Student Produced Sustainability

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Please take a moment to review these sustainability student produced media project types and reflect on how these assignments may be useful in your teaching.

*If you are new to using student created media in your classes, check out http://digitalstory.umn.edu.

Photo of dew drops on grass

Report style videos designed to communicate general information on sustainable lawn care.

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BENEFITS

    • Diverse use of media and distribution platforms

    • Expert Interviews

    • Student as Instructor

LIMITATIONS

  • Less reflective

Balanced journalistic style videos communicating multiple perspectives of sustainable energy, environment and water policy.

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BENEFITS

    • Balanced

    • Diverse use of media

    • Background Research

    • Expert Interviews

    • Voice Over and Scripting

LIMITATIONS

  • Less reflective

Videos describing a global sustainability issue (EcoHealth) that communicate a more balanced perspective from multiple stakeholders. These videos also describe proposed innovative solutions with potential unintended consequences.

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BENEFITS

  • Analytic

  • More balanced

  • Diverse use of media

  • Background Research

  • Expert Interviews

  • Voice Over and Scripting

  • Ideation and Creativity

LIMITATIONS

  • Multiple components require additional and more careful scaffolding

  • Steeper technical production learning curve

Video interviews with farmers and related TEDEd educational resource designed for K-12 to communicate a range of different approaches to of cover crop usage in farming.

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BENEFITS

    • Diverse use of media and distribution platforms

    • Expert Interviews

    • Student as Instructor

LIMITATIONS

  • Less reflective

Video case study communicating analysis of potential risks and mitigation strategies for sustainable forest management illustrated through specific forest case studies (silviculture).

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BENEFITS

    • Authentic Applied Learning Experience

    • Analytic

    • Background Research

    • Diverse use of media

    • Voice Over and Scripting

LIMITATIONS

  • Requires significant subject knowledge

Personal narrative digital story videos communicating a student's relationship to a water sustainability topic.

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BENEFITS

  • More Reflective

  • Diverse use of media

  • Background Research

  • Expert Interviews

  • Voice Over and Scripting

LIMITATIONS

  • Less balanced

Videos designed to communicate what an innovative sustainable urban landscape solution might look and sound like.

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BENEFITS

    • Diverse use of media and distribution platforms

    • Expert Interviews

    • Student as Instructor

LIMITATIONS

  • Less reflective

This video produced by multiple students in a Grand Challenge Course: The Global Climate Challenge, Creating an Empowered Movement for Change (Professors Teddie Potter, Jessica Gutknecht and Julia Nerbonne) is designed to bring awareness around issues related to climate change and health (emphasis nursing perspective).

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BENEFITS

    • Advocacy

    • Diverse use of media and distribution platforms

LIMITATIONS

  • Less reflective

  • Less balanced

Students in a Grand Challenges course: Power Systems Journey: Making the Invisible Visible and Actionable created interactive storymaps (ArcGIS) to illustrate the inter-connectivity of our energy grid.

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BENEFITS

    • Diverse use of media and distribution platforms

    • Expert Interviews

    • Student as Instructor

    • Low technical production barrier

LIMITATIONS

  • Less reflective


Students in Communications courses contribute content to the creation of Public Lands described as “a weekly podcast about public lands and waterways, mainly in the United States and North America, covering current developments and featuring the insights of rangers, scientists, and others working at our public land sites.”

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BENEFITS

    • Expert Interviews

    • Diverse use of media and distribution platforms

    • Background research

LIMITATIONS

  • Less reflective

  • Less balanced