Week 5, Exercise 5, Multimedia presentation in slides

1. Work in groups of maximum 4 people. It can be any 2, 3 or 4 people.

2. You are going to create a multimedia presentation of an event, a company, or a product in at least 15 slides or pages, using online platforms such as  Google SlidesPreziKeynote.

3. The presentation must include texts, videos and images and must include at least 15 slides/pages. Depending on your topic, it might be a good idea to include a Google Map, a Timetoast.com timeline, a graphic, a gif with gifmaker.me, or a graphic with excel or infogr.amease.lydatawrapper or piktochart.com. Some of you might want to work on creating one of these multimedia elements.

Other tools: Google Maps, Timeline, Story Map, Juxtapose.

4. Elements to include in your presentation.
History, foundation
Key people, bios
Background
Relevant statistics 
Sources
Social media presence
Target market

5. Once the presentation is finished, Post it in Exercise 5 of the comments section in ADI along with the names of the authors.

Here are some examples from last year´s class.
Qualcomm
AC/DC, Rock or Bust
Inditex 

Homework reading for the next class, which is Oct. 3
1. Read and watch all these materials related to Chipotle, a restaurant brand. 
Chipotle´s The Scarecrow was a campaign that was on YouTube, to promote a smartphone videogame that helped promote this restaurant chain. (The company later removed the video from YouTube but you can watch it on Vimeo above.)
The Scarecrow video led you to the video game
2. Also read this excellent critique of the Chipotle campaign by the New Yorker. 
3. Read all four sections of Crap Detection about how to verify information on social networks.
4. Blog Post this week. The main online sources for your topic. Write a sentence or two about why each of the sources you cite is useful, what particularly helps us understand more about the topic.
Also:
30 years of music in 30 seconds


Blog post 3, due Friday Sept. 28: Main online sources and references for your blog topic

Each member of your team will write a blog post that lists at least five online sources that you use for researching your topic, and why you consider this source useful, relevant, inspiring, and so forth. Try not to duplicate all the same sources other team members use. Each team member should look for some different sources. (Some duplication is inevitable.

Blog post 4, due Friday Oct. 5: Profile a prominent figure in the area of your topic

Each team member of the team will profile a different person who is prominent in the field. (It could be a persona; that is a person who adopts a pseudonym. "Prominent" is a relative term; the person should have some kind of a reputation in the field, either positive or negative.

Blog post 5, due Friday Oct. 12: How social media cover the topic

Each team member will search social media for people and organizations that regularly post material about the team's topic. Identify the ones that are most useful and interesting to you and write a few sentences on why each of them is relevant to your topic. Search using hashtags or other indicators to help find material.

Blog post 6, due Friday Oct. 19: The best material posted on your topic in the past 12 months

Each member of the team will list several examples of what they think was the best work on your topic in the past 6 months, and why you chose them.

Blog post 7, due Friday Oct. 26: Collect all 6 of your links, and reflect on blogging

Each member of the team will put links to all six of their blog posts on one blog entry and then write about their experience of blogging.

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