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**Elvis' Example of Foundations of Photography: Composition From [|Lynda.com] ** [] **Course Description:**  This course I have chosen to evaluate is an online video tutorial for Photography and Composition. In this course, the instructor Ben Long demonstrates the concepts of composition from basics to more advanced topics. This course doesn't have reading assignment or the syllabus, but it contains the video introduction and assignments. This site does require a membership payment. You can watch free videos on the site but not all of the videos. There is no students interactions and feedbacks, you can only send out emails if you have any suggestion in regards to the videos.  Topics include:


 * Looking versus seeing
 * Understanding when and why to use black and white
 * Analyzing lines
 * Arranging the elements into lines and shapes
 * Working with perspective and symmetry
 * Changing focal length, camera position, and depth
 * Dividing rectangular frames into thirds
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Weighting the corners in square pictures
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Composing photographs of people
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Composing landscape photos
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Working with light: direction, texture, and negative space
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">How to shoot color
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Guiding the viewer’s eye
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Controlling depth
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Improving composition in post-production

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666154; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Georgia,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**What level of instructional strategy is used in this course?** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666154; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Georgia,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This course addresses the composition fundamentals, from level-0 to level -2. This course seems to have adequate amount of information and demonstration. I think this online tutorial have involved learners in activation of prior experience and demonstration of skills, application of skills. I have learned a lot personally from watching this composition fundamental tutorials. From the video, it says everyone can take a good photo if he or she sees it. If you understand the concept of the composition fundamentals you would be able to use your knowledge and apply to your skills. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666154; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Georgia,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**How could this course be improved to move to a higher level of instructional strategy?** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666154; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Georgia,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I think this course might be a bit lack of the level-3 instructional strategy. People might failed if they only watch these videos online without actual practicing it and also not getting the feedback from the peers and the instrutor. People can't improve their performance. This course does give out assignment but there is no other chance for learner's interaction and engagement. The learner can only watch other people's examples. There is also no the so called problem-centered focus to this course, it gives out small examples but it doesn't add a problem-centered instructional strategy to demonstration and application. "Learning is promoted when learners engage in a probelm-centered instructional strategy in which component skills are taught in the context of a simple-to complex progression of whole real-world problems."
 * Revision of Course with Respect to Team Comments: **

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