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ENGL 15: Creating a “Year in Review” Retrospective Podcast and Video

Dr. Peter Froehlich and Dr. Maggie Froehlich assign one podcast and one video in their four sections of English 15 taught at Hazleton.

The podcast is a podcast narrative highlighting a year in American history (post 1945) of the students choosing.  For the video, the students were put into groups by era (e.g. the early 1990s) to create a 10-minute video narrative based on their combined years.

About the Course Project

Course: ENGL 15 – Rhetoric and Composition
Instructor: Maggie Gordon Froehlich and Peter Alan Froehlich, Hazleton
Number of Students: 80+ students across four sections
Semester: Spring 2009
Duration of Assignment: 4 weeks for podcast and 5 weeks for video

Benefits

Students exposed to writing for new media. Students uploading podcasts to iTunes have a better sense of who the “audience” is in terms of writing.

Grading Process: 

The podcast and video both count as an “essay” writing assignment in this course and are graded primarily on the quality of the writing or structure as well as creativity.

The podcast is worth 20% of the total grade and the video is worth 25% of the grade.

ECON 2: Creating an Educational Video

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Grading Process: 

The video project was worth 20% of the course. The following grading rubric was used in this course. Sample rubric:

Criteria Percentage
Economic Content 50%
Entertainment Value 20%
Production Quality 10%
Title Screen: Division of Labor Credits  5%
Title Screen: Works Cited  5%

Rubric Information for Students

Below is the grading information given to students

Economic Content. 50%.
Be rigorous and demonstrate mastery of the subject. Some concepts are easy to show and others are more difficult to present. Selecting TWO concepts that are challenging and effectively demonstrating them carries more weight.

Entertainment Value. 20%
The video should be captivating. Your GEN ED TA will be watching hundreds of videos – if it is boring or inappropriate this is where a markdown will occur.

Production Quality. 10%
Check the sound quality and make sure you have good transitions, lighting, and that the camera is not too shaky. Producing a video and uploading it to YouTube is easy. Most digital cameras have a video feature. The video you capture on your camera can be downloaded into Windows Movie Maker or another editing program. Even if you have never done any video work, editing, or uploading, you will find that the process is not complicated. For those who would like additional help, or are interested in learning more about the video capabilities provided by Penn State, please visit:

http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/universitypark (The staff helped many students with their projects last fall.)

Each Video Should be Four Minutes Long. 10%
A sliding scale will be used to make deductions the farther away from 4 minutes you are.

Division of Labor (Credits). 5%
Please state that you worked together on the project by all appearing in a scene together in the credit section. If there is a slacker hold up a piece of paper with their name on it so we can give them a zero.

Works Cited. 5%
Every project requires sources. At the end of the project include a works cited screen that includes the sources you used in pulling this together.

MKTG 422: Create A Promotional Video for the Food Science Major

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Related Video: 
Tradition Meets Innovation
Grading Process: 

The video is graded as a component of the larger client marketing plan project. Teams which complete a video are allowed to submit a shorter written research paper.

Sharing Presentations

This document is related to the Adobe Presenter tutorial series. Please view our first document before continuing on to other tutorials.

In an Adobe Connect Meeting Room
After you have published a Presenter presentation to the Connect Pro server or your computer, you can add the presentation to a Connect Pro meeting by bringing the file into the share pod from a Content Library or directly from the desktop. For information and procedures for share pods and how to upload content, please visit http://meeting.psu.edu/sharing.

In an ANGEL Course
Upload the Adobe Presenter Zip file in ANGEL by selecting the Add a File link from Add Content, which is found under Course Lessons.

Using Adobe Presenter with ANGEL
If you are using Adobe Presenter with ANGEL to provide students with narrated instructional materials, you will be interested in two topics that were recently added to the online ANGEL Help and Information Guide which provide suggestions of alternatives to uploading large files to ANGEL.

Publishing Presentations

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Publishing an Unzipped Presentation

Reporting Quiz Grades in ANGEL

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Quiz Reporting

  1. In ANGEL, select a Quiz that has been uploaded and students have completed.
  2. After the Quiz opens, select Reports from the Toolbar.


    3. Quiz Reports

  3. Select SCORM Reports.


    4. SCORM Reports

  4. View User Report information.
  5. Click Done when finished.


    6. User Reports

  6. Click Done, again, in next window.


    7. Done

Gradebook Reporting

Optional SCORM Version Setup

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  1. After you have finished crafting the quiz, select from the menu bar, Adobe Presenter> Manage.


    2. Quiz Manager

  2. In the Quiz Manager window, select the “Reporting” tab.
  3. Select “SCORM” under the Learning Management System (LMS) section.
  4. Click “Manifest” to set options for how the SCORM manifest file is created.


    5. SCORM Manifest

  5. Choose “Version 1.2” from the pull-down list under the SCORM Version section.


    6. SCORM Version

Adding a Quiz to ANGEL

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  1. Add a quiz to your PowerPoint file using the Adobe Presenter add-in.
  2. Publish the presentation as a .zip file.
  3. In ANGEL, select Add Content in the Lessons toolbar.


    4. Add Content

  4. Select IMS/SCORM Package as the type of item to upload.


    5. Select IMS/SCORM Package

  5. Select Upload an IMS/SCORM Package.


    6. Upload IMS/SCORM Package

  6. Click Browse to locate the .zip file.


    7. Browse File

Recording and Editing Audio

This document is related to the Adobe Presenter tutorial series. Please view our first document before continuing on to other tutorials.

With a microphone connected to your computer, you can record audio that you want to include for each slide. The slide notes in PowerPoint can be used as a script for your narration.

Importing slide notes (Optional)
Note: If you prefer to read your script from printed materials you can skip over this section on “Importing slide notes.”

Capturing and Editing Video

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Importing Video

  1. Open your PowerPoint presentation.
  2. Select or create a new slide to which you want to add the video file.
  3. Select Adobe Presenter>Video>Import.


    4. Importing Videos

  4. Navigate to and click on the video file you want to import to the slide.


    5. Navigating Video Files

  5. Under Import Options, select a Quality option from the menu.
  6. Click Open, and the file will import to the slide.
  7. Follow steps 1-6 until all video files are imported.

Capturing Video

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