Friday, February 20, 2009

workshop musing

I've gotten a little done on the movie. It's tough finding time. On a more positive note, I have done some planning for my upcoming 3-day moviemaking workshop in March. A number of teachers have expressed interest, both teachers at the school and some from other schools.

This has led me to another idea. There are a number of teachers in my county who have been to one of my introduction to moviemaking workshops. But I think relatively few of them have actually took the final step and done a student movie project.

We have workday coming up at the end of March. I'm thinking about doing an all-day or half-day workshop on making a class project. It would be only for people who have had a moviemaking class or feel confident in their skills. The idea would be to spend the entire time working on a lesson or unit plan incorporating movie making. We would do everything from the initial idea to rubrics and 5-point lesson plans. I would also be able to incorporate the inventories I am working on of what each school has. This will help the teachers make a plan that uses what they already have.

I'm off to pitch this idea to a few teachers and see what they think.

1 comment:

  1. Busy? Teachers not interested in doing addition work for development? Sounds all to familiar. Keep up with your posts as you have things to report. I am sure you will have lots to report soon.

    I like the idea of getting teachers involved. Stress to them that these activities are truly engaging to the students and can be for teachers as well.

    Good luck.

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