Tag: Animation

Digital Media In-Class Exercises

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In all of my classes, I assign a number of in-class exercises throughout the semester. Students are required to complete these in class under my supervision, or else they do not receive credit for the assignment. In-class exercises are an integral part of my “flipped classroom” approach and provide the students with lots of hands-on opportunities with the concepts.

Below are the in-class exercises I typically assigned to my Digital Media classes at Georgia Gwinnett College.

  1. Icebreaker & Classroom Tech
  2. Affordances
  3. Inkscape & GIMP
  4. Numbering Systems
  5. Digital Image Hardware
  6. Audacity
  7. Digital Audio Calculations
  8. iMovie & Windows Movie Maker – Students are instructed to choose one version of this assignment out of the three offered.
  9. Digital Video Calculations & Hardware
  10. Blender
  11. Ethics in Digital Media

Momentum (1980s Tribute Video)

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momentum_thumb This video is a tribute to the educational films common in public school classrooms during the 1980s and 1990s. It has the aesthetic of a well-worn VHS tape with era-appropriate production values and music. Achieving this vintage effect required running the video through a VHS player and transferring the content back to the video editor. I constructed the text animations and effects in Flash.