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Becoming the Next Bill Nye: Writing and Hosting the Educational Show

Subjects: Technology · Writing

Art: Robert Hooke, Micrographia Scheme 07, 1665 · Public domain

Instructors
Elizabeth Choe, Jaime Goldstein, Chris Boebel, George Zaidan, Joshua Gunn, Ceri Riley, Dr. Natalie Kuldell
Term
January IAP 2015
Level
Undergraduate
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136 videos · 1 reading · 154 other files · 37 web pages
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Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 20.219 Becoming the Next Bill Nye: Writing and Hosting the Educational Show, January IAP 2015, Elizabeth Choe, Jaime Goldstein, Chris Boebel, George Zaidan, Joshua Gunn, Ceri Riley, Dr. Natalie Kuldell — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.

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Planning Backwards

Day 1: Identity and Genre

Day 2: Audience

Day 3: Storyteller's Toolkit Pt. 1

Day 4: Storyteller's Toolkit Pt. 2

Day 5: Storyteller's Toolkit Pt. 3

Day 6: Table-read and Office Hours

Day 7: Table-read and Post-production

Days 8, 9, & 10: Project Time

Days 11 & 12: Screening (Rough Cuts)

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1 video

Day 13: Screening (Final Cuts)

Student Projects

18 videos in this section

Kenneth Cheah's Project

Joshua Cheong's Project

Andrea Desrosiers' Project

Nathan Hernandez's Project

Yuliya Klochan's Project

David Yam's Project

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3 files

4 videos

137 video transcripts
47 images

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