So, I invited Jessica Ross to talk to my students about video production. As you probably know from Jessica's 20 Year Profile, she is the head of media at Kona Ice, working to create all their videos.
Jessica did a great job connecting to my class of 10 boys and 1 girl while showing them the progression of her video production. One of her main points is that technology is always changing. She demonstrated that by showing how her videos have improved over the years because of the cameras and other tools she has at her disposal. In only six years after graduating from college, she has upgraded cameras three times to keep up with the changing technology.
I found it interesting that Jessica started video production while in high school. She had tons of practice in her field before she ever went to learn it at college. This continues as a resounding theme of people in the world of technology. They didn't wait to learn it in college or on the job. The seed was planted years earlier.
Jessica pointed out to the students they have a leg up on the world of technology because they have grown up with it. Since they live in a world inundated with technology, they are able to do so much. The key is to leverage that power to become an awesome creator, not consumer, of technology.
Here is my Twitter blow up of the presentation.
- Retweeted by Craig DunlapI had an absolute blast talking to @Cncdky's technology class today about my job and why technology is important. Hooray technology!
- How do we market to millennials? No commercials. 90% of time online is thru app not web browser. @jessicalyneross
- You have a leg up because you are growing up with technology. @jessicalyneross
- Now @janedeckersmith is showing on our big screen in class. @jessicalyneross is bringing them all to the room. #formerstudent #20year
- "You guys have some really fast internet here." @jessicalyneross #tongueincheek
- @KONAICE has given back over $13 million to communities. @jessicalyneross
- "I started creating dumb little videos while in high school." @jessicalyneross
- "I realized that people create TV shows for a living and get paid for it. I wanted to do that too." @jessicalyneross
- @jessicalyneross and uber awesome videos pic.twitter.com/vdRBRjCUY1
- @jessicalyneross Showing off her videos to show progression of her cameras and software. Great stuff!
- "One constant in technology is that it is always changing." @jessicalyneross
- Guest speaker in T4T today: @jessicalyneross
Jessica Ross 
Craig Dunlap 
My students wrote up a summary of the presentation, and I thought I would quote some of my favorite lines.
- She started editing in high school. She edited small random videos at first but she started liking it.
- She also makes (or at least made) storyboards and scripts.
- I cannot say I have had Kona Ice but I am definitely looking forward to. They raised 13 million dollars and then gave them away to people in need.
- She first started just making fun videos and started getting better tech and made even better videos so she started to work at Kona Ice and worked on the videos and video editing.
- What surprised me is that she didn’t start filming and editing sooner than high school.
- One thing that surprised me was how good cameras are today.
- I was surprised that she could make a job by creating videos of her friends and could get paid for doing it.
- I learned that it is very fun to have a videoing job. You can make a lot of different videos with the job she has. If I were to be offered the job she has… I would definitely take it.
I truly am enjoying this guest speaker series and hope to add one more to the roster before the end of the school year.
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