Digital Communications III
Welcome to Digital Communications III
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Thomas L Chang, MFA, MAT |
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Weekly Planner:Digital Communication III class prepares Mountain View High School students for high-skill, high-wage jobs in the industry sector pathway of Design, Visual, and Media Arts. Curriculum is based on the California Career Technical Education (CTE) - Arts, Media, and Entertainment (AME) sector standards Links to an external site. and is aligned with the 2019 California Arts Standards Links to an external site. (Media Arts Discipline).
Digital Communications III (KH1210)
Mountain View High School
Foothill College dual-enrollment (Fall)
PHOT 22 PHOTOJOURNALISM
Foothill College
4 Transferable Units: CSU/UC
Foothill College dual-enrollment (Spring)
ITRN 50
Links to an external site.: INTERNSHIP
Foothill College
1 Transferable Unit: CSU
Instructor: Tom Chang
Thomas L Chang, MFA, MAT
CTE Art Teacher & Yearbook Advisor
Mountain View High School
Dual Enrollment Instructor
Foothill College
(650) 382-3199 This is a Google Voice Number that will transcribe text/voice message to email
Course Description:
Digital Communications III is dual enrolled with Foothill PHOTO 22: Photojournalism in Fall Semester and introduces students to the world of photography and journalism, using digital images to convey meaning. This course is for the career-minded photo student and will teach the skills necessary to communicate in the print or broadcast media. The course will be taught as a hands-on course. Coursework will include relevant topics in photojournalism such as news, copyright, ethics, and war photography. Instruction will progress from a review of photography techniques to the news “one shot” to photo essay production for more comprehensive visual storytelling. Work concentrates on capturing the people and events in and around MVHS for use in The Oracle, NextWeek Now, the school and district website, in newsletters, and the annual Yearbook, The Olympiad. For the final project, students will photograph “A Day in the Life of ______” photo essay, each choosing their own topic. Photographs, presented alone or as an essay, continue to provide the photojournalists who create them a uniquely powerful window onto the world in which we live.
Spring Semester will concentrate on Video Production for use by MVHS Ambassadors, NextWeek Now, the school and district. Students will learn how to capture video using mirrorless digital video cameras and Adobe Software such as Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. Spring Semester also offers students internship opportunities through Foothill College ITRN 50: INTERNSHIP a structured worked experience with an organization or company external to the classroom. The internship will address professional workplace skills in addition to targeted technical skills as appropriate. The student will meet regularly with their faculty supervisor to discuss 21st century skills, issues of discipline, professionalism, application of technical skills and professional code of ethics. The student is required to contract with faculty to determine the type and scope of the assignment.
As a CTE aligned and Dual-Enrolled course, Digital Communications III offers student a GPA bump each semester and CTE completer status for qualified students.
Refer to the Weekly Agenda (embedded Google Doc) in this Canvas Course's Homepage for more details on lessons, tasks, and assignments.
Course Goals:
- To teach the student skills necessary in communicating in the print or broadcast media.
- To help the student become an intelligent consumer of the mass media.
- To give the student the opportunity to discover and explore the various forms of photography and videography utilized in journalism.
- To provide the student with opportunities to critique their own media based works, the work of others and to have their work evaluated by a teacher.
- To help the student understand and accept the legal, moral and ethical responsibilities inherent in a free press.
- To help the student learn the rules and tools necessary for preparation of images and video for publication.
- To teach the student the necessity of research and add validity, emphasis and depth to media journalism.
- To teach the student how to present their media work in an attractive, inviting manner – including titles, headlines, graphics and captions.
- To give the student an outlet for creativity not found in other classrooms.
- To awake in the student an awareness of the world around them, both social and political, potentially stimulating an interest in journalism as a career.
Grading: Grades will be categorized as either Classwork or Learning Mastery.
- Classwork (50% of grade): This includes having your equipment on a daily basis, level of work ethic, and assignments completed in the learning process.
- Learning Mastery (50% of grade): These are assessments that demonstrate "Mastery" you have learned.
Keeping in Touch with Assignments
- A Weekly Agenda of assignments will be posted on Canvas. This calendar will include what we do in class each day and when assignments are due. Please check this page weekly to stay current. If you are absent, you must check to see what you missed while you were out.
Saving and naming photos on school computers: You will save all work in your Google Drive. You will have time to delete any photos that you do not want to keep during class time once a week. You are required to save all working projects and final images that are submitted to Canvas.