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Assignments |
| Summary of Assignments | 100 Points |
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| Course baseline skills | 15 |
| Web baseline skills | 10 |
| Website | 30 |
| Video baseline skills | 10 |
| Video production | 20 |
| Attendance | 15 |
| Course Baseline Skills | 15 Points |
Due Date | |
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| Learning for the 21st Century (Class Discussion) | 5 |
1/30 |
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| ADDIE Model (A two-page reflection) | 8 |
2/13 |
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| Assignment web page | 2 |
2/6 |
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| Web Baseline Skills | 10 Points |
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| About Google Page Creator | 10 |
2/6 |
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| Website | 30 Points |
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| Proposal | 3 |
2/27 |
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| Site map & storyboard | 2 |
3/5 |
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| Design | 5 |
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| Navigation | 5 |
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| Text design | 5 |
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| Graphics | 5 |
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| Information | 5 |
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| Video Baseline Skills | 10 Points |
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| iMovie Tutorials 1-2 | 2 |
3/12 |
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| iMovie Tutorials 3-4 | 2 |
3/19 |
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| iMovie Tutorials 5, 6, 7 & 8 | 3/26 |
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| Recording simple sequence | 3 |
3/19 |
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| Editing simple sequence | 3 |
3/26 |
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| Video Production (PSA) | 20 Points |
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| Pre-production | 5 |
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| Proposal | - |
4/9 |
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| Storyboard | - |
4/16 |
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| Script | - |
4/23 |
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| Production (Recording) | 5 |
4/30 |
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| Post-production (Editing) | 5 |
5/7 |
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| Overall quality | 5 |
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| Attendance & Active Participation | 15 Points |
Descriptions of Assignments
Textbook- In this course, you will be producing a website on a particular subject, issue or topic related to public health. Your website will include text, graphics and video. The assignments in this course are designed to provide you with conceptual and practical skills to be able to produce a website, and create a video for a public service announcement and include it in your website. Example of previous projects .
Course Baseline Skills
Learning for the 21st Century
This reading assignment will provide you with an overall view of the skills that you need to survive in any professional position in our time that is often characterized as an information age. Although the article is addressed to educators, it will present convincing argument why information technology skills and knowledge related to it, such as critical thinking and decision making is vital to any job in the 21st century.
You will be asked to discuss this article in class. Your participation in this discussion is vital to understanding the skills you will be learning in this course, and their importance to you as a professional in the foreseeable future.
This acronym stands for a systems approach to instructional media design, which includes: Assessment, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation. You will read an article to become familiar with these concepts and procedures. To assimilate the information, you will have a choice of participating in a research study, which includes writing and essay about the ADDIE model, or writing a two-page reflection paper about the model, without participating in the research study.
This Model will provide you with a systematic approach to creating media materials, and will serve you in completing professional tasks other than media production It is a valuable skill.
This is a web page that you will create and upload to the server. It will have a link to all of your assignments that you complete for this course, as well as your name and your picture. You will receive specific instruction on how to do this in class. For examples of assignment pages see the work of previous students.
Web Baseline Skills
The textbook for your this course is a job-aid for creating Websites Each chapter of the book provides you with a distinct set of skills that you will find useful in creating your website for this course. By completing the exercises in this book you will gain the necessary skills to create a website and upload to a server.
Proposal -Producing a website starts with writing a proposal. The proposal includes the necessary information for an organization to fund the project internally, or apply for external funding or grant. As such, it is a crucial document.
In the framework of EDTEC 532, the instructor will have to approve your proposal, and will act as the "funding agency."
Review Introduction to Analysis before you start composing your proposal
The proposal should include the following sections:
- Topic/Problem- in this section introduce the topic or the problem that you have selected for your Website. Indicate why the topic/problem is important in general, as well as to you as a professional who is working in your field of interest. You will be working with this subject for the duration of the semester and it is important that you select a topic for which you care.
- Title- Select a title for your project and include it in your proposal. You may change your title later, so consider the title that you are selecting now as your "working title."
- Producer- Include your full name in the proposal.
- Front End Analysis - Although we will not have the time to develop a formal front end analysis, present any research, statistics, and support information that indicate there is a need for this educational program among the specific population that you are addressing. Specify why this is a skills/knowledge/motivation problem and not a problem that should be addressed with change in the environment, or adjustment of incentives. If the information is available, specify:
- how is this issue/problem currently addressed?
- what resources are currently available?
- how is technology, especially supporting digital instruction, is currently used to address this problem?
- Audience Analysis- Specify who the audience for your website is. Be as specific as possible about the demographics of the audience. (e.g. 16 to 25 year male and female living in core urban areas who use drugs, and are prone to contract aids.)
- Gap Analysis - Specify the difference between how your audience is performing and how they should be performing.
- Task Analysis - List the tasks that a learner must per from in order to be considered proficient in the topic that you have selected.
- Content Analysis - Present an outline of the content that will lead the learners to perform the list of tasks.
- Goal Analysis - Specify the general goal that your audience must reach in order to be considered proficient in the problem area you have selected.
