Today we talked about what to do with the coming week...
Everyone who came to iTec yesterday is at some stage of their telephone project, but I don't think anyone's all the way done. The general consensus is that the kids need more time to work on them, especially considering how many people have been absent. Let's have them finish these up Monday.
Starting Tuesday we'll begin the process of viewing the videos that the kids have created up until this point, that is, their "I am..." and telephone projects.
It didn't seem very productive to us to just throw the videos up on the projector and expect the kids to watch them for an hour and a half. Instead we talked a lot about an "active viewing" of the videos, one in which the kids have to pick out elements of the videos (pattern, variation, music congruence, camera angles) and be able to talk about them. This is important in terms of teaching literacy skills: while we may not be able to judge what skills the kids have learned before or during iTec, we can definitely look at the way they have learned to TALK about what they can do with digital technology. We have come up with a way for them actively view their fellow classmates work and then talk about what they see:
Explain to the kids that they are going to be assigned one of their peer's videos, and that their job is to pitch this film to a major film organization in order to get it up on the big screen (or something along those lines). In order to do this, they are going to have to find some of program goals or foci in their assigned video and present them to the class.
As the kids finish up their telephone projects, have them get into pairs.
Pass out a randomly selected video from the "I am..." or completed telephone projects to each pair.
This will mean getting all the videos off the laptops and on to CDs on Monday.
It may become clear that the "I am..." videos include a lot more of the things we want the kids to look for- variation, patter, angles, etc- than the telephone projects, just because there was more of an emphasis put on the filming of these movies, whereas the emphasis of the telephone project has been more collaboration.
Pass out Nate's worksheet with prompts of questions they should ask themselves when viewing their video.
Have them answer these questions in preparation for final presentations on Thursday, when we will show each film and have each pair explain what they have found in it.
What do we think??! Is this everything? Add subtract edit!
Everyone who came to iTec yesterday is at some stage of their telephone project, but I don't think anyone's all the way done. The general consensus is that the kids need more time to work on them, especially considering how many people have been absent. Let's have them finish these up Monday.
Starting Tuesday we'll begin the process of viewing the videos that the kids have created up until this point, that is, their "I am..." and telephone projects.
It didn't seem very productive to us to just throw the videos up on the projector and expect the kids to watch them for an hour and a half. Instead we talked a lot about an "active viewing" of the videos, one in which the kids have to pick out elements of the videos (pattern, variation, music congruence, camera angles) and be able to talk about them. This is important in terms of teaching literacy skills: while we may not be able to judge what skills the kids have learned before or during iTec, we can definitely look at the way they have learned to TALK about what they can do with digital technology. We have come up with a way for them actively view their fellow classmates work and then talk about what they see:
Explain to the kids that they are going to be assigned one of their peer's videos, and that their job is to pitch this film to a major film organization in order to get it up on the big screen (or something along those lines). In order to do this, they are going to have to find some of program goals or foci in their assigned video and present them to the class.
What do we think??! Is this everything? Add subtract edit!