elementary

In my 8 years of teaching I have never seen students so excited and engaged. They run up to me in the halls to tell me what they plan to do next class. They draw pictures about the game in art. They sit at ...

Erin Wilkey Oh - 2011-09-29 10:06

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Nearly all of our student productions are narratives so they all start with a script. The script is written using one of two ...

Chuck Jurich - 2011-09-06 13:34

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In production, students go out and shoot the script. A production crew consists of a director, camera person, one or more actors, and a “marker”-- a person who documents on a dry erase board what scene, ...

Chuck Jurich - 2011-09-06 13:34

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“It’s in the can!” With shooting done, the crew moves to post-production. Working with digital video, many of the terms of filmmaking make little sense and “it’s in the can” is one definitely lost ...

Chuck Jurich - 2011-09-06 13:34

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How Young Students Produce Video Texts So, maybe you want to get students involved in making videos but you don’t know where to start. Its not an easy task but, then again, no writing is. In this section ...

Chuck Jurich - 2011-09-06 13:34

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The Zia Elementary School Video Club was started by me, the club sponsor, in the 2006-2007 school year. That first year, we had approximately 8 kids, interestingly all girls. Since then, the club has grown ...

Chuck Jurich - 2012-01-12 10:41

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VoiceOvers HauntedSchool.FLV Post-production work includes video and sound editing (see related links below). Here, a ...

Chuck Jurich - 2011-02-17 08:26

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INT. HALLWAY - AFTERNOON We look down a long hallway, dark, empty. At the end are glass double doors and the late afternoon light shines in backlighting the scene. We hear some voices coming out of ...

Chuck Jurich - 2011-02-17 08:26

Book Talk 4.m4v How do most of us choose books to read? Do we Google book recommendations? Not anyone I know. Maybe we go ...

Cecele Carter - 2010-11-04 19:54

What happens when you engage kindergarten children in a process of asking their own questions and designing ways to find the answers? This is what Denise Tarrats, a New York City kindergarten teacher, found ...

Felicia George - 2010-10-29 13:50