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## LL Support available to Mindich courses


The Mindich Program's goals of civic engagement and connection "beyond the Harvard context" often lead to instructors' interest in offering students opportunities to communicate what they've learned in new media. If academic writing is the most appropriate way to communicate *within* the Harvard context, instructors have sometimes found that podcasts, websites, posters, and social media (to name only a few examples) may align well with the learning objectives of Mindich courses.

We customize our support plan to meet the needs of the instructor, but there are some services we find ourselves frequently offering to Mindich instructors.

* Consultation with faculty on assignment and activity design
* Workshops in the Learning Lab Studio on multimodal communication
* Workshops and resources on technical skills required for multimedia assignments
* Office hours and consultations for students in courses we support to support their work on multimedia assignments (akin to the Writing Center's support of academic writing)
* Support for final capstone events in the Learning Lab studio (screenings of student videos, poster sessions, presentations to community partners, etc)
* Visual documentation of all of the above if telling the story of the course is a priority for the instructors and students

## AY 23 - 24 LL Support for Mindich courses:
### PSY 980T: Eating Disorders

### PSY1018: The Science and Psychology of Music (Mayron Pereira Piccolo Ribeiro)

### other courses we're working with this term
* HIST-LIT93AB: Oral Histories (Lilly Havstad)
* SOC-STD68RA: Radical Actors: The Role of Public Education in American Social Change (Nicole Simon)
* EXPOS20: Animals and Politics (Sparsha Saha)

## AY 22-23 LL Support for Mindich courses
### Spring 2023
* ANTHRO 1813: Science from the Arctic: Histories and Futures (Annikki Herranen-Tabibi)
* Students in this course design final reports for community-based organizations that incorporate images, infographics, and text about complex and sensitive content. We visited this class to deliver a **Graphic Design Workshop** where students learned about the importance of an intentionally designed layout and the graphic design principles that can help them design effective layouts.
* FRSEMR 72Y: Radical Actors: The Role of Public Education in American Social Movements (Nicole Simon)
* Students in this course creating tools that can be used to teach about a chosen social movement to other students. Early in the semester, we **visited the class** to introduce students to the type of support they could receive from us as they worked on their final projects. Given the small size of the class, we were able to provide **individual student project consultations** to each student as they fleshed out their final project ideas. Later in the semester, students came to the Learning Lab for a **Final Project Workshop** where they were given individualized technical help as well as assistance refining their project plans. We then booked time in our small studio for **student project recordings**, and students could receive editing help during our **office hours**.
* PSY 980T: Eating Disorders (Rebecca Shingleton) Infographics and Graphic Design Workshop
* Students in this course design projects to disseminate nuanced information about eating disorders to the public. Students came to the Learning Lab for an **Infographics and Graphic Design Workshop** where they analyzed some examples of figures and visualizations from a scientific paper they had read in class about myths surrounding easting disorders. They then discussed the elements of those visualizations that were particularly effective and which aspects they would change. For their final activity, they thought about their own research projects and then using art supplies, they developed visualizations that they could use to convey their research findings.
* SOCIOL 1130: Student Leadership and Service in Higher Education (Manja Klemencic)
* Students in this course create a final web-based report on their work. Students came to the Learning Lab for a **Multimedia Storytelling in the Social Sciences Workshop** that helped them think about how to acquire the media assets for this over the course of their research plans, then how to mount this media on the web using various technical tools and graphic design principles.

### Fall 2022
* EXPOS 20: Animals and Politics (Sparsha Saha)
* Media & Design Fellow Ed Winters provided **a series of workshops** on leveraging social media to further political causes and activism. Students learned about how to use social media to address a public audience, how to construct effective and engaging social media content, and how to create videos that share political and social values with a broad and diverse public. Ed also **consulted with students** about their final video projects, providing them with individualized feedback about the content and form of their videos. At a capstone event, students screened their video projects before an in-person and virtual audiences, and Ed responded live to the student videos, in discussion with Professor Saha.
* HEB1200 Neanderthals and Other Extinct Humans (Bridget Alex)
* Students in this course came to the Learning Lab for two workshops as they developed their visuals and stories for their final video projects. First, a **Brainstorming Workshop** introduced students to the basics of photographing objects and storyboarding, and helped them to consider what they might want a viewer to see on screen and when. Next, students came back for a **Storyboarding Workshop** where students went further into the particulars of their video projects, crafting key visuals and "characters" for their videos. We then booked time in our small studio for **student project recordings**, and students could receive editing help during our **office hours**. Check out some of the students' final projects: 1) [It Takes a Village - Athena Ye](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8brdOsN5Z0), 2) [Could a Neanderthal be a Pop Star? - Ella Stanley](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzBLNCBa2dM), and 3) [A Feast Fit for a Neanderthal - Jania Tumey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk2axv35Y6A).
* ENGLISHCACF Get Real: The Art of Community-Based Film (Musa Syeed)
* Students came to the Learning Lab space for a **hackathon** where they received help from our staff and fellows while working on their final projects.

## MDF project examples

### History of Art & Architecture non-linear storytelling

### OEB 50: Public-Facing SciComm

### animated overlay and visualization activity in NEURO 101: The Neurobiology of Behavior and Emotion
<figcaption align = "center"><b>Figure 1: Student presenting the methods of the paper</b></figcaption>


<figcaption align = "center"><b>Figure 2: Instructor summarizing the takeaways from the article </b></figcaption>


### Film analysis through production: Slavic 191: Silent Film

### superimposed eye for Slavic 193: Introduction to Russian and Soviet Film



## "forward" design: an approach to multimodal pedagogy