Photo: Alvaro Reyes
Loyola University Maryland’s Communication Department has approved my proposal to run my special topic course on Mobile Media as a regular course after spring 2020.
The goal of this course is to bridge both the consumption and creation aspects of mobile media (e.g., apps, mobile web, locative media, mobile social networking) to offer a holistic understanding of today’s mobile media-driven communication culture.
Topics covered in this course are 1) social, cultural and economic impacts of mobile media, especially mobile apps and website, 2) approaches to mobile storytelling with multimedia content optimized for mobile screens, and 3) mobile user-experience and app prototyping.
Selected Student projects
Building mobile web with mobile-optimized content & storytelling
In this project, students utilized mobile website building software Mobirise, mobile storytelling apps, such as Adobe Spark page/post and smartphone video. While writing textual content for mobile readers, students were expected to follow writing guidelines for the smartphone screens.
If you are visiting this page from desktop, please resize your browser/window screen to mobile screen size to get the best view of the following student projects. Projects are linked to students’ names:
- Brianna Yacovelli (Spring 2020)
- Vanessa Gleklen (Spring 2020)
- Allison O’Donnell (Spring 2020)
- Katerina Solonos (Spring 2020)
- Julia Mulry (Spring 2020)
- Samantha Zenobio (Spring 2020)
- Patrick Fogarty (Spring 2018)
- Mary O’Boyle (Spring 2018)
- Marysa Mazanek (Spring 2018)
- Brittany Dattilo (Spring 2018)
- Elizabeth Sager (Spring 2017)
- Thalia Falcon (Spring 2017)
Smartphone Video
Students shot their videos with smartphones. And, then they had to edit the footage for visual storytelling using either iMovie or Adobe Premiere.
- Small business blooms through pandemic by Katerina Solonos (Spring 2020)
- Life of a college student during COVID-19 pandemic by Brianna Yacovelli (Spring 2020)
- Life during COVID-19 pandemic by Mairead O’Donovan (Spring 2020)
- “Rokerthon” (Abigail Vitaliano, Ghadah Hussein, Mary Alice Devaney, Sarah Doodian)
- “Crab Walk”(Madeleine Joson, Natalia Melendez, Thalia Falcon, Victor Ruiz Diaz)
- “Social Media and Privacy” (Marysa Mazanek, Patrick Fogarty, Mickey Watson)
App Prototypes
Students in small groups followed user-centered approach as well as Google’s Mobile Design principles to create the following (selected sample) app prototypes in mobile media class:
- Campus laundry app prototype by David Campos and Allison O’Donnell (Spring 2020)
- Project deliverables for Greyhound Grub App Prototype by Kate Mills and Vanessa Gleklen (Spring 2020)
- Protoype for Campus shuttle app — Double Map — by Julia Mulry and Jennifer Spillane (Spring 2020)
- A hypothecial store app “KEB” by Kevin, Elizabeth and Brittany (Spring 2018).
- Patrick Fogarty’s version of FIFA World Cup 2018 app (Spring 2018).
- Mary O’Boyle’s version of Athleta’s app prototype. (Spring 2018)
- Marysa Mazanek’s version of app prototype for food delivery app, Tapingo. (Spring 2018)