act3-describing-video-image.md

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title: Describing Pictures and Videos
code: ex1

assigned: April 19, 2021
due: 
- <strong>Activity</strong><BR>
  April 19, 2021 in class</strong>
  
revised: April 19, 2021

objective: Describe a video and image

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Assignment Description

This activity requires you to:

1. Find an image, and describe it (write alt-text).
2. Describe a video on YouDescribe. The website authors put together a comprehensive set of instructions to use their interface to describe videos.

What counts as a good image

Please pick images that have people, objects, and/or landscapes. You could also pick visualizations or memes, but please do not pick pictures of text or screenshots of conversations.

What counts as a good video?

Again, please pick videos that have people, objects and activity. Please do not pick videos that contain only scrolling text. YouDescribe has a good request list for you to pick from!

Turn-in

You will add your picture (with your alt-text), and a link to your described video to a shared google doc before class. your described videos will be played in class. Instructions to add alt-text in google docs

Grading (XX pts)

This HW will be out of XX points and will roughly (subject to small adjustments) be distributed as: