Day 48: 18th Day @ Westhill

Wednesday April 4, 2012 Blog Post

This morning I had students from the first two periods go into the middle room and record their narratives. I put them into groups of three by having them pick a number in a box. In the second class I think a few of the boys cheated and wrote their own numbers on their own paper and had them all say five. I didn't figure that out until the end. People are at different stages with the project so I was going in with each group showing them how to work the equipment and coming out helping students finish up their books depending on what they needed. One person asked what were doing next and said they were sick of aliens. I think I am going to have them do one more thing with the project though, something large with one of their pages before we move on so they can have a nice exhibit in the halls based on the project. A few people weren't here in both classes so it will be a matter of trying to figure out how to get everyone to scan their images and record their audio and have the time to put it together. Having the students record their audio made them realize if their story made sense or not, and forced them to be more committed to it and made it go from being within to a shared experience, something they had to articulate to others. I let each student direct their script completely, and decide how it was going to be read and characters cast. They all had to read the title. I just replayed it and realized the first group didn't read the titles so they will have to do that tomorrow. One girl didn't have her story finished so she realized one page didn't make sense so I gave her homework to come back tomorrow with a new page that goes with it.

I brought in my video camera to do a test with it on this school computer to see if the issue with Final Cut has to do with the type of video I was bringing in with the flip camera or not.

For my piggy bank, Hoosick ate one cork, or chewed it up this weekend, and the other one I bought (they were 2.99 for two) is missing for some reason. I can't find it. So yesterday I traced one of them that were already cut out to show the size for other people to cut out. Jeff ordered about 50 of them so we should be getting them soon. Most people already cut their holes for the cork for the first pig and will just need it to do the second one.