D2L Using Rich Media

Rich Media can be defined differently. Interactive, engaging, and multi-sensory.

web containing multi-media components, (sometimes advanced but necessarily always new)

Some ideas:
Pyramid of Hate (application with reading and video)USC
Spell Your Name (native speakers telling their stories) from Spielberg advertisement
Ed Heads (for younger K-6)
PBS Wiezel
"America and the Holocaust" McCalla around '92

Streaming clips on the content page
authro lectures and interivew
streaming media fron inside the quiz tool (long)
news media
archives of streaming media (pbs, ushmm, FilmsOnDemand, YouTube, many many others)
Professor lectures, and other media productions
Technology solutions for Teaching and Research

Splitting it up into 10-20 minute segments and putting it into quiz

Digital storytelling. To create a story, put it to music

"Media becomes how we talk"

Be aware of the functioning of the media, how does it affect the users? Where dose it take them?

Stream short clips accessible through "fair use" Clips can be used to discuss/describe a dilemna (internal, social, ambiguous)

Flow to different analysis tools (discussion, quizzes, dropbox)

Utilize the D2L tools in tandem or combination to promote short descriptoin or discussion of a clop

Stream longer media from with the Quiz too Breaks it down and asksa questions that call for desciption, knowldege, applications.

Use the small group function to promote sharing and trust over time

Repeat desciptions and varied represntations
Knowledge of material enhanced
apply concepts
practice
Participate


Send students on a media hunt
Students are at different ability levels with technology (wide spectrum) so be aware
Share digital stories and allow for feedback during the process.