Multimedia Storytelling

Technology Setup (10 points, Process Work)

This assignment measures Module Objective 0.1, which supports Course Competency 8.

You need a Mac or Windows computer. A Chromebook, phone or tablet will not work, because the course uses Adobe apps. If you need a computer, GCC lends Macs and PCs: request one with a Student Technology Request.

Set up these core accounts in Week 1. Apps used only in this course are set up in the module where you first use them.

Submit one Google Doc, Google Slides page or Miro board with:

1. Proof that each core account works (screenshots, or a short written note for screen-reader users).
2. A link to a 10-second test recording with your voice and something from your work, shared unlisted.
3. Your Discord introduction (your name and how to say it, your program, one thing you want to learn, and two examples of past work with alt text or a description) and three comments on classmates’ introductions.

Grading (10 points): core accounts 4; test recording 3; Discord introduction 2; three comments 1.

AI: none; log “No AI used.”

Syllabus and Course Overview Quiz (5 points, Exercises)

Every question is answered in the syllabus. Questions include:

1. When is work due, and what happens if it is late? (Noon, Arizona time, on Thursdays and Sundays. Work up to 24 hours late loses 10%; after that it is not accepted.)
2. Where do private questions, course questions and critique go? (Private questions go to your instructor in the Canvas Inbox. Course questions and critique go in the course channel on the Digital Media Discord, or in the matching Canvas discussion if you cannot use Discord.)
3. When is using AI in this course not cheating? (When the use is assigned, recorded in your AI-use log, and you are graded on your own thinking and work.)
4. Which account must you use for Gemini, and why? (Your Maricopa account. Google states that what you enter there is not reviewed by people or used to train AI models.)

5. What may a Teller do, and what may it never do? (It answers only from your archive and always says it is an AI. It speaks in the first person only with the narrator’s written agreement. An AI voice is labeled and never copies a real person.)

It ends with the AI-Use Agreement: keep the AI-use log, disclose AI use, follow the upload rule for a real narrator’s material, and never copy a real person’s voice or face.

Private question (0 points): Will you be under 18 at any point this semester? (Yes or No) This is not scored. It only decides which tool options you get, and only your instructor sees your answer.

AI Primer (10 points, Process Work)

What this is. Your first time using Gemini in this course, and it takes about an hour. No experience with AI is needed. Complete Technology Setup first.

What Gemini is. Gemini is an AI chat tool from Google. You type a request, called a prompt, and it writes an answer. It learned from an enormous amount of text written by people, so it can sound knowledgeable about almost anything. It does not know you, and it has never been where you have been.

Why this assignment. Some assignments in this course use Gemini for research and feedback. Before you use it for that, you will see for yourself what it does well, where it falls short, and what you bring that it cannot.

Your work stays yours. You use Gemini through your Maricopa account, so what you enter is not reviewed by people and is not used to train AI models. See AI in This Course for Google’s exact wording.

This assignment measures Module Objective 0.2, which supports Course Competency 8.

Part 1: Sign in

1. Open Chrome and go to gemini.google.com.
2. If you see Sign in in the top right corner, click it. Sign in with your Maricopa account: your MEID followed by @maricopa.edu, then your MEID password on the Maricopa sign-in page.
3. Check the top right corner. It should show your Maricopa account. If it shows a personal Gmail account, click the picture and switch to your Maricopa account.

If Gemini does not open or says it is not available for your account (this can happen for students under 18), message your instructor in Canvas Inbox. You will receive an equal option with the same grade.

Part 2: Ask the question

4. Click the box at the bottom that says Ask Gemini.
5. Type Do I need to learn AI to get a good job in the digital media industry? and press Enter.
6. Copy your prompt and Gemini’s answer into a Google Doc.

Part 3: Read it like a critic

7. In your Doc, mark:
   • one point you agree with;
   • one point that sounds generic, overstated or like a sales pitch;
   • one question you would rather ask a working professional in the field.
8. Gemini is made by Google, a company that sells AI. Write one sentence on how that might shape its answer.

Part 4: Give it better directions

A stronger prompt tells Gemini four things: a role (who it should act as), a task (what to do), context (who it is for and why) and a format (how the answer should look). Example: You are a hiring manager at a small design studio in Phoenix. List the skills you look for in a new junior designer, and say honestly where AI skills rank among them. I am a first-year community college student. Use a short ranked list.

9. Rewrite your prompt using all four parts, and add one detail about yourself: the kind of work you want to do. Press Enter.
10. Copy the new prompt and answer into your Doc. Write one sentence on how the answer changed.

Part 5: Reflect

11. In four to six sentences: Did either answer change how you think about AI and your career? Where might a tool like this help you in your own work, and where would you not want to use it?

Part 6: Start your AI-use log

12. At the bottom of your Doc, add a table with three columns: Tool, What I asked, and What I kept, changed or rejected. Add one row for this assignment. Every assignment in this course has a row like this, so your instructor can see how you used AI and what was your own.

Submit the link to your Google Doc.

