{"id":845,"date":"2016-04-18T17:42:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T00:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/?p=845"},"modified":"2016-04-18T17:42:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T00:42:43","slug":"becoming-the-next-bill-nye-mit-opencourseware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/?p=845","title":{"rendered":"Becoming the next Bill Nye &#8211; MIT OpenCourseWare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been slowly working my way through the <a href=\"http:\/\/ocw.mit.edu\/index.htm\">MIT OpenCourseWare<\/a> &#8211; Becoming the next Bill Nye course. If you are interested in creating informational videos for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/jdwilliams91479\">YouTube<\/a>, it might be worth your time!<\/p>\n<p>Link:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ocw.mit.edu\/courses\/biological-engineering\/20-219-becoming-the-next-bill-nye-writing-and-hosting-the-educational-show-january-iap-2015\/\">http:\/\/ocw.mit.edu\/courses\/biological-engineering\/20-219-becoming-the-next-bill-nye-writing-and-hosting-the-educational-show-january-iap-2015\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the Course Syllabus:<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subhead\">Course Description<\/h2>\n<p><em>Becoming the Next Bill Nye<\/em> is about using video production techniques to develop your ability to engagingly convey your passions for science, technology, engineering, and \/ or math. You&#8217;ll have the opportunity to script and on-screen host 5-minute YouTube science, technology, engineering, and \/ or math-related shows to inspire youth to consider a future in science.<\/p>\n<p>Workshop-style lectures, with industry guest speakers, focus on developing students&#8217; basic scripting, hosting, and video production skills in the context of understanding digital media literacy, K-12 education, science advocacy, and engaging a lay audience. Students are expected to critically analyze case studies of popular hosts and shows in addition to completing iterative, project-based assignments and peer-critiques, culminating in a 5-minute final episode. Selected groups will have the opportunity to continue optional development of episodes with a professional production crew for the <a href=\"http:\/\/k12videos.mit.edu\/science-out-loud\/\">MIT+K12 Videos Science Out Loud<\/a> series during the final week of IAP. Enrollment limited to 24 students, open to all majors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been slowly working my way through the MIT OpenCourseWare &#8211; Becoming the next Bill Nye course. If you are interested in creating informational videos for YouTube, it might be worth your time! Link:\u00a0http:\/\/ocw.mit.edu\/courses\/biological-engineering\/20-219-becoming-the-next-bill-nye-writing-and-hosting-the-educational-show-january-iap-2015\/ From the Course Syllabus: Course Description Becoming the Next Bill Nye is about using video production techniques to develop your ability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-development","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrjwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}