Catch 'em Filling

Students have been working on what it takes to become news reporters and how to write expository essays. In this lesson they will learn to become video "Flip" journalists by reporting others filling buckets for others. Students will Skype with local news reporters and journalists to ask questions about what skills it takes to become reporters. Students will collaborate with local reporters using Google Docs where they will receive feedback (revisions and edits from local reporters in their writing and their broadcasting skills.

Students will then write, storyboard, and record video interviews and stories of bucket fillers in our school. It will become an Eye on the View (A play on our school name) where students will be recognized for being what we hope to see in our school. These videos will be followed by classroom meetings where we give each other feedback on the stories and the acts of filling.

Students then will comment or post their feedback on Edmodo.com or Kidblog.com where parents are able to see and further comment. What we hope to accomplish is opening our school globally to all that is good about what we are doing, and to foster a healthy, caring environment where others can focus on learning at high levels and not worrying about bullying behaviors.