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Please take a moment to review these sustainability student produced media project types and reflect on how these assignments may be useful in your teaching.
*If you are new to using student created media in your classes, check out http://digitalstory.umn.edu.
Report style videos designed to communicate general information on sustainable lawn care.
BENEFITS
Diverse use of media and distribution platforms
Expert Interviews
Student as Instructor
LIMITATIONS
Less reflective
Balanced journalistic style videos communicating multiple perspectives of sustainable energy, environment and water policy.
BENEFITS
Balanced
Diverse use of media
Background Research
Expert Interviews
Voice Over and Scripting
LIMITATIONS
Less reflective
Videos describing a global sustainability issue (EcoHealth) that communicate a more balanced perspective from multiple stakeholders. These videos also describe proposed innovative solutions with potential unintended consequences.
BENEFITS
Analytic
More balanced
Diverse use of media
Background Research
Expert Interviews
Voice Over and Scripting
Ideation and Creativity
LIMITATIONS
Multiple components require additional and more careful scaffolding
Steeper technical production learning curve
Video interviews with farmers and related TEDEd educational resource designed for K-12 to communicate a range of different approaches to of cover crop usage in farming.
BENEFITS
Diverse use of media and distribution platforms
Expert Interviews
Student as Instructor
LIMITATIONS
Less reflective
Video case study communicating analysis of potential risks and mitigation strategies for sustainable forest management illustrated through specific forest case studies (silviculture).
BENEFITS
Authentic Applied Learning Experience
Analytic
Background Research
Diverse use of media
Voice Over and Scripting
LIMITATIONS
Requires significant subject knowledge
Personal narrative digital story videos communicating a student's relationship to a water sustainability topic.
BENEFITS
More Reflective
Diverse use of media
Background Research
Expert Interviews
Voice Over and Scripting
LIMITATIONS
Less balanced
Videos designed to communicate what an innovative sustainable urban landscape solution might look and sound like.
BENEFITS
Diverse use of media and distribution platforms
Expert Interviews
Student as Instructor
LIMITATIONS
Less reflective
This video produced by multiple students in a Grand Challenge Course: The Global Climate Challenge, Creating an Empowered Movement for Change (Professors Teddie Potter, Jessica Gutknecht and Julia Nerbonne) is designed to bring awareness around issues related to climate change and health (emphasis nursing perspective).
BENEFITS
Advocacy
Diverse use of media and distribution platforms
LIMITATIONS
Less reflective
Less balanced
Students in a Grand Challenges course: Power Systems Journey: Making the Invisible Visible and Actionable created interactive storymaps (ArcGIS) to illustrate the inter-connectivity of our energy grid.
BENEFITS
Diverse use of media and distribution platforms
Expert Interviews
Student as Instructor
Low technical production barrier
LIMITATIONS
Less reflective
Students in Communications courses contribute content to the creation of Public Lands described as “a weekly podcast about public lands and waterways, mainly in the United States and North America, covering current developments and featuring the insights of rangers, scientists, and others working at our public land sites.”
BENEFITS
Expert Interviews
Diverse use of media and distribution platforms
Background research
LIMITATIONS
Less reflective
Less balanced
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