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DIGITAL VISUAL JOURNAL
ASSESSMENT 3
 ASSESSMENT OVERVIEW
Key Assessment Information

 PURPOSE
The purpose of this assessment task is to:
1. Showcase your own artistic processes
2. Connect this learning to readings and resources
3. Show how what you have learnt can be applied in an early childhood setting
The unit learning outcome(s) assessed is/are:
LO1: Contextualise music and movement in Early Childhood from personal, social, and philosophical
perspectives.
LO2: Explore the languages of movement, music, drama, and visual arts in general and in the context of early
childhood.
LO3: Apply the languages of movement, music, drama, and visual arts to build rich, multidisciplinary
experiences in early childhood settings.
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 ASSESSMENT DETAILS

unit.
Movement, Encounter, Ecologies, Assemblage, or Time (the concepts in the Encounters with Materials book)
Specific concepts like: ‘Using Natural materials’ or ‘Embedding Indigenous perspectives’
Broader concepts like: Form (What is art?), Function (How does art work?), Change (How is art changing?),
Connection (How is art connected to other things?), Responsibility (What is our responsibility as ECEs when
teaching art?)
Any other concept that has emerged for you throughout the unit! Be creative! Post ideas on the discussion
board if you’re not sure
You should title your journal ‘An inquiry into…’ (and complete the sentence with your concept)
Your Digital Visual Journal will examine this concept through your artistic inquiries with sound, music, movement,
drama and materials.
You will use a range of media – photography, written or audio narratives, videos, drawings, music, sound
recordings and other creative media in this journal.
You will reflect on your own learning as an artist and discuss how this learning can be applied to your practice as
an educator, making connections to the unit readings and resources.
PLEASE NOTE:
While you should start with a collection of your explorations and material inquiries in the unit, your visual
journal is NOT a collection of everything that you have done through the unit. It should be carefully
prepared around the concept that emerged for you through the unit.
Remember: this journal is about:
1. You as an artist and your personal experiences with materials
2. How you connect those experiences to the unit readings and resources
3. How you will use this knowledge and applying it to an Early Childhood Setting, in your work with young
children.
 INSTRUCTIONS
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To get started on your assessment task, please follow the below instructions.
SUGGESTED PROGRAMMES TO PRESENT YOUR JOURNAL:
Keep in mind with that any programme you use, you need to be able to submit all at least all of the text-based
elements as a file type that is able to be checked by the plagiarism detection software. For example, .doc, .pdf,
.ppt. Submitting your journal all as one image or as an entire webpage will not work.
If you submit something that cannot be checked, you will be asked to submit in a format that can be.
Use a programme that allows you to present photos, videos, audio and text seamlessly.
You can use Powerpoint.
We suggest Padlet:
PADLET: PADLET: YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL (HTTPS://PADLET.COM/)
In week 1, start a Padlet (https://padlet.com/)or similar digital tool to start collecting examples of your
artistic explorations throughout the sessions. If you are completing in-class activities throughout the
unit, you will be doing a lot of the work for this assessment task as you go.
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As you work through the sessions, document, document, document! You will document your
activities, responses to readings, artistic explorations and material inquiries. Document your own
explorations as if you would a child’s – observe yourself! This documentation will form the raw data
for your journal.
2
Decide on a concept, theme or idea (see list of examples in the ‘Details’ section above) that has
emerged throughout your studies in this unit. Think about your journal as “An inquiry into…” that
theme/concept/idea
3
4 Refine your documentation from step 1 so that it relates to this concept.
5 Give your Journal a title starting with ‘An inquiry into…’
Write an introduction that outlines your concept, how it connects to the unit material and how you
will explore it.
6
Documentation of your artistic explorations: Consider what documentation you will include, such
as samples of the art you created, your documentation of your own play and experimentation and
how you created it. This could be:
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Sketches, plans, drawings, paintings, sound recordings, video, photographs, aural
documentation
a
b Notes about the materials, techniques and processes used
The recommended number of entries is 6 – 8. For example, you may choose one thing from
each session, or you may choose 3 things from one session and none from another, as they
relate to your inquiry concept.
c
Discussion: For each entry: a written discussion making connections to early childhood education
research and literature. Use the unit text (Encounters with Materials), other unit readings, the
content and resources in the unit to support your discussion (and your own further research, if you
wish (use the VU library to research).
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Implications for practice: For each entry: provide a written description (with images if appropriate)
of a rich, multidisciplinary learning experience, using the language in the artefact and showing how
your artistic learning and understanding of the readings can be reflected in an early childhood
setting.
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10 Write a short conclusion that ties everything together.
Ensure you have included a reference list, (check your in-text citations!) in line with Harvard
conventions.
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If using Padlet:
Help out your peers! Post on the Assessment 3 discussion board (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?
ou=1752176&type=discuss&rcode=VU-2241315)if you find another programme that does an excellent job with this
task.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
The following levels of criteria will be used to grade this assessment task:
Criterion 1: Documentation of your artistic explorations
Criterion 2: Discussion
Criterion 3: Implications for practice
Criterion 4: Presentation of the Digital Visual Journal
Criterion 5: In-text citations and reference list
Access Assessment 3: Journal Rubric
(/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=1752176&type=rubric&rCode=VU-
2826365) for the full marking criteria.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Please submit your completed assessment electronically via Dropbox: Assessment task 3:
Journal (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?
ou=1752176&type=dropbox&rcode=VU-1096574).
You will receive feedback on this assignment via DropBox.
If you have further general queries regarding Assessment 3, please post them to the discussion forum.
1 Save your Padlet as a PDF.
Submit the PDF file with a link to the Padlet (and a password if necessary). (Note: saving the Padlet
as a pdf will mess up the formatting – don’t worry, we will be assessing the Padlet at the online link,
we just need the PDF so it can be checked for plagiarism).
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