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Meta Video on Intergenerational Camp Documentary Video Production Process

[ 0 ] October 23, 2012 |

Resource Links:

The Generation Connection Clips of the Day Page

Description

Since 2002 NAMLE member, The Generation Connection (TGC), has partnered with NAMLE Member, The Media Spot (TMS), to teach campers the basics of video production through documenting the camp experience. Small groups that include campers (old and young) each TGC activity, then work with TMS and a team of Jr. Counselor editors throughout the day to edit their footage into the Clips of the Day (CODs). The traditional final camp event is watching the “Clips” with parents, campers and staff, then publishing the clips to the TGC website.

The production process promotes media literacy, by encouraging campers and seniors to think critically about how we can use video to communicate what makes the camp special to their audience. TMS emphasizes the analytical decisions campers and seniors make during filming and editing that will affect the message their audience will take away from these videos. In addition to teaching campers how videos are constructed, these moments help make the CODs an authentic memento that frames what makes TGC experiences so great — like only well-edited video can!

The camp media literacy production process is explained in the TGC year 9 Media Literacy Story video (below).

Embedded Media

TGC9 Media Literacy 2012 HD from The Media Spot on Vimeo on Vimeo.

Resource submitted by NAMLE Member The Generation Connection

The Generation Connection (TGC) is a one-week traveling day camp in East Nashville, TN where older adults and young people ages 8 to 12 participate in a variety of physical and educational activities designed to connect them to their community, the environment, & each other including the production of the “Clips of the Day” designed to teach media literacy concepts through hands-on production of the camp story through daily documentary videos.

The Resource Hub Member Benefit

The Resource Hub is a collective ‘smackdown’ of curricula and other useful links that serve, intersect and represent the broad array of stakeholders in media literacy education that comprise our membership.

NAMLE Members: Do you have curricula of your own, or recommended resources you’d like to share with the greater media literacy community thorugh NAMLE.net?  We would love to post links and embedded media in the hub and attribute it to you or your organization.

Please fill out the following Google Form: http://bit.ly/NamleRec to submit your resource.

Email rdaunic@namle.net with questions.


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About Rhys Daunic: Rhys is a member of the NAMLE board of directors currently serving the Executive Committee as Secretary, and is chair of the Communications Committee. He is a Brooklyn based educator and consultant who integrates media literacy education into a variety of learning environments around the country. He is co-founder and director of The Media Spot, where he specializes in working with organizations, educators and students to design and implement curricula that align media literacy concepts with learning goals through 21st century forms of communication. Rhys also works with schools and non-profits to create and maintain customized online learning networks, sharing all teaching resources, production notes, articles, tutorials, and archived student productions with the educational community through themediaspot.org. Additionally, Rhys provides workshops and embedded professional development to K-12 schools throughout New York City as an educational technology consultant with Digital School Solutions (DSS). View author profile.

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