Grading (10 points): critic’s mark-up 3; revised prompt with your own detail 3; reflection 2; AI-use log row 2.

Practice Archive and Metadata (10 points, Process Work)

This assignment measures Module Objective 1.1, which supports Course Competency 10.

1. Choose six items for your Practice Teller: two transcript excerpts, two documents and two images.
2. Make the folder AVC150_Practice_Lastname with subfolders 01_Interview, 02_Images, 03_Documents and 07_Production. Copy the metadata starter sheet; three rows are filled in as models. Metadata is the record of each item: what it is, who made it, when, where, and what may be done with it.
3. Fix the machine-draft transcript of excerpt E3 against its audio, and mark each change. (A machine draft is the text the software typed before any person checked it.)
4. Fill in a metadata row for each item. Mark guessed dates “ca.” (about). Label each old photo “Period photograph,” then the collection name, then “Not the narrator’s family.” Write alt text for two images.

Submit: folder link, metadata sheet, corrected E3, AI-use log row, critique record. AI: Gemini may draft descriptions and alt text; check every name and date. Discord: one metadata row and its image in #practice-archive; three comments.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 3; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication 2; critique: three comments that name a frame, timecode, question or line 1; AI-use log row 1.

Project 1: The Practice Teller (30 points, Projects)

This assignment measures Module Objectives 1.2 and 1.3, which support Course Competencies 6 and 8.

1. Follow How to Build a Teller. Name the notebook “Practice Teller · Ada Ruiz” plus your name. Load your Practice Archive items and metadata sheet. Title any uncorrected excerpt “machine draft, uncorrected.” Never load the sample consent video.
2. Write 120 to 200 words of instructions in your own words. Say who the Teller is; that it starts by saying it is an AI; its mode (narrator voice, because the sample agreement says no to first person); what it must never do, including the sample agreement’s limit; and what it says when the archive has no answer.
3. Ask six questions from the question bank. Rate each answer accurate, partly accurate or fabricated, and note its citations. Fix at least two problems and ask again.
4. Record a 60-second interview with your Practice Teller (the screen, and your voice asking) that draws out one moment of Ada’s story. Do not change the Teller’s answers. Fix the captions by hand.
5. Fill in the AI-use statement and credit line. End with two sentences: which question drew out the story, and one thing you will do differently with a real person’s archive.

Graded on what you wrote, tested and fixed. Discord: the recording in #project-1-mini; three comments, one on the questions asked.

Interviewing the Demo Teller (10 points, Exercises)

This assignment measures Module Objective 1.4, which supports Course Competency 1.

• By Wednesday at noon, in #demo-teller, post screenshots of two of the demo Teller’s answers. In 100 to 150 words, use them to explain the difference between a story and a topic. Which of your questions drew out a story rather than a fact?
• Name one moment when the Teller said it did not know, or should have.
• By Thursday at noon, comment on three classmates’ posts with the question you would ask next.
• Accessibility: alt text on the screenshots.

Grading (10 points): post: substance and visual evidence 3; accessibility 1; critique comments 4; vocabulary 1; clarity 1.

Story Circle: Whose Story, Which Teller? (10 points, Exercises)

This assignment measures Module Objective 2.1, which supports Course Competency 5.

• In #story-circle, post three loglines (one-sentence story summaries) for three possible Tellers. Add a quick sketch or phone photo for each. Mark the one you lean toward and the mode you would choose. Add up to 100 words of context.
• Comment on three classmates’ posts: the first question you would ask their Teller, and which story it could tell best.
• Accessibility: alt text on each quick study.

Grading (10 points): post: substance and visual evidence 3; accessibility 1; critique comments 4; vocabulary 1; clarity 1.

Pitch Package (10 points, Process Work)

This assignment measures Module Objectives 2.2 and 2.3, which support Course Competencies 2 and 3.

1. Choose your path from the story paths table. Then choose your narrator, the person whose story it is: a family member, a community member you know, yourself (a self-interview), or a licensed public oral history plus a self-interview. On the character path, choose your figure and your topic.
2. Real narrator path only. Talk with them informally. Give the one-minute explanation: what a Teller is; a 20- to 30-minute recorded interview, plus any photos or papers they want to share; that, if they agree, Google and Adobe AI tools would transcribe the interview and build a Teller that answers from their words; the two modes and the labeled AI voice; that nothing is uploaded until they sign; and that they can say no or change their mind. Write three or four sentences on how it went. Character path: instead, write a 100- to 150-word “Why this figure matters to me” statement. End it with the one question you most want to ask the figure. Your interview questions grow from that question.
3. Write a logline (25 words or fewer) and a 150- to 200-word pitch, revised from the Story Circle. Name the Teller’s mode and the moment you hope the interview reaches.
4. Make a moodboard of 6 to 8 images with sources (yours, your narrator’s with permission, licensed or public domain). Add a 50- to 80-word caption on color, type, light and feeling.
5. In Canvas only: every person who will appear, one risk and your plan for it, and (real narrator path only) your narrator’s answers about AI, mode and voice. Character path: instead, a starter source list of at least five public sources (title, link, license or fair-use note), your credit line, and a one-line content note if your topic is heavy.

