As part of a comprehensive assessment program, ISUComm has developed programmatic rubrics that can also be used, in modified form, for assignment and overall student assessment in the communication classroom. Here are the major rubrics:
Demonstrate your multimodal communication skills and receive up to $500 by submitting a video of your Iowa State Experience to a new student-run competition.
Go to http://www.myiowastateexperience.com/ to view the submission guidelines and see student videos.
For this assignment you will document a local event and present a textual and visual record of that event to a public audience. You will initially work in a group to identify a significant communication event occurring on campus or in the local area during a one-month period. As a group you will decide how best to preserve the event through various artifacts (video, audio, interviews, published accounts, news articles, etc.). Your group will submit a formal proposal outlining the project and your methods for collecting data that will accurately represent the event.
A source of information that you may not have considered is one mouse click away and may be one of the most valuable ways for you to gather facts and opinions about the issue you’ve chosen to explore. What is that source? Radio programs archived on the Web.
Whereas in the past, radio broadcasts were ephemeral—or at least the tapes of them were not widely available outside the company that put them on the airwaves—we can now easily access radio programs over the Internet in audio archives that allow free downloading of files.
Here are a few ideas to keep in mind as you design a poster using the five ISUComm visual communication principles:
In Photoshop you can drag guidelines from the ruler onto your poster. Use these to define basic text and image spaces for proportional relationships. Decide whether your dominant shapes will be rectilinear or curvilinear.
This Unit draws on class readings, discussions, and your individual and collaborative imagination
On Thursday, December 8 Unit III teams from both sections will present proposals for a reality TV show reflecting the team’s vision of the future of romance. Teams will develop a poster and supporting documents such as a brochure or handout.
