ATOM PL 2025: Parasite Narrative Deep Dive
Tuesday 18th February – 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Online on Zoom
Bong Joon-ho’s genre-bending film Parasite is a gripping exploration of social class shown through a range of media codes and conventions.
Your Year 12 students will relish the opportunity to develop and refine their discussion of social views and values, test their assumptions about audience beliefs, and gain a historical understanding of the (broken) neoliberal promise South Korea and the US.
- In this webinar, you will learn how to use Parasite to not just teach Narratives and their Contexts but also,
- How to use the institutional context of screening quotas in Korea as a lead in to Agency and Control and;
- How to use Joon-ho’s annotated storyboards and script documentation to teach pre-production planning.
Join ATOM education subcommittee member Daniel as he shares from his experience of teaching Parasite in the VCE Media classroom for three consecutive years.
Register for Parasite Narrative Deep Dive
ATOM PL 2025: New Study Design Refresher – Online
Thursday 20th February – 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Online on Zoom
This is a two hour, after-school Professional Learning (PL) webinar on Zoom.
Kayla McCarthy will take teachers through the Media Study Design to refresh them with knowledge, resources and reassurance going into the new year. This session is aimed at all teachers, new and established, teaching within the VCE Media study design.
Please note that this is a condensed version of our usual 4 hour session on the New Study Design. If you would like a recording of a previous session, you can find it on The Education Shop.
Register for New Study Design Refresher
ATOM PL 2025: VCE Media Units 1 & 3
Thursday 27th February – 9:30am – 2:30pm
Face-to-face at SAE University College
Unfortunately this seminar will not have an online attendance option.
Experienced ATOMVic Education Committee educators will take teachers through Units 1 & 3 according to the New Media Study Design to equip them with knowledge, resources and reassurance going forward.
This session is aimed at educators of all experience levels teaching within the new study design.
Please note that we will be offering the units in separate rooms, with an all-day focus for each.
- Unit 3 will be delivered by Daniel Hennequin.
- Unit 1 will be delivered by Hatice Huseyin.
You will be guided to your respective room the morning of.
If it suits your teaching, you can attend one unit before lunch and the other unit after lunch.
Register for VCE Media Units 1 & 3
ATOM PL 2025: Video Essays
Thursday 6th March – 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Online on Zoom
In this professional learning webinar, experienced Media teachers from the ATOMVic Education Committee will take you through:
- How to make Video Essays
- Editing video essays
- A showcase of examples, and;
- A discussion for marking and comparing video essays.
Register for Video Essays webinar
ATOM PL 2025: Practical Media 101 for Beginners
Thursday 13th March – 9:30am – 2:30pm
Face-to-face at SAE University College
Unfortunately this seminar will not have an online attendance option.
The Adobe Practical 101 session will be covering project based tutorial sessions in Premiere Pro, Animate, Photoshop & InDesign.
The day will consist of hands on practical tutorials, followed by a short project in each software to enable you to feel comfortable teaching the software to your media students.
Please be mindful that this session is a beginner’s guide to the software with intermediate sessions running in term 2 for those wanting to extend themselves further. You will walk away from the day with skills in the four most commonly used Adobe software programs in a Media classroom.