Multimedia Assignments

Are you interested in helping ATG test out new tools for teaching and learning? This fall we are conducting pilots of three new tools, and would welcome more testers. Find out more about the tools and how to pilot: Voicethread for media authoring and...

A presentation titled A Teaching and Learning Model—Authoring Beyond the Words won the "NMC People's Choice Award" at the New Media Consortium (NMC) annual meeting in Portland, Oregon in June as part of NMC's Idea Lab presentations. Kevin Guiney, Senior...

Students created two video assignments on topics from ancient Egypt. Students were provided with training, equipment, and documentation throughout the project development process.

Students in this Culture and Belief class were asked to interpret class discussions and readings in an artistic way. This included song, dance performance, poem, sculpture, painting, or even a short story. Artifacts were uploaded into an online portfolio...

In a First-Year Seminar on Global Pop Music, students heard a variety of music selections and genres from around the world. The class culminated with students creating their own composition—a “mashup” of sounds, songs, and samples.

The final assignment of United States in the World 35 was a three-minute “elevator pitch” of students' ideas to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. These pitches were captured on video to develop students’ skills in making a concise verbal argument...

Professor Huth’s Primitive Navigation General Education course challenged students with real-world navigation scenarios. The final project for the course included a multimedia component.

Professor Kuriyama has used podcast (audio recording) and video assignments in his General Education and History of Science courses for several years. Students weave together images, video, and the spoken word to make compelling arguments.

In African and African American Studies 174: The African City, students engaged with historic and present-day cities in Africa by examining architecture, city planning, spatial framing, popular culture, and art markets. The course website was intended to...

Dr. Kit’s History Lab was created as an online resource center for students working on digital scholarship projects for Dr. Tomoko Kitagawa’s fall 2011 courses (Japanese History 146: Kyoto; and East Asian Studies 131: Math and History in East Asia)...