, for example, shown and discussed with own students, or they might simply serve as a creative expression on a longer path to making substantive changes in your teaching, or a combination of these.
In this module, you learn about
- The role of place-based pedagogy in sustainability education
- Idea development for video narratives
- Planning and producing a video
- Audio visual storytelling, combining video and still images with sound
- Basic video editing, using UiO-supported software
- A systematic way of offering and receiving support from peers
- The role that emotional, spiritual, or poetic impulses can play in educating for a sustainable future; bearing in mind that eg. anger, fear, hopelessness, hope, and longing for social justice are also emotions, and the voluntary option of including such matters in your video
Organisation
Through three 4-hour workshop sessions, and smaller preparation tasks of about 3 hours in total, you will support each others’ conceptual and hands-on individual development. The workshop series takes us through an established, well-structured approach to creating video essays, including mini-lectures, feedback processes to support each other in developing own ideas, and hands-on video editing.
In-person attendance and active participation is essential.
Lunch will be provided. Please plan on having lunch together during the three half-day sessions.
We ask you to bring a personal device, such as a laptop or sufficiently powerful mobile phone. Details will be provided later. If this is difficult, get in touch with the course leaders as soon as you are offered a place on the course to confirm if we can help you with equipment.
No prior experience in video production is necessary. Curiosity is.
Practical Information
- The spoken language is English. Videos can be created in a Scandinavian language or an official minority language in Norway (such as a Sami language), or in the language you are teaching in at UiO (such as Arabic, French, Polish, English). Your choice will affect the kind of feedback others can offer, but will not stop the process.
- Participants: Academic staff at the University of Oslo
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Module scope: 15 hours
- Admission requirement: At the moment of application, you must have started or completed the 'Foundation module' in English or Norwegian as well as the module 'Sustainability in my teaching? Part 1'
- Module is not offered spring 2025.
Module dates fall 2025
The course schedules for Fall 2025 will be published during the upcoming spring.