The Olympia School District Career and Technical Education Media Advisory Group (OSD-CTE-MAG) meets regularly to advise and support the media programs of the Olympia School District, including Capital High School, Jefferson, Marshall, and Washington Middle Schools.
June 5, 2018
WHERE: CHS Room F1, Le Duc's Classroom
WHEN: June 5, 2018 6:00 - 7:00PM
CTE TEACHERS: Scott Le Duc, Jonathan Moore
COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Jay Balakrishnan, Eric Belgau, James Clark, Michelle Cleary
STUDENTS: Jenna Cusack, Abby Dyck
NOT PRESENT: Brett Bartlett, Marc Coyner, Tim Rants, Kevin Wright
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Michelle Cleary
NEXT MEETING: Mid September, May 16th 5:30 to 8:00 pm OSD District Office Board Room 1113 Legion Way SE Olympia WA 98501
ACTION ITEMS
- Le Duc: Process notes from meeting, email group on September 1st to establish September meeting date
- Tim, Eric, and James: Fill in the 21st Century Skills Google Form Skills Survey
- ALL: Plan a December potluck
AGENDA
- Review the 21st Century Skills priorities data from the survey members have completed
- Discuss priorities for creativity and production in the classroom.
- Wish our seniors well for next year!
NOTES
- Abby and Jenna headed to schools
- PLACE SCHOOL NAMES HERE...
- Discussed Skyping them in next year meetings
- Discussed having a December potluck when the students are back on college break
- Wished them well!
- Creative and Productive Cycle:
- Time for idea generation
- Create the worst ideas first
- Turning an idea, whatever it is, into something that can survive
- Get people away from their egos
- Quality is not an object
- Severe time limits
- Production cycle - accountability
- Learning to work in a team
- Reflection and self-criticism
- Tighten up development cycles
- Pre-Production, Production, Post-Production all 1 week long
- One table - one year vs. 12 tables - one month
- Homework if necessary
- Set specific goals
- Build → Grow → Earn
- Top voted students pick teams ?
- Roles - rotating vs specializing
- Rotating with tighter cycles, eventually leading to specializing ?
- Everyone needs a core skill set
- Gain appreciation for other people and what they do
- Success is finding what’s wrong and fixing it
- SCRUM - agile - rapid development
- #1 reason to be fired → not reliable
- More feedback more quickly
- “Tag approach” to training - using models
- Additional Items
(After Meeting)
PREVIOUS MEETINGS
May 16, 2018
WHERE: OSD Boardroom
WHEN: May 16, 2018 5:30 - 8:00PM
CTE TEACHERS: Scott Le Duc, Jonathan Moore, Kevin Wright
COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Jay Balakrishnan, Michelle Cleary
NOT PRESENT: Eric Belgau, James Clark, Tim Rants, Jenna Cusack, Abby Dyck
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Michelle Cleary
NEXT MEETING: Tuesday, June 5th 6:00 to 7:00 pm CHS Room F1
ACTION ITEMS
- Le Duc: Process notes from meeting
AGENDA
- Celebrate year
- Review and approve 3 year plan
NOTES
- OSD CTE program yearly review
- OSD-CTE-MAG year reviewed
- 3 year plans reviewed and approved
April 24, 2018
WHERE: CHS Room F1, Le Duc's Classroom
WHEN: April 24, 2018 6:00 - 7:00PM
CTE TEACHERS: Brett Bartlett, Marc Coyner, Scott Le Duc
COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Jay Balakrishnan, Michelle Cleary
STUDENTS: Jenna Cusack, Abby Dyck
NOT PRESENT: Eric Belgau, James Clark, Jonathan Moore, Tim Rants, Kevin Wright
COMMITTEE CHAIR: TBD
NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, May 16th 5:30 to 8:00 pm OSD District Office Board Room 1113 Legion Way SE Olympia WA 98501
ACTION ITEMS
AGENDA
- Watch Jenna and Abby's award winning film What We Pass On
- Remind about the Google Form Skills Survey
- Brainstorm film production/creation core skills on white board isolated by production roles
- Screenwriter, Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Sound Designer, and Other category for misc. notes
NOTES
- Jenna and Abby, both current and future filmmakers, offered many of the topics displayed on the board, other members offered content as well
- Jay introduced the role of Black Hat and White Hat and the need for dissenting voices in organizations to challenge the status quo or dominant paradigm
- Jay proceeded to be the black hat to the idea of having isolated roles for production
- Jay introduced idea that automation will replace many of the film production procedures with avatars replacing actors and sets being generated within a computer and all the action being rendered real-time by one or maybe a few people, not a production team of hundreds or thousands of skills workers
- He introduced machinima
- Definition from Wikipedia
- "Machinima (/məˈʃiːnɪmə/ or /məˈʃɪnɪmə/) is the use of real-time computer graphics engines to create a cinematic production. Most often video games are used to generate the computer animation. ... Machinima has advantages and disadvantages when compared to other styles of filmmaking."
