Overview
Working with a partner, create a 2 - 5 minute video animation that enables you to creatively express some important ideas related to the themes and issues explored in this class.
Purpose and Audience: You may choose to inform, persuade and/or entertain on any topic that is directly connected to the course content. You can use any genre or style appropriate for the intended target audience of college-educated adults with an interest in digital literacy.
Advice: For this project, it’s generally better to focus in detail on 1 – 3 very specific and novel ideas. You may choose to present paradoxes and controversies associated with the ideas you select. You may tell a story that embodies a set of big ideas, or show how concepts and ideas connect to the real world. Take a look at the video animations described in Chapter 13 and review concepts about animation to exploit the affordances of this form of expression. Avoid making very general statements that are already highly familiar to the target audience because this can result in a boring (and not very creative) video.
Upload your video to YouTube or Vimeo and post your video on your blog. Each member of the collaborative team composes a reflective blog post about the highlights and lowlights of the collaboration and the overall learning and production experience. Tweet the URL using the hashtag #EDC534.
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📎 When you find your partner, put your names and topic on this Google Doc
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Learning Process
- Talk Together to Synthesize Ideas from the Readings. You and your partner should discuss key ideas from the course readings and you can explain these ideas in a way that demonstrates a solid understanding of the concept(s).
- Develop a Clear Focus for the Content of Your Collaborative Work. Your discussion results in some new questions or novel ideas. You may reflect on some paradoxes and controversies associated with these ideas. You may show how some ideas connect to the real world and have significance for your target audience. Your video has a thesis statement or a moral and is 3 -5 minutes in length.
- Use the Full Power of Animation by Exploiting its Strengths as a Medium of Communication. Read Chapter 13 to make sure you understand the key ingredients of animation. Check out Renee's favorite free tools for making simple video animations at Create to Learn Online.
- You Address a Target Audience. Aim to reach an wide audience of people who have graduated from college. Your animation has an attention getting opening, and you use narrative or other rhetorical devices to make an important point. The video shows evidence of sensitivity to the needs of the target audience, with an attention-getting opening and other rhetorical devices that motivate viewer interest. Imagine that your viewers want to learn something new while being informed and entertained.
- You Reflect on the Experience. You have offered a short written reflection (500 - 750 words) on the experience of collaborating and creating under deadline pressure.
Criteria for Evaluation
- Quality Content. You have composed a 2-5 minute video animation that applies some concepts, ideas or information from the course readings and videos to a topic of interest. The opinions, information or ideas you showcase are novel and relevant to the target audience.
- Quality Form. You have creatively used the power of video animation to communicate feelings and ideas through the imaginative use of symbols. Evidence of planning, collaboration and other dimensions of the "create to learn" process is evident in your completed work. The work is polished and professional.
- Collaboration and Reflection. In creating your work, you have used "the power of two" to generate new insights and ideas, building upon the ideas you have encountered in the course. High quality verbal and visual content is evidence of effective collaboration. Your reflective writing about the delights and challenges of the creative and collaborative experience is authentic and personal.
Submission Details
DUE: Friday, April 10, 9 pm