Students Create Public Service Announcements in Kunce's Writing Class
Catherine Kunce’s first year writing students create their own Public Service Announcement videos. Kunce, a ϳԹ Program for Writing and Rhetoric Senior Instructor, planned this feature of her course with the support of the Fall 2014 ASSETT Teaching with Technology Seminar.
Watch Kunce discuss her project here:
[video:https://youtu.be/b90hMKQJolM]
I want the capstone project for my first year writing classes to improve in quality. The assignment has students, working in teams, design a project that supports a concern/s of an “adopted” student organization. For example, students “adopting” (meaning studying, via texts, interviews, and interactions with organization activities) the student-run Gay Straight Alliance, can produce a poster, film, or give assistance to a sponsored event. (Earlier assignments relate to learning about or advocating for the students groups, which are elected by the class members.)
The results sometimes are disappoint