Schedule Details - Affinity Group Workshops #1

 

 

Each Session must consider how to translate the ideas into state and regional organizational development and prioritized actions. Consider (1) Policy Bases, (2) Funding targets, (3) Tools and Technology access, (4) Communication and networking needed, 5) Workforce development outcomes, 6) and (7) Diversity inclusion

 

Youth Power Session 1: DISCOVERING ONE ANOTHER

This Session must sum up who is doing what, where, and why)

1. What are the most exciting youth media projects?

2. What motivates youth to engage in media production?

3. What needs to be done to promote youth media production?

4.   How can we develop trust and connections to promote current youth media production?

 

Teacher Power Session 1: MEDIA ARTS COURSE INTEGRITY, FOCUS, & SCOPE  

This session will look at advanced designs for high school training and curriculum to strengthen teachers and build capacity to articulate with post secondary and industry standards.

1. When we create digital media arts courses, how do we define the focus, limits, and integrity (i.e. “framework”), of those offering, given the spectrum of content (e.g. animation, video, film making, computer graphics, broadcast journalism, visual communications) and, varied  purposes for these courses that may include artistic, technology, career, citizenship, or youth development, and cross curriculum applications)?

2. What examples exist of top model offerings?

3. How have instructors modified their class handouts and hands-on instructions to reflect required course standards?

4. How have instructors prepared themselves - and their teaching tools - to bring technology and ‘critical thinking’ into the broader discussion of art, communication, community, and economic development?

 

Curriculum Articulation Session 1: The Big Picture of Curriculum Standards, Realities and Utilization

This session will present an overview of public/private intersegmental instructional models that exist in California. : What is the scope of course offerings in grades 8-16?

  1. What sources - websites or accessible archives - provide the inventory of available curricula?
  2. Describe & prioritize essential media arts teaching issues in vocational, high school, college and university instructional programs?

3.  What course/program outcomes and descriptors are mirrored across all instructional levels

4.  How can these commonalities begin to create a broadly accepted definition of standards?

5.  What steps must be taken to identify and merge a common standards document?

6. What portion of a broadly based instructional program in media arts and technology, should be primarily reserved for high school or college?

 

Industry and Technology Session 1: ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY REALITIES – THE STUDY REPORT

This session will report the realities of the California-based Entertainment Industry scope, economy, workforce and transformation dynamics and explore:

  1. What are the implications for the next decade of the existing and emerging domestic workforce?
  2. What is the future for California trained and educated digital media artists to be hired by California based firms?

3.   What are appropriate skill sets (both social and technical) and tools requisite for new employees of these firms?

3.      Seek a nominal approximation of the demand for domestic hires, versus “out sourcing”, by California based firms over the next 1, 3, and 5 years?

 

Best Practices in Partnership Session 1: Awareness – lessons learned, quality, design, resource development, sustainability & growth

This session will gather the emblematic characteristics and dynamics of the best transferable experiences and grasp of existing partnership programs in order to set the finest path for mutual help and excellence.        

1.      What are the best existing blueprints and maps to help networking, and   push building stable community, education and industry youth media arts partnerships?

2.   What are indicators of “successes” in the field

3.   What is the most effective means to establish and enhance “field identity”, and promote inclusion among diverse paradigms and cooperative  relationships among youth media arts organizations?

  1. What are the leading contemporary realities and forces that encourage or undermine partnership program success, breakthrough practices and growth?