Why Podcasts Should be a Part of Your Students’ Storytelling Arsenal
I teach Media Arts to high school students. We make daily shows for our local access channel, we learn photography, how to write a news story, and heavily focus on editing. I have replaced the radio assignments with podcast ones. Students will be much more likely to work for a company that does podcasting than a company that has a radio show.
Four Things Media Students Should Learn When Their Lab is Stripped Away
As a high school teacher who uses 75 percent of class time for hands-on lab, if not more, learning from home meant re-framing all of my lessons or coming up with new lessons completely. The learning objectives became even more important because I had to come up with a new way to teach them. It was a beneficial questioning process because we can easily get so wrapped up in the technology and equipment we use, that we can forget the fundamental basics that require little more than a smartphone to create.
Affordable Gear for the Content Creator
As a High School Media Arts teacher, I have access to thousands of dollars of gear in a TV studio. Students learn how to operate high-tech broadcast cameras, increasingly capable DSLR cameras, and switcher boards that allow us to film a real TV production. But there are two pieces of equipment I bought recently that changed the game for productions on-the-go.