MAPS Media Institute will shift completely to a web based format for its summer season 2020 programs, a pure transfer for a company that teaches media arts.
Your complete curriculum will stay freed from cost, and for the primary time, MAPS will open choose summer season lessons to all eighth- via 12th-grade college students statewide.
The transfer is available in response to the coronavirus pandemic, stated Govt Director Clare Ann Harff, noting that MAPS consulted instructors, college students and oldsters, in addition to native, state and nationwide pointers within the resolution course of.
“Our preliminary ideas have been to maintain our college students safely linked,” she stated. “Now we see it as a problem to ship probably the most dynamic, participating {and professional} on-line studying expertise potential.”
To that finish, the MAPS crew {of professional} artists and designers is constructing a brand new, interactive web site to accommodate distant studying, with instructors modifying their lesson plans to maximise the brand new format.
Harff stated that whereas college students and employees will want time to regulate, they’ve already demonstrated the power to take action throughout the latter a part of spring lessons, which moved on-line in March. Utilizing the interactive web site, college students will proceed to work on initiatives throughout class time and so they additionally could have in depth on-line MAPS sources to assist information them when they’re working independently.
College students in eighth via 12th grades from Ravalli and Lewis & Clark counties — the place MAPS gives year-round programming — will be capable to entry the complete slate of MAPS lessons, together with an “Intro to MAPS” for brand spanking new college students and a “Media Smarts” media literacy course. These lessons are a part of the core MAPS curricula of movie, music manufacturing, graphic design and new applied sciences. Moreover, eighth- via 12th-grade college students from any Montana group are invited to enroll in two new course choices, “Photojournalism” and “Intro to Podcasts.”
“Offering free-of-charge, skilled on-line media lessons to any pupil in Montana is a giant step for MAPS,” Harff stated. “Whereas we’ve been strategically increasing our programming these previous few years, the pandemic has fast-forwarded our efforts to achieve extra college students.”
To help college students with restricted or no entry to a house pc, MAPS invested in 10 new iPads with all the mandatory apps for summer season lessons. Mother and father and guardians will be capable to examine them out for every weeklong class.
Along with on-line programming, the MAPS crew additionally will conduct social-distancing actions on the campus in Hamilton each Wednesday throughout the months of June and July. “MAPS Unplugged: The Garden Classes” will vary from car parking zone chalk murals to music jams and photograph scavenger hunts. The classes might be open to all enrolled MAPS college students in Ravalli County.
“Throughout a time when college students have fewer alternatives, MAPS must go the gap to supply them extra,” Harff stated. “The Garden Classes is one other inventive answer to staying safely linked with our college students.”
These new packages imply extra work for the MAPS crew, however they’re getting some assist from the AmeriCorps Summer time VISTA program via a long-standing partnership with Montana Campus Compact. All 4 service members are graduates of the MAPS Media Institute, “a sign of the form of gratitude that MAPS packages encourage,” stated Harff.
Ella Hoenstine took 4 years of MAPS lessons earlier than learning graphic arts in school and is now returning to contribute in a mentorship place.
“Attending to serve at MAPS is an unbelievable alternative for me this summer season,” Hoenstine stated. “Not solely sharing my love and ability of graphic design with highschool college students, however giving again to MAPS is one thing I’ve at all times wished to do.”
In recent times, MAPS filmmaking college students have garnered consideration on the nationwide stage, successful prizes at movie festivals, in addition to a coveted Nationwide Pupil Manufacturing Award from the mother or father group of the Emmy Awards. Will probably be a problem to duplicate that top stage of instruction in a web based setting, however Harff is assured that MAPS will prevail.
“We’re a company that has provided intensive, professional-level instruction in media arts since 2004, and we’ve by no means charged households a single penny, so we’re used to beating the percentages,” she stated. “Regardless of the challenges we all know we’ll face within the months to return, we consider Montana’s college students want and deserve our help greater than ever earlier than. Our crew is digging deep and dedicated to delivering 100%.”
For more information and to enroll in MAPS Summer time Program, go to mapsmediainstitute.com.
All MAPS Media Institute Summer time Lessons are one-week intensives, held from 1 p.m. to four p.m., Monday via Friday. Register quickly, as enrollment is capped at 15, with a wait checklist.
Lessons for MAPS college students grades 8-12 in Ravalli and Lewis & Clark counties:
• June 8-12: Intro to MAPS: discover a special class every day
• June 22-26: Music: do-it-yourself tunes with Cove Jasmin
• July 6-10: Filmmaking 101: create quick movies with a smartphone or iPad
• July 13-17: Tech: Robotic Building and Competitors (*college students will obtain their very own robotic equipment)
• July 20-24: Graphic Design: Discover the basics of digital design
• July 27-31: Media Smarts: use the Web as an alternative of it utilizing you
Lessons for all college students grades 8-12 all through Montana:
• June 15-19: Nonetheless Life: exploring photojournalism
• June 29-July 3: Podcasts: spoken phrase tales
MAPS Unplugged: The Garden Classes
• Each Wednesday in June and July, from 3–5 p.m., 515 Madison St, Hamilton. Actions embrace: car parking zone chalk mural, music jams, guided nature stroll, paper airplane contest, photograph scavenger hunt, drawing composition and origami.
