Write! Record! Share!

When the latest survey results came in, families said they loved it when teachers created a personal video message for them each week that put their Learning Plan into simple terms. Share all your videos on your RVSchools YouTube Channel to connect your learning community and inspire others toward Creative Confidence!

Every letter, essay, speech and story begins with some form of the Writing Process. The same goes for a message that you want to share with your students and their families. When you prompt your students to create, they benefit greatly from sharing their drafts with you and receiving timely feedback and formative assessment to improve their work for their audience. It's a common practice to share drafts and scripts in Google Drive and Classroom for the cycles of critique and revision to get the words just right!

Creating a video of your message, speech, presentation or story is a fun and engaging way to exhibit your work for your audience. It’s a straightforward matter of recording yourself with your laptop or mobile device camera. You can make the images look a little more professional with these simple tips: Record in a quiet room, face the natural light of a window, steady your device at eye level, frame yourself like a portrait and try to speak into the lens. You can record directly into the Google Drive app, or using your movie editor, like iMovie, on your laptop.

Sharing your videos with your students is best done on your RVS YouTube Channel, so that your audience can view it easily on any device. If your students share videos with you for exhibition, they can be uploaded to your channel, as well, and organized into playlists. The videos that you share with your students, whether they are personal messages, instructional lessons or visual essays become powerful exemplars for your students to create videos for you that fulfill the curricular outcomes of Write, Speak & Represent.

Take a closer look at the storytelling process and practice guide for sharing student work in the Rocky View Studio Classroom! In the meantime, check out these examples that have been created during lockdown with many more to come in the final weeks before summer! You can see dozens more examples of student video projects in the RVS Student Showcase and the RockyTalks Online Exhibition on the RVS YouTube Channel!