SEVA Teacher Tara McCartney explains how video production ties into the state standards.

SEVA Teacher Jim Faires talks about how he’s amazed with the video projects his students come up with.

SEVA Student Producer Marc Girard talks about how everyone can learn from making a video.

SEVA Student Producer Michael Fuentes talks about how there’s something for everyone in making a video.

SEVA Student Producer Anh Nguyen talks about the importance of creating videos at school.

SEVA Student Producer Xavier Carillo talks about the importance of making a storyboard.

SEVA Student Producer Tori Winslow talks about the power of video.

Presented by Michael Langley, News10 Assistant News Director.
An open discussion about news gathering and delivery in today’s world.

Presented by Gail Desler, Elk Grove Unified School District Technology Services.
In a rapidly changing world and workforce, our students will need multiple literacies – including media literacy. In this workshop we will explore the case for filmmaking in the curriculum and tour some simple, FREE programs for bringing this 21st century literacy into your teacher’s [...]

Presented by Brian Weitzel of Carnegie Middle School.  This session explored the value of a live broadcast at your school site and how you can get one started at your school.

Presented by CSUS Media Professor, Joe Parente
Basics of podcasting and the tools needed to publish digital media.  A really simple explanation of RSS (Really Simple Syndication). 
Podcasts can be used for “progress monitoring”.  The student’s academic performance is measured on a regular basis. Progress toward meeting the student’s goals is measured by comparing expected and actual [...]

Will Rogers Middle School’s Media Program Delivers the News to Students Every Day

Kimberli Heck, Media Teacher says:
The media program here is a live broadcast show produced every morning — we’re one of the few schools in the area that does an actual live [program]. The media program also is a chance for the students to [...]

Creating your first SEVA video?  This video will walk you through 9 simple steps to building a video for the SEVAs.  2009 SEVA (Student Educational Video Awards) Contest entries are due March 6, 2009.  
Entry Form: http://secc.wufoo.com/forms/seva-2009-entry-form/

If student enjoyment is an indicator of learning, then the Einstein Middle School students in Sacramento, CA who are producing a live morning show in their new video production studio are on their way toward brilliance.
The Eagle Eye studio, along with one at Sam Brannan Middle School, was created last summer when the district received [...]

Integrating Music with Media to Create Original Work
Carnegie Middle School Band Teacher Mark Tulga started working with Apple’s GarageBand, part of the iLife software package, about two years ago when he bought a Macbook Pro computer. As a musician and a music teacher, he was very interested in the software and “fascinated with how capable [...]

Training your eye to draw animation takes time.  Sheldon High School’s Shawn Sullivan shows you how to draw the same image in multiple frames in this segment for StudentDV.

Teacher Shawn Sullivan and his Sheldon High School K9 Studio students teach you the first project animators learn — how to animate a bouncing ball.

The students at Sutterville Elementary are creating some great videos that focus on the danger of smoking. With a SECC Digital Video Starter Kit, the students are using every available minute at school to work on their videos.  Take a look at their Tobacco Plays.

Animating the “follow through” of your characters’ actions provides believability to your animation and character.  Shawn Sullivan of Sheldon High School’s K9 Studios explains the principle of “follow through” by observing and animating a water balloon.

Center High School’s Vernon Bisho goes through some of the most common grip equipment for video production.
Take a look at Center High School’s MCA videos.

What if a video tripod were attached to your body? Students are using this new tool to create smooth, moving shots that go where they go.  Sheldon High School’s Shawn Sullivan explains the Glidecam and how it works.

In this step-by-step segment, Sheldon High School’s Shawn Sullivan and his students show viewers how to create their own characters from a circle, square and triangle and how each shape is the basis for a different kind of character. SECC and Sheldon High School’s K9 Studios won a Hometown Video Award in instructional/training for the Shape [...]

Center High School’s Vernon Bisho takes us out into the heat for some outdoor lighting.  From simple bounce cards to huge silks, Bisho demonstrates several outdoor lighting techniques.
Take a look at Center High School’s MCA videos.

Vernon Bisho of Center High School’s MCA (Media Communication Academy) has a great tool for getting your camera up and over things, the Jimmy Jib.  This segment shows viewers how one of these boom camera systems work.
Take a look at Center High School’s MCA videos.

Shawn Sullivan of Sheldon High School dives into the history of animation to explain the concept of persistence of vision.  Viewers learn about early animation techniques using thaumatropes, zoetropes and praxinoscopes.  Viewers also learn how to make their own thaumatrope.