Submit: Canvas record, AI-use log row, critique record. AI: Gemini may offer story starters and tighten the logline and pitch. Discord: logline, pitch and moodboard in #pitch; three comments.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 3; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication 2; critique: three comments that name a frame, timecode, question or line 1; AI-use log row 1.

Interview Guide and Consent Affirmation (10 points, Process Work)

This assignment measures Module Objective 3.1, which supports Course Competency 4.

1. Ask Gemini to draft 20 questions. Cut them to 10 to 12 open questions that ask for scenes, from easy to deeper, each with one follow-up. End with “Is there anything I didn’t ask that I should have?” Ask nothing about immigration or legal status, legal cases or health.
2. Send your narrator a 150- to 200-word email from the template. Attach the full Project Information Sheet (remove nothing) and the OHA participants page.
3. Offer a 15-minute walk-through of the information sheet. Read the AI section, the Teller modes and the voice option together. Note their questions.
4. Collect the signed Consent Affirmation. A guardian co-signs for a narrator under 18. (If you are under 18, see Consent and Privacy.) Schedule a 20- to 30-minute interview inside the interview window.

Character path: write the guide as questions for your Teller, built from the question in your “Why this figure matters to me” statement. The rule against health questions protects real narrators; you may ask about a public topic, such as body image, that your instructor approved at the pitch. Skip steps 2 to 4. Instead, grow your source list to at least 8 public sources. Submit the guide and source list in place of the email, notes and Consent Affirmation.

Submit (Canvas only): guide, email, walk-through notes, Consent Affirmation, interview day, AI-use log row, critique record. AI: Gemini drafts questions and may tighten the email; consent documents are never rewritten by AI. Discord: the guide only in #interview-guide; three comments, each suggesting a follow-up.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 3; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication 2; critique: three comments that name a frame, timecode, question or line 1; AI-use log row 1.

Interview Rehearsal (10 points, Exercises)

This assignment measures Module Objective 3.2, which supports Course Competency 4.

• In two sentences, describe a narrator for Gemini to play (no private details). Practice for about 10 minutes from your guide, out loud with Gemini Live or by typing. If Gemini Live is blocked on your account, type, or practice with a classmate or family member.
• Submit in Canvas: the chat share link (or your notes), three changes to your guide, and your best follow-up question.

Grading (10 points): rehearsal and changes 4; accessibility 1; craft of the follow-up 2; writing 2; AI-use log row 1.

Visual Field Journal (10 points, Exercises)

This assignment measures Module Objective 3.3, which supports Course Competency 4.

• Make three mostly visual pages (a person, a place, a memory) from sketches, collage and your own photos. The place page uses at least three photos you took. Keep these photos; you reuse them in The Interview and Video Consent.
• Write a 40- to 60-word caption on each page about what you see, hear, smell or feel. Gemini may suggest prompts. No AI-made textures or images.
• Submit the pages in Canvas, with alt text on each.

Grading (10 points): three pages and captions 4; alt text 1; visual craft 2; caption writing 2; AI-use log row 1.

The Interview and Video Consent (10 points, Process Work)

This assignment measures Module Objective 4.1, which supports Course Competency 4.

1. Check that the Consent Affirmation is on file.
2. Record the video consent first. Say your slate (your name, the date and the place), then your narrator reads the consent script on camera, or answers “Yes, I agree” to each sentence. A guardian appears for a narrator under 18. If your narrator hesitates, stop and ask. Save the file as YYYY-MM-DD_consent_lastname.mp4 in 06_Consent, with a backup. Never upload it to any AI tool or Discord.
3. Interview for 20 to 30 minutes. Record 30 seconds of room tone (the room with no one talking).
4. End with “Is there anything you said that you would rather I not use?” Back up the recording in two places the same day.
5. Within 24 hours, write a 100-word shoot log (notes on how the interview went) and give your narrator the Signed Agreement to read.

Character path: you have no consent video and no narrator interview. Instead, record a 5- to 10-minute audio reflection that answers three questions from your guide, with 30 seconds of room tone. Back it up the same day and write the shoot log. For the reference photos, shoot places or objects tied to your figure.

Submit (Canvas only): consent video, interview, room tone, shoot log, agreement status, AI-use log row, critique record. AI: none yet. Discord: three reference photos of the location in #reference (field journal photos are fine; no people without permission); three comments, one on light or framing.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 3; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication 2; critique: three comments that name a frame, timecode, question or line 1; AI-use log row 1.

Signed Agreement, Transcript and Archive Inventory (10 points, Process Work; no critique)

This assignment measures Module Objectives 4.2 and 4.3, which support Course Competencies 10 and 4.

