Design Thinking

The Professor Garfield team recently hosted design thinking workshops—a non-linear, iterative process that teams use to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems and create innovative solutions to prototype and test. These workshops were formed with...

New Year, New Team!

The current Professor Garfield Team includes individuals from diverse academic backgrounds. Together, the team works collaboratively to research and develop resources for K-5 educators to effectively teach a wide range of digital literacy concepts and technologies....

Professor Garfield: Then and Now

Brief Background The Professor Garfield Digital Literacy project grew from research suggesting that K-5 educators lack the resources they need to effectively teach digital literacy. Additionally, few resources exist that provide educators with a clear definition of...

Final Videos, Lesson Plans & Protocol

The last two videos have been edited and are in the process of being finalized. We have decided to revisit one video to slow it down and add an extra voiceover recording at the end. The recording session is scheduled to take place this week and the video is set to be...

Finalizing Videos, Lesson Plans & Writing Protocol

This past week the video director has completed a majority of the instructional videos. They have been shared with the developing technologies team to be displayed in the corresponding exercises. It has come to our attention that there is a need for two extra videos,...

Video Editing & Creating Lesson Plans

Spring Break hit campus in week 9, but we have picked back up in week 10. Our current focus remains the same from the two previous weeks. However, this week we are able to add on new video ideas that we have gathered and we are now moving forward with a plan for those...

Filming for Instructional Videos

Recently, our focus is on finishing the filming for the instructional videos. This week we head to Burris Laboratory Elementary for filming. We will also be filming with new on-screen talent who have volunteered their time after school to help create these videos....

Editing Clips, Filming Plans

These past two weeks the team focused on the five exercises, and more specifically the instructional videos needed for each. The videos have come a long way since the beginning plans. So far we have written, edited, and finalized scripts for each (8-10 in total). Once...

Drafting site content, planning next steps

The PGF project team, the developing technologies team and the video director have discussed and begun recording content that is currently needed for the beta test launch. This includes written text, photos, and videos that will be used throughout the entire site. In...

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Professors and students from the Center for Emerging Media Design & Development at Ball State University are working with K-3 teachers and students across the country to develop digital literacy curricula and exercises that will work for you.

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