Closing out 2007-2008!
Today was day 200 of 200 of our 2-year media ed contract with PS 124! Monday will mark the end of this year's technology consulting to Manhattan's PS 334 through our new relationship with AUSSIE, and Tuesday will close out our first year of media education work with PS 130 in Brooklyn.
I've been knee-deep in professional development workshops and classroom multimedia productions at these schools 5 days a week for the past month or so, as a result we've been quiet here on the TMS blog. However, I'll be packaging up all of the fantastic work we've been collaborating on with teachers and students over the next month -- making the resulting productions, unit plans, production notes, rubrics, and curriculum maps available here on our site for the extended media literacy community to use and respond to.
Stay tuned for: an outstanding 4th Grade PSA on Global Warming from 124, 75(!) Video Poems by 4th Graders at 130, 3rd grade Video Research Reports, PreK and Kindergarden Storytelling Videos, ESL Pen Pal Videos, and an innovative Visual Literacy multimedia production unit based on the award winning book The Invention of Hugo Cabret thoroughly integrated into the literacy curriculum at 124. We will also present published school technology plans, step-by-step video and blogging tutorials, online production notes, student reflections, and MORE!!!