Going The Distance

March 5, 2009

In Going The Distance, Chabot College students and faculty share their experiences in taking — and teaching — Distance Education courses. They speak candidly and with insight about: “How the availability of DE courses plays a crucial role in their college matriculation” “What it takes to succeed in the online setting” “How the workload compares [...]

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The World In Your Hands

March 3, 2009

Welcome to an orientation film for the Disabled Students Programs and Services (DSPS) at Chabot College. Take a walk with us and explore the experiences of five students and a counselor, and learn how DSPS helped them reach their educational goals.      (FIN employee Jamie Chandler made this film while a student at Chabot [...]

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Reading Between The Lives

March 3, 2009

  A long, long time ago, in a college about a quarter mile off Interstate 880…four students and a teacher, fueled by a SPECC grant, set out on an epic quest to ask the questions no one dared to ask about reading. Facing over 125 daunting student intake essays, 50 hours of intensive interviews, and [...]

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Simple Tips for Shooting Video

March 1, 2009

 Tips for better balance and framing for videos of people. You can take well balanced shots if you change the size and position of the person on the screen to match the part of the subject you want to emphasize. For example, when you want to show the subject’s whole body, the image will not [...]

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Some Tips For Interviewing

February 28, 2009

Some Tips For Interviewing   Set up appointments well in advance. Be prepared for some people to flake out. It may take 2-3 attempts for you to land the interview.   Because your inquiry is about education, of course you will feel that your interviews should naturally take place in classrooms. But that doesn’t have [...]

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Getting Started Filming

February 27, 2009

  GETTING STARTED FILMING   SHOOT PLAN  In this case the word shoot refers to a shooting session. If you think of everything you record as being part of a shoot, and have a plan for most of your shots, then you’re well on the way to having better organized footage. First of all, be [...]

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