EDUO9150_McCartyAssignment 5 - Suite Productivity

Lesson Plan / Unit of Study 

Title: Storyboards for Beginners - Pre-Production Tasks

Course: Video Production I

Grade: 9th/10th

Standards Covered (if available):

ODE CT Media Arts Standards - Outcome 2.4. Visual Layouts

• 2.4.1. Create thumbnail and rough sketches.

ODE CT Media Arts Standards - Outcome 3.1. Career-based Writing

• 3.1.10. Select visual imagery to support or enhance copy.

Length: 2-3 days

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EDUO91509_McCartyAssignment 4

Making a Case for Google Tools in Career Tech:

Google’s cloud-based G Suite Tools paired with our specific media production technology and equipment (even phones) provide students easy access to organizational tools and methods they will encounter in the media industry. Self discipline, planning, organization and constructed knowledge empower students to express their creativity and strive to be the best storytellers they can be. Check out the details here!

EDUO9150_McCartyAssignment 3

Why G Suite?

Up front, I want to be honest and say that as a former media industry pro and teacher of an elective Career Tech class, I am biased towards the constructivist side of education. My students take plenty of tests that measure their learning “measurables.” I strive to teach them 21st Century skills to work in a demanding media industry that requires the ability to work collaboratively, perform in authentic hands-on environments on strict deadlines that require organizational skills to execute creative processes while also thinking critically about technical and editorial issues that content and clients demand. 

For this assignment I’m going to take the position that G Suite Tools very effectively support my student learning outcomes in all of the above. The real world scenario I will use as a backdrop is a very large (typically between 20-24 minutes) documentary video project my seniors produce that tells the story of a local veteran and their experience in a military branch and their combat experiences. SIDE NOTE: Unless they enlisted at 15, most of these men and women are gone now and sadly the history they lived and made and their personal stories leave us as well. There were some storytelling lessons in there for my students as well over the years.

My analysis will use the following criteria to assess the G Suite Tools effectiveness in our Career Tech program:

• help to develop collaborative and individual constructivist learning environments

• increase measurable student achievement

• inspire and engage students in the learning process

• support the SAMR model of learning

• improve thinking skills

Assignment 3

EDUO9150_McCartyAssignment 2

 

A Google G Suite Overview

Today I add my thoughts on the G Suite apps I use for education. Not a complete list, but a good sample of how I use these tools and their benefits in my high school Career Tech video courses and program

G Suite Apps I Use:

EDUO9150_McCartyAssignment 1

A Blog Resuscitated

Hello Blog fans! It's alive... Back from the ether in 2008 - and from the upper deck TV Studio we built inside the Worker's Indoor Arena, site of the 2008 Olympic Boxing venue in Beijing (and my office for a month!) My old blog, "The TVCommando's Journal," was a way to engage my students and I've resuscitated it for my latest post graduate course endeavors mastering G-Tools.

As for me, a lot has changed since 2008 and my return home from covering 267 fights in 28 days at the Olympics. After the 2008-2009 school year, I left my teaching position in K12 and taught media production at a small, private college. When the college's budget shortfalls, made worse by the economic conditions during the post-2008 market crash, many of the Professional Instructor contracts at the school were not be renewed at the end of the 2014-2015 academic year. But for some divine intervention, I ended up back where I started in my old K12 position and I never looked back. 

So for context, as I start a course on G-Suite for Education, "where" was Google and apps in 2008? My inquiring mind wanted to remember... Turns out, in an article I found from TechCrunch, "Google Page Creator,"was about to be evolved from something more familiar called, Google Sites, and Google Docs, Email and Calendar were about to get offline editing capabilities. These "updates" seem almost quaint now.

I'm ready for the bell. Hopefully, I don't get KO'd in the along the way!

Assignment 1: