About Me
Please scroll down to learn more about my background in education, my previous career in filmmaking, my educational YouTube channel, and much more!
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Bio
My name is Levent Erdoğan and I am in my 7th year of teaching, I have experience teaching a variety of programs classes and I am a specialist in Film & Media Arts education. Additionally, I am an Apple Distinguished Educator and a founding crew member of new Adobe Creative Educators program from Adobe for Education.
Teaching is my 2nd career, following a career working in the Los Angeles Film Industry, where I worked on over 2 dozen feature-length films. After leaving the film industry in 2010, I returned to my home town of Toronto, Canada, and soon after decided to go back to school for a new Honours degree in Kinesiology, as well as a Bachelors of Education. Having an extensive background in music, as well as sports and health, I had originally planned to be a music and phys-ed teacher, however, I soon learned I could leverage my background in filmmaking and expertise in digital media in my teaching career.
I have spent my entire teaching career teaching internationally in Hong Kong, where I am currently located, and have been teaching at a Canadian international school, where I teach middle school and primary students. However, starting this August, I will be switching to a new American international school, for which I will be developing a Film Production program for high school students. I am looking forward to this new challenge and opportunity for my personal growth.
Vision And Philosophy As An Educator
Vision And Philosophy As An Educator
As a passionate educator in media arts, my primary vision and goal as an educator is to inspire creativity in my students. I strive to do this in a multitude of ways. I teach my students a variety EdTech tools to empower them to bring their ideas to life in their own digital storytelling projects. I lead by example, as I often produce projects for, and with, my students. I teach them the creative process, and the importance of how to reflect on their own creations to help them improve. And I collaborate with my fellow educators to integrate innovative and creative learning experiences for students throughout a multitude of their classes.
Not only do I strive to help them understand how to exercise their creativity to produce various forms of digital artifacts in my classes, by encouraging their creativity, I am helping support them for their future, as research has shown that creativity is one of the most important soft skills that employers look for. This skill is an imperative skill to develop, as students who are more creative will have a higher chance of successfully navigating the digital world of the 21st century.
Twitter Profile
Twitter Profile
Feel free to check out my professional Twitter profile, where I connect with other educators and primarily share work that I'm doing with my Film/Media students and resources I create for Digital Storytelling and the arts.
I can attribute an immense amount of professional growth directly relating to starting a Twitter account as I have learned from so many like-minded educators and have had a multitude of opportunities come from simply being active on twitter.
LinkedIn Profile
LinkedIn Profile
As a firm believer in the power of networking for professional growth, you can also find me on LinkedIn, where I share updates of content in my classes and education-related posts.
Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn here.
YouTube Channel
YouTube Channel
As a passionate educator and creator, I have spent years developing educational resources and content for both teachers and students. My content focuses on Film/Media Education, as well as my first passion, Music Education.
Feel free to browse through some of the examples below, or visit my YouTube channel for access to my full collection: www.YouTube.com/MrErdoganEDU
Authored Articles
Authored Articles
In my spare time, I author articles to the Global EdTech Newsletter, with each article focussing on topics relating to media production. Feel free to visit my authored articles here:
Film Industry Experience
Film Industry Experience
Having worked in the Los Angeles Film Industry from 2005 to 2010, I was fortunate to work on a multitude of projects in a variety of roles. To learn more about the films I worked on, feel free to check out my IMDb profile to see my credit list from my previous career in the Los Angeles Film Industry.
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