Professional+Development

Media Production Workshop for Public School Teachers.
===The purpose of this workshop is to introduce digital media production tools and techniques that a teacher can apply to an existing curriculum. This is a proposed 10 hour professional development workshop. ===


 * Goals** :
 * Participants will gain experience using basic digital production tools such as video cameras, microphones, tripods, as well as editing software such as iMovie and Garageband.
 * Participants will create a media product and gain experience from beginning to end of the process including, brainstorming, scripting, planning, taping, editing and distributing.
 * Participants will create ideas for using media production in their classes.
 * Participants will develop assignments that teach media literacy and media production.
 * Participants will be introduced to web-based applications that can be used as tools for classroom media productions.

Participants will be creating a 3-5 minute digital story or enhanced podcast based on a personal experience or social justice topic. They will be expected to do interviews, write scripts, and edit together various types of media. While we are creating the media product, The instructor will build in time for the teachers to reflect on their work and develop ideas for their own curriculum. After completing the production, participants will then learn how to create a DVD and distribute the piece online.

Resources
[|Edublogs] - Blog site for the Web Media Class. [|Wikispaces] - Quick website creator [|Gmail] - Google's web-based e-mail. Needed to create needed accounts for the course. [|Pownce] - Microblog. This will be a communication method for members of this class. Make sure to have Web Media and all classmates as friends. [|Podbean] - Audio Podcasting host [|Voice Thread] - Web-based narrated slide-show creator. [|Survey Gizmo] - Create online surveys and polls.