Soc 4853 miller - spring 2013 rev

SOC 4853 Multimedia Applications

Tues / Thurs 11:00-12:15 MH 3.02.50

Instructor: Michael Miller Office Address: MS 4.02.26 E-mail: [email protected] Office Hours: Tues/Thurs 12:45-1:45

The Course

Required Materials

You will not incur any textbook expenses as all instructional materials will be available online at no cost. However, you will need to have access to a digital video camera and a digital still camera (or a smartphone or a combination video/still camera) in order to complete some assignments. You should also own a flash-drive (4 gig minimum) and have access to a microphone with which you can record voice on computer

Prerequisites

Ideally, you should be an advanced undergraduate familiar with online navigation and strongly motivated to learn

about digital multimedia as it applies to sociology.

Description This course is designed to enhance your digital competency and encourage you to actively participate in the e-learning revolution. In taking you beyond traditional text and oral conventions, it will provide instruction about creating and integrating online multimedia into discipline communications relevant to teaching and research. Such content will be addressed within a coherent system of information generation and processing that will enable you to move between the massive universe of materials on the Internet and your own creative efforts. You will learn to navigate within this system, and in the process, employ various software applications to help you locate, curate, conceptualize, produce, and distribute sociological content. Particular attention will be directed to how multimedia can make abstract scholarly concepts more understandable. The course offers opportunities for you to gain hands-on experience in producing digital content which can then be distributed online. Course Management System Blackboard Learn is available by virtue of enrollment in this class. It is a vitally important resource which will allow you access to the course syllabus, assignment submission boxes, and course grades. (Let me know immediately if you have any difficulties with this site.)

Student Contributions The course requires your active involvement. At minimum, you are expected to attend every class, cover assigned materials prior to class, and meet production deadlines in assigned projects. You are also expected to treat all others in the class as colleagues similarly engaged in the learning process, and to reasonably share your knowledge and skills with them. You are expected to give constructive feedback to others on the work they produce and present in class and in their blogs. Finally, you are responsible for adhering to all rules concerning personal conduct, including those relevant to scholastic dishonesty (see The Student Code of Conduct). You are expected to reflect the Roadrunner Creed in your behavior, and follow the UTSA Honor Code. To additionally facilitate your success, consider the following suggestions: 1. Do not be a “spectator.” Your success in the class will be proportional to your engagement. This is your class: actively participate. Ask questions, discuss experiences, offer opinions... Get to know each other (exchange phone numbers/email addresses).

2. Read / watch / listen to assigned materials before the class date. It will be helpful to take notes as you address content. 3. Should you have any concern or problem that is affecting, or may affect, your academic status or class involvement, please communicate with me about it. If posted meeting times are inconvenient, we can arrange a conference at another time. Note: all e-mail communication should be directed to me at [email protected]. Support services, including registration assistance and adaptive equipment, are available to those with documented disabilities through the Office of Disability Services. Course Policies and Practices 1. Student Survey. During the first week, please complete an online survey about yourself in order to help me to better meet your learning needs. 2. Attendance. Regular attendance is crucial to success in the course. Each absence beyond the second will result in the loss of 2 points from your final average. 3. Coming Late. Please enter and take a seat without disrupting the class. 4. Notetaking. Presentation slides are regularly used in class to overview key ideas. Such slides will include images, graphics, animations, and video. Slides will not be posted. . 5. Lighting. To facilitate presentation display, classroom lighting will be dimmed at times. If you find this to be a problem for notetaking, try attaching a reading light to your notebook. 6. Class Ending. Class ends at 12:15. Let me know if you must leave early or if I run past that time. 7. Technology Use. The use of laptop and tablet computers is encouraged during class only for course purposes. 8. Grade Reporting. All evaluation results will be made available to you on Blackboard (grades cannot be reported to you by telephone, fax, or e-mail). 9. Drop Procedure. Should you decide to no longer attend, be sure to follow appropriate UTSA administrative requirements. Evaluation Evaluation will be based on the quality of your work relative to the following assigned projects over the semester. Assignments must be submitted to appropriate drop boxes in Blackboard Learn. Late submissions will be penalized by one-half letter grade for each day past due date. Failure to submit an assignment will result in an Incomplete. Assignment Due Date % of Grade 1. Who Am I? Jan 17 3 2. My Online Life Jan 22 2 3. Exploring Online Sociology Site Jan 29 2 4. RSS Homepage Feb 4 3 5. Multimedia Blog Feb 6 25 6. Social Bookmarking Feb 8 2 7. Screen Structure Images Feb 21 10 8. Video Slideshow Mar 4 15 9. Digital Storytelling Outline Mar 5 2 10. Video Clip and Learning Context Mar 25 10 11. Animated Cartoon Apr 9 8 12. Digital Story Apr 18 20 Total 100 Grading Scale Project grades and final average should be interpreted on the following basis: A = > 89 B = 80 – 89 C = 70 – 79 D = 60 – 69 F = < 60

