Powtoon commercials

After watching several videos on Creative Commons, Copyright, Fair Use and Public Domain I gave my students a rubric I modified from iRubric by Rcampus to fit their assignment.  I had them all sign up or add my class if they already had an account on Powtoon.

Next, I shared with them an example of what I was looking for that I had created.  I told my students that my Powtoon. I also informed them my Powtoon would not necessarily receive full marks on all categories.

I gave them entire next class period 90 minutes to work on their commercials.Since our next class fell on Friday and would not occur because of a school wide Tet Festival, I told them that they had until 11:59PM on Friday to submit their videos.  They were to submit them two ways on Powtoon and  via twitter. Their penalty for late assignments would be one point off for every day it was late and that after Tuesday, at the start of our next class I would not accept any more late projects, as we would be doing a peer critique.

Working in class on their Powtoons.

Doing additional research and working on the copy for their commercial.

Working out design issues.

Reminder about due date and submission requirements.

They all worked really hard on this project and all of them except for two got it turned in by the deadline.  Only one student did not complete this project.  Here is a link to all the student's finished commercials on the Critique page I created for them.
For the last class before the Tet Holiday break they watched the videos and gave each-other feedback using a Google survey that I created for them.  I was shocked at how much thought they put into their open responses.