The semester
is now over, but before I put this blog to bed for the summer, I want to share
the final projects for my Kent State Teaching Multimedia grad students.
But first, I want to say that
the Teaching MM course impacted me a great deal when I was a grad student
in the KSU Journalism Education program. Under the tutelage of Sue Zake in 2009, a
KSU adjunct and instructor for that course back then, I created my first blog, and
have been blogging ever since. Now, Zake is a KSU assistant professor, and I am
honored to have inherited that course from her in 2013.
Blogs are now required in all of
my photojournalism courses because, it most cases, it’s the first visual
portfolio for the students. Blogs are a powerful way of documenting what they’ve
learned throughout the semester, and passing that knowledge forward.
The final and most significant posting is their final
project, which is developing a lesson plan, homework
sheet, rubric and Camtasia Studio tutorial on a topic of their
choice. It was based on their newfound expertise in creating multimedia journalism. The students were instructed to select a subject they wanted to teach and/or use with their
own students, and upload all of the required elements to their blogs.
Not only do I grade from the
blogs, but by posting to their blogs, other teachers and students can share it, as well.
Of course, all of the teachers have developed lesson
plans and rubrics throughout their career. But what was new was developing a lesson using Camtasia, a screen recording and video editing software that is perfect
for creating how-to tutorials. Since this was a multimedia course, why not introduce them to a program that enhances their lesson plans?
I loved the wide range of subjects chosen for
this assignment: Videolicious, Twitter, video sequencing and editing, creating
infographics, Picasa and editing podcasts using Audacity.
So, it is with immense pride that I present to you the blogs of the spring semester 2016 class, who are mostly high school teachers advising or teaching student media (broadcasting, newspapers, yearbook).
Adding a poll to your content from Mark Davidson on Vimeo.How to use Twitter to promote a news story from Teaching Multimedia on Vimeo.
(This video is a demonstration for students posting their live broadcasts to Todd's school website on his class page, by Todd Hatfield)
Editing Video to Tell a Story from Stephen Milligan on Vimeo.
(Introducing students to ThingLink, a website that allows users to create interactive graphics, by Michael Gluskin)
AIR Exam Video from Robin Lester on Vimeo.
