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===''Using Light Painting to Teach Bioluminescence''=== https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/using-light-painting-teach-bioluminescence | Retrieved 12/01/2022 [[File:camera_shutter.png|200px|thumb|right|Figure 4]] * While a fun experiment, this exercise is a lost opportunity to learn more about bioluminescence, as well as photography. * The video and text instructions include opening the shutter and closing the shutter in the step-by-step process for light painting; the text instructions also reference aperture. This assumes a knowledge of how single-lens reflex cameras work, which, even when this was published in 2011, feels like an outdated reference. The video and instructions may have been better served by utilizing a smartphone camera, which is more accessible to most individuals and might not cause a distraction to learners trying to understand what is meant by opening and closing the shutter. * The text below the video is much more informative than the video itself and it may easily go missed if a viewer does not scroll down. The text goes into more detail about bioluminescence in organisms, whereas the video does not offer significant explanation about bioluminescence and the functions it serves. A viewer might expend cognitive lower trying to understand the concept, as well as be distracted trying to think of examples to "draw" with light. The text does helpfully includes links to other references. That is useful, but is probably more likely to serve a learner with higher self-regulation and motivation. It is possible that keeping the more scientific aspects of this lesson out of the video was intentional in order to try to keep the viewer engaged with the notion of painting with light. * As bioluminescence is not something seen every day, it would be useful if the video or images within the text below showed some examples in context. There is a link to additional images, but they, too, feel abstract, as the organisms take up the most of the frame. * Perhaps bioluminescence is not an ideal entry into the concept of painting with light; the video and text may overwhelm the learner with inadequate understanding of either or both bioluminescence and/or light painting. A lesson on light painting might be better executed with a concept that is more accessible and seen or imagined routinely. * The video host is formal (and perhaps visibly nervous). While there is some guidance in determining what to draw, there is little to be learned about what they are drawing with the supplied information. The video could offer guided prompts for discovery and/or opportunities for self-explanation.
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