Table of contents
- 1. Department Mission
- 2. Course Description
- 3. Goals and Objectives
- 4. Books
- 5. Assessment
- 5.1. Portfolio
- 5.2. Tools of the Craft
- 5.3. Digital Yearbook
- 5.4. Social Media
- 5.4.1. Blog
- 5.4.2. Wiki
- 5.4.3. Social Bookmarking
- 5.4.4. Photo and Video Sharing
- 6. Classroom Expectations & Environment
Department Mission
Milken Community High School is committed to Education Technology as a support to excellence in teaching and learning. The School's network provides students access to library resources, a wide range of programs on the network server, and the Internet. All students have access to the network through the writing center, the library, the classrooms, and from home through remote access. Instruction in the use of the library and in research skills is integrated throughout all aspects of the curriculum. The library program develops students as independent users of technology, to develop effective researchers, and prepares students for transition to the collegiate environment.
Course Description
This 2 semester course will serve as an introduction to the main concepts in Multimedia design and production. Through project based learning students will explore existing multimedia titles in order to develop an understanding of multimedia design issues, hardware, and tools (Standard 3). Students will gain experience in project planning, teamwork, graphics tools, editing tools, and multimedia presentation software. The course will focus on learning how to express individual and collective ideas using an interactive format (Standard 1). The 2nd semester of this course will focus on Flash and creating interactive media. Students will be working on long-term projects while getting deeper into the Flash program and programming.
Goals and Objectives
To understand media's changing role in society.
Standards 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6
Objectives
- Students will develop, maintain and read a class-wide selection of news sources on media design and production.
- Students will develop media portfolios that include examples of work that responds to or employs an idea drawn from these news sources during the semester.
- Students will analyze at least one contemporary issue or event with a focus on the role of social media and multimedia presentation in that issue's or event's public development and understanding.
To create new media guided by principles of design.
Standards 1 and 2
Objectives
- Students will demonstrate design principles in their photography, video and interactive portfolios.
- Students will critique classmates' productions with regard to design principles.
- Students will correctly use design vocabulary in class discussion and written work.
To critically evaluate media.
Standard 3, 5 and 6
Objectives
- Students will be active participants in class discussions that present and evaluate examples of media and design.
- Students will be active participants in class critiques of student work.
- Students will reflect on and revise their own work based on individual and class critiques.
- Students will employ technical vocabulary appropriate to the media in class discussion and written work.
To publish relevant media.
Standards 1, 3, 4 and 6
Objectives
- Students will use the basic feature set of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia DreamWeaver, Macromedia Flash, Sony Vegas Movie Studio and other software tools.
- Students will use their own lives and the life of the school as subjects for their productions.
- The class will document the 2009-2010 school year at Milken for the Digital Yearbook.
- Students will publish multimedia productions to Flickr, YouTube, blogs and wikis.
- Students will develop media portfolios that include examples of a range of different types and styles of media.
To plan and execute major projects (as a team).
Standards 1, 2, 3 and 5
Objectives
- Students will complete multi-day and multi-week projects in a timely manner.
- Students will meet checkpoint deadlines for longer projects.
- Students will develop plans and internal checkpoint deadlines for their own projects.
- Students will complete media productions in cooperation with classmates.
- Students will develop and execute plans for media productions in cooperation with classmates.
To become ethical citizens of an online world.
Standards 4, 5 and 6
Objectives
- Students will use cameras, camcorders, microphones and other equipment respectfully and efficiently.
- Students will be active members of social media sites associated with the class.
- Students will publish work, ideas and thoughts appropriate to the medium and the channel of publication.
- Students will provide critical feedback to classmates on their publications and activity as members of social media sites associated with the class.
- Students will develop online ethics based on offline Jewish principles and ethics.
Books
Williams, Robin. Robin Williams Design Workshop. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press.
Assessment
Portfolio
Each student will develop an organized and annotated portfolio of media productions over the course of the semester. This portfolio will include work from every unit, demonstrating both competency and breadth of ability within that unit and in the semester as a whole. Students will identify and annotate work to include in their portfolio at the end of each unit, based on feedback from their classmates and teacher. Students will develop and interactive, online portfolio of their work as their final independent project of the semester.
Tools of the Craft
Each student will use cameras, camcorders, microphones, software and web sites knowledgeably and in a aspiring-to-be-professional manner. Quality recordings, photographs and video will be the goal, while preserving the equipment and software in an undamaged state ready for use by the next producer.
Digital Yearbook
In conjunction with New Media Design II (and other classes in the Media Studies department), students will produce a digital yearbook that will document the major events and themes of 2009-2010 at Milken. Each student will be responsible for documenting at least one event, including coordinating any assistants, reserving any necessary equipment, and producing a final documentary on that event. In addition, each student will assist at least two other students in documenting their events. Students who are continuing in New Media Design II are responsible for events in the second semester, while students not continuing should take primary responsibility for events in the first semester.
Social Media
In general, social media will be used as a publication medium for student work that is ready to leave the classroom and for student analysis and research that is of general interest and of use to the community outside Milken.
Blog
The class blog is a (minimum) weekly review and reflection on the learning of the week, with the use of multimedia embedding strongly encouraged. Students will post these entries in pairs in rotation throughout the semester, and will be expected to respond with substantive critique, reflection or additions to at least every other blog entry.
Wiki
The class wiki pages are maintained as a resource for the class throughout the semester. Students are encouraged to make updates and changes that enhance the usability and readability of the pages. Students will take turns posting class notes to the wiki over the course of the semester.
Social Bookmarking
The class Diigo group is a collection of online resources that we will develop and curate over the course of the semester. Each student will register their own account on Diigo. Students will provide critical feedback on links posted to the Diigo group, and will themselves share at least three annotated and tagged links that pass the class review.
Photo and Video Sharing
The class Flickr group is our online gallery for photography. It may be supplemented by YouTube, Picasa or other online photo and video sharing sites. Students will turn in each stage of their projects by posting the completed portfolio of media to the designated sharing site with annotation and tags appropriate to the project. This media will be available to the public outside our classroom and outside the school, and students will be mindful of intellectual property, privacy and other community and personal concerns relevant to both themselves, our class, the school and especially the subjects of their productions.
Classroom Expectations & Environment
The classroom is a shared space, which will sometimes be respectfully focused on a single presenter or group and sometimes be a collaborative studio environment. Students will cooperate to create an atmosphere supportive of creativity, learning and reflection. To this end:
- Students will respect the creative effort and personal vulnerability of classmates sharing their work at any point during the class, and especially during critiques.
- Students will arrive in class ready to learn, with the expectation that they will be prepared to take notes, refer to any assigned readings or media, have addressed concerns or questions raised to them in the prior class and continue work on ongoing projects.
- Students will strive to engage fully with the presentation or collaborative studio, eschewing the use of iPods, phones, outside work, distracting web sites and games, in favor of maintaining a clear focus on the work at hand.
- Students will strive to maintain a pleasant and reasonably quiet environment during studio time, including negotiating a mutually acceptable soundtrack, being aware of and responsive to announcements, and providing appropriate technical support to classmates.
- Students will make necessary interruptions to class as discreet as possible, including visits to the bathroom.
- Students will strive to engage with the class discussion, introducing their questions and thoughts to the class as whole, either verbally or through a back-channel such as Twitter, and keeping verbal distractions for other students (and the teacher) to a minimum.
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