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Digital Media Club
The Digital Media Club is the school's newspaper club of today. Students use social media channels to connect parents, staff, and students with news and events at school. Students develop and create content to keep parents up to date with developments, share opinions from the perspective of a teenager, bring awareness to social issues, rally support and more.
Projects are identified and teams of students are given specific tasks needed to complete the project. Each team of students follow learning modules written to teach students the needed skills to understand and complete their specific task.
Project Examples:
Life skills taught include:
Design Thinking
Brainstorming Sessions
Creativity Development
Communication
Collaboration
Presentation
Teamwork
Criticism and Critique
Planning
Time Management
Task Management
Professionalism
Sharing Responsibilities
Technology skills taught include:
Basic Coding [HTML, CSS]
Photography
Image Editing
Copyrighting
Videography
Story Boarding
Video Editing
Blogging
Social Media Marketing
SEO Optimization
Production
Project Completion
Principal Address
Social Media Hub
Bike Awareness
Weekly Principal Address via YouTube
Frequency: weekly
Description: Students practice videography and interview skills while video editing is sometimes needed.
Social Media Hub
Description: Dynamic social media hub pulls all social media channels into one easy to access web based app.
Bike Awareness Campaign
Est. total time: 24 hours
Description: Designed and created a campaign to encourage biking and make bike friendly streets.
Support from DesignedByYouth is provided to staff and students to ensure clear communication, professionalism and timely completion of projects.
The projects and curriculum are tailored to the grade level, skill level, and total alloted time.
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