This professional development course is open to educators in all roles, subjects and grades who are looking for the skills and confidence to teach digital media literacy and critical 21st Century skills through hands-on video production. 

Learning Objectives: 

• Master the basic skills of video production to support student learning, including:
  • Creating a shooting script 
  • Effective lighting and shooting techniques 
  • Capturing and adding quality sound 
  • Using editing software to sequence and trim clips as well as add text, transitions and other elements to your production 
  • Creating lesson plans for classroom video projects that align with Common Core and other curriculum standards 
  • Develop strategies for allocating and organizing existing equipment and resources to best facilitate video projects in a classroom environment 
  • Learn how to create rubrics and other tools to effectively assess student video 
  • Understand the ways copyright law and fair use impact video production and learn how to locate free and open content you and your students can freely use in production 
  • Understand how a producer’s bias, intent and production choices impact the messages communicated by a video 
  • Learn about federal laws protecting student privacy and safety online and how to best address these issues when making and sharing video projects