Digital Humanities: DH Faculty Learning Community Lesson plans, Resources, Tools, etc

This project is the first significant project of ART 219 Animate , an 8 week art Foundations course that covers 4D/time-based media and concepts while introducing students to non-linear video editing using Adobe Premiere Pro.

This assignment falls at the end of a unit on electronic literature in ENG 263: Digital Literary Studies. In the unit, students study electronic literature and video games and analyzing texts using media-specific analysis (examining how the technical and aesthetic elements of a work relate to the message/meaning).

This assignment is one of the culminating projects in an English ed class (specifically ENG 402: Methods of Teaching Composition). Over the course of the semester, students have composed (traditional, alphabetic, pen & paper/computer) in 3 genres: a creative nonfiction “short,” a literacy narrative, and a profile (typically of a person but can be about a building/space). After doing “deep revision” on all 3 of these texts, students select 1 and transform it into a digital text. The form of the final digital text is up to them, although most choose to do a video essay of some sort.