1 Day Digital Media Training Course Brochure

Course Title 1 Day Digital Media Training Course

Course Description The training has been designed to help youth workers, educators and volunteers to gain skills and knowledge related to facilitating high-quality youth digital media-making experiences. Participants will explore formats and styles, learn how best to support youth throughout the production process, plan exhibitions, and hone the technical skills necessary to use ICT. The course focuses on learning digital video editing software. Participants will reflect on the practice of youth media and how best to facilitate and encourage the creative process with the young people. It is expected that by the end of the training, participants will be able to guide young people to “Create with Purpose,” a philosophy that challenges young people to be intentional in the media they create, have an impact on their targeted audience, and strive to change their own lives, their communities, and the world around them for the better.

Course Aims Upon completion of the training, educators will be able to do the following: ● Guide youth to ‘create with purpose’ when making digital media projects ● Understand how youth can develop ‘creative confidence’ ● How to facilitate youth to make media for social change ● Select and use various media formats in which work can be created ● Facilitate effective youth inquiry and idea development ● Facilitate the five stages of media making projects ● Guide youth to critique and improve their media projects ● Guide youth to plan a showcase event for their work ● How to plan for and integrate TechSpace activities in your club or project

Course Content Session 1: Create with Purpose The power and relevancy of youth media is revealed. Participants will see why youth connect so readily to digital media creation, and will begin to understand the real benefits and opportunities that result when digital media-making is incorporated into their youth development activities and classrooms. Session 2: Foster Youth Voice Participants will explore ways to help youth cultivate original ideas and to generate questions that matter. Participants examine the elements of good storytelling and share tips for supporting the development of creative ideas. Through hands-on activities, participants will experience and reflect on the pre-production process as a meaningful learning opportunity. Session 3: Facilitate Creative Experiences with Youth The production process is broken down into achievable steps that are easy to facilitate and support. Participants engage in hands-on activities, learning and developing strategies and tips for managing production and post-production. Participants are provided with an opportunity to practice critical response, a powerful technique for media critique and revision. Session 4: Celebrate Youth Work Exhibition is an exciting and rewarding part of the process - it provides an opportunity for youth to engage directly with an audience to share their own unique perspective and tell a compelling story. In Session 4, participants consider options for celebrating and exhibiting youth media work, and how to address the challenges that might arise. They learn key strategies for planning and successfully organizing community celebrations with youth, and complete a work plan that will serve as a guide for how to support and facilitate youth in creative and purposeful digital media-making.

Learning Outcomes Session 1: Introduction to TechSpace Digital Media Training ● Give all attendees will have had the opportunity to meet each other. ● Lay out expectations and goals for this training. ● Give attendees a chance to express their hopes & fears for the training. Session 2: Create with Purpose & Creative Confidence ● Introduce the concept of create with purpose. ● Explain & discuss the meaning, illustration & application of creative confidence. Session 3: 5 Youth Media Making & Idea Development ● Introduce & explain the stages of youth media making. ● Discuss & demonstrate ways to facilitate idea development. ● Demonstrate the use of graphic organisers & list poem activity for idea development. Session 4: Pre-Production ● Explain the fundamentals of shot composition and using the camera for video. ● Give the participants an opportunity to experience the pre-production process from brainstorming to storyboarding in a group. ● Give participants the opportunity to practice using the camera and understand shot composition. ● Give participants the opportunity to model a project pitch session. Session 5: Production & Post Production ● Give participants the chance to practice using the camera equipment. ● Introduce participants to the Adobe Premiere software. Session 6: Critique & Exhibit ● Participants have the opportunity to participate in a rough cut review & feedback session. ● Participants are made aware of the opportunities for exhibition for their club. Session 7: Planning Club Programme ● Participants will have an opportunity to plan their club program based on what they have learned and the resources provided. ● Participants will have an opportunity to discuss how they can adapt the techspace program to the needs and interests of the young people in their club. ● Participants will share their plans and ideas with each other. Session 8. Evaluation & Feedback ● Review goals & accomplishments and hopes & fears. ● Gauge if participants are comfortable with process and content. ● Evaluate the training experience & gain feedback. ● Celebrate achievements with presentation of certificates and positive recognition.

Delivery Method This course is delivered in a group setting with a minimum of 8 participants and maximum of 15 participants. The training was designed as professional development for educators, grounded in best practices on how adults learn: ● An overarching framework that guides practice ● Needs assessment to link the experience to the needs of the trainee ● Hands-on activities that model instruction and constructivist methods of learning by doing ● Opportunities for peer-to-peer learning ● Exploration of practical connections to day-to-day instruction, so that media-making is integrated into other learning objectives ● Time to reflect and discuss challenges and solutions ● Action planning, so that changes in practice are thoughtfully advanced after training

Duration 1 day 9.30am - 5.00pm.

PRICING Per Person €100 per participant.

Organisation Price €800 per organisation. A minimum of 8 participants are required to avail of this price. An additional 2 participants can attend for free. Additional participants are costed at €100 per person. For example: 15 participants = 10 for €800 and 5 at €100 per person. Total price €1300.

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