Week 5 wrapped up our last week of research and exploration — the tasks that will face Team Storytelling. We discussed again why we are working on this project — reminding the students that we aren’t just doing a flashmob, but positioning FSU as a Center for Innovation. That’s the story we want to tell, and we spent the week exploring how we could use digital media to tell that story… Castle Kim from the School of Information demonstrated different technology tools for digital storytelling and storyboarding, including Adobe Story, and then the students brainstormed possible storylines in small groups.
The students came up with many different ideas including how to best use the FSU Torch as a symbol of innovation, how the video can move (and grow and swell!) from start to finish, building excitement through the use of the flash mob. The students also came up with several different tag lines for the video, each presenting a different kind of approach to positioning FSU as a Center for Innovation — “FSU… Innovation everywhere you look!”, “… Where innovation burns brightly!”, ” … Where innovation ignites!”, — “FSU — Light Your Torch!” — all fantastic ideas! Finally, we worked with Ken Baldauf from the Program in Interdisciplinary Computing to talk about representative faculty, staff, and students that we could highlight in our video promoting FSU as a Center for Innovation, focusing on those individuals who have been selected to represent FSU at the ACC Innovation Festival, to be held at the Smithsonian Institution in Fall 2017.
The students ended this week by handing in their first individual self-assessment, which would be used to divide them into teams for the remainder of the semester.