Selected Media / Multimedia Applications (free or trial versions available)

collection - delicious collection - diigo collection - google bookmarks collection - pinterest converter dvd - handbrake converter video - any video converter editor image - gimp editor image - picasa editor sound - audacity maker blog - blogger maker blog - edublogs maker blog - tumblr maker blog - wordpress maker cartoon - xtranormal maker concept map - cmap maker presentation - impress maker presentation - presentationtube maker presentation - prezi maker presentation - webdoc maker screencast - screenr maker slideshow - photo peach maker slideshow - photo story 3 maker slideshow - slidestaxx maker slideshow - voicethread maker timeline - timeglider maker timeline - xtimeline rss - protopage user sharing - authorstream user sharing - flickr user sharing - presentationtube user sharing - slideshare user sharing - vimeo user sharing - youtube video converter - any video converter viz data - fusion tables viz data - gapminder viz data - many eyes viz data - statemaster viz data - tableau public viz image - photo mosaic viz mapping - stat silk viz word - ngram viewer viz word - vocabgrabber viz word - snappy words viz word - wordle viz word - wordnik

Course Schedule Week 1 Jan 15 Topic: Course Orientation 1. Course E-mail Account Create a gmail account for class purposes (even if you already have a gmail account, create another): https://mail.google.com/mail/help/open.html 2. Twitter Account Create a Twitter account for class purposes: https://twitter.com/ Tweet me to verify account @socmultimedia. Please send by Jan 16. 3. Define Sociological Interests Over the semester, you will be producing various media content. Identify which sociological subfield(s) you would like to build your projects around, and briefly discuss particular issues within the subfield(s) you might address. Submit to me at [email protected] via your new gmail account (subject heading: SOCIOLOGICAL INTERESTS for ______ _______ (YOUR NAME in blank spaces). Please send by Jan 16. 4. Student Survey Help me to better meet your learning needs by completing a survey. Please download a copy from Blackboard, fill it out, and then submit paper copy to me in class on Thursday, Jan 17.

Jan 17 Topic: Student Introductions via Visualization Applications Assignment 1: Who Am I? (submit to Blackboard by Jan 17) Let’s start the semester by getting to know each other through either of two online exercises. Both address the question “Who Am I?” The first does it through a word cloud; the second provides elaboration on this question through a photo mosaic. Inspect my examples for this assignment at http://multimediasociology.blogspot.com/2012/09/word-clouds.html. If you select the word cloud: Go to http://www.slideshare.net/soconceptual/miller-who-am-i-word-cloud, and follow directions for building your own word cloud describing who you are. Be sure to make and save a screen print of your output. If you select the photo mosaic: Go to http://www.slideshare.net/soconceptual/miller-who-am-i-photo-mosaic, and follow relevant directions. Be sure to make and save a screen print of your output. Introduction: Be ready to introduce yourself during class today via the output of your exercise. Also be sure to bring your answers to the questions posed at the end of the directions sheet. (Upload file to appropriate Blackboard assignment box, using above title. Also remember to save your output for later posting on your blog under the title, Who Am I?)

Week 2 Jan 22 Topic: The Digital Revolution / Digital Literacy / Digital Citizenship Read: Prensky – Digital Immigrants / Digital Natives

http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf View: Growing Up Online http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/ digital_nation http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/ Assignment 2: My Online Life (submit to Blackboard by Jan 22) Prensky’s article on digital natives and immigrants, and the two documentaries address many aspects of life in a plugged-in, hyper-connected, digitally-obsessed society. Prepare for class by describing the major ways technology and the Internet have affected your life. To what extent are your observations and experiences consistent with those made in the article and each of the two documentaries? ((Submit to appropriate Blackboard assignment box, using above title. Also be sure to save copy of your statement for later posting on your blog under the title, My Online Life.)

