Hi everyone,
Yesterday after wrapping up a blogging workshop at UMass/Boston, I
was giving a demonstration of Mozilla Thunderbird as an RSS news
reader. Just as I was about to close my laptop, one of my news
folders got a hit: a new blog entry had been posted somewhere. To my
surprise, I discovered that the blog entry was the first student
video blog posted to Atlantic City Rough Cuts (http://
www.acroughcuts.com), the elementary school video blogging project
organized by Art Wolinsky.
Last July I went to Atlantic City to teach local school teachers how
to video blog, and helped Art set up the blog. The teachers posted
several short videos to the blog, but there weren't any videos
produced by the students. Until yesterday, at least:
http://www.starw.org/acrc/2005/11/witches-aliens-and-school-board.html
The video, entitled "Witches, Aliens, and School Board
Members" (there's gotta be a joke in there somewhere), does the
impossible: it makes a school board conference *funny*. A group of
students went to a recent New Jersey school board association
conference, where they got to shoot some video and interview board
members. They went back to school and made comic strips about the
meeting, which they gave to the board members. Now, several groups of
students are making documentary shorts about the experience. They're
basically using the same script, but the editing decisions will be
their own. The first of these videos is available on the blog, and
the others will soon follow.
The students are really eager to get feedback from the public; I'd
urge all of you to check it out and post comments on the blog. The
teachers will collect the comments and use them to help the students
improve the quality of their work.
I'm really excited about the video; it may indeed be the first video
blog ever produced by elementary school students in a classroom
environment. (Can anyone think of any others? If so, we should
connect the schools.) I can't wait to see what else they'll come up
with over the course of the year.... -andy
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Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldivide.net
http://katrina05.blogspot.com
Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
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