New+Literacies,+Inquiry,+and+Student-Generated+Videos-+Engaging+the+YouTube+Generation

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=Description= This session will engage you in a project-based inquiry process that promotes creative synthesis and evaluation of online, print, and environmental resources. Specifically, you will learn how to use student-generated video as an avenue for learning that is both challenging and personalized. Join us for a hands-on session that will show you how to jump start inquiry and video production in your class!

=Resources= "I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait til the first dawning opens gradually, little by little, into a full and clear light." Isaac Newton

I. Getting started: Visualize, video, view! (30 minutes)

 * Engaging the YouTube generation: "Flipping Out ."
 * Making connections to narrative and expository content.

II. Cinema Veriteen: Student-generated content and the YouTube aesthetic (40 minutes)

 * Inquiry: Making it challenging, creative, and personal.
 * The YouTube aesthetic:
 * Low budget, low-fi, do-it-yourself.
 * 57% of online teens say that they watch videos on video sharing sites such as YouTube (www.pewinternet.org).
 * Creative synthesis--A 21st century skill.
 * Student video samples.
 * Assessing student-generated videos.
 * Sample rubric.
 * Complexities related to student generated videos.
 * Are complex thinking and the YouTube aesthetic mutually exclusive?

III. Next steps? (10 minutes)
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Cinema Veriteen Power Point