There's been lots of creativity buzzing around in our French classroom lately. We're making our Oral French learning visible by planning, filming, creating, and sharing our own videos entitled Dear Future Me. This idea was hatched when myself, Mme Kylie (who teaches Grade 1 and 2 at KHPS) and Mme Suzanne all found ourselves in the same classroom at what can only be described as a teacher's summer camp, the University of Ottawa's Digital Literacies Institute this summer. While we learned about coding, and making, our chosen focus stream was critical video production. Being three French teachers, our big focus and goal for all students of any age is.. to give our students authentic opportunities to speak in French and share their powerful ideas and voices in ways that challenge their thinking and matter to them. So, we dreamed up the Dear Future Me video project. This project allows students to share a little about who they are (with plans of creating a second version of a video in June), a reflection on a full year of learning. They get to speak French (to communicate a message clearly and with expression) to their peers. As teachers, we look to challenge ourselves as learners as well. We created our own version of the video, which we used as a model for our students. Take a peek at ours here: This was the very first big project of the year, so students were guided in their planning. They used two different planning sheets:
Check out some student examples of planning sheets and story-boards below... After mini-conferences and feedback sessions, students began their filming. They used their story-boards to guide the process, and uploaded their clips to their Google Drives to begin integrating them into their projects. We're learning to use a program called WeVideo to create our videos. This is a tool that nobody had ever used before, which was so exciting to me as a teacher. We got to add a new tech tool to our repertoires that we can now use in future projects to share learning. Woohoo! Check out some pictures and videos of students at work... Stay tuned for more updates on this project, and to get to see our final videos! We can't wait to share!
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