Activity 2: Signature Assessment

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The signature assignment is not due until the end of the course and should be submitted during week eight, no later than December 16, 2018 at 11:59 PM UTC (or 5:59pm CT).  This information serves as a preview to give you added time for planning and preparation of this assignment.   Apply the theories, strategies, and skills learned during this course to design and create digital content for a specific learning experience.  This project will combine elements from the 100x Learning Theories course and 200x Instructional Design models course, so feel free to go back and review those courses to refresh your memory on the content.  

In this project, you are being asked to design an online learning experience. You will identify a ‘learning gap’ or instructional need and then identify or create specific digital media to support content knowledge development to overcome the gap. Your Signature Assignment will include:

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• Statement of the learning gap (instructional need) that your developed content will help overcome.  You can have one identified learning gap (instructional need) that covers all digital media you edit or create, or you can identify different learning gaps / instructional needs that change with each digital media project you create for 300x.  You will need to submit:

• Description of an instructional strategy on how the content can be infused into a learning experience.

• Development of the following digital content:

  • Digital document (eBook, infographic, interactive text)

  • Original digital video (2-3 minutes in length) published online with closed captioning (non-auto generated).  Your video can be a screencast or mash up (splicing together) of other Creative Commons licensed work you edited / enhanced to create an original work

  • Enhanced Digital Images (at least 2 images) that you have created or edited in some manner.  identify how you've enhanced the images

  • Interactive (adaptive type) module

  • Identify at least two Open Educational Resources to support identified content

• Label your media with a Creative Commons license (student have a choice on which level of rights to allow or to retain all rights)

• Apply your updated Digital Media Checklist created in week 1 to each of your digital media, provide the overview of findings and describe in a short statement or rationale why each digital media artifact will support content development or your lesson.
   

Update your portfolio with your newly designed digital content from this course along with your Digital Media Checklist review and rationale for how it supports content development. You have autonomy on how you present your portfolio design.  For example, you can create a separate page for your content, create multiple pages, or have a new site, that is up to you. Your content must be published and available online for your 300x Signature Assignment to be considered submitted.  Please post the URL for your portfolio that contains all requirements listed in Part I in the Signature Assignment Submission discussion thread prior to the end of Week 8.   No late work will be accepted after the end of the course.