Monday, August 31, 2009

Video Basics and Production Projects for the Classroom

This is an article review of "Video Basics and Production Projects for the Classroom" by Andrew Garrison. This article can be assessed at http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article3.html and originally appeared in Media Matters, a newsletter of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Winter 1999 issue.



This review was created to meet the requirements of Education 552 - Peru State College.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Who is Andrew Garrison?

Andrew Garrison is an associate professor and graduate advisor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is accomplished photographer, award winning producer, veteran filmmaker, and the author of my article review, Video Basics and Production Projects for the Classroom.

Garrison is a current Rockefeller Fellow (National Video Resources Media Arts Fellowship), the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an AFI Independent Filmmaker Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Media Artist Award, regional NEA awards, as well as numerous prizes from festivals.






Click below to see a clip of Garrisons documentary THIRD WARD, TX.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Introduction

Welcome to my blog. This blog has been created to meet the requirements of Education 552 - Introduction to Multimedia Authoring. I am working on obtaining a Masters of Science in Education with an emphasis in Instructional Technology.

Hello! My name is Stephanie Staton and I live in Telephone, Texas. I have taught for the past twelve years in grades 2-12 in both monolingual and bilingual classrooms. Currently I am employed with the Bonham Independent School District as the English as A Second Language Coordinator.