COURSE: ENG 380/HLTH 385, PODCASTING ON HEALTH
SEMESTER: SPRING 2018
INSTRUCTOR: SHEILA TEFFT
ASSIGNMENT IN BRIEF
Students created a 90-second to 2-minute video story related to their semester health topic. Each student chose and researched a health topic for the semester and completed four main assignments focused on different angles of that topic:
- A 1-2 minute animation podcast explaining a recent and timely health science development, concept, process or study and its significance, related to students' semester topic. Students wrote the podcast and produced it using PowToons.
- A 2-3-minute interview podcast related to students' semester topic in which they interviewed three sources, wrote a script incorporating sound bites from the interviews and their own narration, and produced and recorded the podcast.
- An 8-10 minute multi-host podcast on a health topic from students' research, in which they and a classmate worked together to prepare and record a discussion of a health topic with a guest interview.
- A 1-minute educational videocast in which students shot, wrote and edited a video presentation on an issue related to their semester topic using their own footage, motion graphics, ambient sound, music, and 2 or 3 video segments totaling 20 seconds in length from interviews.
FULL DESCRIPTION
SPACES/TECHNOLOGY USED
- Student Production Studio
- MediaLab
- Logic Pro X
- Adobe Audition
- Adobe Premiere
- Final Cut Pro
- iMovie
- Audacity
- Yeti Microphone
- Smartphones
- Smartphone kits from Music & Media Library
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Students learn to write and present information on a health/science topic clearly, succinctly and accurately for the general public.
- Students write and develop a well-organized narrative built around a single theme that holds the video together.
- Students develop the skills to shoot well-composed footage and record quality sound, and edit the various parts into a seamless, coherent project.
- Students conduct and shoot interviews that are understandable and have the necessary context.
- Students incorporate motion graphics that are written concisely and clearly and incorporated smoothly into the video.
SAMPLE PROJECTS
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