Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Shoot, Save, Download - the Vocabulary of Shooting

 Go to https://www.mediacollege.com/video/shots/ 

Take at least 10 videos that illustrate different kinds of camera shots.

Save these into a folder called "Vocabulary of Video."

We will use these to edit an instruction video.

Use some free music to drop behind your tutorial video for camera shots:

https://www.pinterest.com/randydnichols/audio-files-for-multimodal-composition/

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Rainy Day E-Learning in VR

For today's pre-empted class, and for the weekend, - go to the class website - https://limestonedigital.weebly.com/digital-communication-2.html. 

Find the section on VR and explore the four items indicated by the numbered arrows in the graphic below.


 

Write a blog entry that gives a detailed review of four VR apps or movies you explored. Post before class Tuesday for discussion.

Thursday, March 11, 2021

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Digital Aggregating and Curating

 

https://about.flipboard.com/tutorials/One things that makes "New Media" new is that these media have not yet formed all their rules, grammars, best practices, etc. That is to say, that even though students explore these media without dear, they are, indeed, pioneers - blazing trails and discovering paths of literacy. 

In this digital curation project, students learn to design meaning in, and through, digital media. The goal of the project is to help students develop, not a specific grammar or a taxonomy, but rather a workable approach for forming grammars, methodologies, heuristics, etc. where none exist as standards. A set of methodologies that handles the flood of information in the digital age will be in much demand. 
https://help.pinterest.com/en/guide/all-about-pinterest

 
Students in the Digital Literacies class will use Flipboard and Pocket as a tool of aggregating (gathering) information on a specific topic of their choosing. They will use Pinterest as a tool of curating (organizing and displaying) their findings from the research in Flipboard.

Students will share their Flipboard findings (Magazine) - as well as their Pinterest collections (Board) in their blogs. These examples will serve as example for them on how to use such tools for research on other topics in contemporary digital publications.

**** Students will embed their initial Flipboard Magazines and Pinterest Boards in their blog with a description of their chose topics.

 (Pinterest embed instructions can be found here: https://www.theedublogger.com/how-to-embed-pinterest-boards-and-pins-on-your-blog-2/)

Here is an example of my own VR Research Magazine in Flipboard.


Here is an embed of my new magazine:

 
 
Here is an embed of my Pinterest Board: