Video
During the spring 2022 semester, I am teaching our school’s first standalone video class for as long as any of my colleagues can remember.
To build a curriculum from scratch, I am relying heavily on resources from the JEA Curriculum Initiative and the ASB Workshop. I traveled to the ASB summer workshop in summer 2019, and I stand by this program as the best preparation out there for teachers like me — earnest types who say “yes” to teaching new classes without much professional preparation.
Eventually I’ll share some of the curricular resources I’ve developed on this site. For now, my students and I are exploring, learning together, and having a blast. Along the way, I’ve taught myself to livestream with some cobbled-together equipment, and practiced the skills and our mobile setup enough so that I can teach it to students. The class has a strong bent towards documentary and journalistic video, with opportunities for students to explore their creative interests as they practice the skills.
Explore a few student samples below from our MediaLab223 channel.
PROFILES PROJECT
SCHOOL STORY PROJECT
ELECTIVE PROMOTION VIDEOS
HUMANS OF STRATH HAVEN
Sixty-second interviews for our HOSH Instagram channel
VIDEO SELF-PORTRAITS: ONLINE/HYBRID LEARNING
These were produced using Chromebooks and WeVideo during the 2020-2021 school year.
15-SECOND VOCABULARY CHALLENGE
These were produced using Chromebooks and WeVideo during the 2020-2021 school year, in response to the challenge at NYTimes Learning.