The student-friendly, plastic video camera's have arrived! We're using Hasbro's VcamNow. They're great for a functioning, child-friendly camera at a relatively low price. Annie and I tested them out over the weekend and made sample videos to show the classes. Parents signed the necessary permission slips over the weekend, and the students are taking them home beginning this week.
4 students per night will be able to video journal at home, showing us where they live, what they like, their families, neighborhoods, etc. The students are so excited about this project, they've been writing ideas and talking about how fun it will be in their written journals.
Downloading the videos off the cameras, erasing the videos before passing them to the next group of students is going to be a quick logistical turnaround. But well worth it. This is a 5th grade version of Kirby Dick's Chain Camera, a video that inspired and informed this project.
Inspired from abroad
watching localfilms.org
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