Kathleen
Tyner
ktyner@hi-beam.net
MEDIA PRODUCTION
Recent Projects
Effective Assessment: Creating Local Context (WestEd). Producer/Director of this documentary about an innovative educational project on the Navajo Nation in Chinle, Arizona.
Effective Instruction. (WestEd). Co-Producer. Companion piece to Effective Assessment video. A documentary that shows dynamic teaching in action.
Media Matters: Critical Thinking in the Information Age. (Turner Learning, Inc., a division of Turner Broadcasting and Southwestern Publishing). Writer/Consultant for this multimedia curriculum kit for use in teaching about the media.
The Media Literacy Online Project. (University of Oregon). Project Associate for the Media Literacy Online Project.
Scanning Television II (Face to Face Media, Harcourt Brace/Canada, and the Jesuit Communications Project). Technical Assistance and writer for this media kit that includes over 50 clips and a guide to be used for teaching about media.
Sink or Swim. Videographer and editor for short streamed video segments of a performance of the San Francisco Cinematheque at Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard.
Past Projects
AdSmarts (Scott Newman Center). Screenwriter and instructional designer for a 5-unit video kit that links media education with alcohol and tobacco prevention for middle school students.
Board President Reports (Viacom). Producer. Features President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and guests who explore local issues.
City Desk (Viacom). Producer/Director. A weekly series where print journalists gather in a roundtable format to analyze the week's local news stories.
The Critical Eye: Inside TV Advertising (Bay Area Video Coalition with John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur funding). Executive Producer. Provided initial consultation for design, directed final phases of the project, found completion funding, and created a distribution plan. Hypercard interface for the Macintosh.
It Shouldn't Hurt to Be a Child (Viacom). Writer/Producer/Director. Series of public service spots on child abuse prevention with the San Francisco Sheriff's Department.
The Mayor's Race Line-Up (Viacom). Producer/Director. Interviewed San Francisco mayoral candidates to explore issues in the 1987 San Francisco Mayor's race. Nominated for a cable ACE award for local programming.
SeniorNet Electronic Scrapbook (Bay Area Video Coalition with John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur funding). Writer for this interactive videodisc that teaches senior citizens to use computers. Hypercard interface for a Macintosh computer.
That's Politics (Viacom). Producer/Director. Local news and public affairs program explores issues with local public figures in a Firing Line format with liberal and conservative co-hosts.
Viewpoint (Viacom). Producer/Director. Program that features San Francisco elected officials.
WestEd Internet and Intranet Sites. (WestEd). Database Design/Project Manager. Provided resource allocation and staff supervision for the WestEd Internet Team to revamp the public Web site. Provided project leadership to design and develop an Information Resource Center that includes Web-based intranet applications such as an Executive Management Systems and searchable database design in Visual Basics for NT SQL server.
View Smart to Vote Smart. (National Cable Television Association). Content and script consultant for this presidential election year television series.
Who Killed Joe Blow? (Health and Education Communication Consultants
with funding from the Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood). Project Director/Producer.
Created a prototype for this interactive CD-ROM for smoking prevention.
Phase I funding from federal Small Business Innovation Research grants.
Macromedia Director application.