Thought it would be fun to do some blogging this semester. Last week I attended a Digital Storytelling meeting and was inspired by the work my friend Nicole was doing with Digital stories in her American Studies courses. I am teaching a theory course in Media and Communication Studies this semester and came up with the assignment (partially stolen from Nicole). It is also based upon this youtube video I have used in my Introductory course the last couple of years.
"Groups will be assigned based upon the technology survey completed the first day of class. Each group will illustrate the same 3-minute mp3 audio clip of Marshall McLuhan discussing his argument that the medium is the message. Group members collectively will decide on how to visually support/augment/challenge McLuhan’s ideas and then navigate the technical aspects needed to create a 3-minute video. The completed video must be uploaded (at least temporarily) to YouTube and will be shown in class. Groups will then be responsible for discussing and explaining the choices they made in their video."
So that they can master the technology quickly, I am going to suggest students just use still images.
I am working on which clip to use...might come up with three and let them choose.
Can't wait to see what they come up with.
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