Well, we all know that I can’t leave well enough alone. What fun would that be? So I helped Mrs. Folston, the guidance supervisor, plan her first video today - she wants to learn to use movie maker. Of course I told her that she ought to go see the PPS movie maker King (Brian Mckee) and Queen (Nancy Butler). But anyway, working with Mrs. Folston got me thinking about the instructional uses of movie making. I mean I know Charlottesville schools used movie making to bring up their writing scores. Saw that article in Learning & Leading archives and have held the belief that if someone would turn me loose in fifth grade we could do great things…Oh! I guess we did… Debbie Daniels and I worked on that all last year and look what our kids did.
OK, I digress. I was looking for some information on the instructional use of video, and I found handouts from a VSTE presentation (guess I missed that one) that show that creating a video can be used for every instructional strategy that we use in Portsmouth, from Marzano to Bloom to Multiple Intelligences. Don’t believe me…look for yourself. Ok so since we need to be using these strategies it seems movie making is a perfect fit ACROSS content areas. So step right up. Who’s going to be first to do movie making with me in September?
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