- Objectives- This section should include the objectives for your audience. It should include sentences that would begin with: After reviewing this website, the audience will be able
to
- list
- perform
- refrain from
- quit
- select
- identify
- manage
- reduce
- increase
- ...
- Context- Indicate the context in which the website will be used. For example, will it be used in the context of a workshop, by people who might find it at home, in a college or high school course, by healthcare providers in a hospital, social workers, etc.
- Qualifications- This section should include your resume
- Bibliography- List your sources of information in this section according to the manual of the American Psychological Association (APA).
- Use Google Pages to create a new page for your proposal.
- Name the page "WebPropposal."
- Write your proposal based on the above format, and
- Link it to your assignment page.
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Site map -You must create a site map for your website, which represent the basic structure of it. You will receive directions in class lectures how to create a site map. Create a web page using Google Pages that includes your site map, and link to it to your assignment page.
Storyboard- Create a storyboard according to directions that you will receive in class. A storyboard should reflect the basic design of your home page and related pages, if such pages differ in their basic design from the home page. Create a web page Google Pages that includes your storyboard and make a link to it in your assignment page.
Video Baseline Skills
Video production has become one the most common media of communication. With the advent of hand-held video cameras at affordable prices, they have become ubiquitous in many organizations for a wide range of applications from business communications to training, and security; as well as among families for making home-made movies. Among the many uses of video is public service announcements (PSA) that are shown on television and the Internet on a variety of topics ranging from child safety, to refraining from smoking, not drinking and driving, and many other similar examples. In this course, you will create a short video public service announcement that is 30 seconds in length and will augment your website with this PSA.
iMovie Tutorials produced by apple computers will provide you a wide range of skills for creating, editing and distributing your video project. You should review these tutorials carefully as they will provide you with crucial and useful information for completing your video project.
The best way to learn video production is to try to make a short video. In class lectures, you will receive specific instructions for
- Using a video camera,
- Composing your shots, and
- Shooting a sequence.
In this exercise you will shoot a simple simple sequence such as
- Someone approaching a card penning the door and entering the car
- Someone approaching a bench and sitting on it
- Someone picking the receiver off a telephone and dialing a number
- Someone approaching the door of a building and entering the building
- Someone entering a room and sitting on a chair.
In this exercise you will use iMovie to edit the simple sequence that you created in the previous assignment. After you have completed editing your video sequence, you must upload the file on ROHAN and link your video to your assignment page.
Video Production (PSA)
Proposal- The public service announcement that you will produce is to augment and reinforce the message of your website. You must write a proposal for your PSA. However, since it is supporting your website, this proposal will be shorter than the one you wrote for your website and will include the following sections:
- Title- Select a title for your project and include it in your proposal. You may change your title later on. This could, then become your "working title."
- Justification- This section should include a narrative that would respond to the following questions: How this PSA will support the message of your website?
- Objectives- This section should include the objectives for your audience. It should include sentences that would begin with: After viewing this PSA, the audience will be able to
- list
- perform
- refrain from
- quit
- select
- identify
- manage
- reduce
- increase
- ...
- Context- Indicate that the PSA can only be used within the context of your website, or could be used on its own.
- Bibliography- List your sources of information in this section according to the manual of the American Psychological Association (APA).
Script- You must write a script for your PSA according the format that will be presented to you in class lectures. A script must include a description of of all the visuals, as as well as the related music, sound effects, and narration to each shot.
Use Google Pages to develop your script and link it to your assignment page.
Storyboard- You must create a storyboard for your PSA. A storyboard includes sketches of each shot in the production. A storyboard is a necessary production tool, especially when a crew is involved. It quickly communicates to the entire crew as to the purpose and composition of each shot.
Use Google Pages to develop your storyboard, and link it to your assignment page.
Legal- You will need to have each person appearing in your PSA sign a model release so you can publish the video on the Web. SDSU has a standard release available for download here.
Plan to reserve a camera at least two weeks in advance of the day that you intend to shoot your PSA. You must be the person who will shoot video (camera person) although you may ask for help from others in class to help you with acting, placing microphones, lighting and preparing the set. Unless you are Alfred Hitchcock, you should not appear in your own movies!
Once you have recorded your video, you can use any of them computers in the IML or the classroom to edit your video. During post production, you can add title to your PSA, or include music and narration as well. Once you have completed your PSA, upload the file to ROHAN and link it to the appropriate page in your Website.
Attendance & Active Participation
Media production procedures are simple. However, each task must be completed on the deadline. Otherwise, deadlines pile up and after a short period of time they seem unattainable. It is important that you attend class each week and actively engage in completing your projects. For each class session that you miss, you will loose 2 points. Also, you must spend 3 hours per week for each class in the Instructional Media Lab, or a computer of your choice, to work on your assignments.
- When you arrive in class, you must send the instructor an email to fsaba@mail.sdsu.edu announce your arrival and indicate the time that you have arrived in class,
- When you complete your work in IML, or on a computer of your choice, you must send the instructor an email to fsaba@mail.sdsu.edu to
- indicate the amount time you spent in the lab,
- list the tasks that you completed in your lab session, and
- list the task for which you need assistance