Late to the conversation, please forgive.
When I was teaching (an associates degree program), I taught as I had
learned.
Tell a story visually in three minutes. Edit in camera, no retakes, if
there is a mistake, so be it, it is after all only an exercise.
Yes it is a pain if you are "parallel editing", but again, it is an
exercise.
After the footage is reviewed, discussed, and the mistakes, wonderful
and not so wonderful, are looked at. Then go shoot the same story again,
this time though, you can edit the footage in an NLE, so you can do
re-takes, and etc. etc.
I think my students got something out of that, even though shooting in
video and editing on an NLE.
Some students fought like hell, throwing up creative roadblocks, and
others had to be hauled back in, as they had designs to fly before they
could even crawl (That's fine and great, but got to learn the "rules" or
guidelines as I called them, then learn why they work, and then study
and figure out how and when to break them). It does few any good to bite
off too much, and become discouraged. Perhaps the easiest thing about
teaching is recognizing which student needs the nudge, and which need a
brake, the hardest is getting them to trust you.
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On 4/23/14, 8:36 PM, Peter Mudie wrote:
Then again, with all the dross out in the world, some people/students
should never be allowed to make a film/video.
Peter
(Perth)
On 24/04/2014 8:12 am, "Aaron F. Ross" <[email protected]> wrote:
It's true, professors with tenure can ignore the changing times.
There's no accountability and no consequences, so tenured professors
can be rigid, inflexible, and anachronistic, and get away with it.
But of course, that is doing the students a disservice. There's a
huge disconnect between academia and the real world, and young people
know it.
In a way, the decline of tenure and the expansion of adjunct hires is
good for students. It's bad from a labor perspective, but at least it
keeps fresh blood coming in. Adjuncts have to continually
prove/improve themselves, and can't rest on their laurels. Ever.
Regarding technology, I'm a selective adopter. Just because something
is new does not make it good. But the corollary to this is that just
because something is familiar does not make it good, either. We all
must think critically about technology if we are to be effective
educators, makers, and even consumers. Control the tools, or they
will control you.
The fresco analogy unintentionally makes the opposite point. Art
schools don't teach fresco painting anymore, except as an extremely
specialist subject. Oil painting is a widely adopted technique that
has immediate application across the board. Fresco painting is, for
the most part, a dead art. So, in fact, students should not be
required to learn it.
If you want to piss off students, wasting their time and money, then
by all means, make them learn some specialized, anachronistic subject
that has little or no application in the real world.
Aaron
At 4/23/2014, you wrote:
But you _can_ reject the technology. Not at all times, nor
throughout the whole program. But, just because oil painting exists
does not mean that art students shouldn't learn how to make frescos.
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