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 C: Animoto Review Video blog post (this one).

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 December 18^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.

Module 5: Twitter Fiction

Image from the Twitter Fiction Festival, 2015.

Activities/Assignments ●      Add a comment to Module 5’s blog post in which you respond to Carla Raguseo’s statement: “Twitter fiction can provide learners with a rich language experience in easily digestible fragments. It challenges them both as readers and as writers to attempt and explore multiple meanings and to develop academic skills such as synthesizing and paraphrasing while fostering structural and semantic awareness in playful experimentation.” ●      Live tweet @JessL THREE initial reactions and responses as you make your way through ONE of the three Twitterature readings

Module 4: Writing for Social Media

Activities/Assignments ●      Add a comment to Module 4’s blog post with your reaction to infographics. Are you a staunch supporter of their engaging presentation of information or do you abhor their excessive inclusion of unnecessary design elements? ●      Tweet @JessL with two Twitter can sharpen your writing.

Image via EduTechChick.

Module 3: Born Digital Fictions

Image via Inanimate Alice.

Activities/Assignments ●      Add a comment to Module 4’s blog post with your response to TWO of the digital fictions we read this week ●      Send a tweet to @JessL with a comment about the Module 4 PowerPoint lecture. What did you learn about transliteracy and from reading born digital fictions like Inanimate Alice? Will you read more born digital fictions?

Module 2: Hypertext

Activities/Assignments ●      Assignment B – Storify Assignment. Students will begin the assignment in class with the final “copy” due by 11:55 pm Dec. 11th

Image via C Parker.

Readings / Resources

1.	Weblink	Flores, Leonardo. (2010). “Typing the Dancing Signifier.” Retrieved fromhttp://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/1903/10799/1/Flores_umd_0117E_11445.pdf. Read pages 5-19.
2.	Weblink:	Burne, Philippa. (1996). “24 Hours with Someone You Know.” Retrieved from:http://www.glasswings.com.au/modern/24hours/
3.	Weblink:	Fisher, Caitlin. (2001).These Waves of Girls. Retrieved from:http://www.yorku.ca/caitlin/waves/ ‎
4.	Weblink:	Leishman, Donna. (2001). “Red Ridinghood.” Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1. Retrieved fromhttp://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/leishman__redridinghood.html
5.	Weblink:	The Critical Thinking Community (n.d.). “The Art of Close Reading.” Retrieved fromhttp://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/the-art-of-close-reading-part-one/509
6.	Document	Close Reading Handout. Available in E-Class and in google docs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BUZoSS-vJuBjN9cXNizS-dVYnY8aKu6pGu9JueYmiz2V8ch_KWbK4-QFclmh/edit?usp=sharing