With the days rapidly dwindling before the Movie Project is done crunch time is upon us. It is evident that this years students are different than last years students.... go figure. Some reinventing of the Movie Project has evolved over the year.
More work needed to be done during school time. This is fine. Problem is that most of that time came out of my math classes. The "team" did not figure out that they too had to donate some time to the cause. Oh well. Perhaps next year the "team" will recognize the importance of the project and jump on board earlier... here is hoping!!
We have given the students a rubric for them to use.
They should have a first draft of their movies done by the end of the week. Next week we will use the rubric and student responses to edit and critique the finished movies. My goal is to have the students leave comments behind at youtube. The groups will then have a chance to redo their movie and resubmit it. Peer feedback will be important to a better finished product. The top groups will benefit from this editing time. Last year we found many groups with grammar and topic errors. A good peer edit will eliminate many of these small errors.
A problem will occur when the other groups do not finish on time and hand in inferior work. It is a fine balance with due dates and students. Some make the due dates others do not. With the movie being 20% of the third term I hope this motivates them to complete it on time.
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