He has received regional and national fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Film Institute, and the J. Simon Guggenheim Foundation, as well as from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Kentucky Educational Television. He recently moved with his family to Austin, Texas where he teaches filmmaking at the University of Texas.
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Integrating media production in your curriculum can help you find new access to students and help them find new access to the material. Media production demands writing and rewriting, research, group effort, and clarity of thought. Media production offers a means for students to talk to whomever they think is an important audience. It does all this because students want to say things that have meaning to them - authentic production comes from authentic learning. Here are is an abbreviated list of activities for your classroom .