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"Infomercial/Edutainment/Public Service Announcement" Assignment:

individual or team

worth one grade; will go on the class website as well as being distributed to appropriate local media outlets

due before December 8 (must be presented to the class during the last week of classes)

Content Purposes:

To consider how the learning in this course can be spread to some targeted group of people who could benefit from your newly developed knowledge and understanding of economic security issues.
To carefully define the core components of knowledge and understanding needed by your targeted audience

Skill Purposes:

To learn how to make audio and/or video recordings and digital pictures using hardware resources available from Dr. Gasper or Media Services. 
To learn how to process audio and video recordings and digital pictures into a finished product using appropriate software available in the Seagate Lab. 

Assignment Description: 

You will create a 5 minute audio or video production about one of the topics in the course. 

Select a target audience.  The audience selected should be some identifiable group, outside of the class members, who would benefit from knowing about something you have learned.  For example, you might choose Creighton University employees, or general public in Omaha, or low-English-skill residents of Omaha, or school children and their parents, or undergraduate students, or fellow employees at your job. 
Develop a focused, well defined message directed to that audience.
Write a script for your production.
Do the audio and/or video recordings and take digital pictures.  Obtain written permission for use from participants in the recordings.
Produce the piece.
Present your project to the class.