Products and Performances
For more information on productions view the assessments and student learning guide pages.
Weekly Reflections (individual): Each week, students will write about what they've learned and how they might apply their new knowledge to their final documentary project. Reflections will be graded by this rubric. Presentation audience is student peers and the instructor.
EDpuzzle video (individual): Students will create their own interactive video by adding comments about aesthetic and storytelling properties with EDpuzzle. Students will choose their own video, identify and comment on anything they would like, and share with the class (this takes the place of one of the weekly reflections). Students can use this video example. Presentation audience is student peers and the instructor.
Video Aesthetics Presentation (individual): Students will create a presentation that highlights stylistic and storytelling conventions of various genres (student's choice) of videos. Documentary-style genre is required. This will be shared and commented on by peers via Blackboard. Presentation audience is student peers and the instructor.
Documentary Rubric (individual): After highlighting styles and conventions of documentary style videos, students will create their own rubric for documentaries. This will be used to self-asses their final project as well as other groups final projects. After they grade all the final projects, this will be discussed in the final class. This rubric can be shown as an example. The presentation audience will be their peers and the instructor.
Kahoot Survey (group): Each group will create a survey that will be conducted at the Save the World event. It will be given after each groups' documentary is shown to the audience and will focus on how their story affected the viewer. The survey can ask questions associated with storytelling, education, effect, quality, etc.
Production Map (group): The students will use a mind-mapping software of their choice to map out all of the production stages (pre-production, production, and post-production). Each member of the team will also detail their personal responsibilities and job tasks. The presentation audience will be the peers in their group.
Culminating Project - My Town Documentary (group): This will be the most time consuming and intensive project. The culminating activity will be the presentation of each group's final mini-documentary. The premiere of the mini-documentaries will happen at ACM's Save the World event that takes place at the end of every semester in the college theater. This event comprises many of the college's clubs and focuses on how the students are making a difference in the community and/or the world. The presentation audience could include peers, staff, faculty, and members.
First, each group will give a brief introduction (justification) to the audience about their documentary topic. Then, the mini-documentary will be shown and a Q & A session will take place. During the Q & A session, audience members will be encouraged to ask any questions related to the project. The students will also show a link on the screen to a survey that can be completed via a mobile device (via Kahoot). Audience members will have approximately 5 mins to take the survey. The groups will use the results in the next meeting to discuss their project's impact on the audience.
While each documentary is shown, the students will also be grading their own project as well as the other groups' projects. They will use the rubric that each group created earlier in the semester. These graded rubrics will be discussed at the next class meeting and will be returned to the appropriate group.
This final-project rubric will be used by the instructor to grade each project. This will also be shown to the students as they are creating their own rubrics with Quick Rubric.
First, each group will give a brief introduction (justification) to the audience about their documentary topic. Then, the mini-documentary will be shown and a Q & A session will take place. During the Q & A session, audience members will be encouraged to ask any questions related to the project. The students will also show a link on the screen to a survey that can be completed via a mobile device (via Kahoot). Audience members will have approximately 5 mins to take the survey. The groups will use the results in the next meeting to discuss their project's impact on the audience.
While each documentary is shown, the students will also be grading their own project as well as the other groups' projects. They will use the rubric that each group created earlier in the semester. These graded rubrics will be discussed at the next class meeting and will be returned to the appropriate group.
This final-project rubric will be used by the instructor to grade each project. This will also be shown to the students as they are creating their own rubrics with Quick Rubric.
Reflection Methods
Weekly Student Reflections: Each week, students will use the Blackboard discussion board to post reflections. Reflections will focus on new or interesting knowledge that the students' learned that week and how they could incorporate that knowledge into their final projects. Occasionally, a different task will take the place of the reflection (see EDpuzzle video activity). If desired, the instructor could also prompt the discussion with a specific topic (rather than letting it up to the students). Reflections will be graded from this rubric.
Class Discussions: After watching videos, students will discuss the various stylistics, mechanic, and aesthetic qualities of the productions. For a more detailed timeline of these discussions, visit the Project Timeline.
Video Previews: During week 10, students will show previews of their works-in-progress to the class. This will be an open reflection and discussion for all the students and can be used to get ideas for improvement. In week 13, students will show their rough-cut to the class.
After Event Reflections: After the premiere of the videos, the students will spend the last lab discussing their projects, the graded rubrics, and the survey results from the audience.