ThingLink - Make Interactive Images (2D and 3D Versions)

1. Check your university email for an invitation and create your account. (If you already have an account, log back into that account.)
   
   
2. Checkout this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5F226Ck8xg
   
   
3. Create a quick Interactive Map of "My Life on Campus" by using the map image below and adding photos, sound, text, video and more to the map.
   
   
   
   
   
4. Homework: Take a photo to use as a base - and fill that photo with interesting information - about you, your team, your family, your friends, your career plans, your hobbies, your dorm, etc.

Samples: https://www.thinglink.com/user/1243897619852296195 

Preparing for Video Resumes and Digital Resumes

 Take a look at some examples of digital resumes from your elder colleagues:

1. Joy's Interactive Resume - https://joysingletoncomblog.blogspot.com/2020/04/interactive-resume.html
2. Maren's Final Exam Defense - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa5MTlBkXac
3. Alec's Video Resume - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GbTMZl3Aqc

You will be making each of these types of pieces, beginning with preparing to shoot your video resume. We will learn and review some important design principles for composing in video:

•  Rule of Thirds
• 180 Degree Rule
• Basic 3-light Set-up 
• B-Roll Basics
  

Review these materials to help plan your video resume:

• 5 Tips for Creating Impressive Video Resumes
• More Examples of Digital Video Resumes

ASSIGNMENT:

1. Write a script for your Video Resume A-Roll 
2. Choose a Location for Shooting (visit and make sure it will work!)
3. Using your A-Roll Script - make a SHOT LIST of B-Roll you will need.
4. Shoot or collect B-Roll into a dedicated FOLDER for your Video Resume.
5. Mix, Edit, produce a finished, awesome, excellent video resume - post to YouTube, and embed in a Blog Response.

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/

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.

VR for the Weekend

 CHAPS Museum

http://bit.ly/2OAyBpj

You Tube 360 VR Channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnO5ygba3vsJG9IeZLndaTQ

Design Review: CRAP and Gestalt!

 We will use the examples below as we review design principles:

¢Maggi Soup

¢GarbageWorkers

¢GuitarExchange

¢Mistique Tissues  

 

 Students will read the articles on Gestalt Principles and Conversion-Centered Design and post a blog that summarizes the content and answers the question, "What 5 things can I do to improve my website/social media in light of these articles?"

 

Digital Aggregating and Curating

 

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. 

 
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: