7th Grade Digital Media and Communications
Length: Semester
Format: Meets Every Other Day
Description: The 7th grade Digital Media and Communications elective will build students’ written and oral communications skills through the study and creation of digital media. Lessons and assignments will center around significant elements of communication, including sender, ideas, encoding, receiver, channel, decoding, and feedback. In their study and practice, students will carefully consider media’s effect on individuals and society, rhetorical devices and techniques used in multimedia (specifically focused around language, structure, evidence, and point of view), communication styles (passive, aggressive, passive-aggressive, and assertive), and digital citizenship. Students will demonstrate their understanding in responses to selected digital media and creation of their own digital media. Throughout the course, students will sample and analyze effective elements of communication in a variety of multimedia formats, including digital publications, podcasts, videos, photo journals, bogs/vlogs, websites, and social media. Students will apply their understanding through the creation of their own digital media projects in the similar formats listed above.
