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The Heritage School, Canyon H.S. School, N.H.Goel World School, Carmel Junior College, Sharada Residential School, Kavi Bharathi Vidyalaya,

Future Projects  Broadcast Journalism Schedule for November - December 2012

Unit for second semester - beginning  22nd January  Future Projects (Skype project request)  email - dais.bcast@gmail.com

Our rest of this school years timetable is - next Monday school re-starts on the 7th and our first semester ends the 21st of January, 7th - 18th January we have Chinese New Years break (I will be in Australia that time).Spring break is 22nd - 31st March and school ends 22nd June.

I have a middle school, grades 6 - 8, section in six week rotation that is a class on publication. That would be a good class for exchange of ideas, interviews, learning about one another. I have a new section of students, 10 - 13 students in two weeks. We call it applied studies and the students have six different courses each lasting six weeks.
My high school course is 'broadcast journalism' and is a year long course. We will begin a new project the 22nd of January. It would be interesting to work with another school on how news is perceived and broadcast. For example taking a similar world event story and exchanging how it is presented in our two countries. The only problem would be we teach in English so I am unable to understand how news is presented on a Chinese station. We listen to BBC, NBC and ABC (Australian Broadcasting Network). We are just completing a section on documentaries with students doing their documentary on what is in their life; for example, some are boarding at our school so they are doing a documentary on student life here, another is doing it on Model UN she is involved with another is doing a documentary on their hometown in Southern China. I really would like to try doing a collaborative documentary between our two schools.

Any ideas? 

What we have learned from using Skype is that we are good for about 15 minutes then it goes down and we have to re-connect. I do not know if that is a government issue or our Internet connection.

All social sites are blocked though teachers seem to be OK using a VPN service at home to access Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and etc.

Broadcast Unit Plan 2nd Semester Quarter 1

“Create a documentary with a foreign class”

This unit lays the foundation for the entire semester.  Students should know that they are expected to be observant of news~casting - especially digital media and blog every day; in their Google Sites Blog Page at the start of each class.  They should know and understand that group work means individuals coming together as a group to share ideas and responsibilities to produce a quality project.  Students should expect to work well with group members who they don’t know and/or may not be friends with. Finally, students need to know why it is important to respect other peoples work.

This is a follow on from two projects working on during first semester quarter two with (hopefully) the same school in India or a school in Australia as well as a project from Quarter 1:

1.      ASA ~ DAISlive Foreign Correspondence (two versions – one with Huamei – and one with either DAIS high school or grades 4 and 5

2.      Quarter 2 – semester 1 Broadcast class will be doing DAISlive Foreign Correspondence for shared experiences such as sports (India school cricket, our school basketball), teen likes: movies – we will learn about Bollywood from our Indian correspondence and my students will discuss Dalian Wanda Group’s entrance into the film industry, as well fashion and etc.

TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS

2a. Communicate and collaborate with others employing a variety of digital environments and media.

2c. Create cultural understanding and global awareness by interacting with learners of other cultures

2013

Day/Block

Overview

January 22

Tuesday

1/block 2

LESSON 1:  Students will collaborate effectively in group media production.

Preparation, Both schools – in class and at home:

1.      Review Essential Question(s). Post Essential Questions on our Broadcast Journalism site.

• What is different between a global documentary and an in-house one?

• What does a collaborative global news cast look like?

• Why is teamwork important?

• What types of leaderships characteristics is crucial to the success of a video production team?

2.      Identify and review the unit vocabulary. Terms may be posted on word wall page in our Google Sites.

Collaboration,  mass media, networking,

3.      Have students define “global journalistic collaboration”.

4.      Create blog/sites share with paired student/teachers

5.      Each school independently views then blogs “Collaborative film about the Occupy Wall Street Movement” http://www.indiegogo.com/99Film

6.      Each school independently views then blogs “A Delicate Paradise” http://www.kickstarter.com

7.      Each school independently views then blogs Eco-tech school season 1  http://vimeo.com/11136051 

8.      Students pair off with foreign school partner, submitting 3 ideas for documentary via email Google Docs/Sites and creating a Skype account to share

January 24

Thursday

3/block 1

LESSON 2:  TEAMWORK Skyping/blogging/sharing documents

Creating independent video of agreed upon topic

January 28

5/block 4

LESSON 3:

Sharing (exchanging) video clips

 

January 30

7/block 3

LESSON 4:

Collaboration which clips will go into the final five minute documentary.

 

February 1

1/block 2

LESSON 5: Reflections

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

References

Digital and Electronic Media in the Curriculum, Law and Ethics We will be using this document in homework assignments 

Hacks/Hackers, a worldwide organization bringing together journalists and technologists.

Poynter.news University has a lot of great free offerings for journalism courses

A lot of places I have visited for integrating technology in class - http://neuage.co/tabor

Story Boarding http://generator.acmi.net.au/education-themes 

http://www.videomaker.com/   Viceo maker dot com

Storyboarding  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISK0h0__WaU 

The Murrow Network

JPROF - The website for teaching journalism http://www.jprof.com/onlinejn/onlinejn.html

OJR: The online journalism review http://www.ojr.org/ 

Online News Association

Bighow Online Journalism Handbook http://bighow.com/journalism

Bighow Blogging Handbook 

Online News Journalism http://journalists.org/ 

This is the digital media resource of the Journalism Education Association http://www.jeadigitalmedia.org/

Youth Journalism http://youthjournalism.org/

 

 

 

Links to schools doing live broadcasting 

The High School Broadcast Journalism Project (HSBJ)

ERHStv.com Video Production Website