edublogs: Kids as teachers as marketers
Ewan is getting a group of students to do the Video of the SETT Conference in Edinbugh next month. Dead right. After do the Mini Enterprise video this year they earmarked me for doing it next year. My response: Now _I_ know how to do it, I can get the kids to do it next year.
This is what I call “authentic contexts”. Probably there’s a better name but that’s the tag that I use on del.icio.us. Hope to add a few more over this year.
Yesterday I finally met the S6 students from Musselburgh Grammar School and Knox Academy who are going to form the official film crew for SETT The Learning Festival 2006. Much respect to Learning and Teaching Scotland, who could quite easily just have paid for a professional firm to come in and do the job in a clean sweep. Instead of the easy option, LTS have opted to support eight new film-makers and marketers in their filming of one of Europe’s biggest educational conferences.
We’ll be learning about the different shots, building a story, doing a good recce, making a storyboard, making pre-planned workflows, working out what opportunities might come on the fly, editing… The BBC’s film resources on my del.icio.us account have been priceless, and have helped unearth a lot of the things I have only observed or been in front of during my outings on the box. Above all, they will learn how to present something to the world, something they themselves don’t understand yet but will have to help thousands of people ‘get’ between now and next year’s event.
Student turned teacher turned marketer.
