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 The
Highlight of this month's EdTech Meeting, held at Westview
High on January 14th was the preview of the new movie,
Good
Readers, written and directed by April Payne's first grade
class at Highland Ranch. These amazing students created a
movie to teach everyone what great readers do. Click on the
Good Reader's link above to watch the movie. Be sure to
download the newest version of
Windows
Media Player first.
Students were
broken into teams that each had a cinematographer, a
director, and a spokesperson. Each student had an
 opportunity
to try each role. As the week progressed they all
wrote scripts highlighting six strategies of great readers.
Next they memorized their lines, practiced speaking loudly
and clearly, filmed scenes, and then edited the footage with
Pinnacle Studio DV 8.
The following week, they were ready to view the finished
product! Not only are these students great readers,
they are also great filmmakers.
 Since
creating this movie, Mrs. Payne has noticed the students are
far more aware of the strategies good readers use and apply
them readily as they read new materials. Making this movie
helped students "see" the strategies through a new
visual filter. Evidently it was just what they needed to
help the strategies stick! We discovered that kids are
more comfortable with the new technologies than most adults
are!
April's
2003-2004 class of first graders tackled the challenging
subject of learning to tell time in their newest release,
The Time
Team
To
view
Behind the
Scenes, a movie created by April to share the
process of teaching with video, click on the title.
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 "
We already knew that kids learned computer
technology more easily than adults. What we're
seeing now is that they don't even need to be
taught. It is as if children were waiting all
these centuries for someone to invent their native
language."
--Jaron
Lanier |
For
information that will help you use video editing to improve
learning in your class, you may want to check out the
following links.
March 11th-Curriculum Writing (Webquests)
Last
updated:
09/03/2008
Linda Foote
Instructional Technology Specialist
Poway Unified School District
13626 Twin Peaks Road
Poway, CA 92064
For the Training Page with an embedded video click here.
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