As I love words I know glossophilia doesn't just refer to glossaries, but I think I'm allowed a near-miss meaning. We're racing to get the first week (week 2) completely ready to hand over for styling on Monday morning. Today I set up the glossary and made the first entry:
We're going to use the glossary to hold some of the 'theory' for the course. In general we lead with an activity - part of the preparation for that is checking the list of glossary terms that will be used in the activity to see if there are unfamiliar ones. If you don't understand those, students are encouraged to search for and share relevant resources (such as this fantastic one on film grammar).
Activities are followed by the course team's reflection on what has been done, allowing us to make teaching points. The idea is that these will be more interesting and make more sense once students have something to build on. Once again, the glossary is important, because it helps us to keep those sections light - students who want to know more can follow the trail into the glossary, which also helps them to build up a functional vocabulary for working with other people.
We're going to use the glossary to hold some of the 'theory' for the course. In general we lead with an activity - part of the preparation for that is checking the list of glossary terms that will be used in the activity to see if there are unfamiliar ones. If you don't understand those, students are encouraged to search for and share relevant resources (such as this fantastic one on film grammar).
Activities are followed by the course team's reflection on what has been done, allowing us to make teaching points. The idea is that these will be more interesting and make more sense once students have something to build on. Once again, the glossary is important, because it helps us to keep those sections light - students who want to know more can follow the trail into the glossary, which also helps them to build up a functional vocabulary for working with other people.
I should add that one of the issues with the glossary is that words need to be unique - when we link to the glossary from the text, we do it by tagging the term in the text. So we can only have one entry per term. Vice-versa too, and we'd need two separate glossary entries for 'camera' and 'cameras' if we wanted to link both terms to the glossary. This affects how we write, and we're trying to avoid linking to the glossary from a plural term to keep things simple.
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