Changing the Assignment

Read Larry Woiwode's Ode to an Orange and watch A Todd Smith's 3 minute film Ode to an Orange (http://studentfilms.byu.edu/?p=57). Like Todd adapt the essence of Woiwode's original story into a new digital/social medium (twitter, instagram, tumbler, facebook, youtube, podcast, or other visual/aural form). The work you produce should maintain something from the original story and also create something new and uniquely your own.

Students in groups will collaborate together to create an idea for the adaptation and the selected medium.  They will collaborate to create it and present it.  This project is broken down into a pitch, the creation and the presentation.  Between each part, students will come back and participate in a class discussion, talking about their ideas and what they are learning about texts, processes, and literacies.

Technology Goal: Utilize a medium that you are familiar with but actively learn something new about the medium while creating. OR Use a medium that you have never used and figure out how to use it while creating.

Write an essay about your understanding of texts, processes, and literacies.  How did the creative project help you to better understand these concepts.