Jan 24 Topic: The Online Multimedia System Read: Miller – A System for Integrating Online Multimedia into College Curriculum http://www.slideshare.net/soconceptual/miller-a-system-for-integrating-online-multimedia-into-college-curriculum-jolt-june-2011 Assignment (nonsubmitted) Identify the several kinds of online media and multimedia outlined by Miller. What does he mean by online multimedia system? Be able to discuss key ideas presented for each system component. Develop a strategy for identifying, locating and collecting online multimedia content of sociological relevance. (Download and save the article on your computer.)

Week 3 Jan 29 Topic: Exploring Online Content of Sociological Relevance Read: Reread pages 6-7 of Miller – A System for Integrating Online Multimedia into College Curriculum. http://www.slideshare.net/soconceptual/miller-a-system-for-integrating-online-multimedia-into-college-curriculum-jolt-june-2011 Examine: Everyday Sociology http://www.everydaysociologyblog.com/ Montclair SocioBlog http://montclairsoci.blogspot.com/ OpenLearn / Society http://www.open.edu/openlearn/society Racism Review http://www.racismreview.com/blog/ Sociology Central http://sociology.org.uk/ Sociology in Focus http://www.sociologyinfocus.com/ Sociology Source http://www.sociologysource.com/ Sociology Sounds http://www.sociologysource.com/sociologysounds/ Teaching with Data http://teachingwithdata.blogspot.com/ The Global Sociology Blog http://globalsociology.com/ The Society Pages http://thesocietypages.org/ Citings & Sightings http://thesocietypages.org/citings/ Cyborgology http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/ Graphic Sociology http://contexts.org/graphicsociology/about/ Office Hours http://thesocietypages.org/officehours/

Sociology Lens http://thesocietypages.org/sociologylens/ Sociology Improv http://thesocietypages.org/improv/ Sociological Images http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/ the color line http://thesocietypages.org/colorline/ thickculture http://thesocietypages.org/thickculture/ The Sociological Cinema http://www.thesociologicalcinema.com/ The Sociological Imagination http://sociologicalimagination.org/ The Socjournal http://www.sociology.org/ Thinking Allowed http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy05 Examine: MERLOT http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm New York Times (register for free daily digital copy delivered to your gmail account at https://myaccount.nytimes.com/register) New York Times Multimedia http://www.nytimes.com/pages/multimedia/index.html New York Times Video http://www.nytimes.com/video New York Times Focus (register to receive in gmail account) http://www.nytimes.com/marketing/focus/ New York Times: The Learning Network http://www.nytimes.com/marketing/thelearningnetwork/index.html Assignment 3: Exploring Online Sociology (submit to Blackboard by Jan 29) Select one sociology site that you found particularly interesting or relevant to your interests. Write a brief statement, describing what the site is about, and what you found especially valuable about it. Be prepared to discuss your seletion in class. (Be sure to save your discussion for later posting on your blog under the title, Exploring Online Sociology. Submit to appropriate Blackboard assignment box.)

Jan 31 Topic: Locating Multimedia Content Class will focus on techniques and applications for locating quality media materials relevant to your sociological interests. Of particular concern will be creating an RSS multimedia homepage. Read: Reread page 8 of Miller – A System for Integrating Online Multimedia into College Curriculum. http://www.slideshare.net/soconceptual/miller-a-system-for-integrating-online-multimedia-into-college-curriculum-jolt-june-2011 7 things you should know about RSS http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7024.pdf View: RSS in Plain English http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english (do not set-up an account with Google News Reader as suggested in video) Inspect: Go to my RSS homepage http://protopage.com/michaelvmiller. Click on “Soc Science” tab, and explore various entries on that page. Assignment 4: Create an RSS Homepage and Alerts (submit the URL for your Protopage by Feb 4) 1. Go to http://protopage.com, register, and create a homepage, consisting of topics of interest (see tabs) and RSS feeds for relevant websites. You may use my homepage cited above as a model. (Submit your homepage URL to appropriate Blackboard assignment box, using above title.) 2. Create Google Alerts for all sociological concepts of relevance to you, and direct them to your gmail account: http://www.google.com/alerts

