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Capturing a Career: A Video Workshop for High School Students
Capturing a Career allows Academy students participating in internship programs or working on end-of-year capstone projects to present personal stories of their career ambitions and educational achievements in short videos they create themselves. Using interview footage and supporting illustrations, each student assembles a video that provides a picture of personal development and career engagement in the context of individual goals and experiences at school and in the workplace.

At the end of the workshop, participants submit personal statements and resumes, and each project portfolio is burned to CD so students can share their videos with peers, colleagues, and potential employers or use their finished projects when applying for future educational and training opportunities.

Watch Capturing a Career, A Video Project for High School Students, a short introductory movie for interested teachers and students.

AOF Seniors, Philip and Sala Burton HS, SFUSD
Capturing a Career was introduced to SFUSD’s School-to-Career group as part of an NAF-Pearson Foundation pilot program in the spring of 2005. The following year, five Academy programs in the district completed the project, including the AOF seniors at Phillip and Sala Burton High School.

The project consists of four distinct stages: (1) preparation work – developing a series of interview questions, rehearsing responses to these prompts, and gathering related visual material; (2) taping a personal interview; (3) assembling digital material into a finished video during an Editing Workshop; and (4) presenting and reflecting on the work.

A number of key thinking, communicating, and technological skills are embedded in this project, including archiving, organizing, prioritizing, oral delivery, writing, and video production skills.

Watch a brief film documenting a CAC project at Phillip and Sala Burton High School.

Capturing a Career School Projects

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