Thoughts and ideas after watching five presentations:

MH
In video making, is it fair to ask everyone to envision what should be on the screen when they’ve not necessarily done that before? As a facilitator, I thought this would be a good intellectual exercise and would make the filmmaking process easier. Maybe I was wrong.

How much of life and project work is “pretty annoying to do it every day but at the end, it’s pretty cool.”

How do you teach people to grind? Or…how do you do too much so you have cut down as opposed to just trying to get over the finish line?

How do I get people to continually refer back to the requirements of the contest/project? In other words, if you’re submitting to a contest for CSPan, how often should you be referring to their rules to figure out what should come next?

AH
“I don’t know if it’s a skill or not, but I basically can get through anything.”

Yes, A., that’s a skill.

KH: “Can’t teach these kids nothing these days.” Oh, K.

MT
Do we allow an individual and a group project during the second project block? What would happen if we did so? Could kids handle both in 75 minutes a day or is this a recipe for disaster?

DW
“Rather than being a completed project, it was more of a great experience.”
“In order for it to be a complete project, you always gotta be doing something.”

“You can see poverty in a lot of things.”

Should I eliminate voice overs as part of next year’s project?

(Realization that the students are aware of how quickly triggered I am by saying publicly things like “we don’t have enough time.” That’s a good thing. A very good thing.)

DD
How important the origin story of a project is… D., you’re talking about how a conversation with an old teacher combined with a book we were reading to lead you towards an idea for a project. That’s awesome. I need to develop a circle activity for this.