Teach Us Something Digital: Group Project Proposal
For our presentation, our group will make a short film about our learning community. We believe that we will further impact our class and construct “unfinished business,” as Peter Lunenfeld suggests in The Digital Dialectic, (7) if we create a digital record of our class. We intend on recording footage from our class workshops and create somewhat of a ‘digital scrapbook’ of our semester learning experience. Footage will include classmates working on their own group projects and time spent on individual information ecology projects.
Our group has relatively three video cameras available. This will allow each group member to contribute in the recording process. After we have accumulated the footage necessary for our video, we plan on editing and shortening the film to approximately 15 minutes. We will use free editing software so the editing tools will be accessible to all group members at any time. It is essential for all group members to master the editing software so we can collectively teach video editing to our classmates during our presentation. We have yet to decide on which editing program to use, however, we have found several options to choose from, such as Avidemux and Cinelerra-CV.
We intend on using Microsoft PowerPoint to help guide our presentation on the steps in creating short films. We will spend the majority of the presentation teaching and instructing the class on how to edit footage. We will then present our group’s short film to conclude our presentation. The video will be posted on a medium, like YouTube, to parallel Lunenfeld’s idea of unfinished business so it can accumulate some sort of paratext and “laud process rather than a goal” (Lunenfeld 8). By the end of the presentation, each student should have the skills and knowledge to make their own short film. The ‘take-away’ will be the edited clip each student creates.
Works Cited:
Lunenfeld, Peter. “Unfinished Business.” The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media. Cambridge:
MIT Press, 2000.
