If you’re looking to spice up your standard curriculum with a bit of digital media, there’s a perfect lesson just for you. It’s currently one of the top contenders in Adobe’s Education Exchange (more on the Exchange and prizes here) and can be applied to almost any topic.
Rather than fall back to the usual method of teaching, Erika Veth of the University Alaska Anchorage decided to split up a large lesson into three smaller groups. One of those being a chance to use digital media. The results were fantastic and Erika has made her lesson plan and assignment guide available to the public through the Education Exchange. You can view the full resource guide for Erika’s resource here.
As you can see in one of the submitted videos from Erika’s assignment, the students created an elegant and thoughtful video that obviously required a lot of time, commitment, and thoughfulness. Here’s what Erika said about the project in her own words:
As an English composition instructor, I realized that students needed to do something more engaging than writing a boring research paper. So, I broke the final research project into three parts: A descriptive portion, a research portion, and a persuasive portion. For the final part, students had the opportunity to replace the written persuasive aspect with a form of digital media–video, audio, or web. Finally, though students could choose their topic, I stipulated that it had to be about the natural environment. It worked wonderfully!!
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