1. Go through the Signed Agreement with your narrator item by item. Do not steer any answer. Collect the signatures. List what it allows and limits, including the Teller’s mode and voice.
2. After it is signed, make a first-draft transcript (Premiere Pro speech to text, Gemini Notebook, or by hand). Before any more AI use, cut anything about immigration or legal status, legal cases or health; anything the narrator asked you not to use; and anything item 11 limits.
3. Fix the 6 minutes you are most likely to use. Label the rest “machine draft, uncorrected.”
4. Start from the archive folder template in Drive. Folders: 01_Interview, 02_Images, 03_Documents, 04_Audio, 05_Journal, 06_Consent (shared with your instructor only) and 07_Production. Add at least 8 items named YYYY-MM-DD_subject_description, scanned or photographed at high quality.
5. Describe every item in the metadata sheet, including which agreement items cover it. You write alt text for the images in Sources and First Instructions.

Character path: in place of the Signed Agreement, finish your source list (title, link, license or fair-use note for every item) and add your credit line. Correct 6 minutes from your reflection or a public audio or video source. Keep the source list in 06_Consent, and name each item’s source in the metadata sheet in place of agreement items.

Submit (Canvas only): signed agreement, corrected excerpt, folder link, metadata sheet, AI-use log row. AI: only for items the agreement clears.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 4; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication 2; AI-use log row 1.

Sources and First Instructions (10 points, Process Work)

This assignment measures Module Objectives 5.1 and 5.2, which support Course Competencies 10 and 4.

1. Make a Gemini Notebook. Load at least 8 items the agreement clears for AI: the corrected excerpt, captioned images with their metadata, your field journal pages and any approved documents. Title each source so a citation names it clearly. Write alt text for five images.
2. In a Google Doc, write first instructions of 200 to 300 words: who the Teller is; that its first answer says it is an AI built from an archive; its mode and the agreement item that allows it (narrator mode, item 5; first person, item 6 or Part D); every item 11 limit; and what it says when the archive has no answer.
3. Fill in the Teller Design Form: sources, mode and three limits.

Character path: load at least 8 items from your source list. In place of an agreement item, your instructions name the path and the figure, and the first answer says it is an AI built from an archive of public sources.

Submit: share link (instructor only), instructions as a Google Doc with version history, design form, alt text, AI-use log row, critique record. Discord: your instructions only, with private details removed, in #instructions; three comments, one on a limit that is missing.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 3; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication 2; critique: three comments that name a frame, timecode, question or line 1; AI-use log row 1.

First Test (10 points, Process Work; no critique)

This assignment measures Module Objective 5.3, which supports Course Competency 6.

1. Ask 15 questions: 8 the archive can answer, 4 it cannot, and 3 that ask for a scene.
2. Rate each answer accurate, partly accurate or fabricated, and note whether it cited a source.
3. Record 90 seconds of the Teller answering two questions, with corrected captions.

Submit (Canvas only): test log, recording, AI-use log row.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 4; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication 2; AI-use log row 1.

Voice Guide (10 points, Process Work)

This assignment measures Module Objective 6.1, which supports Course Competency 5.

1. Write a 300- to 450-word voice guide in a Google Doc: the mode and why; three to five voice traits, each with a quote from the transcript; words and topics to avoid; how the Teller says it is an AI; how it answers a question the archive cannot answer; and two sample answers in the voice.
2. In 50 to 80 words, explain how voice, place and culture shape the guide.

Character path: take the voice-trait quotes from your sources.

Submit: voice guide with version history, AI-use log row, critique record. AI: Gemini may give feedback on clarity; you write the guide. Discord: your Voice Guide Workshop post.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 3; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication 2; critique: three comments that name a frame, timecode, question or line 1; AI-use log row 1.

Voice Guide Workshop (10 points, Exercises)

This assignment measures Module Objective 6.3, which supports Course Competency 5.

• Post your voice guide in #voice-guide, with private details removed.
• Review three classmates’ guides. Comment on one trait that is clear, and on one sample answer that does not match the guide. Point to the line.

Grading (10 points): post: substance and visual evidence 3; accessibility 1; critique comments 4; vocabulary 1; clarity 1.

Instructions v2 and Voice Test (10 points, Process Work)

This assignment measures Module Objective 6.2, which supports Course Competency 6.

1. Revise the Teller’s instructions using your voice guide and Voice Guide Workshop comments.
2. Ask five questions. Compare each answer with the guide and mark matches and misses.
3. Write a 100- to 150-word revision note: what you changed in the instructions, and what the Teller still gets wrong about the voice.

Submit: instructions v2, voice test, revision note, AI-use log row, critique record. Discord: one answer from Your Teller and the same question answered by the Revised Teller, in #instructions-v2; three comments.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 3; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication 2; critique: three comments that name a frame, timecode, question or line 1; AI-use log row 1.

Held-Out Questions (10 points, Process Work)

This assignment measures Module Objective 7.1, which supports Course Competency 4.

1. Write 15 held-out questions before you ask any: at least 4 about gaps, 3 about conflicts between sources, 3 about feelings or reasons, and 2 that push the Teller past its limits.
2. For five questions, add one sentence about something your narrator said or showed you that the archive does not hold. Use your memory and shoot log, not the notebook. Character path: use something you know about the figure that your archive does not hold.
3. Trade five questions with a classmate and add theirs to your set.

