Avatar Images & Online Skits

 "The original usage of avatar referred to the incarnation or human appearance of a deity, particularly Vishnu, in Hindu mythology. The term was adapted to cyberspace to name one’s online persona. This usage has come to include every aspect of one’s online representation, from the icon on a blog, or an email signature to the figure one plays in Second Life. Avatar, then, is a practical point of entry for theorizing the emergence of the new identity experience of electracy, that is supplementing and displacing selfhood, the identity formation of literacy. Playing one’s avatar is to electracy what writing an essay is to literacy." 

From "Avatar Emergency," by Gregory Ulmer: http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/3/000100/000100.html0 Links to an external site.

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Elaine.JPG

ein Avatar-Bild namens 'Elaine'

Skit Instructions

Pending approval and integration into E-Learning@UF of more nimble avatar technologies, your Avatar in the Discover German course sequence this year will be the image you select or construct to represent your physical presence, combined with your own German-speaking voice. You will employ your Avatar-Image to interact with those of the other members of your group at the end of chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5 in the form of Online Skits using this PowerPoint format: German Online Skit Template.pptx Download German Online Skit Template.pptx

Create an Online Skit based on or extrapolating from the Dialog for the respective chapter, in which each group member's Avatar-Image speaks at least four different times, not counting any brief greetings and departures at the beginning and end (i.e. at least 16 separate individual linguistic contributions to the situation being depicted in the skit for a four-student group). Your skits may be longer if you wish to make them so, and any mistakes made in additional lines beyond the five per student requirement will be corrected but not counted in your grade.  

Your Online Skit as a whole should contain at least one good example of each new grammatical structure covered in the respective chapter. The group members are jointly responsible for the inclusion of these examples and for their correctness. To this end, groups are encouraged to "recycle" the sentences they have produced and submitted for all of this chapter's grammar writing assignments in their skit preparation. But make sure your skits stand on their own feet and are as entertaining as possible!  

Your Online Skits must be reflective of the work you have been doing on them in the earlier recorded group work assignments of the respective chapter.

Copy and paste the script of your skit into the Google Doc worksheet provided in the Online Skit assignment in the final week of the respective chapter and upload it into the assignment.

Here is an example of what an Online Skit might look like for Chapter 2:

Beispiel von Online Skit.pptx  Download Beispiel von Online Skit.pptx 

Bill.JPG 

ein Avatar-Bild namens 'Bill'

 

Zoom Conference Instructions

How to Create/Host or Join a Zoom Conference

  1. Group needs to pick a time to meet
  2. Make sure your group has chosen a meeting host
  3. Meeting host needs to go to Zoom at ufl.zoom.us (Links to an external site.) and follow these steps:
    1. click UFL sign in
    2. Copy personal meeting room ID and share with group members
  4. Everyone clicks that link at the meeting time
  5. Meeting host clicks Record to Cloud when everyone is present.
  6. When you are finished, meeting host clicks End Meeting

View Zoom Tutorial Video

To submit your recording and group work:

  1. Meeting host will receive an email link with the Zoom cloud recording of your Online Skit.
  2. Paste the above URL link into Online Skits Discussion Board for your respective chapter.