E-book assignment details

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We had an excellent response to our presentations at the conference on Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and the Innovate Conference, with many coming to us afterwards to discuss. We are forming a team to run the next online global learning environment for this project (soon-to-be-program, I hope).

One person wrote to ask for the details of our e-book assignment. So I pasted the assignment below, including the assigned roles, the process students followed, and our criteria for quality. Please also see our assessment rubric as part of the “Global Media Project” Buckeye Badge.

As you may know from previous blog posts, we assigned an e-book that the students co-authored as their final project.

Cover of our e-book, Photograph by Melisa Akbulut

Cover of our e-book, Photograph by Melisa Akbulut

Please comment!

Team Roles:
Image Curator: Picturing
image research: enhancing current collection of images, identifying more effective images
image management – tracking TASL, URLs, permission paperwork
image editing – proper resolution, cropping, enhancement
Copy Writer: Production
caption-writing: describing what’s in the images, why they are important
summarizing research, annotate bibliography
synthesizing information from research, Turkish peers, and visual information to convey a single message in each chapter.
Organizer/Finisher: Polish
glossary
quote box, image placement
TOC
logical, effective and attractive placement of images. Decisions regarding number of images per chapter (with input from team).
any other front / back matter, media embeds
Project Manager: Purpose
track research priorities, keep group focused on thesis statement, provide ongoing feedback to other team members
Through meetings and frequent communication online, ensure time proper timeframes, communication between team members
Ensure quality and brevity, keep everyone on task, by reviewing rough drafts, suggesting reducing scope of content when necessary, defining how the book is adding value to research as a whole.
Copy Editor: Precision
fact check captions, bibliography annotations, and primary text
grammatical correction and clarity of expression
spelling and style
Process:
Step 1: Everyone: Organize their sources, tag each link with key words.
Step 2: Send to Copy Writer, who begins sorting information with tags in Buckeye box. Image Curator begins searching for images now, tags images, sends to organizer.  Rest of group continues searching.
Step 3: Organizer shares document with group, giving editing privileges to copy writer.  Copy Writer begins annotating sources, writing captions under images.
Step 4: Copy Writer sends bibliography and images with captions to the Project Manager, who facilitates thesis statement discussion, keeps to timeframe (deadline).
Step 5: Copy writer writes paragraph summarizing what the chapter is about and why. Copy Editor edits the paragraph, any related image captions, writes tentative outline for chapter, sends to group.  Project Manager checks in with each member individually to ask what they think of the outline, how the process went, what the challenges were – revises outline then sends to group with a reminder of the deadline.
  • annotated bibliography
  • images with descriptive captions, TASLs
  • thesis generator
Examples: Ohio State e-books:https://osu.pb.unizin.org/
Criteria for Quality:
  • Proper attribution for images, ideas and any other creation.
  • Detailed descriptions of images, why they are significant to the research topic.
  • Team-work – did everyone complete tasks for their role in a timely fashion? Did the group help when someone was struggling with some aspect of the project? Did each person ask for what they needed to get their work done, but not do more than what is required for their role?

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