Resources

Special! Broadcast lessons and activities for students while at home

Media Makers speaker series

Follow my speaker series, Media Makers, as I have conversations with Ladue High School alumni now working in the media business, as well as some of my professional media maker friends.

Using Zoom, students will be invited to participate live to ask questions, or watch the video after. They will be asked to research important facts about these professionals, blog about what they learned, and then find one to two stories these professionals produced, or collaborated on, to write about in their blog, along with an image(s) related to the story. Follow new episodes of Media Makers daily.

Six Word Story, Six Unique Shots additional instructional tools

Visit the ALL NEW Six-Word Story, Six Unique Shots instruction page on this website!

Everyone Can Create Video

Everyone Can Create is for everyone — both beginners and experienced artists alike. The activities and projects encourage you to express yourself, develop your creative confidence, and reveal undiscovered abilities.

Each chapter of Everyone Can Create: Video takes you through a series of fun activities to help you acquire key skills and build a final project. Here’s what you’ll learn how to make in this guide:

• Your own introduction
• A silent movie
• A movie pitch
• A teaching show.

Don's Broadcast Curriculum

Visit Don's Broadcast Curriculum page for a plethora of ideas to create news packages, public service announcements, music video, documentaries, and so much more. (Not all curriculum listed is originally created by Don, but was shared freely online by other credible sources.)

Tips for Clips

Don offers his tips for using the iOS app Clips in the classroom. These tips were learned through using the app, leveraging the lessons from Apple Distinguished Educators, and student feedback. These tips are offered as a PDF. Click here to download.

Clips in 2 minutes

Also follow #ClassroomClips and @Gimme5clips on Twitter.

iAm iMovie Trailers

Creating with iMovie Trailers is an easy and fun way for students to learn important media literacy lessons simply by using images and videos. "iAm" iMovie Trailer projects are a great way for students to introduce themselves to the class each semester.

Broadcast Journalism mini-lessons and blog posts at JEADigitalMedia.org

Don has compiled a list of mini-lessons for video production, mobile journalism resources, and blog posts about all things scholastic media.

News package mini-lessons

Don offers mini-lessons for the broadcast journalism classroom, from interviewing, to shooting tips using light, BRoll, to practicing how to use a microphone in video. These mini-lessons are perfect for the middle or high school classroom when developing news stories.

LHS-TV & Films student media

Ladue High School's Broadcast Technology media production website, directed and advised by Don Goble. This publication offers a compilation of multimedia student productions, including blogs, and many different genres of videos and news. The site is created and produced by Ladue broadcasting students to promote student programming.

Global Student News Network

The Global Student News Network is a platform for the global student community to share their voices, stories, and ideas. Directed and advised by Don Goble and his students, they believe all over the world students are creating media messages using powerful storytelling techniques that they have acquired throughout their years. They believe student media projects need to be seen by the masses worldwide, so #GSNN promotes these positive student media messages all across the globe. GSNN has been visited by over 75 countries.

The Shooting Gallery - make a film!

The Shooting Gallery project, originally geared towards a film class, also lends itself to core classes. In this One Best Thing teachers created by author Jon Corippo, and students make their media-based projects look better in just one class of shooting with an iPad, iPhone or Macbook and one period of editing on iMovie or Final Cut Pro X. Students can create a very cinematic look through participating in this learn-by-doing project.

Amazing site by Claudio Zavala Jr. Everything you see here on this site is a collection of work, resources, reviews and more all with the goal to help you share your story. Claudio loves creating! Whether it’s capturing footage for a video, photographing life events like graduations and birthdays, or making an armoire out of wood, they all give him freedom to express what is on hi mind and making it tangible or visible. Claudio is also passionate about teaching and helping others tell their own stories and how to be explore the creative process themselves.

Sue Tranchina offers amazing video project ideas for any educator and any grade level. "Video projects can personalize instruction but some teachers are hesitant to assign them because they don't know how. With 11 years of experience in teaching various levels of video production, here are some tips that I give to teachers looking to assign and assess videos," said Sue.

Guide to Broadcast & Video

Moving into broadcast/video with your program? Start here. JEADigitalMedia.org compiled their most helpful articles to ease the transition.

Guidelines to blogging with Weebly

Step by step guide for students to create digital portfolios.

WeVideo Guide

Terrific guide to all thing WeVideo by Darren White @RangaTheTrainer.

Digital Storytelling Toolkit

Inspire learning, creativity, communication and student voice with this comprehensive collection of resources.

The WeVideo Digital Storytelling Toolkit is designed to help educators facilitate projects in all classrooms.

Why A High School Journalism Class is Important
This article is possibly the best synopsis of why students should learn journalism while in high school.

..."regardless if they pursue a career in journalism or communications, I know they will be more informed, more empathetic, well-rounded, strong communicators and more engaged as a result of their time in this elective course."