I shared my thesis question and the basic details of my project with Chris Andrews.
Andrews graduated from TEE (the program I am going through to get my teaching certificate) with a minor in Media Arts Studies from the TMA department. He is a first year teacher at Salem Hills High School. Andrews teaches News Broadcasting, Digital Photography, Beginning Media, and Video Production (the class in which Andrews recommends I enact my thesis project).
Andrews is on board. He’s excited about the project being in his classroom and is willing to participate. We are in the process of coordinating our schedules for Fall 2010.
One concern is that Andrews is on a one year contract. He has been verbally pledged a position for next year, but he won’t know for sure until the middle of April. Once that is confirmed:
I (with Andrews) will teach a unit of storytelling and each student will write a story.
The students will then make a video telling their story.
The emphasis will be on returning to source material and using the equipment to tell and enhance their story.
If Andrew and I’s schedule isn’t a factor, when would you recommend enacting this project?
The later in the year it is done, the more exposure the students will have had to the equipment and technology. How much of a factor to my thesis do you see that as?
How short should the stories be?
Will having each student make a video be too big? What is a possible alternative?
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If you see a video as being too big (it is pretty big), and depending on equipment availability, you could make an audio documentary or a photo documentary (I'm leaning toward photo documentary). Or stop motion animation. Wait, that's bigger. Back to photo documentary, they could write a story, take appropriate (and artful!) photos to illustrate it, put it into powerpoint, and include VO audio of the story they wrote.
There's my two cents.
I think that it really depends on the nature of the classroom you're entering, because I can tell you that if you did this in the TV Video class here, video creation would not be a problem at all. I went into Dustin's beginning class the other day, and they were creating storyboards that would be converted to videos in the next week or so. So...I think that you're on the right track. Don't throw out the idea (videos are often much more interesting an option for students)--at least not yet.
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