Multimedia presentation outside class

• Who: Prof. Portia Maultsby
• Department: Folklore
• Project Title: Rap & Hip-Hop Music
• Delivery Format: Website
• Instructional Goals:
  • Presentation of audio, video, text and image files to enhance in-class lecture
  • Presentation of audio, video, text and image files for student review outside of class
  • To develop critical thinking about the origins and cultural impact of this art form
  • To promote in-class discussion

Prof. Maultsby needed a way to present images, audio and text files for each study unit as an study resource for students to use before and after class. Dr. Maultsby also uses the website to deliver her in-class multimedia lecture. TLTC helped Dr. Maultsby formulate ideas of how she wanted her course website to look and to function and then created a set of screens into which Dr. Maultsby's Graduate Assitants could place the files they had digitized.

The website includes a list of artists' images, sound clips and lyric files available for presentation. In addition to the presentation of multimedia files, Prof. Maultsby wanted to have her lecture notes, contextual collage images and discussion questions available from the website.

Dr. Maultsby wanted her students have a clear understanding of the social, cultural and historic context from which rap music and hip-hop arise. The website contains many images and charts to support that instructional perspective. It would have been difficult to present and compare images and audio files in conventional ways. Students use the site outside class for review and as a resource for their writing assignments.

Access to the Rap/Hip-hop Music website is restricted to students enrolled in the class.