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The collaborative
Video Storytelling project seeks to:
- Expand
the MEHS learning community across the Pacific.
- Utilize
video conferencing equipment to become leaders in this new and emerging
technology
- Enhance literacy
skill development, media creation and criticism
- Create and the
documentation, preservation, and promotion of Alaskan heritages found
within MEHS.
MEHS students
build partnerships with Kamehameha Schools of Hawaii (a boarding school
for Native Hawaiian students) to create videos relating cultures, ideas,
and personality of our cultures.
The three
main focus areas of the project will be:
1) Increase student literacy skills through creation of video
stories that document, preserve and promote Alaska’s indigenous
cultures
2) Provide opportunities that encourage leadership, teamwork, and collaboration
skills
3) Increase technology and media literacy through creation and involvement
in digital video creation, audio and video conferencing
Project
Outline
Phase
1 - 2003-2004
·
Begin Digital Storytelling project. Students work in small groups to
create 2 minute video storytelling projects. Students will share information
with a KS group regarding storyboarding, video creation, and editing.
· Provide opportunities for students to enter their films in
the Idamovie Video Storytelling competition.
· Investigate the possibility of student exchanges between Alaska
and Hawaii
Phase
2 –– 2004-onward
Collaboration through Video Conferencing
· Initiate collaboration projects where students in the two schools
work on one project together. Examples could include the significance
of whales in both cultures, local boat building methods, or traditional
subsistence practices.
· Develop a full-fledged partnership with students in the two
schools with sharing of ideas, resources, and information between the
cultures. The communication will be fully documented via emails, storyboard
exchanges, and peer review process.
· Initiate an exchange program between Alaska and Hawaii.
· Provide opportunities for students to enter their films in
the Idamovie and Island Movie Video Storytelling competition
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