Digital Story

The goal of this assignment is to succinctly package your semester's worth of work into a compact, professionally attractive artifact that outlives the confines of our class together.  This can be something you share with your community partner, prospective employers during interviews, and more.  You've worked really hard this semester and now it's time to tell the story of what you've learned and why it matters.

Adobe Spark Webpage with accompanying 1-3 minute video:

• Webpage: provide an introduction of the project itself (1-2 paragraphs), include links to all associated content and resources from the project and class (lit review, works cited, deliverables for partner, etc.), embed 1-3 minute Spark video
• Video: embedded within the webpage, 1-3 minutes in length, narrated, discusses the story of the project (introduction to the Community Partner and the challenge you worked on as well as your findings/results and thoughts on expanding the work in the future (either for the partner themselves or more broadly in other areas or places)

Resources:

• The EMS Digital Stories in Science site - they break down the process of how to approach an assignment like this in ways that might be useful to you
• Example Sparks from the SP 2021 EME 466 semester:
  • Joyce Arpon – Penn State Dining Halls Foodprint: https://spark.adobe.com/page/gQCbYtUq3brta/
  • Tom Killian – Rooftop solar for a navy yard: https://spark.adobe.com/page/a22wbvT3w9QCw/
  • Hibba Stanley – Commercial energy efficiency analysis: https://spark.adobe.com/page/0Fe8uRLw0yRy2/
  • Robert Trimble – Increasing sustainability at a local salon: https://spark.adobe.com/page/0dIg93jfEKZGJ/
  • Kellan Turner – transitioning from gas to electric chainsaws for a tree service business: https://spark.adobe.com/page/WPJ1iSVT0Mv5r/

Remember, this is a relatively new assignment using technology we've not previously dug into in this class.  I'm excited to see what you've come up with and am trying to give you both a lot of latitude for creativity while also providing some structure so you have an idea of where to go.