Monday, March 9, 2009
How to Edit
I really liked Virginia's idea about possibly introducing editing as a whole class activity. One idea that I was throwing around was to tape the kids doing a reader's theater, then have them put the different parts in the story order. After they have the parts in the correct order, the kids can then play around with the transitions and sounds. I'm not quite sure though because I'd probably end up with an unorganized mess on my hands. We are not exactly "independent" when it comes to computer lab time. More often than not, I still have students who are not logging in correctly. It's March. So I think digital editing may be a little much for them. We shall see. Another problem that I think I will run into will be copyright laws. Many of the reader's theater activities that we do are from storybooks. Anyone out there have any ideas about how to tape my kids legally without having to contact random author's?
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You could always write your own Reader's Theater's ;) and avoid the copyright laws!!
ReplyDeleteI have had my higher kids create their own Reader's Theater. They actually do a good job. That would get over the copyright laws but I still can't envision first graders editing anything.
ReplyDeleteCould students retell the stories they read? Would that avoid the copyright laws? Just food for thought.
ReplyDeleteHmm,not sure how to avoid the legal aspects of this.... I guess like others said have the kids create their own. As we all know with the younger kids that can be a project in itself. I worry about all this legal stuff. Even with the blog... having to contact parents and get permission and of course you have the parents who never read anything and they will be the ones who say "I didn't get that information".... How do we avoid all that stuff? Maybe have them sign something in the beginning of the year? Not that we ever get that stuff back either ..
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