Submit: question set, AI-use log row, critique record. Discord: your five traded questions in #held-out; three comments.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 3; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication 2; critique: three comments that name a frame, timecode, question or line 1; AI-use log row 1.

Error Audit and Revision (10 points, Process Work; no critique)

This assignment measures Module Objective 7.2, which supports Course Competency 6.

1. Ask all 20 questions. Log each in the error audit log: the answer, its rating, the error type and the source involved.
2. Fix at least five errors by changing sources (a clearer title, a correction note, a removed machine draft) or instructions. Test each one again.
3. Write a 150- to 200-word audit summary: the most common error, the fix that worked, and one error you could not fix, and why.

Submit (Canvas only): audit log, summary, revised instructions, AI-use log row.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 4; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication 2; AI-use log row 1.

The Grandfather Bot and Your Teller (10 points, Exercises)

This assignment measures Module Objective 7.3, which supports Course Competency 3.

• In #grandfather-bot, post one moment from Amy Kurzweil’s video preview or the NPR interview (a screenshot, or a short quote from the transcript) and one error from your audit, with names removed. In 100 to 200 words, answer: how is your Teller’s mistake like or unlike the grandfather bot’s? Who should decide what a storyteller may say about a person?
• Write three comments using I noticed, I wondered, What if. Add alt text to any screenshot.

Grading (10 points): post: substance and visual evidence 3; accessibility 1; critique comments 4; vocabulary 1; clarity 1.

Dramatic Question and Map Thumbnails (10 points, Process Work)

This assignment measures Module Objective 8.1, which supports Course Competency 4.

1. In one sentence each, write your dramatic question (the one question the story makes the viewer want answered) and the turn (the moment the answer changes what came before).
2. Draw 8 to 12 small sketches (thumbnails), by hand or on a tablet, for two different question paths.
3. Choose one path and explain why in two or three sentences.

Submit: dramatic question, thumbnails, choice, AI-use log row, critique record. AI: Gemini may suggest other orders for your questions; you choose the path. Discord: #map-thumbnails; three comments, one on where the turn falls.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 3; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication 2; critique: three comments that name a frame, timecode, question or line 1; AI-use log row 1.

Conversation Map (10 points, Process Work)

This assignment measures Module Objective 8.2, which supports Course Competency 7.

1. Lay out 10 to 14 frames in the template. Each frame has: the question; the expected answer and its source; the branch; the on-screen visual (an archive item, or a visual you will make in Module 9); sound; and time. The total is 3 to 5 minutes.
2. Use the same visual key (colors or shapes) for questions, answers, branches and visuals, with a clear reading order.

Submit: map as a tagged PDF with alt text, AI-use log row, critique record. AI: none for layout; every frame is yours. Discord: your Conversation Map Critique post.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 3; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication 2; critique: three comments that name a frame, timecode, question or line 1; AI-use log row 1.

Conversation Map Critique (10 points, Exercises)

This assignment measures Module Objective 8.3, which supports Course Competency 5.

• Post your conversation map in #conversation-map.
• Review three classmates’ maps. Comment on the layout (name the frame number) and on whether the path reaches the turn.

Grading (10 points): post: substance and visual evidence 3; accessibility 1; critique comments 4; vocabulary 1; clarity 1.

Teller Portrait and Archive Cards (10 points, Process Work)

This assignment measures Module Objectives 9.1, 9.2 and 9.3, which support Course Competencies 8 and 3.

1. Design the Teller’s portrait (square, 1080 x 1080 pixels) from your own drawing, collage, photos or type. Write 50 to 80 words on how it fits the voice guide.
2. Make five or six archive cards at 1920 x 1080 pixels from items on your conversation map. Give each a caption and credit line.
3. Repair at least one photo with Content-Aware Fill or the Spot Healing Brush. Log each change as restoring (fixing damage) or inventing (adding something new).
4. Check the Content Credentials of one labeled AI image from your instructor’s set. In two or three sentences in your asset log, explain how it differs from your restored photo in what each one claims.

Character path: make your own version of the figure for the portrait. Do not copy official art, logos or packaging.

Submit: portrait, cards, asset log, AI-use log row, critique record. AI: repair tools only; nothing generated. Discord: the portrait and two cards (as your agreement allows) in #visual-identity; three comments, one on composition.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 3; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication, including the Content Credentials note 2; critique: three comments that name a frame, timecode, question or line 1; AI-use log row 1.

Voice Test (10 points, Process Work)

This assignment measures Module Objective 10.1, which supports Course Competency 8.

1. Make three answers in your chosen voice: your own reading, on-screen text, or a labeled AI voice (only if item 13 is yes). Character path: a labeled AI voice needs no agreement, but it never sounds like an actor who voices the character.
2. Clean the audio with Enhance Speech if needed. Write the on-screen label and credit line.
3. In 80 to 120 words, explain why this voice fits the voice guide.

Submit: three captioned clips, label and credit line, rationale, AI-use log row, critique record. Discord: one clip in #voice-test; three comments.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 3; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication 2; critique: three comments that name a frame, timecode, question or line 1; AI-use log row 1.

