Designing and Assessing Video Composing Assignments

Jason Palmeri (Miami University)jason.palmeri@gmail.com

@jasonpalmeri

Why Video Composing?

Popular Medium / Wide Audience

Robustly Multimodal

Video Genres

• Persuasive / Analytical Documentary• Rhetorical / Cultural Remix• PSA• Digital Story• Media Translation / “Remediation”• Student Choice

Scaffolded Assignment Design

• Integrate Assessment as Reflective, Collaborative, and Recursive Process

• Emphasize (potentially) transferable principles of rhetoric and process and integrate with alphabetic writing.

• Value and make space for experimentation and “failure.”

Introducing Project

• Rhetorical analysis of sample videos (informal writing, group discussion)

• Collaborative Rubric Generation• Engage ethical issues (Intellectual Property /

Fair Use; ethics of representation)• Hands-On Software Workshop: iMovie and

Moviemaker, screencast-o-matic, online-convert.com (encourage students to bring their own laptops if they have them)

Early Process

• Project Proposals• Digital Commonplace Book (gathering

materials on a blog, prezi, pinterest)• Open Studio Work Time• Alpha draft (30 second “proof of concept”)• “Speed Dating” Peer Response and mini-

conferences

Mid-Process Strategies

• Beta Draft • Detailed written comments on macro and

micro concerns (using time-stamp method)• Whole class (and small group) workshopping

(using class rubric as a guide)• Individual Conferences

Late Process Strategies

• “Out-of-class” peer response• Extensive reflective essay (worth substantial

part of the grade)• Celebratory showcase day

Criteria for Evaluating Video: