It's Back: Year 17 of the ASB Workshop

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Written By Dave Davis

The workshop that started in the summer of 2000, and has since trained hundreds of teachers from 48 states (and a few foreign countries) begins another exciting week of teacher-driven instruction on Sunday evening.

Phrases such as "W-A-L-L-D-O," "ten fingers," "save a surprise," and "say it/prove it" will become familiar in the first day of what is designed as a "boot camp" for video teachers.  Instructors will stress writing in the active voice.  Projects will be screened and critiqued in front of the entire group.  Thick skin will be developed.

Shooting sequences, editing to the moment, finding a character, all of that and more will quickly become "old news" to the 29 teachers in attendance.  

We will share some of the successes, and maybe some of the tough-love lessons from the coming week here on the blog.  Follow us on Twitter @AcademyofSB, and check out the hash tag #ASBworkshop2016.  

 

Dave Davis

Dave Davis started a Broadcast Journalism class at Hillcrest High School in the fall of 1989. Since then, the school's student-produced show, "HTV Magazine," has become one of the nation's most-honored high school broadcasts.

In an effort to provide valuable, useful, hands-on instruction to broadcast teachers from across the nation, Davis founded ASB Workshop in the summer of 2000. Since then, the week-long workshop has provided training for hundreds of high school and middle school teachers from 47 states, plus Mexico, England, South Korea, and Japan.

In the spring of 2009 he was named the Springfield (MO) Public Schools Teacher of the Year. He lives in Springfield with wife Martha, and has two daughters who live and work in the area.

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