Peer Interviews (10 points, Exercises)

This assignment measures Module Objective 10.2, which supports Course Competency 5.

• Interview two classmates’ Tellers for five minutes each, live in the Studio Session or with a shared notebook. Use three questions from their conversation map and two of your own.
• In #peer-interviews, post for each Teller: the best answer you drew out, one error or claim that goes too far, and one fix. Use I noticed, I wondered, What if.

Grading (10 points): post: substance and visual evidence 3; accessibility 1; critique comments 4; vocabulary 1; clarity 1.

Revised Teller (10 points, Process Work; no critique)

This assignment measures Module Objective 10.3, which supports Course Competency 6.

1. Revise sources and instructions using the peer interviews and your audit. Add each fix to the error audit log and test again.
2. Run your full conversation map once. Mark where the answers changed the path.

Submit (Canvas only): updated audit log, instructions v3, marked map, AI-use log row.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 4; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication 2; AI-use log row 1.

Recording Plan and Test (10 points, Process Work)

This assignment measures Module Objective 11.1, which supports Course Competency 8.

1. Finish the map you will record from, with any Revised Teller changes.
2. Fill in the recording checklist. Record a two-minute test: screen at 1920 x 1080, your voice on its own track, and the Teller’s voice or text clear.

Submit: final map, checklist, test clip, AI-use log row, critique record. Discord: 30 seconds of the test in #recording-test; three comments, one on audio.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 3; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication 2; critique: three comments that name a frame, timecode, question or line 1; AI-use log row 1.

The Recorded Interview (10 points, Process Work; no critique)

This assignment measures Module Objective 11.2, which supports Course Competency 9.

1. Record the whole interview from your map, 10 to 15 minutes, with no retakes. Character path: if your topic is heavy, open with your content note.
2. Log the recording: each question, its timecode (the time it appears in the recording), and whether you used the answer, used part of it, or cut it.
3. Save the recording and its log in 07_Production, with a backup the same day.

Submit (Canvas only): recording link, recording log, AI-use log row.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 4; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication 2; AI-use log row 1.

Key Art (10 points, Process Work)

This assignment measures Module Objective 11.3, which supports Course Competency 9.

1. Design key art (2:3 or 4:5) from the template, using the Teller’s portrait and archive material. Include the title, a tagline of 10 words or fewer, and a credit block (“A Teller by…,” the narrator credit as the agreement allows, and an AI line). Character path: use your credit line in place of the narrator credit.
2. Design a matching 16:9 title card for the recording.
3. Check type contrast with the WebAIM Contrast Checker.

Deliverable options: if you chose the story object or the 360 or VR presentation for the Final Project, submit its design (the cut file and a photographed test piece, or the scene layout) in place of the key art PNG, with alt text. Keep the title, tagline and credit block in the design. The title card is still required, and the grading is the same.

Submit: key art and title card PNGs with alt text, AI-use log row, critique record. Discord: #key-art; three comments, one on type hierarchy and one on the tagline.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 3; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication 2; critique: three comments that name a frame, timecode, question or line 1; AI-use log row 1.

Paper Edit and Rough Cut (10 points, Process Work)

This assignment measures Module Objectives 12.1 and 12.2, which support Course Competencies 9 and 6.

1. Write the paper edit from your recording log: the questions and answers you will keep, in order, with timecodes and the visual for each.
2. Cut a 3- to 5-minute rough cut in Premiere Pro: the screen recording; archive cards and your visuals over the answers; the title card; room tone and sound. Mark every cut inside an answer.
3. Make captions with Speech to Text. Fix names and terms by hand.

Submit: paper edit, rough cut link, AI-use log row, critique record. AI: text-based editing, automatic captions and Enhance Speech are allowed and logged; you make every edit decision. Discord: post the rough cut as an unlisted link in #rough-cut if your agreement allows class sharing (on the character path, you may post it); if not, post two frames from the cut with notes. Three comments with timecodes, one on whether the turn lands.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 3; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication 2; critique: three comments that name a frame, timecode, question or line 1; AI-use log row 1.

Narrator Review (10 points, Process Work; no critique)

This assignment measures Module Objective 12.3, which supports Course Competency 11.

1. By Sunday at noon, send your narrator the rough cut as it is (you revise it in Final Cut) with the review form.
2. Write a 100- to 150-word email: what you are sending, what feedback you need, a reply date of Wednesday, and this line: “You may still ask for changes or withdraw any item of our agreement.”

Character path: send the rough cut and review form to one reviewer you choose, such as a friend, family member or classmate. In the email, ask them to check one claim against your source list, and leave out the agreement line. Use their response in Final Cut.

Submit (Canvas only): a copy of the email and review form, AI-use log row.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 4; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication 2; AI-use log row 1.

Final Cut: Titles, Captions and Credits (10 points, Process Work)

This assignment measures Module Objectives 13.1 and 13.2, which support Course Competencies 9 and 6.