Week 4

Feb 5 Topic: Multimedia Blogging

View: Blogs in Plain English http://www.commoncraft.com/video/blogs Inspect: Examine my SOC 3013 blog at http://sounequal.blogspot.com/. Read several posts, including Nov 11: class, war, and dying; note writing style, use of hypertext links, and linked media to address given theme. Also note comments for Nov 11 post. Explore the RSS feeds along the left side of the page and the label cloud. Identify the functions of each. List advantages, as well as disadvantages, of developing course blogs. Read: Halavais – Blogging Course Texts: Enhancing Our Traditional Use of Textual Materials http://learningthroughdigitalmedia.net/blogging-course-texts-enhancing-our-traditional-use-of-textual-materials Gardner – Narrate, Curate, Share: How Blogging Can Catalyze Learning http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2011/08/10/How-Blogging-Can-Catalyze-Learning.aspx?Page=1 Assignment 5: Create a Multimedia Blog (submit URL for your blog to Blackboard by Feb 6) Create a blog to serve as a repository for your course projects, as well as a site for collecting and posting entries about quality online multimedia resources relevant to your interests. The Blogger platform https://www.blogger.com/tour_start.g will be used for this assignment (for initial assistance in using this application, this video tutorial is helpful). Today will largely be devoted to decribing how to set up a blog and outlining blog mechanics. Note: your blog will be evaluated at the end of the semester in terms of quality and quantity of posts, blog features, and overall appearance.

Feb 7 Topic: Multumedia Blogging Presentations Today we will examine just-created student blogs, and address further questions about content and mechanics. Be prepared to discuss your new blog.

Week 5

Feb 12 Topic: Curating Multimedia Class today will focus on digital techniques and applications for collecting and cataloging media materials relevant to your interests. Of particular concern will be the adoption of a social bookmarking service. Read: Reread pages 9-10 of Miller – A System for Integrating Online Multimedia into College Curriculum. http://www.slideshare.net/soconceptual/miller-a-system-for-integrating-online-multimedia-into-college-curriculum-jolt-june-2011 View: Social Bookmarking in Plain English http://www.commoncraft.com/video/social-bookmarking Read: 7 Things You Should Know about Social Bookmarking http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli7001.pdf Kelly – Is Content Curation in Your Skill Set? It Should Be. http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1037/is-content-curation-in-your-skill-set-it-should-be Assignment 6: Adopt a Social Bookmarking Service (submit the URL for your Delicious account by Feb 8) Go to http://delicious.com/, and create an account. Make sure you add a bookmarklet to your browser tool bar. As you locate web materials you want to save to Delicious, appropriately tag them for future reference and sharing. Note that tapping into others’ links serves a search (location) function. (Submit your social bookmarking URL to appropriate Blackboard assignment box.)

Feb 14

Topic: Fostering Creative Thinking Read:

Reread pages 10-11 of Miller – A System for Integrating Online Multimedia into College Curriculum. http://www.slideshare.net/soconceptual/miller-a-system-for-integrating-online-multimedia-into-college-curriculum-jolt-june-2011 View: Chris Jordan: Turning Stats into Art http://www.ted.com/talks/chris_jordan_pictures_some_shocking_stats.html Sam Richards: A Radical Experiment in Empathy http://www.ted.com/talks/sam_richards_a_radical_experiment_in_empathy.html Everything is a Remix (all 4 videos) http://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/ Read: Creativity (cover all 4 modules) http://philosophy.hku.hk/think/creative/ Explore: The Daily Create http://tdc.ds106.us/tdc365/#

Play Around With: Snappy Words http://www.snappywords.com Wordnik http://www.wordnik.com/ Ngram Viewer http://books.google.com/ngrams

Week 6

Feb 19 Topic: Photography / Law & Ethics Read or View: Harper – Visual Sociology: Expanding Sociological Vision http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~pms/cj355/readings/harper.pdf Jacob Riis clip https://vimeo.com/48718717 Chan – Revisiting the Other Half of Jacob Riis http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/revisiting-the-other-half-of-jacob-riis/ Dorothea Lange http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Lange Dorothea Lange Collection http://youtu.be/Fw1AZkvdC8k This Week: Sebastio Salagado http://youtu.be/ludwToTX2T0 and http://youtu.be/GZPPA2kpIig American Photography: A Century of Images http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/ (move through various sections) Slideshow Examples: The Atlantic: In Focus http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/ The Atlantic‘s photo gallery section offers an excellent collection of images from photojournalists on diverse topics, see for example: Not What They Hoped For http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/06/not-where-they-hoped-theyd-be/100320/; Mexico’s Drug War: 50,000 Dead in Six Years http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/05/mexicos-drug-war-50-000-dead-in-6-years/100299/ Abandoned Six Flags - New Orleans http://www.flickr.com/photos/brynnephotography/sets/72157622688948209/ Online Playgrounds with a Message

