The document provides guidance for students to complete activities to develop and document their digital technology skills for media production. The activities include: 1) Creating a mind map of their digital technology skills, including specific skills others may not have, and scoring points for unique skills. 2) Creating a timeline of all media productions during and outside of college, noting the main digital technology skill developed in each production and providing an example. 3) Using the notes from the activities to write an essay describing how their skills developed over time and evaluating how these skills contributed to their creative decision making, referring to examples.

1. Q1a lesson activities
All of the following activities focus on
skills using digital technology

2. Skills Development
Activity 1

3. ‘Pointless’ activity
• You have five minutes to fill in as many skills as possible
on your mind map…
• As well as the obvious skills, try to add skills that not
everyone else will have – be as specific as possible.

4. Working in a group of 3 or 4, score your mind
maps:
• 1 point for every skill you have written down
that no one else in your group has written
down.
• If you finish before we move on, try and add
some more skills to your mind-map.
‘Pointless’ activity

5. On the back of your mind map
• Summarise your level of skill now in using
digital technology for media production work,
in no more than two sentences.
• Try to quantify your skill level. The following
prompts may help…

6. Useful terms/phrases
• Confident (all/some? video/print media?)
• Advanced Skills (many/some?)
• Close to professional standard
• Still learning and developing basic/proficient /
advanced skills in…
• Mastered basic skills in… enabling me to
experiment with more complex techniques.
• With prompting I can…

7. Skills Development
Activity 2

8. Timeline of all media productions
1. Draw a line across the full length of your paper to
represent your time at college (use a whole page).
2. Add all of the productions you have worked on in
college in chronological order.
3. If applicable, add any productions you have worked
on outside of college.
In an exam response, you should mainly focus on your coursework productions but it will be useful to
refer briefly to other productions if they are significant in terms of your skill development.

9. Timeline of all media productions
4. For each production, consider and write
down the main digital technology skill that
you developed.
5. Give an example from your production work
that evidences this.

10. Skills Development
Activity 3

11. Digital Technology Essay
Use all of your notes so far to write up your
response to the following past exam question:
Describe how you developed your skills in the use
of digital technology for media production and
evaluate how these skills contributed to your
creative decision making. Refer to a range of
examples in your answer to show how these skills
developed over time.
There is help on structuring your essay at the end of the Slideshare on my journal.