During the first ten minutes of class, write a summary of your reading from Chapter 12 and the Afterword from Jones and Hafner’s Understanding Digital Literacies. We will discuss the chapter briefly and then the remaining time in class will be reserved for your final project.
This will be where you collaboratively write a 250-word description of your. Include all of your names as the collaborators on this project. Also, it bears noting that you will delegate the posting of your team’s project and files to a single person. This means that you will need to share all of your documents with one another so that everyone can see your progress, provide feedback, and export PDF files as needed.
Link to the PDF of your collaborative proposal and schedule.
Individually write a brief description, but follow the same writing style for the entire blog post. This should be about 50 words in length.
Link to new media component.
Link to PDF of supporting documents (saved as a single PDF). This includes scripts, storyboards, discarded samples, outlines, etc.
Individually write a brief description, but follow the same writing style for the entire blog post. This should be about 50 words in length.
Link to new media component.
Link to PDF of supporting documents (saved as a single PDF). This includes scripts, storyboards, discarded samples, outlines, etc.
Individually write a brief description, but follow the same writing style for the entire blog post. This should be about 50 words in length.
Link to new media component.
Link to PDF of supporting documents (saved as a single PDF). This includes scripts, storyboards, discarded samples, outlines, etc.
Individually write a brief description, but follow the same writing style for the entire blog post. This should be about 50 words in length.
Link to new media component.
Link to PDF of supporting documents (saved as a single PDF). This includes scripts, storyboards, discarded samples, outlines, etc.
Project Reflection by Name 1 (link to PDF of your individual 250 word reflection essay)
Project Reflection by Name 2 (link to PDF of your individual 250 word reflection essay)
Project Reflection by Name 3 (link to PDF of your individual 250 word reflection essay)
Project Reflection by Name 4 (link to PDF of your individual 250 word reflection essay)
For your penultimate beginning of class writing assignment, write a summary of “Collaboration and Peer Production,” Chapter 11, Understanding Digital Literacies. We will discuss the chapter after you have worked on your writing and posted it as a comment to this blog entry. Of course, you may write about how some of the things you read about in this chapter relate to the current project that you have been assigned.
For today’s class, you read Chapter 10, Social Networking in Jones and Hafner’s Understanding Digital Literacies. Spend the first ten minutes of class writing a summary of the reading in memo format, save your work, and copy-and-paste it into a comment made to this blog entry. We will have our Twitter project exercise and then discuss the chapter with any remaining time in class.
During the first ten minutes of class, write your summary memos on today’s reading from Jones and Hafner on “Games, Learning, and Literacy.” We will discuss it after you have had a chance to post your responses.
During the first ten minutes of class (or before, as the case may be), write a summary memo of your reading of Jones and Haffner, Understanding Digital Literacies, Chapter 8. Then, copy-and-paste your summary into a comment made to this blog post. We will discuss the chapter before turning our attention to the current project, which we will devote the remainder of class to.
For today’s class, you read Jones and Hafner’s Understanding Digital Literacies, Chapter Seven, “Critical Literacies.” Spend the beginning of class posting a comment below summarizing your reading. Remember to save your work some place safe before copy-and-pasting your response into a comment below. We will discuss the chapter after you have posted your summaries.
During class today, we will transform your think piece essay podcast scripts into your YouTube video scripts and develop your video shoot/editing storyboards. When you have completed your script changes, copy-and-paste a copy of it into a comment made to this blog entry. Save your storyboard as a PDF for submission later.
During class today, write your planning memo that describes two video concepts for your YouTube video and which concept you have decided to pursue. After you have completed the document, copy-and-paste it into a comment made to this blog entry. Details about this phase of the assignment is included below:
Planning: Write a 250 memo describing two general types of videos that you might produce to accompany your spoken script. For example, you can use video software to animate photographs (e.g., using the Ken Burns effect) with a voiceover, record scenes around the city with voiceover, record yourself reading your script, record interviews that are intercut with video of you reading the script, etc. Imagine the kind of video that you would like to make with the limited time that we have to make it. After you describe your two options, explain why you have decided to go with one of the two options. (in-class on Mar. 17)
For today’s class, we read “Attention Structures,” the sixth chapter from Understanding Digital Literacies. This is a very important chapter–not only for understanding our own practices as new media consumers and participants, but also for our considering the needs and attentional demands of our audiences. Leave a summary of your reading in a comment to this blog post below and we will discuss this chapter during class today.
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