For our first media project we chose to create a BuzzFeed list on the 18 Stages of Getting Your BEd from UBC. Our list follows the listicle form and is meant as a satirical commentary on the BEd program.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/maggiem45481cd39/18-stages-of-getting-your-bed-from-ubc-q0n6
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TMD // Jul 16th 2014 at 9:20 am
Dear Maggie, Brina, Saras, and Rum,
Thanks for this humorous venture into outlining the 18 stages of the BEd program. I agree that the gif format is excellent for this project. You intimate that you sourced gifs prepared by others. It’s also easy to make gifs. See, for example, this site: http://makeagif.com/ .
Maggie mentioned that she did some editing (e.g., reducing the length of some gifs). If you have time perhaps you can add a comment below this one describing how you managed this so that others in the class are aware of the process should they wish to replicate the project with their own students.
After our discussion of computer-mediated communication on Monday I was interested to revisit your work — what is the rhetoric of Buzzfeed and were you to assign such an activity would you invite students to take it up in their own writing?
Thanks again for your submission!
Best regards,
Teresa
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