C3- Produce at SPEAQ

The Production Process:

Preproduction

Brainstorm

Select a media type

Write a focus sentence

Activate prior knowledge

Research

Review the meaning

Create a script or storyboard

Validate

Adjust / Edit

Production

Create the media from plan

Include appropriate elements

Use the Writing Process if...

Postproduction:

Re-edit / Adjust

Present / share

Pre-production

– validate the media text by doing a practice-run with a sample audience.

Checklist:

Ask others to view your creation and tell you if:

	the ideas follow one upon the other?
	the ideas are pertinent or necessary to the message?
	you should rearrange to improve and clarify the message?
	the ideas are presented in a logical sequence?
	the ideas and imagery complete and complement the message?
	Create a survey to allow your target audience to give feedback. example:

Questions you might ask when consulting:

adapted for media from Getting Feedback

The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

	The beginning/idea stage: Do I understand the assignment? Am I gathering the right kinds of information to answer this question? Are my strategies for approaching this assignment effective ones? How can I discover the best way to develop my early ideas into a feasible draft?
	Outline/thesis: I have an idea about what I want to argue, but I'm not sure if it is an appropriate or complete response to this assignment. Is the way I'm planning to organize my ideas working? Does it look like I'm covering all the bases? Do I have a clear main point? Do I know what I want to say to the reader?
	Rough draft: Does my creation make sense, and is it interesting? Have I completed my focus? Is the evidence I'm using convincing? Is it explained clearly? Have I given the viewer/audience enough information? Does the information seem to be in the right order? What can I say in my introduction and conclusion?
	Early polished draft: Are the transitions between my ideas smooth and effective? Do my sentences make sense individually? How's my writing style?
	Late or final polished draft: Are there any noticeable errors? Are my images, sounds, links okay? Does it seem effective? Is there anything I should change at the last minute?
	After the fact: How should I interpret the feedback comments? Why did I receive the grade I did? What else might I have done to strengthen the assignment? What can I learn from this experience? What should I do the next time to improve?

Language:

Ask the genie...Questions

Are the ideas presented in a logical sequence?

Do you think the ideas follow one upon the other?

Are the ideas pertinent or necessary to the message?

How could I rearrange or add points to improve and clarify the message?

Are the ideas and imagery complete and do they complement the message?

Does it correspond to the focus sentence?

Which elements need more work: covering the topic, the research, the medium,

attention to the audience, the language, the look and technology or meeting the purpose?

Responses

Maybe you could improve this: part, sentence, idea.

Why don’t you start with this and then add that?

You could explain this part more.

Is this really necessary?

I don’t understand this …

What do you mean here?

Maybe you could add more: arguments, facts, research.

The language is a bit: complicated, too simple, confusing.

It looks: great, dramatic, unorganized.

I think you have accomplished your goals in your focus sentence!

Links:

Feedback Rules

Revision Checklist

Here are a series of sites to choose from where after your colleagues view it they can give feedback on your creation:

http://educationalsoftware.wikispaces.com/Survey+Tools

Online Polls from http://its.leesummit.k12.mo.us/digitalmedia.htm#Online_Polls

Flektor :Ask only one question, and people can only choose one answer, but it’s very easy to create and use one. No registration required

Fo.reca.st :Fo.reca.st surveys allow you to design online surveys, collect responses from the visitors of your blog or website, analyze them and finally present the survey results - registration required

Micropoll

Multiple questions, and people taking the poll can provide multiple answers - registration required

Poll Daddy

Polling and survey widgets, security feature to prevent multiple voting - registration required

Poll Everywhere

Online poll, registration required (free 30 participants)

Poll Junkie

Multiple questions, and people taking the poll can provide multiple answers no registration required

Survey Monkey

Create professional online surveys -registration required

Vizu

Add images to your questions -registration required

Zoho

Multiple questions and answers. Allows people taking polls to rate with stars. Registration required.