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/04/11/technology/20110421-MARKETING.html Inside a Bolivian Jail http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/06/americas_inside_a_bolivian_jail/html/1.stm Water, Wells, and One Wonderful Woman http://www.good.is/post/photos-water-wells-and-a-one-woman-revolution-in-india/ The Road to Hooverville http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7900122.stm Driven: Read Here and Now http://www.exploratorium.edu/tv/index.php?project=99&program=1329 Legal and Ethical Issues Re Visual Methods: Copyright and Creative Commons http://www.commoncraft.com/video/copyright-and-creative-commons Photography, the Law, and Photographers’ Rights http://www.bobatkins.com/photography/tutorials/photography_law_rights.html Photographer’s Rights http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm National Press Photographers Code of Ethics http://www.nppa.org/professional_development/business_practices/ethics.html National Geographic: People and Portrait Photography Tips, “Approaching Unfamiliar Cultures” http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-tips/portrait-photography-tips/#page=2 Ethical Regulation and Visual Methods http://www.socresonline.org.uk/17/1/8.html Statement of Ethical Practice for the British Sociological Association, Visual Sociology Study Group http://www.visualsociology.org.uk/about/ethical_statement.php For Your Information: Image Collections Library of Congress, Digital Collections http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html Library of Congress, Print and Photograph Catalog http://www.loc.gov/pictures/ http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html Click! Photography Changes Everything (Smithsonian Photography Inititiative) http://click.si.edu/ Life Magazine http://www.life.com/channel/news Life Photo Archive http://images.google.com/hosted/life News Photo Sites BBC “In Pictures” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/ NPR: The Picture Show http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/ NY Times: Multimedia/photos http://www.nytimes.com/pages/multimedia/index.html Photography References 8 Effects Every Photographer Should Know About http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/design/eight-photography-effects/ Beginning Photography Tips: Top Ten Techniques for Better Pictures http://www.betterphoto.com/exploring/tips.asp Curtin – Using Your Digital Camera http://www.shortcourses.com/use/ Curtin – Displaying and Sharing Your Digital Photos http://www.shortcourses.com/display/ How to Take Better Pictures with Your Smartphone’s Camera

http://lifehacker.com/5662812/how-to-take-better-pictures-with-your-smartphones-camera Assignment 7: Screen Structure Images (deadline Feb 21) Centering your attention on your conceptual focus, go into the field and shoot a series of still images (15-20 photos) for each of the basic kinds of screen structure (i.e., narrative, documentary, aesthetic, and emotional) discussed in class today. Place selected photos into PowerPoint divided into four sections reflecting the four approaches. Create an account at Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/ and upload your finished PowerPoint to it. Note: Before going into the field to shoot, be sure that you have fully read and reflected on those articles appearing in the Legal and Ethical Issues Re Visual Methods section for today’s class. Be ready to show slides during class on Feb 21. (Submit the URL for your uploaded PowerPoint to appropriate Blackboard assignment box, using above title. Post brief discussion about your images, along with URL for SlideShare file, to blog under title, Screen Structure Images.)

Feb 21 Topic: Photography Presentations Today will present the PowerPoint of images created for Assignment 7. Be prepared to introduce and discuss your photos.

Week 7

Feb 26 Topic: Creating a Video Slideshow Watch Slideshow Examples: Photo Story 3 for Windows http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVs5lZy4uJg&feature=related Midway: Message from the Gyre http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbqJ6FLfaJc&hd=1 Starved for Attention http://blog.telegraph21.com/2012/08/25/congratulations-to-the-starved-for-attention-project/ Ronnie Roadkill http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/09/13/technology/20100913-roadkill/index.html?ref=technology Faithful, and Fighting http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/02/us/20100202-fight/index.html Assignment 8. Video Slideshow (deadline Mar 4) Integrate some of the images from the above assignment into a video slideshow, including voice-over. In class today, we will run through the process of creating this kind of video, and by class end, you should be capable of developing your own. (Before submission to Blackboard, create a YouTube account (go to Sign Up for YouTube), and upload your video to it. Submit the URL for your video to the appropriate Blackboard assignment box. Upload video to your blog under the title, Video Slideshow.) Suggested Directions: 1. Create a folder on your desktop, and label appropriately. 2. Upload your images to this folder. 3. Copy a music file or files to the folder which you want to include in your video. (Note: Make sure that your music is open-source or copyright-cleared. Usable music files are also available on the authoring application to be employed.) 4. Create any PowerPoint slides you wish to include. Save each slide as a separate PowerPoint file to desktop folder. 5. Download Photo Story 3 from the Internet at http://download.cnet.com/Photo-Story-3-for-Windows/3000-12511_4-10339154.html and save to desktop. Jakes http://www.jakesonline.org/photostory3.pdf provides helpful instructions for this application.) If integrating PowerPoint slides with video, read:

