Today’s Plan:
- MLA / APA Exercise Note
- Review Multimedia Assignment
- Draw Lots
- Review Final Papers
MLA / APA Exercise Note
I got a few emails from folks who didn’t submit this the day we worked on it in the lab. This shouldn’t be an issue, because we worked in Google Docs. Just submit the shareable link to Canvas and I can give you credit.
Review Multimedia Assignment
So, multimedia presentation requirements:
- 125-150 word script
- 12-15 images on screen for 5 seconds each
- Quality audio recording of your speech (note: double and triple check volume levels)
- Title text on screen
- Bonus: background music
- Upload to Youtube / Share Youtube link on Canvas (“Multimedia Presentation”)
IMPORTANT NOTE ON SAVING PROJECTS IN ANY VIDEO EDITOR: Finally, when working with video, it is extremely important to stress file saving and storage. While programs like OpenShot or MovieMaker claim to “import” files, they are actually only creating paths to other media. This means that when you save a movie file, you are saving paths to other files. If you then move the movie file, you have invalidated all the paths (the dreaded Microsoft Red X’s of death). In plainer language, you’ve lost your whole movie.
This is especially an issue for students working in computer labs and saving files on a flash drive. The easiest way to make sure this doesn’t happen is to create a folder when you start a movie project and save all image, audio, and video files in the movie in that folder. That way, all the files move at once.
When you are done with your video and want to submit it, then you need to export the video.. There’s a lot of file formats you can use to save a video. I recommend .mp4 because it is a universal file type. If you use Moviemaker, then it will export as an .wmv. That’s fine too. Just make sure you don’t try to share or submit the project file to Canvas–that file only works in a video editor (and, again, only if it is still connected to all the files that were used to make the video).
Finally, I’ll ask you to upload a final version of your video to Youtube and submit a link to the Youtube video to Canvas. This should help ensure that no one attempts to upload a project file, and should quicken watching the videos on Wednesday and Friday.
Review Final Papers
I’ve been working through the drafts. I have thoughts.
Does your Work Cited / Reference have page numbers but your in-text citation does not?
APA, electronic sources, paragraph numbers.
Abstract doesn’t replace intro
Homework
Complete your multimedia presentation.
Revise your paper. Final papers are due Wednesday, Sept. 5th at midnight.
Complete your online course evaluations.
