Schedule
- Session 2 (July 7 - 25, 2025)
- Synchronous times
- Monday, 7 – 9 p.m. ET
- Wednesday, 7 – 9 p.m. ET
- Friday, 1 – 3 p.m. ET
Description
Digital Creators Online Seminar will be a creative and collaborative online space focused on creating meaningful and shareable digital artifacts for academic and extracurricular projects.
Digital creations may include presentations or infographics for school projects, podcasts, images and slideshows, animations, and even memes or gifs. Students’ creations might be informational or artistic or autobiographical or all of the above, and they might be shared in a variety of ways—including but not limited to social media. Students will have a lot of freedom and choice in the types of multimedia they create and who their intended audiences are. Ultimately, students’ interests and goals will determine what they make and for what purpose.
Students will create an original multimedia artifact as a final culminating project, and they will work on that project throughout the three weeks of the seminar. There will be regular opportunities for sharing and feedback from the instructional team and other students. In addition to the list above, students can also expect to strengthen their skills in collaboration, public speaking, and problem solving.
Course requirements
- Students will need to be able to access Canvas, Zoom, Panopto, and YouTube in order to access core course content. Other course content may be drawn from publicly available news, University and organizational websites, or the Penn Libraries.
- Beyond the core websites named above, this seminar is platform agnostic, meaning students are not required to have access to specific multimedia authoring software nor will they receive extensive instruction in specific software or authoring tools. Many free tools will be discussed and students will be encouraged to use tools that are available to them.
- It is recommended that you have access to a computer to participate in this course. Participation via smartphone is not recommended. Participation via a tablet or netbook might be ok, but could result in some limits on authoring tool capabilities.
Expected learning outcomes
- Considering audience and engaging in a design process
- Conducting research and vetting sources
- Creating media via proprietary and open platforms
- Collecting and remixing existing media
- Managing copyright and fair use
- Choosing avenues for distribution and considerations around sharing on social media
Program Director: Angelina Conti
Angelina Conti is a learning designer, former high school teacher and Director of Digital Learning in the School of Arts and Sciences at Penn where she helps professors develop and teach online courses for undergraduate, graduate, and high school students. She is also a doctoral student in Penn’s Graduate School of Education where she studies making and multimedia creation and how they can impact and embolden learning.
