Assignment C – Animoto Review Video

Assignment

In this course we have covered a variety of topics such as Twitterature, born digital fictions, transmedia narrative and hyptertext. Think of a topic or even a specific work that is of great interest to you. Perhaps you were drawn into the growing pains of Alice in Inanimate Alice or would like to dig deeper into documentary born digital narrative. I would like you to choose your topic and create a (free) 30 second video using Animoto. You will need to include text, images and sound. You can draw from Animoto’s offerings or find copyright free images using the Creative Commons search on Flickr.

Your finished Animoto video must be shared both via Twitter (@JessL and use our class hashtag) AND the class blog, include a link to it in the comments of the Assignment D: Animoto Review Video blog post.

You must also include a comment about another student’s Animoto video. This comment can be separate or included with your video link comment.

Due in class on June 20^th

NOTE: our eclass does not accept links so please paste a link to your assignment blog post into a word document and upload that to moodle.

Assignment B: Storify

Assignment B (15%) - Storify

Due by 11:55 PM on June 19^th, 2014

Choose any one of our Module topics and create a Storify post in which you explore the issue using pieces of information drawn from social media. Make sure you include a variety of different modes (video, audio, images, blog posts, tweets etc). Embed your Storify within your blog post on the class blog. In your blog post be sure to respond to the following questions:

1.     How did you approach finding the different elements that you included in your Storify post? What keywords, hashtags, or other methods did you use to narrow or expand your search?

2.     Why did you decide to include the elements you did? What were the criteria you used in order to decide an element was worth including?

3.     Do you think your post gives a “full picture” of your issue? Why or why not?

4.     Do you think you could use your Storify post as a starting point for writing a longer academic essay? If so, how? If not, why not?

Assignment B Grading Criteria

Students will be assessed based on the following criteria:

●      Demonstrates effective knowledge production skills with a coherent and well-thought through Storify that informs readers about the topic and the range of perspectives on the issue (4 marks)

●      Storify has well-written contextualizing paragraphs (2 marks)

●      Demonstrated writing ability and critical thinking in blog post write-up (6 marks)

●      Demonstrated transliteracy skills to locate and embed multimodal elements in Storify (2 marks)

NOTE: our eclass does not accept links so please paste a link to your assignment blogpost into a word document and upload that to moodle.

Assignment A: Online Presence

Assignment A (25%) - Online Presence
Complete between May 26^th  - June 20^th

Every week, students will use eClass and our class blog to share a core question or thought that emerges from the assigned readings. These questions can be a paragraph or so and informal, but they are intended to help the course instructors better understand how the students are relating to the class materials and content as well as providing students with an opportunity to reflect and synthesize course content as well as developing an online footprint. These activities will also reflect the process of creating an effective online presence. Comments should be posted on the Weekly Lecture Post.

Assignment A Grading Criteria

Students will be assessed based on the following criteria:

●      Application of course concepts to inform the quality of writing within posts (8 marks)

●      Consistency and timeliness of posts (8 marks)

●      Demonstrated integration of social media techniques (e.g., searching, tagging, linking, etc.) (9 marks)