Re: Creating Assignments with New Media

1. Re: Creating Assignments with New Media

2. Why (re)create new media writing assignments?

3. Writing is shaped by the tools we use

4. “The medium is the message.” --Marshall McLuhan

5. Characteristics of New Media Fast Remixed Participatory Social Mixes words, images, design, sound, movement

7. Facts about YouTube 1+ billion views a day 20 hours of video uploaded every minute (the equivalent of 130,000 full-length movie releases every week) More video is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than all three major television networks created in 60 years More page views every day than the primetime audiences of all three networks combined http://sites.pressatgoogle.com/sundance2010/general-youtube-stats

8. Sample Student Work

9. Working with Images Rhetoric of War

10. Blogs Women’s Rhetorics

12. Website Design Intro to Multimedia Authoring and Senior Seminar in Economics

14. Writing for Publication Online Student Magazine Fall 09

15. Senior Seminar in English Students compile digital portfolios of their work at TCU

16. Video Sustainability

17. Intermediate German

18. Religion and Violence

19. Introduction to Poetry

20. Poetry Writing I

21. Basics of Assignment Re: Design

22. What learning outcomes do I want this (new media assignment) to achieve? How will this (new media) assignment build on and extend earlier learning? How will my evaluation of this (new media) assignment be tied to learning outcomes?

23. Additional Considerations

24. What hardware and software will students need access to?

25. How much time will students need to complete the assignment?

26. How much skill and/or experience will students need?

27. How much skill do I need to teach the assignment?

28. How much technical instruction will students need?

29. How much class time do I need to devote to preparing students for the assignment? and then How will this assignment affect the rest of my course?

30. What if I don’t know how to do what I want my students to do?

31. What kind of help is availablefor me as the instructor? • Consultation as you develop and design your assignment • Assistance as you learn the needed technology • Guidance as you prepare to teach the needed technology to your students • Equipment (cameras, voice recorders) to that can be borrowed by you and your students • Support for your students as they develop their ideas for your project • Support for your students as they work with the needed technology

32. What kind of help is available for my students? • Guidance as they develop their ideas for your project • Support as they work with the needed technology • Equipment (cameras, voice recorders) to borrow • A walk-in computer facility with current new media software (no appointments necessary)

33. What kind technology and media do you own and support? • Adobe Design Premium Suite CS4 (soon CS5): Photoshop, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, and InDesign • Video Editing Software: Windows Movie Maker, iMovie, Final Cut Pro • Microsoft Office 2007 / 2008 Suite: MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel • Many Open Source Software packages: GIMP, Audacity, • Wordpress, and others • 19 PCs running Windows 7, 4 iMacs running OS6.2, 1 MacPro • 10 Digital Voice Recorders, 10 Digital Video Recorders, 2 Digital Cameras

34. www.newmedia.tcu.edu

35. Teaching New Media Composing

36. Stages of Composing Response Revision Editing Models Invention Drafting Reflection

37. New Media Composing— Additional Stages Saving File management Converting Sharing/publishing