Description. Creating and editing videos can serve multiple professional purposes for you as a graduate student and beyond. You might create your own videos for a course you’re taking or teaching, for a conference presentation, or for posting to your professional Web site. In this play session, facilitated by Rachel Gramer and Megan Hartline, you are encouraged to bring in an idea or actual materials for a video you might like to create. You will be given the opportunity to consider how creating your own video might benefit your professional persona or profile, whether you’re focusing on teaching, research, or administrative work. Whether you are ready to begin video editing now, or just want exposure to the possibilities that are available to you, you will have time to play and ask questions about creating your own video.

Learning Outcomes. As a result of this session, you should be able to:

1. Identify the affordances of creating videos for professional purposes across a variety of disciplines

2. Enhance their knowledge of the possibilities of video creation and editing and the implications for professionalization

3. Receive peer support in conceptualizing and creating professional video projects

4. Begin conceptualizing and/or creating their own video

Presenter(s). Rachel Gramer is the Digital Media Research Assistant for Dr. Mary P. Sheridan in the Department of English. Her primary work in this position involves research-based digital initiatives for digital composition, research, and pedagogy for graduate students, teaching assistants, and instructors. Her research focuses on teachers as learners in social spaces, the institutional construction of professional identity, narratives about professional practice, and risk-taking in teaching environments. She joined UofL in 2013, and is currently in coursework in the Ph.D. program in rhetoric and composition at the University of Louisville. 

Megan Faver Hartline is one of the founding designers and teachers of the Digital Media Academy, a two-week digital media summer camp for rising sixth grade girls. Teachers at the camp worked with girls to build their skills with digital tools and to design their own digital products. Her research focuses on community engagement, particularly exploring how universities and especially scholars in rhetoric and composition have taken on this type of work. She joined UofL in 2013 and is currently in coursework in the Ph.D. program in rhetoric and composition at the University of Louisville.  

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