Multimedia Badge
Description
Multimedia includes content such as videos, audio, and pictorials. In online, blended, or face-face courses, a balanced mixture of multimedia is effective with student engagement by supplementing and enhancing written content. In many cases, multimedia is best used as primary content. Current trends and tools in creating and sharing multimedia enable most anyone to utilize multimedia in a course.
Sample Applications
**Welcome and Intro Videos**
**Video Syllabi**
**Video/Audio Feedback**
**Lectures and Presentations**
**Tutorials**
**Communication**
Project 2: Screen Capture
Screen capture is a static image (not a video) of a computer screen, iPad, or other devices. A very common use of a screen capture is to share something which is visual and would otherwise be difficult to describe using words alone. For example, many people use a screen capture to save an error message received in order to share it with support personnel. Screen captures are also excellent for written tutorials, emails, and to enhance online pages with images. Anything that is viewable on your computer screen can be saved using screen capture. Screen captures examples include:
- Written Tutorials
- Create images for presentations
- email instructions
- Enhance Blackboard content (such as an announcement)
- Requesting tech support
For Project 2, create a tutorial which includes screen snots for any purpose you desire by following the steps below.
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Examples
Written Tutorial
Blackboard Content
Support email
Quiz Questions in Blackboard
Course Meme
Project 3: Video/Audio Editing and Enhancement
In Project 1, it is suggested not to focus on perfection or mistakes when creating a video or screencast. Unless errors are entirely unacceptable, it is best to simply allow a few glitches to exist. These glitches are more endearing than problematic, and perfection is a difficult standard. With experience, however, you may decide to correct some mistakes. Mistakes may be easily corrected or removed and replaced with new content. This stage of creation is referred to as post-production. In post-production, edits are completed and enhancements to content are created.
Project 3 centers on creating enhancements for a video. While corrections may be made as well (see tips below), the steps for project 3 lead through ways to add call-outs, links, fades, and other post-production elements for the overall enhancement of video content.
For Project 3, edit a video and add enhancements such as call-outs by following the steps below.
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Project 4: Sharing and Curating Content
Each project for the multimedia badge has included some amount of activity involving sharing. Distributing content to consumers (students) is a critical part of creating and curating content. In today's online world, sharing content to a diverse and global audience is easy. In fact, this ease of sharing can also be problematic in that not all content is meant to be publicly available. Project 4 focuses on the variety of methods for sharing multimedia content and manners in which to control distribution of content.
For Project 4, develop various means for sharing multimedia content to students and others by following the steps below.
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Project 5: Other Multimedia Content
Projects 1-4 are about creating content. The Internet is full of excellent content on practically any topic. While creating custom content for specific needs is an indispensable approach, why not draw upon the richness of the Internet too? For project 5, research the following types of multimedia content as related to your discipline. Look for one or more examples of high quality multimedia content in each of the following areas. Feel free to add other content types too.
For Project 5, research the many options online for multimedia content which could be used in your courses.
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Resources
Each of the projects for the Multimedia Badge draw upon various resources and tools to enable project completion. These resources are listed within each project instructions and are also listed here for convenience.