Best laid plans...

Introduction to A.C.-OPOLY

Please allow time for the movie to download.

As much as we wanted to complete this project on time, we fell considerably behind schedule. The institution of the Leslie Literacy Collaborative program was a huge undertaking that involved MANY hours of professional development and additional work both in and out of class for the teachers. While well worth the effort, the collaborative combined with heavy pressure to prepare students for the state test left little time for the work necessary to get everyone up to speed with iMovie and the skill set Andy had given us this summer. None-the-less the troops rallied and we were able to get a good product underway.

We decided to base our video of Atlantic City based on Monopoly (A.C.-OPOLY). That way we could handle it as a series of short videos done by different groups of students in each class. Because we have so many streets to do before the end of the year, our first rough cuts will be our somewhat final cuts until we have them all done. If there is time we will go back on clean them up based on the input you provide.

The good news is that we presented our projects on May 19 to fifteen other school districts in the STAR-W project. Because of the training provided by Andy Carvin, our student's rough cuts did our school proud! Our presentation can be found here.

In the coming days and weeks we will be posting our individual videos here for your comments. If you are a member of Blogger, you may add the comments to the blog entries. If you are not a member, you are welcomed to send your comments to acrc@starw.org and I will pass them on to the students.

In the meantime, here is the clip that I created as an introduction to the student videos. In the next few days, the students products will be posted.