Besides the individual assignments for this course that are due each cycle, there are three major activities that we are expecting according to the due dates posted on the Course Calendar.
- a course notebook that will contain two major sections:
- Your comparison table of the media ecology pioneers as assigned in cycle two
- a profile for each of three different media types (text, visual, immersive) that demonstrates your understanding each ecosystem that we are covering, beginning with the first cycle in which we introduce media ecology as an academic discipline. For each ‘section’ you will be provided a series of questions to answer. Based on the feedback given you can modify your artifacts and save the changes for when you turn in the full notebook on a single pdf file at the end of the term. Check the course calendar for the due dates.
- three separate story artifacts (also noted in the calendar). You are to create three versions of a story that is delivered/mediated using three different media types. The idea is for you to demonstrate how it is modified/affect by the different media using what you learned about the characteristics of each media’s profile as discussed/presented in each lesson module. You will present the story and provide a short narrative along with it that describes your rationale as to how you took advantage of/were limited by the media you chose. More on this when we meet in our first adobe connect session.
- periodic peer reviews of your classmates’ stories in terms of how you ascertain that he or she was able to demonstrate the use of that media form. At the end of the term you will write a short reflection from your peer reviews noting lesson learned from these reviews that you added to your own understanding from the lessons.
The collaborations/reviews are extremely important as its the notebook and will serve as your final reflections for this course. They will help me adjust the contents of the course to determine the relative value of integrating this course in a regular rotation.