How can Planet PC’s range of creative media solutions help develop your students' soft skills?

What can Planet PC’s range of creative media solutions bring to your teaching and learning process?

Focus on Soft Skills:
The Planet PC range of creative media solutions supports the development of soft skills. Soft skills are character skills as opposed to academic. They are the life and people skills necessary for learners to progress, not just with their education but in all other aspects of life, particularly at home, socially and in the working environment. In a challenging job market employers no longer consider academic and technical competencies to be sufficient in their own right and are emphasising the vital role that soft skills play in the workplace.

Team work, collaboration and interpersonal skills

Film and TV production crews work as a team and so will students. In groups they research and plan their production and once recording commences they are given specific responsibilities. Usual roles include cameraman, director, microphone operator and presenter. These creative media solutions require students to work and gel as a team, thereby subtly developing interpersonal skills.

Communication

Communication skills are fundamental to all relationships and in the modern workplace this vital soft skill is a prerequisite for employers. Working in groups requires communication, whether it is discussing the objectives or physically presenting the production. Our creative media solutions require students to communicate with one another and the camera to deliver work they would be proud of.

Confidence

Confidence and self-esteem allows individuals to have a realistic and positive attitude about themselves. This is a key soft skill that learners need to express their thoughts and feelings clearly and effectively. The Planet creative media solution range allows students to present their ideas both in front and behind the camera, building their self-confidence.

Motivation and enthusiasm

Working as a production crew requires all aspects of a project to be covered by the whole team. This is where motivation and enthusiasm are key to the success of an assignment. The ability to take initiative and complete tasks without being prompted is another important trait that employers look for in a candidate.

Problem solving

Problem solving and critical thinking looks at the learner’s ability to use knowledge, facts and data to effectively solve problems. The MovieBox range engages students as a group and makes them solve issues together, for example deciding who will fulfil certain roles, or what area of study they want to target.

Focus on Learning and Creativity:
The Planet MovieBox range delivers an enjoyable and effective way of learning, where students think and talk together to question, analyse and solve problems supported by teachers' mediation. The technology delivered in the MovieBox range is engaging and captures students' imagination. It allows teachers and students to modify the content of courses to better meet individual student's needs in ways that traditional resources do not allow.

Hidden Learning

The fun side of the MovieBox range is the filming, recording and then showcasing their final work. The learning is disguised within the research and planning done in preparation. This can be applied to virtually any subject to engage and involve all students with a practical and creative method of teaching.

Personalised Learning

The Planet MovieBox series is designed to create an engaging and innovative teaching and learning environment enabling all students to participate. Students can be creative and use their individual skills to help to research, plan, present and produce a final production. This work creates tangible results in the form of video files, DVD or web based formats that provides students with collateral to show their peers, take home or submit as a form of assessment. This process can aid individual development and progress whilst providing the student with a sense of positive achievement thus supporting the ethos of personalised learning.

Digital literacy

Being confident in the use of modern technology is extremely important, and the advanced video technology packaged in the MovieBox range introduces students to equipment that they would not have access to at home. The use of cameras, tripods, live production and green screen equipment develops niche skills and aids ICT skill development.

Cross curricular – Academic and practical use

The Planet MovieBox range is a great product for sparking life and energy into classes across the curriculum. With ‘green screen’ technology students can be placed into virtual backgrounds, providing a sense of reality which engages and excites learners. As the backgrounds can be whatever you want, it is applicable for every subject. For creative arts this technology inspires students to tap into their imagination and express their ideas in new and challenging ways. With craft based subjects such as art, students are able to use the medium of video to present their artwork as an alternative to written reports.

Here are some examples of what some of our customers have used the technology for: