Here’s my entry for the One World Film competition organized by the ring leader of the particpatory geography movement in UK secondary schools Dan Raven-Ellison. Not a great production by any means, but I loved the concept of 60 second films to explain a point, and would really like to to get more of my students making short films for their own (and the wider community’s) benefit. Although I made the film several months ago, I can finally show it in a lesson since Year 11 are about to embark on a coasts topic.
Extreme Geography: Perfect waves from Noel Jenkins on Vimeo.
Some Year 10 students showed some short films they’d made about Dubai today. I was really pleased to see how far their editing skills have progressed since Year 9. I noticed that some of the students had discovered BBC Motion Gallery independently, though no-one had actually done any original filming. How I would love a few Flip DV cameras for my classroom!
David Rayner has recently explained on the SLN site that the BBC News School Report represents a great opportunity for KS3 Geography students to develop their investigative and reporting skills. What better motivation to get students into short film making?
Whay a great idea ! I love this movie. I think french teachers should also practice video with classroom. Just a question : how long did you spend to make it ?
If your students learn “la langue de Molière”, you can ask them to insert french subtitles. It can help.
Stoked…
A good starter for the project Noel, which is going ‘live’ on the GA website next week
That throws down a challenge to other geography teachers….
What project would this be then Alan?
Dan’s 60 second project: the GA will be selecting the films that make it onto the BBC Big Screens in locations around the country
Oh wow. A prescient posting then. Looking forward to finding out more.