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Foreword by Renee Hobbs
This book will guide librarians, learning technologists, and their faculty partners in designing assignments for authentic learning and supporting students in multimedia production.
Reinforcing the ACRL Framework’s calls for information creation in a range of formats, a 2020 LinkedIn survey rated “video production” as a top 10 skill sought by employers. Your library has an opportunity to partner with faculty to foster student-created media, which can be the perfect showcase for students’ ideas, research, subject knowledge, and media literacy skill set development. Building on his work supporting student media projects for more than 400 courses, Spicer walks you through
- 5 case studies complete with learning objectives, student feedback, extracurricular views, and more, plus approaches to media creation workshops from four universities;
- 21 questions to guide assignment development consultations with faculty;
- an overview of common genres such as documentary, video investigation, and personal narrative, with pointers on when to use them;
- applying the 7 steps of digital storytelling;
- topics to cover when presenting the assignment to a class;
- recommended media creation equipment for circulation;
- the benefits of sharing student work on streaming platforms;
- developing effective individualized student media creation support services, either in-person or virtually;
- ways to showcase student work in online galleries; and
- examples of the enduring impact of student media projects.
Foreword by Renee Hobbs
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Media Literacy Applied through Course-Integrated, Student-Created Media Projects
Chapter 2 Media Assignment Development
Unlocking the Potential for Learning
Chapter 3 Media Project Genres
Chapter 4 Course Outreach
Chapter 5 Media Creation Equipment and Software
Chapter 6 Research, Technical, and Compositional Support
Chapter 7 Video Investigation and Solutions Modeling
Ecosystem Health Grand Challenges—A Case Study
Chapter 8 Personal Narrative Digital Story
Reflections on Service Learning—A Case Study
Chapter 9 Public Service Announcement
A Collaboration on Maternal Nutrition—A Case Study
Chapter 10 Video Investigation
Historic Preservation—A Case Study
Chapter 11 Documentary-Style Digital Story
The Relationship Between Place, Culture, and Identity—A Case Study
Chapter 12 Visibility with an Eye toward the Future
Index
"Scott Spicer has created a concise yet voluminously informational guidebook for the establishment of a rigorous academic student media production program appropriate for the academic library media center professional. However, beyond this, Mr. Spicer’s book can and should be read by any instructor interested in developing a highly effective learning experience in 21st Century skills, the rhetoric of visual media design, and the subject-area content of their discipline ... This book is a valuable addition to an academic library collection for both library faculty and instructors of disciplines in which sourced writing and creative knowledge expression are important."
— Public Services Quarterly
"Media literacy has the power to improve students’ analytical thinking, creativity, analysis, and complex problem-solving. These skills benefit students beyond the classroom, as current employers want and need them ... Libraries of all sizes can take advantage of the enthusiasm for rich opportunities that media projects afford with a library’s involvement."
— Journal of Web Librarianship
"A compelling read for librarians and library students interested in the practical building and sustaining of library-based digital education programs ... All of these case studies discuss the contextual nature of the projects, the integration of the software into the particular course objectives, and how the project was supported by the library. These case studies are useful for understanding the real-life ways in which student-created media projects can be incorporated into a wide variety of disciplines and topics, and how support for creating the project can be successful and helpful."
— Journal of Education for Library and Information Science