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.