Project 3 invites you to create your own individual multimedia project. You will set and meet the parameters of your project (although there will be some negotiation between each student and the instructor to ensure that projects are of sufficient scope). One stipulation is that your project should have some sort of communicative purpose, which means it shouldn't just be to entertain yourself. Topic choice is wide open, but you are encouraged to select something that pertains to your major field or your other interests. This project is your opportunity to turn the class toward your particular goals.

Several tasks contribute to the completion of the total project:

• Produce a 1-page memo covering project ideas
• Analyze a source/model text to identify assessment criteria
• Construct a rubric based upon assessment criteria
• Produce a design plan that formalizes the project's rhetorical goals and how they will be accomplished
• Present your work to the class for feedback (with at least 2 specific questions for the class)
• Produce your final multimedia text

Project Deliverables:

• 1-page proposal
• Assessment rubric
• Design plan
• Presentation of work
• Multimedia text

Due Date:

The final draft of the design plan, rubric, and the multimedia text are due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, Apr. 24. Presentations of work will take place on Apr. 10, 12, and 17.

Grading:

The project as a whole is worth 100 points. Assessment will be individualized for each project, and will be based in part upon the rubric each student produces. The grade weight breakdown is as follows:

• Design plan (0-10 points)
• Multimedia text (0-90 points)

The other project deliverables are each homework grades and do not factor into the Project 3 grade.

Applicable Resources:

Possible examples:

• A PowerPoint presentation that could serve as a marketing and promotional presentation for an organization, nonprofit, or client company; this is one example about Wikipedia and this is another.
• A multimedia text that addresses the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste depository communication problem. Such as project would have to demonstrate research into meaningful communication that is coherent over a long period of time and for an unknown audience.
• Open-source software documentation, such as is found in the Drupal handbooks and the Linux Documentation Project.
• A short machinima video that tells a story, conveys an idea, or takes a position on an issue in the news. Examples may be found through The Movies Online, Red vs. Blue, and The Machinima Archive.
• An updating of the Voyager Golden Record, which was a multimedia disk about the earth and humankind that was sent with the Voyager spacecraft into space.
• An interactive Flash text, such as The BBC's Interactive Body, or the games found at Miniclip.
• A webcomic such as Leisuretown or Diesel Sweeties.