And....Cut!! (Final Day of Service Project)

What a wonderful process this whole project has been! Ava decided to make a short movie about Rosa Parks using her own illustrations and voice over. During the time we worked together, we focused on the Unit Plan that was developed for the project. After recording the different shots, I decided that the iMovie application would be the best way to put the movie together. When we filmed the original movie, we had a hard time matching the voice thread to the actual movie. After a few attempts, we decided that it would be best if we just shot the movie with Ava speaking during the filming. Ava held the camera as she recorded her movie. There are a few blurry moments and some of her film is less audible, but it is her "masterpiece". I was especially pleased how she created her own script for the film. The entire project, in my opinion was a success!

Service Day #3

There are so many wonderful things that are happening with the small group! Today I visited the group this morning to go over their information that would go into their spreadsheet and chart. I was fascinated to learn about the different rights that they are proud to have. Based on their survey, it appears that the fact that they can attend school is the most popular one among the small group. I strongly believe that this has to do with the fact that we read a story about Rosa Parks yesterday. The story discussed how Rosa was not able to attend school with white children when she was little and also discussed how she helped start the chain reaction of actions that help lead to the Civil Rights Movement.

We discussed different uses of technology that we can incorporate to our project. We browsed through the internet looking up resources to learn about the Civil Rights Movement. We focused much of our research on Rosa Parks. The group voted on making a movie or short film. Most were very shy about being on camera, so I suggested doing a story book type movie with voice over using VoiceAfter school, we are going to go over the process of putting a short movie together. We will be using illustrations by the children and Ava will be narrating the short film.

Stay tuned!