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Indigenized Slam Poetry

Memoir Trailers

April 18, 2018

Students used the ipads to make movie trailers for their memoirs. Below is an example!

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Worldview

January 23, 2018

Finally, we have finished the worldview assignment with students. The assignment took far longer than we anticipated given the technology problems we had. We will only share the first page of students worldview assignments due to the personal nature of the other pages. The students did an overview mind map (seen here) then went into further detail on the pages that followed. Moving forward we have begun our Origin Story unit where we hope to use iMovie Trailer to have the students accompany the Origin story they will write.

Where are we at?

April 17, 2018

We are nearing the final push of our project! Students have started looking at slam poetry and are starting to think about their final project. Kelly and I have been busy planning our final evening showcase. We have many things to take into consideration, and one of the most important is figuring out the technology. As we are both new to using iPads in this capacity, we need to troubleshoot getting all the students videos on one iPad and hooking it up to our system in our theatre. We have decided the evening will be by donation, with all donations going toward a set of drums for the school. In addition to entering by donation, students will have the opportunity to pick one piece of their Coast Salish inspired art which we will print on photo paper for parents to purchase and frame. Other things we are deciding on is having a concession of Bannock for sale. Because this is the first time doing this project, we do not want to pack our evening so ful...