1. Revise the rough cut using critique comments, instructor feedback and your narrator’s response. Record the narrator’s response on the review form.
2. Finish the titles and end credits: the Teller’s AI label, any AI voice label, image and sound credits, and the AI credit line. Check contrast with the WebAIM Contrast Checker.
3. Fix every caption by hand and export a caption file (SRT or VTT). Make sure anything important on screen is also spoken, or described in a transcript.
4. Export the MP4 viewing master (the final video file) and upload an unlisted copy.

Submit: unlisted link, caption file, narrator review form, AI-use log row, critique record. Discord: the title sequence and a 30-second captioned section in #final-cut; three comments, one on type and one on caption readability.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 3; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication 2; critique: three comments that name a frame, timecode, question or line 1; AI-use log row 1.

The Archive Package (10 points, Process Work; no critique)

This assignment measures Module Objective 13.3, which supports Course Competency 10.

Use the archive package checklist template in Drive.

1. Long-lasting copies: WAV for audio, TIFF or PNG for images, PDF or plain text for documents and transcripts.
2. The Teller’s record: source list, instructions v3, voice guide and error audit log, exported as PDF.
3. The story: the MP4 viewing master, the caption file and the Premiere Pro project with original media.
4. The Signed Agreement, narrator review record and licensing log in 06_Consent. Character path: your source list, credit line and reviewer’s form instead.
5. A 3-2-1 backup: three copies, on two kinds of storage, one kept somewhere else.

Submit (Canvas only): folder link, a screenshot of your backup locations, AI-use log row.

Grading (10 points): all required parts, complete 4; accessibility: captions or transcript, alt text, headings 1; visual or production craft 2; writing and communication 2; AI-use log row 1.

Living Archive Showcase (10 points, Exercises)

This assignment measures Module Objective 14.1, which supports Course Competency 11.

• Show your Teller live in the showcase, or post a recorded demo in #showcase. Include your key art, the recorded story (as your agreement allows) and a draft of your curator’s statement.
• Review three classmates’ projects. Share one question you asked their Teller and what it revealed, and one comment on design (layout, type or color).

Grading (10 points): post: substance and visual evidence 3; accessibility 1; critique comments 4; vocabulary 1; clarity 1.

Final Project: The Living Archive (30 points, Projects)

This assignment measures Module Objectives 14.2 and 14.3 and draws on evidence for Course Competencies 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11.

1. The Teller (Modules 5 to 10): built in Gemini Notebook from your narrator’s consented archive, in the agreed mode, starting with its AI disclosure. Shared with your instructor only. Character path: built from your public-source archive.
2. The recorded interview (Modules 11 to 13): 3 to 5 minutes, with titles, corrected captions, archive cards, your own visuals and sound. This recording is the archived story and your portfolio piece.
3. The error audit and curator’s statement: the full audit log, and a 200- to 300-word statement with two screenshots and notes. Say what the Teller gets right and where it gets the narrator or the story wrong.
4. Key art (Module 11).
5. The archive package (Module 13).
6. The case-study page in Google Sites, from the template (unlisted unless you choose otherwise). Put the recorded interview at the center. Then add the key art, the Teller’s portrait, three conversation map frames next to the matching moments in the recording, a voice guide excerpt, the curator’s statement and the AI-use statement. Write about 200 more words. Add captions and alt text to every image. You may add the Practice Teller as an optional practice section.
7. Agreement item 12: carry out the end-of-semester plan. Send your narrator the archive copy if the agreement says so. Character path: skip this; keep your source list and credit line in the archive package.
8. The full AI-use statement and credit line.

Grading (30 points): voice, place and culture in the Teller and the story 3; language, image and power: rights, consent, mode, labeled voice, AI disclosure 3; the Teller’s sources, instructions and voice guide 3; the error audit, revisions and curator’s statement 3; the conversation map’s design and path 3; graphics, video and sound: visual identity and the edit 3; the finished recorded story 3; the archive package and case-study page 3; presentation for peer review 3; accessibility: corrected captions, descriptive transcript or spoken description, alt text, the page checked with WAVE 3.

You are graded on what you made, tested and fixed, never on how smooth the Teller sounds. Check the case-study page with WAVE.

Deliverable options. The default deliverables above earn full marks. Through STEAMworks, you may replace one part of the default work with one of the options below. Each option takes the place of the work named in its row, within the same weeks, so it adds no hours to the course. Every option is graded with the same criteria, which grade the story and the design, not the machine.

• Choosing and booking. Choose an option by the Teller Portrait and Archive Cards deadline in Module 9. Book lab time through STEAMworks; the booking window is posted in Announcements in Week 1. Complete the STEAMworks safety orientation before your first lab session. STEAMworks supplies the materials (NFC tags, wood and acrylic).
• Online students. The default path is equal in scope and grading, needs no lab and earns full marks. Online students who live near campus may book STEAMworks time like any other student.
• Drone flight rules. Drones are flown only under the direct supervision of the instructor, who serves as the FAA Part 107 remote pilot in command and can take control at any time. The instructor handles airspace authorization. No flying over people. Students under 18 follow the same supervised path. Film a place only with the property owner’s permission and only as your Signed Agreement allows.
• Consent and sharing. The story object uses only an archive item your Signed Agreement allows. The NFC clip opens an unlisted or restricted link, as your agreement allows, and never links the Teller.
• AI. Gemini may help you write, such as a tag label or a scene caption; it never designs. No image, scene, footage or object in any option is made by AI.
• On the case-study page. Show the option with photographs or a captioned walkthrough video, with alt text, so viewers who cannot hold the object or enter the scene receive the same story.

