Multimedia

CTE PROGRAM ALIGNMENT

TECHNICAL SKILLS STRATEGIES

Giving students ownership of projects and execution to build a quality product and have success
Visually represent ideas in a variety of ways
Development of portfolios to demonstrate skills and align with future jobs/career paths
Opportunities for planning, brainstorming ideas
Iteration and repetition key
Learning your own process
Learning to negotiate meaning with other professionals
Researching and continuous professional development
Origin stories/interviews
Career Path Stories
Understanding of studio safety and maintenance
Print quality control
Development of knowing the professional quality standards
Building presentations
Hands on work
Being able to accept critique and provide it appropriately
Development of a pitch deck
Project management - storyboarding, script building, roughs, timelines and scheduling
Understanding of design principles
Opportunity to build software skills
Bring AVID integrations into CTE
Start with, "Make your picture look like mine." and End with, "Make your project look like you."
Providing student-centered choices in the program
Identifying "The Why" or "The Problem"
Understanding of industry vocabulary
Development of interview skills
Understanding trends, laws and ethics
Being able to assimilate information and data
Building the knowledge of the hand tools, machinery and software

EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS STRATEGIES

Implement more current/industry-standard technologies into classroom
Invite a variety of guest speakers from a variety of industries. Include more trades, since all have roles for multi-media in companies
Keeping an exploratory mindset
Providing students with neuro diverse friendly job ideas
Teasers (What is further down the road)
Using community-based projects as PR for students
Build PCC class excitement in high school programs
Development of relevant skills to open life options - You're not locked in, you're ahead regardless
Student recommendations/word of mouth
Understanding digital organization of work
- Files (creating, naming)
- Folders
Building a strong digital literacy vocabulary
Understanding of "What is your brand?"
- What are you representing?
- What are your values?
Development of a strong portfolio
- Website
- Marketing
- Advertising
- LLC or Sole proprietor
- Show Yourself
Building collaboration between high school and PCC pathway

PCC faculty becoming advisory members on Industry Advisory Groups
PCC faculty make class visits to high school programs with presentation about program/projects
Build a shared working list of industry connections for residency/internship opportunities
Build industry partner events together
Share information in collaborative online format - maybe a shared Google Drive
Field trip to Job Fairs
Creation of Industry Guild
- Podcast/Newsletter highlighting our work with each other
CTE mentorship
Creating a Portfolio Day
Create PLC time across Districts
Attend Design Educator Conference @ Lane Community College