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Virtual Presentation Skills
Learn useful presentation skills in a new online setting from Karen De Mauro. View the free resource below:
Media Links
Use the links in the document to view projects that Karen De Mauro has worked on and advised. View the free resource below:
Documentary Skills
Have you ever wanted to be a Ken Burns? Have you ever wanted to make documentaries that effectively communicate the message you are trying to convey? Making a documentary is not all about video editing. In fact, a critical part is understanding the overarching storytelling arc. Karen De Mauro has advised several students and groups in effectively managing the storytelling elements of documentaries for projects like National History Day. Learn the tips and tricks on how to make your documentary sound like a story. Learn how to increase audience interaction, and perfect your documentary skills.
In a 1960’s America tainted by gender discrimination, 13 female aviators, known as the Mercury 13, proved that women were equally--if not more--capable of spaceflight than men due to their lower weight, water, food, and oxygen consumption and outstanding performance on the Project Mercury astronaut tests. The Mercury 13 broke gender and perception barriers as the first American women to complete astronaut testing “in a world where if you look at the jobs for women in the newspaper, it’s teacher, nurse, secretary—certainly not astronaut.” - Dr. Margaret Weitekamp. So why didn’t these women become astronauts? Why weren’t American women the first in space?