Sunday, October 15, 2006

iMovie Ideas

For the iMovie assignment, I'm going to try to show some aspect of teaching in a high school. I have a few ideas, and the deciding factor will probably be what's the most logistically feasible.

(1) document what's going on in Shade's classroom - focus on students using technology in their English classroom and Shade's enthusiasm. I think I'd rather do something with Shade for my final project instead of the iMovie assignment.

(2) document a leadership class that is new at the high school this year - a friend of mine created this class for the students who are student government and class officers - it's mandatory for them. It takes place before regular school hours (which would be good for my schedule). I think I'm most interested in this for iMovie because I can sort of visualize it at this point.

(3) document "a-day-in-the-life" of a teacher. This could go two ways: either how busy teachers are and how hard they are working throughout their day, or showing different short clips of positive student/teacher interactions (I'm thinking mostly one-on-one). I think this would be pretty hard to do because I need to be doing my job and filming simultaneously. Also, it's less controlled than working with the leadership class.

So...what do you think? Feedback is appreciated.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Sarah, I like 2 and 3 for the movie...both wonderful ideas.

Let's talk about how you can connect w/Shade's class/students for the project.