AI is changing our world in unimaginable ways in areas of scientific discoveries, language understanding, as well as creativity, and productivity support.
In this assignment, you need to use powerful AI tools to create high-quality multimedia content and reflect on your experiences.
Learning about new and powerful AI-Generated Content (AIGC) tools.
Learning about typical content creation tools.
Developing proficiency in using these tools to create high-quality content.
Learning to reflect on the iterative processes and workflows.
Framing research questions based on your investigation and exploration.
Stage 1: Play with powerful AI models.
Play with some of the most powerful AI models for creativity and productivity support, such as DALL·E, ChatGPT, Midjourney, or any AI-based tools you can find. Your goal should be to understand what these tools can do for you, their limitations, and how you might want to use them.
** Your need to:
Share the tools you find with the class by adding one or more slides to this presentation by Week1 Sunday, October 6th.
Take a screenshot of your slides and submit it on Canvas as proof of your Stage 1 participation (please don't post ChatGPT, Dall-E, Midjourney, everybody knows about these :) )
Stage 2: Brainstorm and define the content you will create.
You will brainstorm and define the content you will create in this assignment by yourself, by brainstorming with your friends, or by using AI. Think about your creative goals and come up with a couple of ideas or stories you might want to illustrate. The content has to be multimedia with a reasonable amount of materials, meaning you can't just have an image from Midjourney and call it done. For example, it can be a video, a comic, a presentation, an animated story, an interactive website, and more. The goal of creating multimedia content is to make sure you have broad exposure to all kinds of AIGC tools.
** Your need to:
Document your workflows and experiences as you work on the project. Make a header for each Stage and session when you work on the project. You might write about: what are your creative goals? How are you planning on making specific assets? Why did you pick one idea over another? Did a tool work as you expected? You can answer with only a couple of bullet points. This document is meant to help you reflect on the whole process and the tools you used at the end of the project. You will submit this document as one of the final deliverables.
Share your progress in one slide here on Tuesday, October 8th.
Take a screenshot of your slides and submit it on Canvas as proof of your Stage 2 participation.
Stage 3: Create and share your content.
We will have intermediate milestones for you to share the content with the class so that you can get feedback from the class and take a peek at what types of content others are creating.
Here are some steps you might want to follow:
Focus on one idea and make an outline of what you need to make it come to life. A script? Images? Code? Consider the tools you used in Stage 1.
Execute the core idea - make assets and put them together!
Add some polish! For example, make sure that the audio is consistent throughout, add subtle color grading to the whole video, etc.
** Your need to:
Continue to add to your reflection document along the way!
Share your content with the class by adding a slide to this presentation, which will be presented during the lecture on Tuesday, October 15th.
Take a screenshot of your slides and submit it on Canvas as proof of your Stage 3 participation.
Stage 4: Polish your content to the extent that you will feel proud to put it on your website.
You will be evaluated by the final quality of the content you create, so make sure you polish it to the point that you will feel proud to put it on your website or as part of your portfolio. You are free to use any tool for the polishing you need.
** Your need to:
Continue to document your experience.
Submit the final content and documentation on Canvas by Sunday, October 20th. You can find the detailed grading rubrics on Canvas.
Stage 5: Reflect on your creation experience.
After completing the content, you will create a presentation video to reflect on and analyze your creation experiences, as well as share your perspectives of the future of creativity and productivity in the era of AI. Use your reflection document as a reference!
This consists of three parts:
A brief summary of your workflow and creation experiences with AI, including how you came up with the content, what tools you used for which part of your content, how you used them, why you used this tool instead of others, and any other points that are worth mentioning.
An in-depth analysis of your workflow and creation experiences with AI. Below are some of the questions to help you start, and you should not follow exactly these questions. You are encouraged to explore any questions that you are interested in! In your reflection, you should discuss at least 2 questions related to workflow and user experiences.
Questions related to workflow and user experiences:
What is your interaction experience with these tools?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of these tools?
How are the AIGC tools used in your workflow?
How is your current workflow different from your typical workflow of creating such content?
What are the pain points in your workflow?
Your critical perspectives and insights about the broad implications of these tools. Below are again some questions to get you started.
How do you see these tools helping or hurting people's creativity and productivity?
Would these models get misused?
** Your need to:
Submit a YouTube link that points to your reflection video on Canvas by Sunday, October 27th. You can find the detailed grading rubrics on Canvas.
Your final deliverables consist of three parts:
The content you create. Put the link to the content at the beginning of the document that records your creation process.
Documentation of your iterative process. You will submit a PDF on Canvas (as said above, put the link to your final content at the beginning of this PDF).
This document is a collection of designs, observations and reflections you have made during the project. It doesn't have to be elaborate or well presented, just enough to help your final reflection. Make headers for each Stage of the assignment and each session you work on the project.
Your reflection video. You will submit a YouTube link that points to your video on Canvas.
The video should be 5-7 minutes long. Videos longer than 7 minutes will receive a 10% penalty per extra minute.
The video should have an introduction frame with your name, PID, date, and email.
It is your responsibility to make sure the content is viewable by everyone. ** Content that is not viewable after the deadline will receive a late penalty! **
The most proactive content will be played during lecture time for the class to discuss.
For stages 1, 2, and 3 you will contribute to a shared Google Slides (refer to What to do section above for the respective links):
Stage 1: Sunday, October 6th
Stage 2: Tuesday, October 8th
Stage 3: Tuesday, October 15th
The final deliverable deadline:
Stage 4: Sunday, October 20th (Content and documentation)
Stage 5: Sunday, October 27th (Reflection and analysis video)
A1 constitutes 30% of your total course grade. Here's the breakdown of A1 grading:
[2%] Stage 1 Participation
[4%] Stage 2 Participation
[4%] Stage 3 Participation
[30%] The content you create and your creation process (Single media content will receive 0 points for this part)
[20%] Overall quality (Fidelity, Richness of materials, Creativity, etc.)
[10%] Documentation of the design process
[60%] Reflection, Analysis, and Discussion
[30%] Clarity of video presentation from Stage 5
[30%] Critical insights and perspectives presented in the video from Stage 5