As seen in the “making of..” featurette (below), my sixth grade students have spent the last two weeks writing, filming and editing original 30-second public service announcements about online safety and ethical issues. Here are a few of the best examples:
Identity Theft
identitytheftpsaweb.mov
Online Bullying
online-bullying-psa.mov
The Internet is Public
publicinternetpsa.mov
Facebook Safety
facebooksafetypsa.mov
Illegal Downloading
illegaldownloadingpsa.mov
I hope you enjoyed these and maybe even learned a little something! Feel free to leave comments here, I will make sure the students see them.
Sincerely, Ms. Hansen
Posted on February 7th, 2008 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
Filed under: 6thGrade, video, student work
I enjoyed watching these! Tell your students thanks for their hard work!
Congrats to all for the great movies. These are good reminders for everyone!
Love these! I enjoyed how the music matched the tone of the videos. It’s clear students collaborated to produce creative and well-made media! I also noticed the variety of topics. How were the ideas generated?
I’m glad you guys like these! We had a film festival in class today to showcase everyone’s hard work. Katherine, the topics emerged from our class discussions about the school’s acceptable use policy for computing, and about ethical issues regarding computers and the Internet in general. The students brainstormed topic ideas for the videos, I wrote them up on the board, then I drew their names from a hat and asked them to choose a partner and a topic. After that we researched, wrote, storyboarded, revised, shot, edited, revised, etc. etc. The process of making the movies is very fun, and it’s very satisfying to see the final products here.
I think that that was an important message