Planning Phase 2...

As the new semester approaches, we had a planning meeting to work out the details of the next phase of this project. We have decided to do two week units with each of the three pods of Grade 8's to allow us time and flexibility for adjustments as needed along the way.

We will be starting with the first pod in the first two weeks of February. The Social Studies class will be rolling out the unit which will begin with a scavenger hunt to examine parts of the school culture and community. From the scavenger hunt we hope themes will emerge that the groups of students will pursue as the focus for their video project.

The students will then be doing research and storyboards to map out their video segments. They will be giving a few lessons to plan and then a few more to film. We will be using iMovie primarily and they will upload their videos to Dropbox. When the videos have been compiled, the yearbook class will take the project to the next phase, which will be to create one video based on the best submissions.

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