http://uatim.wikispaces.com/Integrating+PowerPoint+with+Photo+Story+3 6. In light of images and slides you have created, write an appropriate voice-over script for each Photo Story 3 slide. (Note: not every slide needs to have voice-over.) 7. Compose your video with the images, slides, and music files that are located in your desktop folder. Be sure to try out the various features in Photo Story 3 that make for a dynamic video. 8. Record an appropriate voice-over on your Photo Story 3 that contributes to the meaning and flow of the images.

Note: In order to do this, you must employ a recording microphone (either built-in or external).

9. Render your Photo Story 3 file as a Windows Media Video file.

Tips for Developing Voice-Over Part of Assignment (compiled by Jennifer Usmani) 1. Go to page titled "Narrate your pictures and motion" per each slide for which you want to add voice narration. 2. To add voice, click on record (red-dot button). 3. Add in your voice (you may read from script). (Note that some PCs/Macs have a built-in microphone. For those not having a built-in mic, you'll need to procure your own. A cheap one ($10-$15) should suffice for our work this semester.) 4. After you've ended what you wish to say for that frame, press stop button (immediately to right of record button.) 5. Remember in the box below these buttons, you may conveniently type in the script which you will recite for the narration. 6. You may wish to Preview the narration before moving on to next slide. 7. If not satisfied with what you have recorded, you may record over that which you've just completed by repeating steps 3-5. 8. Be sure to render your Photo Story 3 file as a Windows Media Video file. 9. Be sure to upload video to your YouTube account.

Feb 28 Topic: Presenting Images Assignment: Be prepared to present your images for Assignment 7 in class today. Remember: images should be placed in PowerPoint, categorized and labeled according to type of screen structure, and then uploaded to your SlideShare account. Before showing them, briefly introduce what you studied through your photos and your motives for doing so. Be prepared to address student questions after presentation.

Week 8

Mar 5 Topic: Digital Storytelling Today’s class is a preliminary for the digital story that is due at semester’s end. We will examine the nature and types of digital storytelling, identify key features of stories that would be particularly relevant for sociology, and brainstorm about possible digital storylines you might pursue. Watch: Bad Choices http://www.creativenarrations.net/node/76 Power Is Not a Dirty Word http://www.creativenarrations.net/node/91 Talking to the Taliban http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/talkingtothetaliban/ Life Interrupted (e.g., Cancer at 23) http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/health/life-interrupted.html#/cancer-at-23

The Barber Shop

http://youtu.be/D8Vq2fJ6UjQ Digital Story: E Johnson http://youtu.be/JAaRC0Hi-cg The Center for Digital Storytelling (view various stories at YouTube site) http://www.youtube.com/user/CenterOfTheStory Read: 7 Things You Should Know about Digital Storytelling http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7021.pdf Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/index.html Digital Storytelling (reference) http://electronicportfolios.com/digistory/ Digital Directors’ Guide: Resources for Digital Movie Projects http://www.ddguild.org/resources.html Assignment 9. Digital Storytelling Outline (deadline March 5)

In this brief paper, brainstorm ideas for translating your sociological concept(s) of choice into a digital story. Specify at least two different storylines you might pursue. For each, identify the kinds of people you might include as interviewees. Anticipate challenges you might encounter as you pursue these stories, and spell-out how you could reasonably address such challenges. Submit to appropriate assignment box in Blackboard, and post on on blog under title, Digital Storytelling Outline.

Projected Assignment 12. Digital Story (deadline April 18) Create a digital story that has clear relevance to your sociology concept focus (flesh out one of those outlined in Assignment 9). Include excerpts from an interview or interviews with one or more persons having significant relevance to your topic. Integrate relevant video clips and/or images with story. (Be sure to secure consent and release permission from interviewee(s) before conducting video interview(s) in field.)

Mar 7 Topic: Presenting Video Slideshow Assignment: Be prepared to present your video slideshow for Assignment 8 in class today. Remember: the video should be uploaded to your YouTube account. Before showing, briefly introduce what you studied and your motives for doing so. Be prepared to address student questions after viewing video.

