Week Six Agenda

Part I | Multimodal Design Elements & Principles

Noteworthy:

Part II Assignment Due: BlogPost Four | Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum
Readings for Part II: Selected Readings in the Content Areas
Reading for Week Seven:
- Lambert, J. (2012) Chapter 5: Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling, Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community. (4th Edition). Routledge : New York, NY. pp. 53-69.
Monday 26 February | Assignment Due : Mobile Learning (including blog 3)
A few thoughts about Video Gaming and Assessment

Discussion | Realize that you will need to apply your understanding of multimodal design to the production of your digital story. Prepare to explain to your classmates the significance of one of the following multimodal design elements:

Design Choices | We do: Color, Contrast
Design Choices | You do: Emphasis, Framing, Element
Design Choices | You do: Organization, Proximity, Sequence

This has great promise for the week I am gone –> An alternative would be to invite students to collaborate in groups and to meet to watch a digital story and to discuss how the above design choices are or are not effectively used to convey meaning in that digital story. This could then be a required blog post for credit.

Getting set up

From the work of Arola, Sheppard, & Ball, please work through the online tutorial, ix visualizing composition.

Detailed instructions for accessing the IX tutorial are available HERE.

Associated with the work of Arola, Sheppard, & Ball, please work through your assigned section of the online tutorial, ix visualizing composition.

Step one: Go through that PART of the online tutorial, ix visualizing composition that pertains to your assigned element;
Step two: Identify 2-3 useful design PRINCIPLES introduced in the tutorial;
Step three: Using the digital tools you have access to, design and PRODUCE a multimodal means of representing the useful design principles;
Step four: PREPARE a concise yet meaningful way to teach the class about your useful design principles;
Step five: PARTICIPATE in the ED386 multimodal design teach-in.

Viewing: multimodal design principles at the Center for Digital Storytelling

Part II| Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum

Noteworthy:

Reading for Week Seven:
- (Part I) Lambert, J. (2012) Chapter 5: Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling, Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community. (4th Edition). Routledge : New York, NY. pp. 53-69.
- (Part II) Lambert, J. (2012) Chapter 7: Approaches to the Scripting Process & Chapter 8: Storyboarding, Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community. (4th Edition). Routledge : New York, NY. pp. 88-101.
Monday 26 February | Assignment Due : Mobile Learning (including blog 3)
Wednesday 14 March / Thursday 15 March | Assignments Due: (in class): Blog Post 5: Reflections about your students
Wednesday 14 March / Tuesday 20 March | Assignments Due: (in class): Blog Post 6: Digital Storytelling Script & Storyboard