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  Week 6 – Bringing Out the Gear

  October 21, 2011 at 4:51 pm / Reel World Youth

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  Time, finally, to bring out the gear! I’m sure the class has been waiting for this moment where they get to shoot video. We went bare bones for our pilot project. The school already had some camcorders, some of which were (funnily enough) alien to me. Where would one get a mini DVD to put into the camcorder? Or what about those cassette tape style camcorders? Fortunately, the rest were hard drive based and they work. With the funding from Awesome Calgary and [...]

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  Week 5 – Interviewing Reality

  October 15, 2011 at 9:12 am / Reel World Youth

  When you hear Jian Ghomeshi on CBC radio or see Bill Moyers on TV interviewing important figures in our society, you take for granted their ability to draw out meaningful stories from the interviewee. This week’s class was about learning how to carry out their interview, a key process for discovering their story line. The interview is for our purposes the core of the project. It is what will give the students direct experience with people they may have never [...]

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  Week 4 – Story Ideas from the Youth

  October 4, 2011 at 5:12 pm / Reel World Youth

  This week, a great opportunity to hear from the youth about their story ideas. You know you’re getting somewhere when the students are talking about it outside of classroom. It indicates motivation beyond what we are telling them to do. Kate has been incredible at managing this video project with the other curriculum topics. As much as possible, we are integrating curriculum with Reel World Youth. Ideas for story ideas can come from current events, while fleshing out story structure [...]

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  Week 3 – Developing a Working Hypothesis

  September 29, 2011 at 1:32 pm / Reel World Youth

  Continuing on the journey, we delved deeper with the class into the story making process. Much of story is about making meaning of our lives and the world we around us. It isn’t easy to take a specific event, such as a youth traversing a rope course, to find the larger universal idea of person conquering self and obstacle to find success. It takes seeing a lot of evidence of it to believe that this is a universal pattern. On [...]

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  Week 2 – Awesome Grant

  September 24, 2011 at 8:28 pm / Reel World Youth

  Exciting news! Kate and I have managed to secure funding from a couple sources to purchase small video kits for our student teams. First we got one thousand dollars in cold hard no-strings attached cash from Awesome Calgary. And I have to say we rocked that pitch. Take a look at our 90 second pitch and answers to the Q and A. Next we have received word that the Calgary Foundation Stepping Stone grant is also helping us out with [...]

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