- He recommended watching machinima examples: ADAM: Episode 1, ADAM: Episode 2, and ADAM: Episode 3
- "award-winning real-time-rendered short film, written and directed by Veselin Efremov, and created by the Unity Demo team
- He furthered the idea that creative ideas are the domain of the singular people, not groups
- Scott offered that there are no statues dedicated to committees - Scott thought he was funny by saying this, but he was not...
- Jenna countered with resources detailing the growth of creative industries and the need to creativity
- After the Meeting
- Scott shared after the meeting these two resources that point to the need for students to increase creative and problem-solving skills to be better prepared for future employment
- Books that Scott has read and that he references as rationale many of the activities in class
Mar. 27, 2018
WHERE: CHS Room F1, Le Duc's Classroom
WHEN: March 27, 2018 7:00 - 8:30PM
CTE TEACHERS: Scott Le Duc, Jonathan Moore, Kevin Wright
COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Eric Belgau, James Clark, Michelle Cleary, Tim Rants
STUDENTS: Jenna Cusack, Abby Dyck
NOT PRESENT: Jay Balakrishnan, Brett Bartlett, Marc Coyner
COMMITTEE CHAIR: TBD
NEXT MEETING: April 24, 2018 6-7PM at CHS Room F1
ACTION ITEMS
- Le Duc and Wright: Create Google Form survey of brainstormed skills
- ALL: Fill in the Google Form survey email by Le Duc before the next meeting
AGENDA
- Watch Jenna and Abby's award winning film Control
- Spring All-Advisory meeting announced
- Introduce 3 year plans
- Brainstorm core ideas on white board
NOTES
- Spring All-Advisory Meeting is Wednesday, May 16th 5:30 to 8:00 pm OSD District Office Board Room 1113 Legion Way SE Olympia WA 98501
Mar. 15, 2018
WHERE: CHS Room F1, Le Duc's Classroom
WHEN: March 15, 2018 7:00 - 8:30PM
CTE TEACHERS: Scott Le Duc, Jonathan Moore, Kevin Wright
COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Eric Belgau, James Clark, Jay Balakrishnan
STUDENTS: N/A
NOT PRESENT: Brett Bartlett, Marc Coyner, Michelle Cleary, Jenna Cusack, Abby Dyck
COMMITTEE CHAIR: TBD
NEXT MEETING: March 27, 2018 7-8PM at CHS Room F1
ACTION ITEMS
- ALL: Gather ideas for program core concepts brainstorming session March 27th
AGENDA
- Introductions
- Review of middle and high school programs
- Discussion of core competencies
NOTES
- Advisory members introduced themselves and their industry experience
- The framework process was shared with an example examined
- The question about skills taught in the classes was discussed
- It was agreed to brainstorm ideas for core competencies for the courses for the next meeting March 27th
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