Week 9 Mar 12-14 No Classes: Spring Break Week 10

Mar 19 Topic: Teaching with Video Clips The objective of this exercise is to enhance your ability to locate and employ online video within sociologically-relevant instructional contexts. You will select an online video clip and build a brief description of how to employ it within a lesson. View and Read: De Luna, Teniente, & Nunez - A Lesson in Workplace Sexual Harassment http://www.thesociologicalcinema.com/1/post/2012/07/a-lesson-in-workplace-sexual-harassment.html Gordon & Miller – Plight of the Part-Time Worker http://www.thesociologicalcinema.com/1/post/2013/01/plight-of-the-part-time-worker.html McQuay – What Happened to the American Dream?

http://www.thesociologicalcinema.com/1/post/2012/12/what-happened-to-the-american-dream.html Moore – Chow Down (at Chik-fil-a) http://www.thesociologicalcinema.com/1/post/2012/05/chow-down-at-chik-fil-a.html Assignment 10. Video Clip and Learning Context (deadline March 25) Locate an online video clip (30 seconds to 5 minutes in length) that is highly relevant to an important concept in your sociology subfield. Create an appropriate lesson plan for its classroom use. Specifically, describe how the clip could be employed in a class to enhance understanding of the concept in question. Develop a set of questions that could be asked about the clip. (Be sure to include the clip’s URL in the paper.) Upload paper to appropriate assignment box in Blackboard, and post on your blog under title, Video Clip and Learning Context.

Mar 21 Topic: Working with Video: Interviewing / Shooting

Today, we will overview basic elements of a video interview, and also address various shooting mechanics. Watch: Our Lady Of Tamale http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/trulyca/shorts/episode.jsp?essid=27617 (While watching, pay special attention to the technical elements involved in shooting this video.) Telling Their Stories http://tellingstories.org/index.html Read: Briggs – Shooting Video for News and Feature Stories http://www.kcnn.org/resources/journalism_20_chapter9/ JISC – Basic Guide to Shooting Video http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/movingimages/advice/basic-guide-to-shooting-video/#v07 How to Produce Video Interviews http://www.mediacollege.com/video/interviews/

Buttry – Getting Personal: Learning and Telling Life's Most Intimate Stories http://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/getting-personal-learning-and-telling-life%E2%80%99s-most-intimate-stories/ View: The Five Deadly Sins of Amateur Video http://www.videomaker.com/video/watch/tutorials/541/the-5-deadly-sins-of-amateur-video/ Lighting for Video http://www.videomaker.com/video/watch/tutorials/544/lighting-for-video/

Week 11 Mar 26 Topic: Video Clip Presentation Assignment: Be prepared to present your video clip lesson for Assignment 11 in class today. First show the video, and then overview your lesson application. Address student questions after presenting overview.

Mar 28 Topic: Working with Video: Editing Today’s class provides an overview on the basics of editing. Feel free to make suggestions during the course of demonstration. View: Windows Movie-Maker How-To Tutorial http://youtu.be/MLTQfI9K2Fc

Read: Windows Movie-Maker 2.6 http://www.visualsteps.com/photovista/Chapter8_MovieMaker26.pdf

Week 12 Apr 2 Topic: Data Visualization / Information Graphics Become familiar with data visualization websites and examples of online work. Examine various online tools for translating empirical data into visualizations that effectively display relevant patterns and relationships. Watch: Journalism in the Age of Data http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/ Beauty of Data Visualization http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization.html Review: What is an Infographic? http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/2007/04/what-is-infographic.html Teaching with Infographics: Places to Start http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/teaching-with-infographics-places-to-start/

Data Visualization: Modern Approaches http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-approaches/ Snelson – Using PowerPoint to Create Video Infographics http://tubeteaching.blogspot.com/2012/07/using-powerpoint-to-create-video.html 7 Basic Rules for Making Charts and Graphs http://flowingdata.com/2010/07/22/7-basic-rules-for-making-charts-and-graphs/ Tools: Google Fusion Tables http://support.google.com/fusiontables/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2571232&ctx=cb&src=cb&cbid=1csd821j55yoa

