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Digital Youth Portrait: Cameron

At school, at home, and on the road with his hockey team, Cameron experiments and innovates with his laptop, editing software, and a homemade green screen. More to this story.

At school, at home, and on the road with his hockey team, Cameron experiments and innovates with his laptop, editing software, and a homemade green screen. More to this story.
Download | Credits | Release Date: 5/27/2009

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Video Credits

Produced and Directed by

  • Ken Ellis

Coordinating Producer

  • Lauren Rosenfeld

Editor

  • Christa Collins

Camera Crew

  • Seguim-Arnold Productions

Production Support

  • Amy Erin Borovoy

Production Assistant

  • Doug Keely

Original Music

  • Ed Bogas

Senior Video Editor

  • Karen Sutherland
  • © 2009
  • The George Lucas Educational Foundation
  • All rights reserved.

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Glossary

Green screen: A technique for mixing two images or frames together, in which a color from one image is removed (or made transparent), revealing another image behind it.

Final Cut Pro: A professional nonlinear editing-software application.

GarageBand: A software application that allows users to create music or podcasts.

iMovie: A video-editing software application that allows Mac users to edit home movies.

Sources: wikipedia.org


Discussion Questions

1. Is Cameron typical of kids in your community? Why, or why not?

2. How would you describe the attitude of Cameron's parents toward technology and Cameron's interest in digital media?

3. How would you describe the attitude of Cameron's teachers toward technology and Cameron's interest in digital media?

4. What did you think of Cameron's Rewind video? Was this a good use of multimedia for learning? Why, or why not?

5. What would it take to support kids like Cameron at your school? What are the potential challenges?


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It's amazing how prevalent technology has become to the digital native generation. Their interaction and use of laptop computers, and even in Cameron's case, green screen technology, blows away anyone who grew up on Nintendo and Atari.

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Hey its really good to see this video about Cameron. As in this age of 11 he is doing like this activities its really great god gift he has & also he has got that talent. His teachers & parents should motivate him in his work more so that he can achieve more success in his future. Anyways thanks for sharing this talent of him & all the best for him.
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wow, Cameron is such an inspiration! I think his teachers felt lucky to have a child in the class who could model some of the new technologies avaialble. I was happy to see that he was encouraged to keep learning and to share his talent through his projects.

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I agree we should always strive to learn more. After watching Cameron I am inspired to watch some tutorials!

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It is a young man like Cameron that makes me confident to tell other adults that we will be in good hands when we get older. Cameron is an exception to the masses and his peers. Cameron clearly has supportive parents, a home life with plenty of means that allows him to follow his passion of technology and travel hockey. For the masses who do not share his passion, they do not overcome the limitations of the system including standards that do mot mesh with technology and budget constraints that limit the amount of technology a school can purchase so all kids have a similar opportunity to learn the skills that are young adults will need to be successful in the new digital world.