​
ACADEMIC COMMITTEES
​
Blaise Noto has been very involved in academic committees at Barton since his hire as a full-time
faculty member in the Fall semester 2016. The committees on which he serves include:
​
Academic Program Review Committee, Academic Affairs representative
(Appointed in 2017 by Provost Dr. Gary Daynes for two-year term)
Curriculum Committee
(Appointed in 2017 SVPCA Dean Susan Fecho)
General Education Committee
(Curriculum Committee representative: 2017-2019)
Learning Technology Committee
(Elected 2017 for two year term)
Student Day of Scholarship Awards Committee
(for Barton College Honors Council, 2016; 2019)
Steering Committee Member
Two-Day Barton College Event for Yemeni Filmmaker Khadijah Al-Salami (April 2019)
Strategic Planning Committee
(Appointed by Pres. Searcy, 2019-2020)
Barton Creativity Program: #StillBarton
(Appointed Co-Leader of Academic Committee, Spring 2020)
​
​
MASS COMMUNICATIONS
​
As member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences (Public Relations Branch since 1985),Mr. Noto has served as Official Judge of the Student Academy Awards for the past four years. Due to his affiliation, he was successful in getting permission from the Academy to hold a special screening ofthe 2016 Student Academy Award- winning domestic and international films for the students, faculty and staff at Barton College. This also was used as a learning experience for students in the Communication departmentin generating publicity and proportion materials for the event including posters, invitations, social media and audio-visual for WEDT-TV and the college closed system television. The Academy has honored out request to again hold a showing at Barton of the 2017 student award-winning films for, students faculty, staff, and the WIlson community.
​
​
Through his COM 270: Sports and Communication course (Fall 2017), his students created programming for the inaugural launch of the Barton On-Air, Barton College online radio platform on SoundCloud featuring student generated sports-oriented podcasts, interviews and special feature pieces, among them creating a sports communication program for youth, and designing a news sports media outlet for the Digital Age.
​
Mr. Noto worked with Dean Susan Fecho of The School of Visual, Performing & Communication Arts, in creating and developing a new major program: BA in Mass Communications Studies approved by the Curriculum Committee and Barton Faculty. This interdisciplinary program will be a major benefit to transfer students and other four-year students at Barton College in giving them a comprehensive program in mass communications that will allow them to pursue different and varied career paths in the field. He also worked with Dean Fecho in created a new Minor: Media & Communications
​
As Associate Producer of the motion picture "Heart of a Dragon," Blaise's COM 321: Principles of Public Relations class (Spring 2018) will be working on a social media campaign targeted to Millennials and Generation X. Producer, Director, Writer Michael French ("the client"), who lived in Vancouver, Canada, engaged in January 2018 in a Skype call with the class ("the agency) for a preliminary meeting, with two more Skype meetings throughout the process. Students will create a campaign as part of their coursework, and after Spring break, present their plans to Mr. French for his feedback and critique. This will give students real-world and practical experience in creating a strategic PR plan, as well as publicity materials; specially created videos, using their graphics at Barton to to create new artwork and posters, and pursue other creative ideas working as both individual as as part of a creative team. The film is executive produced by Mark Gordon ("Saving Private Ryan," "Criminal Minds," "Gray's Anatomy"), and 16-time Emmy and Grammy award-wining producer and composer David Foster.
​
To present valuable learning assets and tools to his students in his online courses, Blaise Noto is working with key college services to create useful and effective resources for written, oral and visual communications. Consulting with Ann Dolman at Barton's Hackney Library, a comprehensive and dedicated Library Guide (LibGuide) was created to compile important resources for GEN ED 290 O -- the first time this course will be taught online (Spring 2018), teaching students writing skills, citations, academic and online research, annotated bibliographies, appendices, and critical thinking. He, too, has worked with Blythe Taylor,, head of the Oral Communication Center, in the creation of instructional videos on his online and in-class courses on how to give oral and visual presentations, including use of imagery, videos, graphics, public speaking techniques, tone and diction, and other skills for them to learn important methods to make engaging and professional presentations not only for academic purposes, but in their chosen careers. The three Center's tutors (all of whom were students of Mr. Noto) worked on this project for a student teaching approach. The videos -- "How to Prepare an Outline," How to use PowerPoint," and "Six Tips to Become a Better Presented" are available to Barton faculty, staff and students, posted on a special Oral and Visual Presentation YouTube Channel.
​
In Mr. Noto's Senior and Junior Seminars, Mass Communications student designed and created digital portfolios of their educational and career-oriented experiences to enhance their job prospects. They learned how to integrate graphic design elements in developing a a signature look. They also graphically designed their resumes; integrated written copy, imagery and audio-visual; and used various digital platforms, such as Wix, Word Press, Soundcloud, ISSUU,YouTube and Vimeo to professionally showcase their developed skills and talents in their major concentration: Audio Technology Recording, Broadcast/Video Production, Journalism Public Relations, Mass Communication Studies, and Photography.
​
HONORS PROGRAMS
​
Mr. Noto also sponsored two students for Barton College's Day of Scholarship. This academic program promotes collaborative research between students and faculty. Student research is presented orally at a campus wide event on April 10, 2018. James Berry, a senior and Mass Communications major, submitted and was awarded a scholarship for his project which involves making an educational video on the First Amendment and Religious Freedom. James will do the filming, editing, narration, mixing and all other production and post-production roles, Blaise Noto (with his extensive experience in film production) will be mentoring and working with James throughout the process and presentation at Barton's Day of Scholarship. Vasileios Mandilaris, a senior Business major, Honors student, and international student-athlete from Greece, submitted a proposal on Division NCAA's nutrition guidelines in Division I & II a minor sport (men's volleyball) in smaller colleges, but was not one of the scholarship recipients.
​
For Honors Symposium (Fall 2018) and Day of Scholarship (Spring 2019), Mr, Noto will have 25 Honors students participating either or both of these special campus student research-oriented events. Student is in HRN 350 Filming Culture: Visual Ethnography will have 7-10 minute ethno-docuemntariest to show in addition to an array of materials created for the project. And students in GEN 290: Social/Political Satire in the Mass Media will have AV presentations on satire in motion pictures for presentation in table sessions. In the Fall of 2017, an Honors student in my regular GEN 290 class did an Honors Symposium table presentation (see Abstract) on the controversial cartoons from the ,French political magazine Charlie Hebdo that led to the massacre of in Paris in 2015. He worked with the Honors Program for Honors Designation in a number of his courses: COM 321, COM 270, COM 380.
​
In addition, he has volunteered to be on the jury to evaluation student proposal for Day of Scholarship research grants, as well as serving on the Honors Advising Program.
​
For HNR 350: Filming Culture: Visual Ethnography, an Honors research course, Mr. Noto engaged in extensive research to design a new course using digital technology for students' engaging in academic and primary observation research using the principles and concepts of visual ethnography and documentary filming and recording. Various documents release to research and observation were created, among them ethnographic field notes, audio production logs, video production logs, post-production editing & mixing logs, comprehensive delivery requirements requiring a range of learned and honed skills, evaluative rubrics 1, 2 3, 4 and 5 for the different stages of creating an ethno-documentary production: research, pre-production, production, post-production and presentation/delivery requirements, as well as a unique step-by-step process for video and audio projects using iMovie that was specifically designed for Barton students which does not exist online or in other source material.
​
For the Honors section of GEN 290: Social/Political Satire in the Mass Media, he also created especially for the course and extensive listing of literary sources and satirical motion pictures which is very comprehensive and not existing elsewhere. This also was supplied to the Barton Hackney Library for their resources.