I cannot believe that the first set of classes are coming to an end tomorrow at school. Six weeks done and Eagle News is 20 episodes into our new season. We have a new camera into the newsroom, 2 sets, a lack of microphone cables, a new green screen in the classroom and 14-15 students who now have committed to Eagle News all year!
I worry every year about who will be the next crop of 8th grade students who want to make sure that Eagle News is the class that will show them not only how to use the tools to run a broadcast, but also be the class that will show them the new tools that will help them tell a story with video, audio and pictures. They have told me that they want to keep Eagle News relevent.
We have started this year’s class with not much dialogue. The students come in, expect to be taught and then expect to go “do.” As they become more comfortable in class, the ideas will start to flow and the creative juices will start to formulate the new ideas for class. They are starting to want to do new things. They want to change backgrounds, they want to podcast without being told to do it. They want to do the advanced work in iMovie to tell their story better.
I am pumped. On Monday, I start with a new advisory, a whole new crop of students and another recruiting campaign to see which kids will be a big part of my 22nd year of teaching. There’s nothing better than the work I get to do with these kids.
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