Student-Made Video Documentary on Selected Entrepreneurs

This is a Team Project.  Each Team will:

1. Decide on an entrepreneur.  In writing and composing your biography on your entrepreneur, you shall cover the following items:
     a. Summarize his/her personal background: When and where was he born, who were his parents, what did the parents do, where did he go to school, what were his first business ventures, etc.
     b. Explain his/her vision for the first company and or first product. Where did the vision come from?
     c. Explain how the entrepreneur obtained financing, how much, and from whom.
     d. How many hours did the entrepreneur work in setting up his or her business?
     e. Explain how the entrepreneur assemble his team, who was on it, and how he organized it.
     f. How did the entrepreneur motivate his team? What incentives did he offer his team members?
     g. How did the entrepreneur market his product?
     h. How profitable was the company in the first year? How did the entrepreneur achieve profitability?

2. Research the entrepreneur on Wikipedia and other sites.

3. Write an onscreen presentation outline. Open Office is free.

4. Narrate the presentation based on the outline.

5. Use pictures, charts, etc. found on the Web or other sources.
     a.  Pictures of your selected entrepreneur, current, as a boy, family pictures.
     b.  Pictures of his company logo and of his company product.
     c.  Charts that chart the growth of his business.
      
6. Use Screencast-O-Matic to create a 15-minute video.

The Teacher will supply the lapel microphone for the audio portion of your video.

The teacher creates a WordPress blog, or assigns this to a competent techie in the class. He works alone or gets an A on the project if he finishes; if he doesn't, he gets an F. The site becomes permanent. Next year the teacher assigns the same project. Students choose different entrepreneurs.

The WordPress blog site identifies the course, the teacher, the school, and the students.

Each team member uploads their video to his/her own personal Youtube channel.

Each team writes up a Web page for the site. Each team member gets a byline on the video and on the page. The teacher posts the page. The video is embedded on the page.

This project will make 20% of your course grade.

Everyone gets at least a B on this project for finishing a page.

The A and B students will view each other's videos. Each student writes a 4-page paper based on the videos. This countrs for 5% of the course grade.

This is no busywork project. This lets you leave a permanent contribution online. It's something for college admissions applications that says "Here is what I can do."

Teams will set deadlines for the video and for the papers and you must meet them. This is crucial. No slacking. This is the only nag zone.