This past year I taught my grade 6 students how to compare and contrast P.S.A.s and commercials. I then asked them to develop and film a P.S.A. I had a great deal of difficulty accessing video cameras from the board so I went to the local high school. The media teacher agreed to lend me 6 of her grade 12 students as Media Mentors. My kids were split up into groups and then they developped a story board and a script and then they practised their P.S.A. I expected the mentors to come in and film for the day, instead they were actual mentors, they went over the storyboards, they made suggestions on the script, gave acting advice, and best of all they taught my students how to film it on their own. It was a great experience, so much so that many of my students sighted it as their favourite part of grade 6 during a E.Q.A.O. assignment. The second part was that I walked my class over to the highschool and they spent the entire morning with their media mentors, editting their film on the computer. Unfortuneately the teacher was going to get me a copy of all of their P.S.A.'s editted together for Open House, but she was unable to do so. Still in all I would not have missed the experience in fact I would add a couple of components, now I would have them do the storyboard on the computer and I would add an extra sound component. In fact, one of my students actually did use her i-pod to bring in the sound effect of a police siren which really added to their P.S.A., students really are ahead of us in technology.
Sonia
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