Click on the link below (or copy and past it if it's a dead link). You'll find the video Casey and his friends, Carl, Kurt, and Autsin, created yesterday.
We had a good laugh at it. The guys were really excited about it. They were engaged, intrinsically motived, and using all the writing phases. I'm not kidding.
They brainstormed ideas (pre-writing).
Thye devised a story line, and Casey printed out their script (drafting).
Then they dashed off to shoot it (more drafting).
After an hour or so, and repeatedly returning for supplies, they finished.
Then Casey said with a gleam in his eye, "All right. Time to edit." (revision)
They all headed upstairs with my laptop to complete their project. (revision)
Then they uploaded it to youtube (submission).
And the guys loved every minute of it. That's exactly what we (teachers, administraters, politicians, officials, professors, education experts . . .) all want student to experience . . . in school, right?
If it weren't for the youtube blocker at most schools, this would have been a great idea for an assignment (assign a team of students a scene or part of a story/novel/play) and have them film and edit it (via imovie) and then upload it to youtube where it's instantly accessible to millions.
The same is true for blogs. A fellow teacher returned from a technology presentation where one teacher said that her best writer doesn't even bother to submit her best work in school, for it's only going to be read by an audience of one. Intead, she puts her best work on her blog, which is available to whomever stumbles across it. She gets realworld feedback from her blog.
Too bad we can't do that here.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2rOrxl08okM
If the link above didn't show up, copy and past this address and the video will show up.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2rOrxl08okM
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