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Assignment: Create a creative appeal telling the story of LFHS New Media. You can use a comedic or serious approach as an individual or a group. We need to capture the great things happening in our class community for everyone else to experience.
Due: 1-3 minute video that tells a story that connects with our local audience.
Goal: To learn how to create a compelling, quick and targeted message for your specific, local audience. To share our unique story with your friends, parents and others in the community. People have a variety of ideas of what we do, but we need to help clarify and promote the great work happening every day.
Ideation:
Previous videos I've created to help tell our story:
Oldest to newest:
Memes that help tell our story:
Individualized, Independent, your ideas come to life
Customized, TAs, Collaborative, community,
Creative, fun, failing quickly, innovative, relevant, essential skill going forward
Building a story around your story:
Misperceptions-What it really is-TAs what it means to them- alums relevant work
Dixon video: What inspires me? Describe a great day in New Media... What do you love to do here? Describe the class community?
Process based: showing the creative side more than technical
Media Literacy days: society, social media, technology is changing, playing with innovation, connecting with things bigger and beyond our classroom that effects us greatly
Interesting experiences: LFSports Cars, climbing trees, out there stuff that breaks up day, Field Trips
Making things your proud of: doing real work (intrinsic)
TA's opening comments
How have you changed and been impacted by this class?
How do you explain what we do in here? Do your friends totally get it? Why not?
What false memes are there already being associated with us? myth buster
What is the essential story you think needs to be told?
Behind the scenes of what it takes to put it together (strawn's asian project)
3 words for New Media: youtube video (weird things that people do) great energy, more fluid, green screen
Ideation process: from the pitch to refining the idea as a group (today'smeet.com)
Parties- team building, having fun together, connecting with people you wouldn't otherwise, bouncing ideas off others... COMMUNITY
Making of... Billy's story
Profiling TAs: showing the diversity of experience and expertise, added value, open ended pursuit of your unique talent
Upcoming opportunities:
Alumni coming back to share their stories on Friday before break (authentic, spontaneous):
How did this class prepare you for the future?
Epic party on Friday
Speaker coming on Wednesday (tentatively) to share relevant employment opportunities in New Media
The 1st Semester folks doing their production around you
Middle School visit in January- showcasing their program (and hopefully having them come and visit after break)
White House Project:
interview everybody, TA's, Alumni, 1st semesters
Positive Learning Environment, resources, using resources to the fullest extent, creating stories
Doing good things with what we have
Variety of formats, iPhones, DSLRs
Process, time management, life long skills
All grades in one classroom, diversity of ages
"Technology is just the vehicle for the positive learning environment"-Strawn Dixon
Communicating powerful ideas-not just telecommunications, not just video, it's a visual story
Outside view of telecom, what we do to the normal LFHS-er, how we spread our stories and ideas
"Broadening our perspective"-Strawn Dixon
"Window to the community"-Mr. Douglass
"Window to the world."-Strawn Dixon...
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