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ELIZABETH CHOE: So I think the idea of a workshop-based class, a hands-on class, that's what's becoming trendy in education. At least at MIT right now. It's bringing it back to mind and hand. They won't work if students don't bring anything to workshop or have anything ready. So that's why the first two or three days of class were very, very information intense to bring them up to the point where they had a script that they could actually read aloud at the table read. Or that they would have a scene they could storyboard. How was it leading the workshops? Because I could kind of let you guys take over for those. JOSHUA GUNN: Yeah, I mean I think it was great. I mean, I think we couldn't have done what we did if they hadn't come to the class with a portion of a script that they could storyboard. Or do some sort of storyboard work on. I think maybe in the future you might think about having-- well, I don't have. Setting it up so that ther...

ELIZABETH CHOE: So hi, I'm Elizabeth Choe. By day, I run the MIT K-12 videos program in the Office of Digital Learning at MIT. And I was the lead instructor/creator 20.219. JOSHUA GUNN: Hi, I'm Joshua Gunn, and I'm the co-founder of Planet Nutshell a Cambridge, Massachusetts, based animation studio. And my role in the course was simply to do a workshop on storyboarding, as well as a little instruction on animation in the context of producing educational media. GEORGE ZAIDAN: My name is George Zaidan I am a freelance science video host and writer and producer. And for 20.219 I did a workshop on writing and hosting. CHRIS BOEBEL: I'm Chris Boebel. I'm media development director for MIT's Office of Digital Learning and for the course I was basically a guest lecturer. I came in for a day or two to talk about visual storytelling. ELIZABETH CHOE: So the way this class stated, I would say, is that George and I were working on Science Out Loud, which is th...

ELIZABETH CHOE: We were talking about like, what is digital media literacy exactly, because we talked about this a lot. And I think what it really is, is not so much being proficient in scripting and filming and editing, it's just the self awareness to know what you're good at, and what you're not good at. And just the appreciation for what goes into things, and the knowledge of who to tap into to help you create a project or help you communicate something. Go ahead. JOSHUA GUNN: I just have a question because I'm not plugged into the MIT community, or even into the scientific community, for that matter. But is there a culture of sort of individuality wherein this notion that basically, my intellectual work is to be done sort of in a silo, versus the kind of, like, I know I'm not good at this, so I need to build a team where we can build. GEORGE ZAIDAN: At MIT, it's pretty interdisciplinary. What I would say, is not siloed, but there's an ingra...