Many Eyes http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/ Visit and Inspect: Examples: 20 Things that Happen in One Minute http://www.onlineeducation.net/every_minute Left vs. Right World http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/left-vs-right-us/ The Geography of Recession http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html Inspect: Google image search = simple infographics eLearning Examples http://elearningexamples.com/ DataBlog http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog Chart Porn http://chartporn.org/ Flowing Data http://flowingdata.com/ GOOD.is

http://www.good.is/departments/transparency/ Information Aesthetics http://infosthetics.com/ Information Is Beautiful http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

Apr 4 Topic: Cartoon Animation View: Cartoon: A. Inman http://youtu.be/BmXpUZ2wuOI Consent Turns Me On http://consentturnsmeon.blogspot.com/2010/04/saam-is-officially-here.html One Professor’s Fantasy http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7654015/one-professors-fantasy-pg-rating The Presidents on Taxing the Rich http://sounequal.blogspot.com/2012/02/taxing-capitalists-by-michaelvmiller.html Tool: Xtranormal http://www.xtranormal.com/index Other Cartoon Tools: see http://www.youtube.com/create Assignment 11. Create an Xtranormal Cartoon (deadline April 9)

Create an animated cartoon relevant to your concept of choice by employing xtranormal. Identify two contrary positions on a significant issue of controversy. Identify the substance of each side’s argument. Cast two cartoon characters—one per side. Script an argument for each character to voice while interacting with each other. Build cartoon and render video. Upload to your YouTube account, and post to blog.

Week 13 Apr 9 Topic Presenting Cartoons Assignment: Be prepared to present your xtranormal cartoon in class today. Introduce your animated video, play it, and then address student questions.

Apr 11 Topic: Creating Presentations: PPT & Prezi Read: Guy Kawaski – 10-20-30 Presentation Rule http://youtu.be/liQLdRk0Ziw

Bird – Prezi Versus PowerPoint http://edu.prezi.com/article/27582/Prezi-vs-Powerpoint/ Orlando – Prezi: A Better Way to Doing Presentations http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/trends-in-higher-education/prezi-a-better-way-of-doing-presentations/

Reference: PowerPoint Tips (numerous tips about creating effective PowerPoint presentations) http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/powerpoint_tip.html#mindmap#mindmap Prezi Tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMHBNa5KGJ0 Top 5 Reasons to Use Prezi Instead of Powerpoint

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPh2Nl9AAPE Inspect: Colemere – Imagine https://prezi.com/secure/615a80e317e6775e0e44a3444ec8ad95693f6ae1/ King – Arizona’s History of Hate: A Timeline http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/01/arizonas_history_of_hate_a_timeline.html For Your Information: PowerPoint Hell (view slides) http://www.pcworld.com/article/161912/powerpoint_hell_dont_let_this_happen_to_your_next_presentation.html

Week 14 Apr 16 Topic: Data Visualization / Interactives Watch: Martin Wattenberg: Turning Words into Pictures http://forum-network.org/lecture/martin-wattenberg-turning-words-pictures Let My Dataset Change Your Mindset http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/hans_rosling_at_state.html Review: Segel & Heer – Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data http://vis.stanford.edu/files/2010-Narrative-InfoVis.pdf Inspect: Map of Obesity in U.S. http://hci.stanford.edu/jheer/files/zoo/ex/maps/choropleth.html Topography of Faith http://www.usatoday.com/news/graphics/pew-religion-08/flash.htm

World’s Best Countries http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/15/interactive-infographic-of-the-worlds-best-countries.html How Different Groups Spend Their Day http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/07/31/business/20080801-metrics-graphic.html Rise and Disappearance of Southeast Louisiana http://www.nola.com/speced/lastchance/multimedia/flash.ssf?flashlandloss1.swf Baby Name Wizard http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager Flesh Map http://www.fleshmap.com/ Selected Tools: Gapminder (select Gapminder World and select video tutorial, then select family size & length of life under: “view examples”) http://graphs.gapminder.org/ Glogster http://edu.glogster.com/ Many Eyes http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/ StatPlanet http://www.statsilk.com/software/statplanet Tableau Public http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/ Dipity

http://www.dipity.com/

Timeglider http://timeglider.com/index.php Assignment (non-submitted): Think about how you could visualize data interactively about your subfield. Which variables would you examine? Envision how relevant interactive infographics would appear. Might you productively employ Gapminder with your data? Be ready to discuss in class.

Apr 18 Topic: Digital Story Presentations Week 15 Apr 23

Topic: Digital Story Presentations Apr 25

Topic: Digital Story Presentations Week 16 Apr 30

Topic: Course Conclusion Week 17 May 7

Topic: Final Review (Tuesday, 10:30)