Choose a Subject and Draft a Plan
In this subunit, we focus on digital skills for creating media. We recommend you choose a subject for your multimodal presentation assignment so you can reuse the outputs of the mini-learning challenges to incorporate into your presentation.
Mini Challenge Summary
Summary: Select a subject and draft an initial plan for creating a multimodal presentation. Time: 30–45 minutes
Definition
Multimodal Media
Digital media enables the simultaneous expression of multiple modes of communication including text, static images, moving images, gestures and sound. You can use these modalities in various combinations in digital communication formats.
Multimodal media can convey meaning beyond “alphabetical communication” and requires readers to develop abilities to understand these modes of making meaning. Media literate digital citizens should be able to craft, create and manipulate media as forms of communication and expression.
The assignment for Critical Media Literacies and Associated Digital Skills (lida104) requires you to create a multimedia presentation saved as a video file that incorporates static images, moving images, video inserts and audio tracks. The mini challenges will help you develop your digital skills.
Choose a topic or subject for your multimodal presentation so you can incorporate the outputs you generate from the mini challenges into your final multimedia presentation.
You should also choose an authentic use case for your presentation to help you define your target audience. This will also help you use the time you spend on this course productively for a real world situation.
Stimulus Resources
- How to Make a Storyboard for Video. C. Burgess. May 18, 2016.
Tasks
- Choose a topic or subject for an authentic presentation, that is something you can use in the real world, for example:
- Educators can choose a subject to create an online presentation you can use in your own teaching;
- Employees can choose a subject to use in a business presentation for colleagues or clients;
- Entrepreneurs can produce a short presentation to market a product or service;
- Product support employees can generate a help resource to show how to use a product or service;
- If you are unsure, you can create a help resource for any topic for the Learning in a Digital Age (LiDA) micro-courses. You can incorporate outputs that are licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution or Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike into future offerings of the LiDA courses. This is a good way to give back to the OERu learning community.
- Plan a rough outline for a 3–5 minute video presentation. This is a first draft, so do not spend too much time preparing a detailed plan. Creating media is an iterative process and for now, you only need a rough outline.
- Specify the purpose of your presentation;
- Draft a simple story board to outline the sequence and approximate timeline for your presentation.
Learning Output Actions
Share the subject area or topic and reason for your choice by posting a comment on the course forum. Note: Your comment will be displayed in the course feed.