Videotaping ending this week...editing next week

The video projects are moving along...sometimes smoothly, sometimes not so smoothly. Today I arrived at ICS over an hour early so the "Day in the Life of Recess" group could videotape recess again. But when I got to school, only one student from the group would take time to actually videotape. Afterward in class, another student from the 'Recess' group asked if he could videotape then. I had to tell him that he'd had a chance earlier but had chosen to play soccer instead of participating in the video project. Bummer for all of us! At this point, we really needed to get that footage taken care of, but the students have to understand their choices matter.

The good news is that all the students who chose to participate in the home video project have taken the video cameras home. Ms. Perry and I are watching them tomorrow night to see if we have all of them and to make sure none of them need to be re-videotaped before we begin to edit them into one vidoe.

Additional good news is that most of our 6 group videos are coming along nicely. We've videotaped almost all the footage we need for them. I'm going to download the footage onto my computer over the weekend and take it to school next week so the students and can edit it together, using a video projector and my laptop computer with FinalCut Pro on it. I'll have to make some editorial choices about which parts we view together because we have videotaped enormous amounts for each group video project.