To help John Jay students overcome the digital divide, the ePortfolio Program in the Office of Student Egnagement & Retention (SAER) would like to offer Digital Media Skill workshops to all John Jay students to increase digital literacy, student creativity, and hands-on experience with industry standard media equipment. This initiative will explore student interests, engagement and gain skills in storytelling through hands on video and photography equipment training, and media editing through a series of Media Skill workshops to produce student driven media content that can be utilized for their class projects and personal projects. We plan to have this workshop every academic year starting in the Fall or Spring semester and have a student showcase event for the John Jay community to view and celebrate the media content that the students have created. The students can use the content that they produce as work samples and add their newly learned skills to their resume, LinkedIn, and ePortfolio.
To keep the budget at a minimum, this workshop program will only require three industry standard cameras and lenses, as well as accompanying accessories, to capture footage and audio, since the students will be working in groups for their collaborative endeavor. By having experience using these professional tools, it will make the students who partake on this workshop highly marketable in the media industry such as various media productions, marketing, social media, and print, just to name a few.
This workshop will be open to all John Jay College students which will have access to the equipment during its duration. The workshop will be facilitated by highly trained eTerns, and supervised by Girard Tecson, the ePortfolio Program Manager.
The equipment will be with the ePortfolio program staff at the Academic Advisement Center until the new eLearning Lab is open in 2024.
Digital literacy, Enriching creativity, Learning Technical skills and overcoming the digital divide - Producing visual media creates an engaging and collaborative environment for students because it will explore their interest and will be able to express themselves. These resources will be used to expand the hands-on media making opportunities available to the college community, thereby increasing opportunities for technical skills learning and creative production using quality media technology.
Girard Tecson, the ePortfolio Program Manager, and his eTern staff will maintain and regularly examine the condition every semester.
Girard Tecson, the ePortfolio Program Manager, will oversee the use of all equipment during the workshops and its maintenance.
Student Success
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"Educate and support undergraduate and graduate students at every step of their John Jay journey"
Students use of technology is a viable option to increase engagement and better learning experience. Quick and convenient access to professional industry standard equipment can enhance the student experience at John Jay without worrying about their own access to one.
The goal to "Embody and promote our values of equity, diversity, and inclusion" has as an objective that we are to "Achieve equitable student success across all learning modalities." We have as a specific goal increasing student success and much of the activities and supplies listed here are being deployed with that goal in mind.