Week #11

Hot Topic: A Create to Learn Project

Hot Topic Overview

You’ve found a partner and selected a topic. Now it’s time to begin the process to move your idea to an original digital composition. There are two parts to the process. Follow these steps, please.

Please create a blog or website on which you will post your assignments, and make sure that both of you have permissions to edit your digital platform. Enter your names and the URL of your digital platform in the Comments area of this page.

PART ONE

In the table below, there are two columns.

When you click on the left column, you go to a slideshow of one chapter from a new textbook called Create to Learn. In that chapter, you’ll find lots of background information. Skim through the chapter and familiarize yourself with the digital concepts.

The right column pinpoints the most important key concepts for you to consider in that chapter. You also have tasks to complete as a team for Chapters 2, 4, 5, and 6. Please conference with Dr. Carolyn when your team has completed each of the following tasks, and she’ll sign you off when you’re fully done each one.

• Creative Brief

• Critically Analyze a Mentor Text
• Create a Scope of Work Plan/ Specifically for the Hot Topic Project
• Dream It, Do It

	Key Question	Areas to Consider
1	What are the best ways to represent your knowledge and learning?	Participatory culture; communication strategies; digital authorship issues
2	How do people generate, develop, and express creative ideas?	Key insights of the creative process; getting started by building a Creative Brief
3	What type of media is best for my purpose, target audience, point of view, deadline, skills, and resources?	Developing your communication strategy; considering audience, knowledge, attitudes, behavior
4	How do digital authors find information, organize, and evaluate sources to create a coherent, high-impact media message?	Check for information reliability; research as strategic exploration; Critically Analyze a Mentor Text
5	How can you get inspired by the work of others as you plan and produce?	Understanding creative competencies; remixes and transformations; the power of structure; Create a Scope of Work Plan Specifically for the Hot Topic Project
6	How can the power of media make a difference?	Reproducing the status quo or challenging it; internet memes for social change; Dream It, Do It

PART TWO

Now it’s time to consider which digital platform or platforms best represent the message you intend to impart to your audience. You’ll also need to decide who on your team will do which tasks.  Please conference with Dr. Carolyn when your team has decides which digital platform or platforms you’ll be using, and be ready to defend why this is the best for you/ your team. Consideration will be given to teams that attempt a never-before used digital platform.

What is the digital platform for your message? Design Studio overview

Blog or website Digital audio or podcasting Photographic images Infographics and data visualization Vlogs and screencasts Video production Animation Remix production Social media

What's Due for Next Week?

Hot Topic: Finish working through Part One of the Hot Topic sequence. Get a head start on Part Two.