Multimodality
Composing a Multimodal Reflection
Prior to this activity, students need to have some form of written reflections, perhaps looking back at prior writing instruction, looking ahead and setting personal goals for themselves for this course, or otherwise considering their strengths and needs as writers. For this activity, they practice the act of remediation by translating their reflections into the […]
Picture Prompts for Online Classes
Instructors may want to use visual prompts to foster discussion, help unify remote and on-campus students, and create a classroom community. Picture prompts can be varied to connect with the course theme. Activity Review the New York Times Learning Network’s “Picture Prompts” series, “144 Picture Prompts to Inspire Student Writing.” On the landing page, there’s […]
Video and Audio Post-Production with Adobe Products
Boston University provides a university license for Adobe Creative Cloud free of charge for all Undergraduate students and faculty. You may request (or renew) your free Adobe Creative Cloud license through BU’s IS&T website. The Adobe Creative Cloud (ACC) is a suite of software and web-based applications used in professional settings, and especially in higher […]
Video Production Using Other Tools
There are a variety of tools for producing videos. Apart from the BU-supported Kaltura/MyMedia and Adobe Creative Cloud software, there are platforms that are not BU-supported, but provide limited free options. Below are some of the possibilities that especially have user-friendly platforms, and encourage active learning in class.
Video Production on Kaltura/MyMedia
Boston University recommends and supports Kaltura Capture and Mymedia for creating and sharing videos on Blackboard. Kaltura Capture is a web-based platform for recording videos and/or videos with inserted quiz questions. Mymedia is the storage space for all videos created through Kaltura capture. Mymedia also allows you to upload video files, and share them on […]
Video Presentation and Reflections
For this assignment, students work in small groups to create and edit short video presentations (flexible in genre) to recast their research for a new audience. Students then reflect on their presentations. Guide to Oral/Signed Communication in Writing Classrooms Objective To remediate the findings of a research project into a different genre; to work […]
Creating and Presenting Posters
Each Flipped Learning Module (FLM) is a set of short videos and online activities that can be used (in whole or in part) to free up class time from content delivery for greater student interaction. At the end of the module, students are asked to fill out a brief survey, in which we adopt the […]
Debates
Each Flipped Learning Module (FLM) is a set of short videos and online activities that can be used (in whole or in part) to free up class time from content delivery for greater student interaction. At the end of the module, students are asked to fill out a brief survey, in which we adopt the […]
Individual in Community (ELL)
Our Essential Lessons are a sequence of lessons that form the backbone of the Writing Program curriculum, illustrating what we want all students to learn across our program’s diverse course topics. BU’s international students and English language learners (ELLs), often new to North American higher education, are poised to learn more about and start analyzing […]
Advice to Students on Preparing for Oral Presentations
Instructors may want to share this page with students as they are preparing for a presentation. What would they add to this list? What has their previous experience been? You may want to ask students to write a reflection on one or two items here that they have had strong positive or negative responses to, […]