Title	Digital Media Workshop
Description	The Digital Media Workshop as the module’s name implies, encourages learners to participate within a process of creating a multimodal (multimedia) learning artifact. Taking an à la carte approach, learners choose a digital medium or two in which to develop their skills, and then use an inquiry-based methodology to plot their own trajectory as they learn how to use a new software program. We will also discuss general principles around multimodal design and applications
Learning Outcomes	By the end of this module, learners will be able to: List the three major elements of a visual design Create a digital media work as a learning tool for others Demonstrate design principles in a work of digital media
Topics	Design Primer Multimodal Maker Studio
Videos	Design Fundamentals Multimedia Principles for Learning
Learning Resources	Digital Media Design: Working with Multimedia – Lessons Learned the Hard Way Grab-Bag of Design Links Principles of Design Studio: Web Design/HTML 5 Getting Started with Web Design Common Errors with HTML5 Graphics Getting Started with Graphics On Image File Formats Audio Getting Started with Audio Video Getting Started with Video
Teaching Resources	Facilitator Guide (pending)
Other Supports	Enrichment: 2D Animation: Synfig Studio (Open Source 2D Animation Software) Synfig Studio Tutorials Synfig Studio Manual Enrichment: 3D Animation: Blender 3D Blender Tutorials Blender Manual Blender User Community Enrichment: Game Development: Unity Unity Tutorials Unity Manual

ARCHIVED NOTES (not for web)

Random assortment of useful bits:

list of digital tools: https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/digitalscholarship/content/digital-tools-resources
DH Quarterly issue: http://dhbisc.queensu.ac.uk/blog/cfp-digital-humanities-quarterly-special-edition-imagining-the-dh-undergraduate/
U of T’s DH Unit, practicum projects: http://digitalscholarship.utsc.utoronto.ca/projects/content/2015-practicum-projects-2014-2015-fallwinter

Outline:

About the module

brief overview/roadmap of contents
How to use the module

On Making and Doing as Learning

‘active’ learning
using the tools of digital media to both communicate your learning, but also enrich your understanding of a topic as you work through the design of your artifact
- [It is often said that the best way to learn a concept is to teach it to someone else. That struggle of how to explain something clearly in your own words is part of how we learn, and in the same way, struggling with the design of an artifact means having to think through the concept in a deeper way to express it through an unfamiliar medium.]
[evidence]
But also need to make and do to learn; lots of resources, but no substitution for what you learn by exploring and building things on your own

Digital Scholarship

See notes below; focus on:
- What is it?
- How it relates to traditional scholarship
- Types
- Recommended platforms

Design Primer

Design as communication, design as barrier (e.g. to credibility, usability)
Making a case for good design: Milena Head study, Dianne Cyr, others?
See ‘Ways of seeing’ presentation for content (i.e. color, typography, layout)
Expanding beyond the visual: considerations in audio and interactive applications
General design Principles
- Less is more
- Form follows function

Multimodal Maker Studio: Key Concepts

Similarity of software applications – transferability of skills [actually have a game here where learners identify components in a new software based on what they know]
Workflows
- Raw to project to produced
Timelines
Layers
Tips
- Save often
- Preserve raw files
- Organize assets
- Preview frequently (small, incremental steps)
- Learn keyboard shortcuts

Resource page (with links to all OS or freemium software, documentation and tutorials)

Appendix A: HTML5 foundations?

Getting started
How it fits with DLL

Appendix B: A brief intro to…

Graphics
Sound
Websites
Animation
Games

Appendix C: Open source software:

What is open source software, really?
Values and critiques (First Monday article)
How to navigate open source software
- development communities & documentation
- plusses (free: software, extensions, tutorials)
- pitfalls (variable quality of the above, can be buggy, end of life)
Sharing back: contributing to projects

Title	Networked Learning
Description	Technology has provided us with additional opportunities for all of us to participate in flexible virtual exchanges with our peers. However, the establishment and maintenance of active and meaningful online collaborations, communities and projects is a challenging task. In this module we will look at the concept of connectivism, personal learning networks and digital learning communities and the benefits and pitfalls of online collaboration. We will also examine various methods in building your own personal learning network and ways to understand and facilitate group collaboration in the online environment within an educational setting.
Learning Outcomes	By the end of this module, learners will be able to: describe the social, affective and cognitive benefits of connectivism and collaborative learning build a personal learning network apply techniques to effectively co-construct knowledge among diverse and culturally unique group members establish guiding principles on virtual collaboration analyze characteristics of various collaborative technologies
Topics	Connectivism Personal Learning Networks Digital Learning Communities Virtual Collaboration
Videos	An Overview of Connectivism Digital Communities for Learning – A bit of theory Virtual Collaboration
Learning Resources	Connectivism: Connectivism, A Learning Theory for the Digital Age (George Siemens) Connectivism and Connective Knowledge (Stephen Downes) In Connectivism, No One Can Hear You Scream: A Guide to Understanding the MOOC Novice (Keith Brennan) Social Networking as Peer Surveillance (Ashe Dryden) Personal Learning Networks: I Link, Therefore I Am: Network Literacy as a Core Digital Literacy (Mark Pegrum) Connective Learning and the Commercial Imperative (Norman Friesen) Howard Rheingold’s Advice on Building a PLN Digital Communities for Learning Where Online Community Began The Role of Communities of Practice in a Digital Age (Tony Bates) New Learning Environments in the 21st Century (John Seely Brown) Virtual Collaboration Where Good Ideas Come From (Steven Johnson) How to Survive Virtual Group Work Working Together Apart (Zakaria et al)
Teaching Resources	Facilitator Guide (pending)
Other Supports	Video: Connectivism and Connective Knowledge (George Siemens)

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Unit 3: Digital Media Workshop

Outline:

Unit 7: Networked Learning