Digital+Video

Digital Video curriculum develops four key skill areas:


 * 1) Project management and collaboration
 * 2) Design
 * 3) Research and communication
 * 4) Professional video production, using video tools

Students develop these key skills in a spiral—each project adds more challenging skills onto foundation proficiencies. Students engage in skills to learn storytelling, capturing and editing video and audio, and finalizing content for DVD, web, or digital videotape.

Students collaborat with a community of educators across the US and UK to develop the appropriate depth and breadth of each project. Additionally, this content is co-developed with the International Society of Technology Education (ISTE) to create standards-aligned, career-track course materials that focus on video design and production.

Digital Video curriculum addresses each of these areas, using a project-based approach. Each project has phases that follow a design and development process from project planning and analysis to evaluation and distribution. Students gain experience through real-world projects that help them understand roles and processes across a broad range of careers involving digital video. To simulate a professional work environment, students gradually migrate their video work from an individual process to a group process, focused on personal and client work. The projects contain activities that require students to plan their communication and focus and then evaluate and improve their communications. Specific attention has been paid to developing concepts and principles for thorough, effective communication to multiple audiences.

Each project guideline provides structure for the content and process of a project while allowing flexibility for the instructor to tailor the level of social and technical interaction appropriate for students. For example, students can manage client work within the school or open it up to involve the community at large.