Teaching Digital Media as an Art Class: A Search to Define a Curriculum

The program incorporated standards for visual arts, and career and technical education in the same video production class. A functional approach to video production for the school drove the class activities during the semester of the study, as well as in past semesters. The majority of video assignments resulted from outside staff requests for students to document school events. As a result, most students created video from a technical approach rather than one in which students practiced critical evaluation skills resulting in greater media literacy.