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IDEA #13: Activity Set: Multi-Modal Creation

Media has affected, and has become inseparable from, academia, the workplace, and the world. Digital literacy and traditional literacy are both essential skills for today's students. The following activities familiarize students with deliverable creation and communication through a variety of media formats.

Media Option Activities

• Advertisements, Commercials, or Infomercials: Students can analyze existing advertisements/commercials/infomercials and then create their own (posters, live performances or interactive digital formats).
• Audio Recording: Students can document or present information verbally instead of in writing.
• Digital Stories: Students can use digital storytelling as an alternative to fully-written assignments (such as stories, summaries, or essays) by digitizing what they have written with visuals, sounds, or other added elements.
• Reviews for a Book/Movie/Performance: Students summarize and articulate their opinion about a piece of media using media (writing, an article, a YouTube video, or an audio recording).

Print or Digital Activities

• Graphic Design/Infographics: Students can design infographics, signs, billboards, or logos that explain an idea or persuade a viewer of something.
• Brochures and Foldables: Students create a brochure or foldable by assembling necessary information and designing a layout with visuals to present information about a topic.
• Multi-Genre Writing Project: Students select several mediums from a range of fiction and nonfiction writing styles (e.g., essay, postcard, menu) through which to present information pertaining to a subject. The completed writings may be gathered in a portfolio or a visual display.

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