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The Digital Projects Playbook
A Step-by-Step Guide to Empowering Students as Creators, Grades 3–12
The Digital Projects Playbook is an invaluable resource for the modern educator. With its rubrics, practical advice, personal anecdotes, and assignment templates, classroom teachers can use the six digital projects, including blog posts, presentations, and podcasts, to elevate students’ work and empower their voices.
Benefits
- Encourage students’ creativity and natural skill sets
- Access rubrics, templates, checklists, and tips for each digital project
- Understand the importance of media literacy and artificial intelligence
- Receive step-by-step production processes for all the digital projects
- Learn the research connecting digital projects and students’ cognitive development
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I: Digital Voices
Chapter 1: Digital Voices 101
Chapter 2: Blog Posts
Chapter 3: Presentations
Chapter 4: Podcasts
Part II: Digital Videos
Chapter 5: Digital Videos 101
Chapter 6: Documentary Short Films
Chapter 7: Narrative Short Films
Chapter 8: Music Videos
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Introduction
Chapter 1: Digital Voices 101
- Figure 1.1: Activity—Ten facts about Cesar Chavez
- Figure 1.2: Activity—Ten facts about Cesar Chavez (answer key)
- Figure 1.3: Internet safety vocabulary search activity
- Figure 1.4: Copyright infringement or fair use
Chapter 2: Blog Posts
- Figure 2.1: Blog post rubric
- Figure 2.2: Blog post planning
- Figure 2.3: Blog post topic selection
- Figure 2.4: Blog post outline
Chapter 3: Presentations
Chapter 4: Podcasts
- Figure 4.1: Podcast rubric
- Figure 4.2: Podcast planning
- Figure 4.3: Podcast topic selection
- Figure 4.4: Podcast treatment
- Figure 4.6: Interview release form
- Figure 4.7: Intro and outro podcast organizer
Chapter 5: Digital Videos 101
- Figure 5.1: Digital tools list
- Figure 5.2: Fifteen-second film project rubric
- Figure 5.3: Video production vocabulary sheet
- Figure 5.4: Everyone’s a critic activity
- Figure 5.5: Fifteen-second film project planning page
- Figure 5.6: Fifteen-second film project treatment
- Figure 5.7: Short film screenplay template
- Figure 5.8: Shot styles cheat sheet
- Figure 5.9: Shot styles scavenger hunt
- Figure 5.10: Principles of photography cheat sheet
- Figure 5.11: One perfect picture guide
- Figure 5.12: Storyboard example
- Figure 5.13: Fifteen-second film project storyboards
- Figure 5.14: Digital equipment sign-out sheet
- Figure 5.15: Production roles sheet
- Figure 5.16: Production cues sheet
Chapter 6: Documentary Short Films
- Figure 6.1: Documentary rubric
- Figure 6.2: Documentary planning
- Figure 6.3: Documentary topic selection
- Figure 6.4: Documentary treatment
- Figure 6.6: Documentary shot list and editing organizer
Chapter 7: Narrative Short Films
- Figure 7.1: Narrative film rubric
- Figure 7.2: Narrative film planning
- Figure 7.3: Narrative short film treatment
- Figure 7.4: Narrative short film pitch sheet
- Figure 7.5: Narrative film storyboards
Chapter 8: Music Videos
- Figure 8.1: Music video rubric
- Figure 8.2: Music video planning
- Figure 8.5: Audio- and video-editing organizer
Appendix
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
WEBSITES
Introduction
Chapter 1
- Google Scholar
- Sweet Search
- Kiddle
- Kiddle Encyclopedia (Kpedia)
- Meet the Media Monsters
- Media Literacy 101
- News and Media Literacy 101
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
- Hackschooling Makes Me Happy, Logan LaPlante, TEDxUniversityofNevada
- How Sampling Transformed Music:
- Josh Gad—Original Oratory Champion—Nationals 1998
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
- Film Resources by Grade
- UEN Digital Media Arts
- Filmmaking for Everyone
- YouTube Creators
- 1st place—And What Are You Supposed to Be
- McDonald’s 15 Second Commercial
- 15 SECOND VIDEO (Jumper Action Scene)—Pocket Film Festival
- 15-Second Film Festival Compilation
- Full-Time Filmmaker: 12 Camera Angles to Enhance Your Films
- Studio Binder: The Ultimate Guide to Camera Shots
- Types of Shots: Tomorrow’s Filmmakers
- Different Types of Shots in Film
- The Free Music Archive
- Musopen
- The YouTube Audio Library
Chapter 6
- StoryMaker
- 8 Ways to Teach With Short Documentary Films From the Times
- The Global Oneness Project
- A Woman’s Epic Journey to Climb 7 Mountains
- The Painter of Jalouzi
- Syria: Songs of Defiance
- Tumbleweeds Film Festival
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