Add to Your Portfolio Site (ungraded, Week 15)

Your portfolio is a Google Site. At the end of every course, you add one or two of your best finished projects, not exercises.

1. Open your portfolio site at sites.google.com with your Maricopa account. If you do not have one yet, start a new site and name it with your name.
2. Add a page for each project. Insert screen-size images of the finished work and one or two process images.
3. Add alt text to every image: select it, choose More, then Add alt text (Google’s accessibility help).
4. Write two or three sentences for each project: the problem, your role and one design choice you would defend.
5. Choose Publish at the top right, type a short web address, and choose Publish.
6. Choose Share. Next to Published site, choose Restricted, so only people you add can see it. Add your instructor’s email. When you apply for a job, add the employer’s email.

Who can see it: Restricted is the default. You may switch to Public whenever you choose. If you see an option for Maricopa, it limits viewing to people with Maricopa accounts. If you make the site public, you can tick “Request public search engines to not display my site” in Publish settings. Google says this is a request, not a guarantee (Publish and share your site).

For this course: your case-study page can be one of your projects. Show the recorded story and the narrator’s material only as your Signed Agreement allows, keep the site Restricted unless your narrator agrees in writing to a public page, and never link the Teller. Character path: show the story with your credit line; a brand or trademarked character keeps the page Restricted.

Already have a Behance portfolio from another class? You may use it instead.

Take Your Work With You (ungraded, Week 15)

Your Maricopa Google account may close after you leave the college. Do this before the course ends, so you keep everything you made even if you stop out, transfer or graduate. It takes about 45 minutes.

1. Save your files in one place. Make one Google Drive folder for this course. Put in it your MP4 master and SRT caption file, Premiere Pro project, portrait, archive cards, key art, conversation map, error audit log and curator’s statement and your AI-use log. Keep your narrator’s archive only as your Signed Agreement allows. Videos you posted to YouTube with your Maricopa account are not copied, so download your own YouTube videos into the folder too.
2. Copy everything to a personal Google account. Make a personal Google account if you do not have one. First make your own copy (File, then Make a copy) of any file someone shared with you, because files you do not own are not copied. Then, signed in to your Maricopa account, open Google Takeout Transfer and copy your Drive and Gmail to your personal account (see Google’s help page). It can take up to a week, and the copies arrive unshared. If Transfer is not available on your account, use Google Takeout to download your Drive as .zip files and save them on your computer.
3. Take your Teller with you, only as your agreement allows. Your Teller lives in Gemini Notebook on your Maricopa account and does not move to another account. Keep its instructions, voice guide and source list in your course folder; that is what rebuilds it. On the character path, you may rebuild it from your source list. Otherwise, rebuild it in a personal account only if your narrator’s Signed Agreement allows it, load only the items the agreement allows, and never share it publicly.
   • Know the privacy difference. Your Maricopa account keeps your Gemini work out of AI training (see AI in This Course). A personal account does not have the same protections, and Google may use your activity to improve its AI, depending on your settings. In your personal account, open Gemini, then Settings & help, then Activity (Gemini Apps Activity), and decide whether to turn off Keep Activity. Your narrator’s private material never goes into a personal account without their written yes.
4. Move your Google Site. Takeout Transfer copies Drive, Gmail and Photos. Do not count on it to move your case-study page. First keep the content: put the site’s text in a Google Doc and its images in your course folder, then open each published page and save it as a PDF (File, then Print, then Save as PDF). Then try a direct copy: in the site editor, choose Share and add your personal email as an editor. Sign in with your personal account, open the site, and choose More (the three dots), then Make a copy. If sharing outside Maricopa is blocked, rebuild the site in your personal account at sites.google.com with the same content and publish it again. The web address changes, so update it on your resume and profiles.
5. Protect your artwork online. No website can fully stop AI companies from copying public images. These steps make it harder and show the work is yours:
   • Post screen-size images, not your full-size print files.
   • Add your name and a copyright line (© Your Name) to the description or the image.
   • In Adobe apps or Adobe Content Authenticity, attach Content Credentials and choose “I request that generative AI models not train on or use my content.” It is a request, not a lock: Adobe Firefly honors it, and other AI companies may not (see Adobe’s help page).
   • Optional: Glaze, a free tool from a University of Chicago research team, adds hidden changes that make it harder for AI to copy your style. It works best on detailed artwork and is not a guarantee.
   • Keep your full-size master files private in your Drive folder. Your portfolio site shows only screen-size images and stays Restricted until you choose to make it public.