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.
- Icebreaker & Classroom Tech
- Affordances
- Inkscape & GIMP
- Numbering Systems
- Digital Image Hardware
- Audacity
- Digital Audio Calculations
- iMovie & Windows Movie Maker – Students are instructed to choose one version of this assignment out of the three offered.
- Digital Video Calculations & Hardware
- Blender
- Ethics in Digital Media
“Hello, Computer” (Introduction)
“Disney in the Era of the Science Fiction Blockbuster” is a report that I wrote for a class on Film and Technology. It examines how The Walt Disney Company responded to the science fiction film boom of the 1970s and 1980s from both an administrative and a technological perspective. The professor asked if he could submit it into an annual departmental competition for undergraduate research papers, an idea that was unfortunately nixed when he learned that my major was outside the department.